Winter came. The end of the year, it's time to take stock, update life plans and take a step into the future. The holiday of the new year in all countries spend differently. But, in addition to original traditions, there are unifying features in every holiday. The tradition of decorating your home is as old as humanity itself. Modern conditions provide opportunities that are incommensurable with those that were in the last century. A variety of materials and tools for home decoration is growing constantly. An important element in creating a magical atmosphere of the holiday - New Year's curtains. You can decorate the window so that the interior will find a unique look.
How to decorate ordinary curtains so that the New Year's curtains on the windows become an atmospheric and original element of the holiday?
Curtains are the perfect backdrop for additional items. To decorate any curtain, be it rolled, blinds, plain fabric, straight, with folds, you can use literally everything that is at hand.
How to make ordinary festive curtains
Take the curtains that are already there, and add them with decorative accessories - the fastest option. A noticeable part of the curtains, like a lambrequin, for example, makes sense to beat with artistic details or, if there is no lambrequin, attach a homemade one for the duration of the holiday.
The choice of material and form is completely at the mercy of your imagination.
Paper, pieces of fabric, natural materials, in the course to put everything possible that comes to mind. The colors that are combined in style with the New Year and Merry Christmas - white, blue, red, gold. Braid, ribbons, any elements that are suitable in color, tastefully decorated, immediately change the look of the curtains. In addition to the eaves, for decoration there is the canvas itself, which can be draped in a different way, adding parts from paper, applications. These could be snowman, deer or abstract figures. Rhinestones, buttons, braid can be easily glued with a flizelin and iron, and soft toys, balls, paper figures should be hung from the cornice.
Choose what is more interesting for you:
- cut and hang snowflakes, angel figures;
- sew or pin to the appliqué curtain;
- create an ornament using a stencil;
- garlands, rain used to create original patterns;
- decorate the cornice with foil, or manually made lambrequin;
- from string, braid, paper tape to create a composition;
- gather garlands of any available materials, pompons, bows, rags;
- attach gold colored stars to curtains;
- paper plastic, origami, paper volume balls;
- cones, rowan twigs and spruce combined with foil and paint.
Silver and gold - the traditional colors of the New Year
On curtains, figures from sparkling or matte materials with metal textures - foil, brocade, lurex look impressive. You can attach them with a thread, sewing pins. More simple decoration - rain and festoons.
Japanese curtain consists of several canvases. This is convenient, you can replace one or more paintings on inserts made by hand. On such modules to apply drawings, applications.
Whole paintings and compositions on Christmas themes, or a simple geometric pattern in the New Year color theme trend, suitable for the interior, will turn ordinary curtains into New Year's curtains.
3d print as a modern version of the festive design
New technologies in the 21st century have become invisible, but nonetheless an integral part of life. The most pleasant thing about progress is that it makes life much easier and saves time. UV printing on fabric or special paper will instantly create a real New Year's magic.
If you take into account the amount of forces expended in relation to the effect produced, you can call the New Year's 3d curtains the most technological.
Photo curtains come with a finished drawing, with a festive theme. By the way of UV printing, you can put on the curtains the picture you like, and then the design of the apartment will be unique. 3D drawing can be applied to different fabrics, choose the texture and color of the material. Air chiffon or heavy atlas will create various effects. Of course, it is desirable to take into account the color of the apartment and try to ensure that the color of the curtains is not out of balance. Curtains with a 3D pattern are hung not only on the windows, but also on the walls as a print, instead of a picture. Stereo effects visually increase the space, and additional lighting completely changes the perception of an ordinary room or kitchen, bringing them into the world of the New Year's miracle.
How to create curtains yourself
Creating curtains from scratch with your own hands allows you to not limit your creative imagination. Here you can safely experiment, since you are not constrained by the color of the existing curtains, or by the presence of the pattern and type of fabric, if you decide on photo-curtains. From simple options - to make thread curtains. Usually such curtains are made of beads. For example, you can strung on a thread, instead of beads, figurines of bunnies and snowflakes or toys made by hand, so the curtains with a Christmas theme are ready. Instead of threads it will be interesting to use twine, braid, paper strips, which will give the curtains liveliness and comfort. And you can glue to the strips absolutely any objects starting with natural materials, such as cones, finishing with hand-made articles from plastic bottles, which make stylish Christmas trees. If you know how to sew, flat toys with felt or cardboard inside are very practical, it is convenient to use them in the next New Year to decorate curtains.
Ready-made garlands and tinsel are also used as curtains. Beautiful curtains come from different types of paper, with decorative components and patterns.
The smell of Christmas trees, the taste of orange and Santa Claus
Of course, it is desirable to include Santa Claus and snowflakes in curtain decorations. But the main thing is to convey the atmosphere of the New Year holiday. If you take a creative attitude to this case, you can use non-standard things. For fixing curtains, it is original to use decorative elements with rhinestones. Christmas stars, bells, angels are first cut out of cardboard using a pre-made pattern. Then they are wrapped in foil, decorated with rhinestones and confetti. Suitable for decorating cardboard frames, items such as buttons, unnecessary beads, shells.
The Christmas decoration of the curtains, in addition to decorating the design, will help you relax and lighten your mood long before the holidays.
The stars look beautiful anywhere - as an attachment in drapery, in the form of an appliqué, for grabbing curtains. The stars and balls suspended from the cornice look great on string of different lengths.
Old things can be decorated or painted
A pair of cylinders with gold and silver paint and courage will help to create a New Year's mood practically from things that have come to hand, which are no longer needed on the farm.
Scattered baby socks, painted from a can, decorated with ribbons look no worse than an expensive industrial toy. Draperies, laces, twine go well with ready-made appliqués, now their large selection. In addition to specifically Christmas themes, you can apply beautiful accessories such as leaves, geometric figures.
Interesting three-dimensional forms are created from glue with threads, yarn residues. In addition to stars, snow, openwork snowflakes, you can make any form in this way, the most fantastic.
There is an unlimited number of possibilities and options for decorating curtains.
Paper curtains as a touch to the story
Paper is an unusually plastic material for creativity, it has the property of storing the shape that it was given with the help of folds and cuts. Its modern application includes almost all areas of science, industry, art. Paper curtains are not one thousand years old, if we consider that paper was officially invented and began to be used in 105 AD in its current form, and in fact even earlier. Therefore, to create Christmas curtains from paper with your own hands, it is, in a sense, to join the story. The most suitable option for the New Year's holiday, which combines tradition and modernity.
Paper curtains can be made from individual elements attached to the fishing line wire, paper clips. Other ways is to make curtains from a whole sheet. These are traditional, long-known methods of making paper curtains.
What kind of paper curtains are easy to make for the New Year
In order for the curtains to become New Year's, it is enough to correctly select the texture and pattern of the paper.
For the manufacture of curtains from paper modules fit candy wrappers, pieces of beautiful paper, postcards. You can intersperse paper elements with others - for example, buttons, glass beads. The process of the method is to string multiple-colored pieces of paper folded several times onto a thread or fasten to each other with paper clips. Undoubtedly, such work requires a lot of patience and time. On the other hand, such leisure activities help strengthen the nervous system. And if you do it not alone, but with someone else, you can have fun.
The fastest way to make beautiful paper curtains is pleated blinds. The process of making them is simple, and the result will be stylish curtains. Any paper is suitable, but the most popular method is to use wallpaper. It turns out inexpensive and beautiful.
The process of creating pleated and tubular blinds
For pleated curtains, the width of the paper sheet is measured across the window with a deduction of 1, 5 centimeters. The first thing to do is to mark the paper into strips of the same width, then fold them with an accordion. To keep the folds, it will be correct to run along the fold lines with the back of a knife or scissors, guiding with a ruler. Fold the harmonica, put under the press for three hours. Glue double-sided tape to the top strip, make a through hole for the rope with a retainer and the curtain is ready. The latch not only raises the blinds, but also creates a beautiful semicircular shape, similar to a fan, which perfectly decorates the interior.
Luxury look on the window rolled paper curtains. They are collected from thin paper tubes that are twisted from suitable paper. The thinner the paper, the more elegant the result. A good newsprint application. The resulting sticks, which can be painted with a brush or spray paint on them from a can. It is preferable to collect on the tape, or decorative rope in several rows. As a result, we will have curtains similar to bamboo, but more beautiful. Stencil drawing will additionally decorate the finished blinds.
The main components of the holiday are love and inspiration.
How to give warmth and mood to your home during the holidays? Hanging Christmas decorations on curtains can be a few minutes, taking what is stored in the closet and from year to year. And you can supplement them with new copies, in which we have invested creative energy and our love. Then the holiday will become more intense and comfortable.
You can create a fairy tale of paper, fabric, thread and glue, use various objects, natural materials as decor, the main thing is to turn on the imagination and give freedom of creativity that always exists inside us.
Several ways to create decorations for curtains:
- Snowflakes, paper stars;
- figures of Santa Claus, deer made of cardboard and foil;
- decorative elements of thread and glue;
- stars from wire and filaments;
- paper garlands;
- balls, ribbons or paper bows;
- soft toys as holders for curtains;
- small Christmas trees from plastic bottles, paper, yarn;
- bulk paper balls - kusudama.
Christmas trees separately, snowflakes separately
It is enough to cut out white paper snowflakes, figurines of hares, bears, snowdrifts and Christmas trees, and the decoration on the curtains is ready.
One repetitive motif looks interesting, but beaten in different material.
For example, you can pin on the curtains only Christmas trees, but made from different materials. Interesting Christmas trees are obtained from chopped plastic bottles. Paper trees are made on the same principle. The paper fringe is cut, a stylized Christmas tree is twisted out of it. If there is an opportunity to complement the design of the curtains with Christmas trees of felt or fabric, it will look stylish and modern.
In the same embodiment, you can decorate the curtains by selecting a different motif. It can be Santa Claus, snowmen, bunnies and various snowflakes made in different techniques. Here, the diversity is not achieved at the expense of the plot, namely, designer finds.
Some paper plastics and sculptures
Another quick and original way for giving our festive entourage to our breadth is to hang not only glass balls on the ribbons, but also homemade paper kusudams. And although they are associated with the Chinese New Year, when these decorative balls are made of white paper, they are no different from snowflakes.
There are variations of very simple designs, such that even a child can easily make.
The effect is amazing anyway. When instead of the lambrequin hanging garland of bulk balls, it looks like a real work of art.
Stars with a frame of wooden rods or wire wrapped with thread look original.
You can leave the natural color of the threads, and you can paint in golden or silver color, then the Christmas feeling will become real. Stars can be decorated evenly all the canvas, the original will put them in a strip, a random pattern or around the perimeter of the curtains.
A little different look bows or other decorations. At your choice, it is possible to create a traditional atmosphere or to decorate a house in the style of postmodernism. The most important thing is to create a feeling of celebration, suitable for everyone in his spirit and style. Then the holiday will bring good luck.
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