Christmas tree in the interior
The last page of the calendar remains, which means that the main holiday of the year is approaching. Only New Year's interior decoration will allow you to feel its entire atmosphere, and what celebration would be without a prickly beauty?
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Ideas for placing a Christmas tree in the interior
It is almost impossible to imagine the New Year without a Christmas tree in the house: it is the one that personifies magic, a fairy tale and evokes pleasant childhood memories. And where else to place all the gifts?
According to tradition, the main place for the New Year's beauty is where the family spends most time. Often this is a living room, for small apartments it is a kitchen-dining room or a living room. It is in these rooms that the entire celebration takes place.
ATTENTION! To create a complete picture of the holiday and maintain the mood throughout the house, it is recommended to decorate all rooms for the New Year. This could be a small artificial Christmas tree or spruce branches in a vase, or a combination of lights on the window.
After choosing a place to place the main character of the holiday, you should start planning her decor. In recent years, it has become popular to combine 2-3 colors for the main decoration of the Christmas tree. To create an overall picture of the holiday, it is recommended to use the selected colors to decorate the rest of the rooms.
Which Christmas tree to choose: live or artificial
Many people ask this question on the eve of the holiday. The choice in this case is individual for everyone.But to help answer this fairly common question, let’s outline the advantages and disadvantages of each option.
So, natural spruce. It’s worth remembering the aroma that fills the house within a few minutes of the prickly beauty’s presence, and immediately an inner thrill, warm memories and a desire to definitely choose a living spruce appear. TO In addition, the prickly beauty has a useful quality: it secretes essential oils that have bactericidal properties.
However, some are afraid of the ever-falling needles. And choosing a truly fluffy Christmas tree with strong branches is not an easy task.
Providing proper care for your living spruce will significantly extend its attractiveness.
ATTENTION! It is recommended to spray a natural Christmas tree with fresh water, and add a mixture of aspirin, a pinch of salt and sugar to a flowerpot with soil.
The advantages of an artificial Christmas tree include:
- Saving time and money. Having chosen a Christmas tree once, it can be used for several years.
- Easy care. Some models can be washed.
- Variety of shades. Manufacturers of fluffy beauties offer not only green trees, but also white or blue ones.
- No loose needles.
- Convenience of decoration, because all branches are distributed evenly and densely.
Despite numerous advantages, an artificial Christmas tree still has disadvantages:
- purchasing low-quality spruce can provoke various unpleasant consequences during operation;
- plastic models are made with an admixture of chemical elements - the operation of such a Christmas tree will not bring benefits to human health.
ATTENTION! It is important to purchase a New Year's beauty for the holiday in advance. In the last days of New Year's fairs, the choice of Christmas trees is quite scarce.It is better to decorate the spruce tree in daylight. This will help you take a good look at the tree and make its design the most successful.
Options for New Year's interior decor and Christmas tree
Any option for decorating a Christmas tree consists of traditional elements:
- garland;
- balls or various bows, toys and everything that suits your taste;
- star or other top for the Christmas tree.
It is with the garland that you should start decorating the Christmas tree. First, you need to check its working condition when unfolded and only then hang the garland on the Christmas tree. You should start from the top of the tree and place the garland further from the trunk. This will help make the New Year tree more impressive.
Manufacturers of garlands offer a variety of light bulb options: from multi-colored to plain in various colors. The choice depends on the intended design.
REFERENCE! The traditional colors for decorating the thorn tree are red, green and white. However, now you can choose jewelry to suit any interior.
For example, to decorate a Scandinavian-style Christmas tree, you can purchase decorative cones, white balls and snowflakes. Trees decorated in this style are not full of different colors. They look aged, but no less beautiful for that. White decor should also be chosen to decorate your home.
If there are many small children in the family, then multi-colored balls and figures are suitable for decorating the tree.
If the artificial Christmas tree is white, multi-colored balls look great. They give the tree a more elegant look.
If desired, the tree can be given a more magnificent appearance. To do this, you need to decorate it with various bows, ribbons and even branches of other trees.
If the New Year's beauty is in the room of small children, it can be decorated with decorative ribbon with flags and a garland. You can decorate your room with the same elements.
For a romantic Christmas tree decoration, white, silver and pink balls are well suited. They go well together. The decor of the tree in this case turns out to be delicate.
You can decorate the tree with small family photos and New Year cards. Add some balloons and hanging candies. In this case, the New Year's holiday will be truly family and soulful.
Lately, natural Christmas tree decoration has become increasingly popular. In this case, attention is paid only to the lower part of the tree. Regardless of the style of decoration of the Christmas tree, it is important to convey the atmosphere to the whole house, and the main assistant in this is a good mood. It's better not to start without it.