2021 is coming soon. How quickly time flies! But not only years are running away, but also hours, minutes, seconds. If you want to feel the New Year approaching in advance and celebrate it without fuss and haste, start decorating your home right now. Ideas for New Year's decor are already in the air, and many of them can be suggested by children who will gladly take part in this pleasant and exciting process. Moreover, the children do not need to be urged on or rushed, and they themselves can easily add something new every day and gradually bring the festive interior to perfection. You may have to buy some, but most of the decorations can be made with your own hands from what you can find around the house.
Color matters: the main tone of New Year's decor
Recommendations for choosing colors cannot serve as the ultimate truth. New Year's decor should fit harmoniously into the existing interior and only give it an elegant, festive look. But some tips may be useful.
Green, the color of pine needles, will be present in any case. To dilute it, you need to use not the entire rainbow palette, but only two or three contrasting tones. It's better to give preference New Year's flowers- red, gold, silver. Saturated ones also look good, bright shades purple, blue, turquoise.
You can decorate everything in one color scheme - it’s very impressive and stylish option. Just don't forget about compatibility. If the interior of the apartment is designed in cold colors, choose the appropriate color scheme and silver; add gold and New Year’s red to the warm shades.
Several Christmas trees in the house - easy and simple
You don’t want to cover your walls with tinsel and garlands, and you don’t need to. But New Year without a tree is not a holiday, so we definitely put up a forest beauty. Everything is simple here: prepared free place, conducted an audit of last year’s toys, determined what needed to be purchased, and the main one could be decorated.
But, if you approach the issue creatively, you can not buy the missing toys, but make them yourself. And one more thing - in every room you can find a place for a homemade Christmas tree, and let the holiday be felt throughout the entire apartment at once.
Additional trees can be:
- – from beads, garlands, photographs,
- from scrap materials - wooden sticks, cones, pasta,
- – tinsel, rain, sweets and everything that comes to mind are glued onto the cone,
- knitted or collected from small balls,
- branches beautiful shape with silver or gold plating,
- ordinary indoor plant, properly decorated.
Just let the trees not be of the same type, but different in texture, shape and method of execution.
And now - toys. Made with love and imagination, they will turn your New Year into the warmest, most soulful and cozy holiday. You can wrap simple Christmas balls with scraps of fabric, knit clothes with them from colored yarn, and paint them acrylic paints, make compositions from pine cones, funny felt figures. Bake in the shape of stars and Christmas trees with a small hole for a ribbon and hang it on the branches - both tasty and beautiful.
Decorating windows and doors
The windows are the eyes of the house, the door is the face. Let your apartment look at the world and greets guests with joy.
Let's start with the windows:
- place compositions of branches, pine cones and candles on the windowsills,
- arrange and hang bright New Year's balls,
- cut from plastic bottles or thick paper,
- make garlands from flags, funny figures, Christmas socks.
If you are interested in or are simply familiar with this technique, create fairy-tale, illuminated, magical figures and winter scenes.
Doors are usually decorated with wreaths. Get creative, create your own wreath or improve an existing one. Everything comes into play:
- dried citrus slices,
- winter berries – rowan, cranberry,
- cut flower buds,
- bright candies,
- corks, beads,
- cones, coniferous branches, ribbons,
- bows, tinsel, garlands.
A wreath can be used to decorate not only a door, but also a wall, window, furniture or chandelier. 
New Year's lighting and table setting
New Year is unthinkable without candles. Let there be many of them, make beauty with your own hands. Place white and colored candles in glass vases, glasses, ordinary jars, one-third full sea salt or red berries, wrap with cinnamon sticks, cover with green twigs.
A composition with a live fire will come in handy anywhere, and especially in the center of a festive dinner. It is better to set the table in the same colors that predominate in the interior decoration. Each plate can be equipped with the name of the guest or a small card with a wish. The dishes are to your taste, but it is very desirable to depict some New Year’s symbol on each one.
Decorate your home with love, get everyone at home involved and you will get real pleasure. And also a pleasant bonus in the form of quite tangible savings, since you can create all the New Year’s beauty with my own hands. Have a nice winter evening and a happy New Year!
ABOUT THE EVENT
The New Year holiday is usually not complete without its main symbol - a decorated Christmas tree. The exhibition "Art-YOLKA" is the creation, by means of contemporary art and design, of an unusual "Christmas tree space" - the plastic equivalent of the "Christmas Tree Spirit", both a ritual tree and a holiday of the same name. The exhibition is conceived as a dynamic, whimsical installation and invites you to enter as if inside the Christmas tree itself, as if into space, in contrast to the traditional festive action unfolding around the Christmas tree - the tree. The gallery will create a unified festive environment, like a picturesque collage of different materials and semi-finished products reminiscent of the attributes of the New Year holiday - Christmas tree decorations, forest animals and all sorts of fabulous “forest evil spirits”.
The exhibition includes large images of objects by artists-masters of the 20th century, in keeping with the spirit of the holiday, as well as art objects on the theme of the Christmas tree and non-trivial Christmas tree decorations, made by designers, glass artists, students of the Moscow Architectural Institute and the Moscow State University of Art and Industry named after S.G. Stroganov and children's creative studios.
The New Year's exhibition installation can also be considered as a “theater set”, in which various performances and quests for children will be played out during the exhibition.
If you want to get a boost of joy for the whole year, come to our exhibition "Art-Christmas Tree".
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Curator: Larisa Klimova – architect, designer, artist, teacher, member of the Union of Moscow Architects.
Partners\with support: "Workshop-TAF", "LAB-digest theater", Moscow Architectural Institute-State Academy, Moscow State Art-Industrial Academy named after S.G. Stroganov, educational complex "Capital", educational complex No. 1363, educational complex No. 1420.
Exhibition opening program December 10, 17:00 Guests will enjoy a New Year's performance from the authors of the educational program "Lab-Digest Theatre", festive mood, tangerines and surprises.
Free admission.
Registration for the quest "ART under the TREE" is open.
This is not only an exciting game, in which the children will receive pleasant gifts at the end, but also an immersion in an amazing, unfamiliar New Year's world, Holiday art. To receive a gift waiting in the gallery, children need to go through a route of 7 stations. Cult artists of the 20th century, whose works are presented at the exhibition as large flat images and unusual installations, inspire the children and suggest how the task is solved.
Exhibition "ART-TREE" (0+)
Opening hours: Tue – Sun, 11:00–20:00
Cost: 100 rub. (RUR 50 – discount ticket)
Before the New Year, the capital was again decorated with fluffy Christmas trees, bright art objects, dozens of meters of garlands, sparkling installations.
At any time, even the darkest time of the day, you can walk along the illuminated streets and alleys, looking at three-dimensional light figures: Santa Claus, angels, bears, Christmas tree balls, etc.
Where you can see real magic with your own eyes and recharge New Year's mood? Where to go to take holiday photos as a souvenir?
Magic forest on Manezhnaya Square
You can admire the tallest city spruce on Manezhnaya Square. Strasbourg, Bern, Nuremberg, Copenhagen, Prague, Vienna, Brussels, Riga, Vilnius and, of course, Moscow - the square invites guests on a journey through European cities, where the world's most famous Christmas markets are held.
Live music and vibrant performances by theater groups create a festive mood. The main point of attraction for lovers of spectacular photos is the New Year tree. It took 3 km to decorate it Christmas tree garlands and 3500 toys.
Here you can also take a walk in the snow-covered New Year’s forest of 130 fir trees - it spreads out under the dome of the glowing “Christmas sky”, take a photo against the backdrop of the art objects “Moscow Troika” and “Nuremberg Christmas Mill” and watch a lamplighter light an ancient Prague lantern.
There is a fairground carousel on the square, where you can ride and take a photo as a souvenir.
Fairy tale in Zaryadye
Zaryadye Park received a fantastic design for the 2019/2020 New Year season. The convenient location, unique objects transformed in festive attire will undoubtedly be appreciated by both adults and children.
In the fairy tale "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King"
Tverskoy Boulevard will especially appeal to young townspeople. After all, it is here that they will find themselves in the atmosphere of the most famous Christmas fairy tale of the 19th century, “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King.” And they will be helped in this by artists dressed as characters from their favorite fairy tales, unusual art objects and a themed photo zone. Every day here you can meet the brave Nutcracker, sweet Marie and the treacherous Mouse King, take part in exciting games and sports fun and take dozens of wonderful photographs as a keepsake.
On this site you can take atmospheric family photos in the “Anticipation of Christmas” photo zone - against the backdrop of an elegant living room with a Christmas tree and shelves full of books. Children will enjoy riding on toy horses.
Art objects of the Journey to Christmas festival
Moscow sparkles with festive lights and New Year's art objects for another occasion: until January 31, the capital hosts the annual Journey to Christmas festival.
The festival grounds traditionally feature unusual installations, Christmas markets, street shows and concerts, exciting master classes and competitions.
"Sunrise" in Gorky Park
The Voskhod skating rink in Gorky Park stands out among its metropolitan counterparts with its bright, extraordinary design. This season the ice rink is once again sparkling with thousands of lights.
The design of the skating rink this season is dedicated to the events of the first half of the 20th century: space, flight and the pursuit of a dream. The main elements in the design of the skating rink and pavilions are a star, a planet, a satellite.
Skating rink at VDNKh
The skating rink at VDNKh stretches along the Central Alley - from the Central Pavilion to the Agriculture Pavilion. From a bird's eye view, the ice rink's outline resembles a magical golden key.
Lovers of romance can take a ride along the “Alley of Lovers” around the “Stone Flower” fountain. Along the central alley of the skating rink there is a large-scale artistic composition - a fabulous field of glowing fir trees, snowdrops, cornflowers and forget-me-nots.
In the evening the skating rink lights turn on. The fences and pedestrian wooden bridge are also illuminated, from which a beautiful view opens.
The country's main exhibition has been transformed for the New Year. In place of lawns and flower beds, luminous flowers appeared, shimmering with all the colors of the rainbow, dandelion lamps grow on both sides of the Central Pavilion, and a field of fireflies flickers on Industry Square.
Immediately at the entrance to the exhibition, guests will be greeted by the “Alley of Magic”, consisting of nine luminous openwork arches. After walking along it, you can get to the “Central” pavilion and see the unusual festive installation “Christmas Time”. This is a luminous arch with columns almost 19 meters high. It almost completely follows the outline of the main entrance arch. The composition is crowned with a clock with a dial and a snowflake pendulum. The “Christmas Time” clock is not a fake clock, and, indeed, accurately counts the hours and minutes.
GUM Fair and GUM Skating Rink on Red Square
Until February 29, the Christmas GUM Fair with carousels, attractions, hawkers, buffoons and mummers is open on Red Square. Located nearby.
Participants in the competition, organized by the Guta-Development company, included architectural bureaus, design studios, Internet portals and printed publications, as well as freelance artists, and its jury included the commissioner of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Joseph Backstein, gallery owner Vladimir Ovcharenko, artist Vladimir Dubossarsky , designer Stas Zhitsky, architects Nikolay Lyzlov, Vlad Savinkin and Vladimir Kuzmin. And although the main theme of the competition was the New Year tree, the participants had every right to interpret the attribute New Year's holidays as they please.
"Return". DirectDesign.ru. Photo by Oleg Mishin
"Y-tree." Nadezhda Fedorovich, Alexey Chernooky. Photo by O. Samborskaya
According to the organizers of the competition, they were “interested in any manifestation of creativity: from the extraordinary design of coniferous trees to witty and non-trivial transformations of traditional Christmas trees.” That is why the only condition of the competition was formulated as follows: “The Christmas tree must be presented as an art object and contain an expressive conceptual idea.”Photo by Oleg Mishin
Another wish of the organizers to the participants was the resistance of the art objects to any vagaries of the Moscow winter - the trees should not only be spectacular, but also stand until January 14 “without damage to their appearance" The main criteria for evaluating the competition entries were the innovativeness of the idea, the originality of the composition, the level of artistic and technical execution and the variety of materials used."Flower of Life". Funkel. Photo by Oleg Mishin
For his Flower of Life composition, Funkel used the steel from which the trunk of the Christmas tree is made, and glass balls filled with liquid, reminiscent of traditional Christmas decorations. According to the author, “the light spots that are formed from the glow of the Christmas tree, intersecting with each other, form a pattern, the graphics of which resemble the image of the “flower of life.”"Aero-Yolka" Olga Arazheva. Photo by O. Samborskaya
Olga Arazheva used plastic for the Aero-Yolka project: her “tree” is an illuminated large-diameter corrugated pipe that wraps around a metal pole. According to the author, this design symbolizes “the spiral of the ascending air flow and creates a directed movement of the Earth’s energy into outer space.” This installation also has an important practical meaning: such a tree can serve as an original lamp both indoors and outdoors."Christmas tree-book". Elena Vinogradova and Marina Bakhireva. Photo by O. Mishin
Elena Vinogradova and Marina Bakhireva created the “Christmas tree-book”, light and environmentally friendly, the “pages” of which are made of plywood and can be read by both children and adults - each of them will find on this tree interesting information for myself. And Olesya Livanova and Timur Gritsan dedicated their installation to the symbol of the coming year - the dragon. They named their tree “Dragon Tree”, and its twisting steel trunk really looks like both a mythological animal and a spruce.Anatomy of a Christmas miracle." Nastasya Bezrukova and Nikita Sysoev. Photo by O. Samborskaya
Nastasya Bezrukova and Nikita Sysoev came up with a composition called “Anatomy of a Christmas Miracle.” This is an attempt to understand the secret of the charm and attractiveness of the New Year's tree - it is made up of boxes and pencil cases different shapes, each of which contains some kind of “secret” and is illuminated from the inside. “Having gotten rid of the shell, we have the opportunity to see the naked form (skeleton) and, in particles (boxes), Christmas motifs materialized,” the authors themselves write in the annotation to their work."Eco-Christmas tree". Caroline Khatkevich. Photo by O. Samborskaya
Karolina Khatkevich also took apart the image of the Christmas tree into its components. In her opinion, the main thing in a New Year's tree is illumination, so the “Eco-Christmas Tree” invented by this artist is a rack of wooden shelves, shaped like a spruce, on each of which candles, lanterns, and all kinds of lamps are placed.“A Christmas tree without balls is like a ball without a Christmas tree.” Larisa Talis and Archduet company. Photo by O. Samborskaya
And Larisa Talis and the Archduet company decided that the most important thing in a Christmas tree is the decorations, and it was the Christmas ball that was made the main thing actor your installation. A giant red ball covered in glitter is decorated with many tiny Christmas trees growing from it as if from the globe."Untitled". Daria Kalita and Diana Arslanova. Photo by O. Samborskaya
One of the most memorable installations of the exhibition, perhaps, was the work of Daria Kalita and Diana Arslanova, drawing attention to the inadmissibility of mass cutting down of fir trees before the New Year. Right on the asphalt, the artists depicted the silhouette of a spruce tree with chalk, and next to it there was a road sign, as if saying that fir trees once grew here..."Sacrifice". PR department of the Guta-development company. Photo by O. Samborskaya
The PR department of the organizing company also spoke out against the mass destruction of conifers - the installation “Sacrifice” is a spruce tree suspended upside down, which is decorated with mourning black balls. The authors specifically emphasize that during the creation of this art object, “not a single spruce tree was harmed.”"Individual bunker tree." Mealhouse A&M. Photo by O. Samborskaya
What does the coming 2012 promise us and will the problem of protection from natural and man-made disasters really become the most pressing? The Mealhouse A&M bureau gives its answer to this question, having come up with a Christmas tree in the form of... a bunker."Return". DirectDesign.ru. Photo by O. Samborskaya
Well, the most romantic object of the show, of course, was the art project “Return” by DirectDesign, which makes us remember that New Year– this is the time of transition. In the sky above Red October, the authors hung several snow-white fir trees soaring on wings (some look like angels, others with their outlines more reminiscent of dragons). According to the authors, these are the “souls” of the felled people who have returned to the holiday. Christmas trees. Their snow-white wings, frozen in their flapping, emphasize the “crystal purity of the festive moment.”The exhibition of unusual New Year trees will last at Red October until January 14. And the winners of the competition will be determined this week – December 23.
0+Huge Christmas ball on Manezhnaya, which became a hit last winter, will be located on Poklonnaya Hill this year. Inside the structure, woven from 23 thousand light bulbs, there will be a dance floor. There is enough space for everyone, because the diameter of the ball is as much as 17 meters. We will dance to winter melodies about the New Year and Moscow.
st. Brothers Fonchenko, 7Light installations “Musical Forest”
In place of the fountain on Pushkin Square, a magical “Musical Forest” will grow. The light installation will move and demonstrate fabulous mini-performances, accompanied by New Year and Christmas melodies. The duration of each show is about 10 minutes.
Pushkinskaya SquareArches with heroes of Soviet New Year cards 0+
The decorations, evoking childhood memories, created a real sensation during the City Day celebrations. Arches with an updated design will move to Kudrinskaya Square, areas near the circus on Vernadsky Avenue and near the Krasnye Vorota metro station. The designs will be decorated with heroes of Soviet postcards and glowing snowflakes.
Vernadskogo Ave., 7The installation-symbol of the coming 2017 will appear at several sites in the capital: for example, near the Izvestia building next to Pushkinskaya Square and in Novopushkinsky Park, opposite the monument to Alexander Sergeevich.
st. Bolshaya Bronnaya, 29Italian arches
Giant, multi-tiered, multi-colored and iridescent arches will be installed on Teatralnaya, Pushkinskaya and Tverskaya squares, on Revolution Square, Nikolskaya Street and Novopushkinsky Square. One of the most beautiful compositions will appear on Manezhnaya Square - a whole arched ensemble will shine here.
pl. TeatralnayaCup lanterns on Tverskaya
Tverskaya Street will be decorated with glowing goblets resembling glasses of champagne. A total of 64 six-meter “wine glasses” will be used. You can admire the spectacle on both sides of Tverskaya, from Manezhnaya to Pushkinskaya Square. A team of French designers was involved in developing the street design.
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