Design ideas for March 8
International Women's Day as a holiday is good in that it is common for millions of people - thanks to this, absolutely everyone is preparing for it, and it is simply impossible not to feel the atmosphere of the holiday. However, the same characteristic of a mass celebration poses a difficult task for the organizers - to come up with a way to decorate the premises so that it is both bright and festive, and at the same time not trivial. Considering that March 8 is celebrated all over the world, it will not work to invent something completely special of your own, but you can use a maximum of various decorations to make it interesting and attractive.
Basic decor elements
Shops and other public places in many cases order decoration services from professional designers, but in reality this is not necessary. If you wish and minimal decorating skills, you can create a cozy interior with your own hands.
Flowers
Perhaps there is no such young lady who would not love flowers, but this is a women's holiday, which means that flowers should be at the center of the design idea. Another thing is that there is still plenty to choose from. Wherein natural colors are not often preferred - early spring is not a season for them, and there will be little choice, especially since demand, like prices, will grow insanely on the eve of the celebration, and it is very risky to purchase such a product in advance.
Self-taught designers often get off with homemade paper flowers: consumables cost a penny and certainly will not fade, only manual dexterity is needed.
As a working material, you can use corrugated paper, and silence, and a more complex version of paper plastic, which is often used by wedding decorators.
A somewhat unusual move that has been rapidly gaining popularity in recent years is bouquets of balloons. They are rarely made with their own hands - it is more logical to order, given that professionals today are already getting pretty realistic results. At the same time, it is worth remembering that for such bouquets, as well as for fresh flowers, the demand increases greatly before March 8, but such a decoration at least will not fade, and it can be ordered in advance.
It should also be borne in mind that such a composition is relevant if, in your case, an easy and original approach to the holiday is welcomed, because the childish spontaneity of balloons cannot compete with the real solemnity of a living bouquet.
Finally, you can just buy artificial flowers, which are also in high demand on the days before the holidays, but it is not so pronounced - if only because the purchased bouquet has no expiration date, and it can be used for several years in a row.
The subtlety here is that not all artificial bouquets look equally good, and in no case should you settle for half measures - the purchase should completely satisfy you with its appearance, if in doubt, keep choosing.
Number 8
The eight is predictably one of the main symbols of the ladies' holiday; its presence in the decor clearly shows everyone present that it is International Women's Day that is celebrated. In many cases it is the number eight that is the centerpiece of the wall compositions, its size can be comparable even to human height.
There are many options for making a decorative figure eight. If you want to do the decoration yourself and at minimal cost, you can cut it out of colored paper or cardboard. At the same time, cardboard can be ordinary, if it performs only the functions of a frame - then the outside is pasted over with the same colored paper, decorated with rain, garlands, natural or artificial flowers, and so on.
In decoration stores, you can also buy a large balloon in the same shape of the eight or any other ready-made solutions that will be relevant for several years.
Pom poms
These beautiful and bright festive attributes will turn even a strict and completely everyday office into an excellent location for a party, where everyone present can feel happy. If you want to, you can find instructions on how to do them yourself on the Internet, but experienced people always point out that you won't be able to do them both quickly and beautifully if you need more than a few of them.
In such a situation, it is wiser to simply buy pompons - they, like most other holiday accessories, are now produced on an industrial scale. The pompom is sold folded, so it does not wrinkle and does not take up much space in the bag, but just hanging it is not enough - first you need to fluff it up so that it takes its proper form.
Even this simple operation can take up to a quarter of an hour for each individual piece, so do not put off decorating the room until the last moment, especially if there are a lot of pom-poms.
Balloons
This must-have accessory for most of the holidays has already been mentioned twice above - as a variant of a bouquet and an eight, but this does not end with its potential scope. In fact, there can be many more balls in the interior of a party room - in almost all possible guises.
For example, the entire contour of the ceiling can be hung with balls of delicate shades, adding cute colored ribbons to them - this is something that even a self-taught designer can do. If you turn to professionals for help, they will be able to offer more original solutions, such as floor fountains, wicker garlands and helium chains.
Having invested an unusually large amount of money in traditionally cheap balloons, you can surprise guests with even impressive figures, like a full-length man in a suit and with a bouquet, who meets the guests at the entrance.
Organization of a photo zone
If after the holiday the women do not have a single photo to brag about, or even just keep it as a souvenir, we can assume that the organizers no longer deserve a rating higher than three. For the mass celebration of March 8, a separate photo zone is required - posing against her background in a beautiful evening dress, each girl will get a great chance to update her page on social networks.
It is important to come up with some kind of installation that the photographers would not cover, and that at the same time it would be an excellent background for photography. The simplest solution is some kind of arch of flowers of any kind or colorful balls, but you can add any elements that increase decorativeness - the same figure eight, butterflies, and so on.
The main thing is to make the photo zone so that you can take pictures near it without disturbing anyone (except for those who are impatiently waiting for their turn), and so that the scenery of the photo zone occupies the entire frame, and no “extraneous” entourage can be seen in the photo.
Room decoration options
Employees of public institutions face the task of decorating premises for the holiday every year, and they already roughly know how to properly decorate an office, shop or atelier. Another thing is when you first decided to decorate a room at home in order to make a beautiful and original congratulations to your mom. - you may not have any prior experience. In fact, it is important to remember that in this case, it is not so much the result that is important as the desire to work for the sake of achieving it, and if you also study the ideas of home decoration, it can come out very comfortable.
Windows and doors
The doors in the design of the festive location are given almost the main attention - from the outside they are necessarily decorated with an arch made of ordinary round balls, which show the arriving heroine of the evening where to go. Having not yet seen either the room or the table, a person already feels a festive mood, and this is very important.
If the windows in the room that you have chosen for the holiday are covered with a thick curtain, take into account that this is ideal for organizing a photo zone. - the curtain itself will be a good background, especially if you add more different decor to it. In addition, no furniture is usually placed close to the window opening, which means that there will be nothing superfluous in the frame.
Ceiling
When they talk about festive decoration of the ceiling, most often the decorations are not attached to the ceiling itself, but directly under it. According to this principle, the upper part of the walls is decorated with all the same balls, garlands of all kinds, including those cut and woven from colored paper with their own hands, and so on.
This method of installation is largely due to the fact that it is dangerous to attach anything to the ceiling - noticeable ugly marks will remain. The problem can be solved with helium balloons - if the same figure eight itself takes off and "sticks" to the ceiling due to the laws of physics, then it can be removed without any consequences.
Sten
When decorating any room, it is the walls that are given maximum attention, because they occupy the predominant part of the visible space. Often they are the basis for creating a photo zone, which we have already mentioned above.
If you want to write a full-fledged congratulation in letters, and not just get off with a symbolic eight, it is most reasonable to draw a message on the wall. The letters can be cut out of colored paper and cardboard, or you can first make an aluminum frame out of wire, which will then be wrapped in velvety fabric.
Stylish examples
You can always see how the decorated room will look like by referring to specific photographs.
- It's good when a person has not even reached the holiday, but has already smiled - especially for this, beautiful themed arches are made at the entrance to the premises, reminiscent of what day it is. Take a look at the first photo - a custom arrangement has added color to a boring white door.
- Inside, beautiful compositions of the same balloons help to create a feeling of celebration, familiar to us from childhood. Actually, such a design, as shown in the second example, is more relevant for children's educational institutions, but balls in the form of flowers can have a much more believable appearance.
- The photo zone must look beautiful and at the same time clearly indicate why a particular photo was taken. In the third photo, the creators did not bother too much, making an eight from artificial flowers and complementing the design with them.
Several ideas for decorating a large hall by March 8 can be seen in the next video.