Winter came. The end of the year, it's time to take stock, update life plans and take a step into the future. New Year's Eve is held differently in all countries. But, in addition to original traditions, in each holiday there are unifying features. The tradition of decorating your home is as old as humanity itself. Modern conditions provide opportunities incommensurable with those that were in the last century. A variety of materials and tools for home decoration is constantly growing. An important element in creating a magical atmosphere of the holiday - New Year's curtains. You can decorate the window so that the interior takes on a unique look.
How to decorate ordinary curtains so that Christmas curtains on the windows become an atmospheric and original element of the holiday?
Curtains are a great backdrop for additional elements. To decorate any curtain, whether it is roller blinds, blinds, plain fabric, straight, with folds, you can use literally everything that is at hand.
Taking curtains that already exist and adding them with decorative accessories is the fastest option. For example, it makes sense to beat a noticeable part of the curtain, like a lambrequin, with artistic details or, if there is no lambrequin, to attach a home-made one for the holiday.
The choice of material and form is entirely at the mercy of your imagination.
Paper, pieces of fabric, natural materials, use everything that comes to mind. The colors that combine in style with New Year and Christmas - white, blue, red, gold. Braids, ribbons, any elements that are suitable in color, tastefully decorated, will immediately change the appearance of the curtain. In addition to the cornice, for decoration there is the canvas itself, which can be draped in different ways, add details from paper, applications. It can be figures of snowmen, deer or abstract drawings. Rhinestones, buttons, and braid can be easily glued with a non-woven fabric and iron, and soft toys, balls, paper figures should be hung from the cornice.
Choose what is more interesting to you:
cut out and hang snowflakes, figures of angels from the cornice;
sew or pin to applique curtain;
create an ornament using a stencil;
garlands, rain to use to create original patterns;
issue a cornice with foil, or manually made lambrequin;
from a becheva, braid, paper tapes to create a composition;
to garland any improvised materials, pompons, bows, rags;
attach stars painted with gold paint to the curtains;
paper plastic, origami, paper volume balls;
cones, sprigs of mountain ash and spruce combine with foil and paint.
Silver and gold are the traditional colors of the New Year.
The figures made of sparkling or matte materials with metal textures - foil, brocade, lurex look spectacular on the curtains. You can attach them with thread, sewing pins. A simpler decoration is with rain and garlands.
The Japanese curtain consists of several paintings. This is convenient, you can replace one or more paintings with inserts made by hand. On such modules apply drawings, applications.
Entire 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 ones.
3D printing as a modern version of the holiday design
In the 21st century, new technologies have become an invisible, but nonetheless integral part of life. The best part in progress is that it significantly simplifies life and saves time. UV printing on fabric or special paper will instantly create real New Year's magic.
If you take into account the amount of expended forces in relation to the effect produced, you can call New Year 3D curtains the most technologically advanced.
Photocurtains come with a finished pattern, with a festive theme. Using UV printing, you can put on the curtains the picture that 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 satin will create different effects. Of course, it is advisable to take into account the color of the apartment and try to ensure that the color of the curtains does not get 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 illumination completely changes the perception of an ordinary room or kitchen, transferring them to 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 shackled either by the color of existing curtains, or by the presence of a pattern and type of fabric, if you decide on photocurtains. From simple options - make filament curtains. Usually such curtains are made of beads. For example, you can string on threads, instead of beads, figurines of bunnies and snowflakes or handmade toys, and now the curtains with New Year's theme are ready. Instead of threads, it will be interesting to use twine, braid, paper strips, which will give curtains liveliness and comfort. And absolutely any objects can be glued to the strips, starting with natural materials, such as cones, ending with crafts from plastic bottles, which make stylish Christmas trees. If you can sew, flat toys with felt or cardboard inside are very practical, they are also convenient to use next year for decorating curtains.
Ready-made garlands and tinsel are also used as curtains. Beautiful curtains are obtained from different types of paper, with decorative components and patterns.
The smell of a Christmas tree, the taste of orange and Santa Claus
Of course, it is advisable to include Santa Claus and snowflakes in the decoration of curtains. But the main thing is to convey the atmosphere of the New Year holiday. If you are creative in this matter, you can use non-standard things. To fix the curtains, it is original to use decorative elements with rhinestones. Christmas stars, bells, angels are first cut out of cardboard according to 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.
New Year's decoration of curtains, in addition to decorating the design, will help you relax and cheer you up long before the holidays.
Stars look beautiful anywhere - as a fastening in drapery, in the form of appliqué, for pickups to curtains.The stars and balls on the twine of different lengths hanging on the cornice look great.
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 the things that turned up at the arm, which are no longer needed in the household.
Scattered children's socks, painted from a spray can, decorated with ribbons look no worse than an expensive industrial toy. Draperies, lace, twine go well with ready-made applications, now there is a large selection of them. In addition to the Christmas theme specifically, 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 are unlimited possibilities and options for decorating curtains.
Paper curtains as a touch to history
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 notches. Its modern application includes almost all areas of science, industry, and art. Paper curtains are more than one thousand years old, given that paper was officially invented and began to be used in 105 AD in its modern form, but in fact even earlier. Therefore, to create New Year's curtains from paper with your own hands, this, in a sense, to join the story. The most suitable option for the New Year holiday, which combines tradition and modernity.
Paper curtains can be made from individual elements fixed on fishing line wire, paper clips. Other methods are the manufacture of curtains from a whole sheet. These are traditional, long-known methods of making paper curtains.
What paper curtains are easy to make for the New Year
In order for the curtains to become New Year's, it is enough to choose the texture and paper pattern correctly.
For the manufacture of curtains from paper modules, candy wrappers, pieces of beautiful paper, postcards are suitable. You can interleave paper elements with others - for example, buttons, glass beads. The process of the method is to string multicolored 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 together, you can have fun.
The fastest way to make beautiful paper curtains is with pleated blinds. The manufacturing process is simple, and as a result we get stylish curtains. Any paper is good, but the most popular technique is to use wallpaper. It turns out inexpensively and beautifully.
The process of creating pleated and tubular blinds
For pleated curtains, the width of the paper sheet is measured by the window minus 1.5 centimeters. The first thing to do is mark the paper into strips of the same width, then fold them with an accordion. To keep the folds, it will be correct to draw along the fold lines with the back of the knife or scissors, guiding with a ruler. Fold the accordion, put under the press for three hours. Glue double-sided tape to the upper strip, make a through hole for the rope with a latch and the curtain is ready. The latch not only lifts the blinds, but also creates a beautiful semicircular shape, similar to a fan. That perfectly adorns the interior.
Roll paper curtains look luxurious on the window. They are collected from thin paper tubes that are twisted from suitable paper. The thinner the paper, the more elegant the result. Newsprint is good to use. It turns out sticks that can be painted with a brush or spray paint on them from a spray can.It is preferable to collect on a tape, or a decorative rope in several rows. As a result, we will have curtains similar to bamboo, but more beautiful. Screen printing will further 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? You can hang New Year's decorations on the curtains in a few minutes, taking out what is stored in the closet and from year to year. And you can supplement them with new items in which we have invested creative energy and our love. Then the holiday will become more eventful and comfortable.
You can create a fairy tale from paper, fabric, threads and glue, apply various objects, natural materials as a decor, most importantly, turn on your imagination and give freedom to the creativity that always exists within us.
Several ways to create decorations on the curtains:
Snowflakes, stars made of paper;
figures of Santa Claus, deer from cardboard and foil;
decorative elements from threads and glue;
stars of wire and thread;
paper garlands;
balls, ribbons or paper bows;
soft toys as holders for curtains;
small Christmas trees made of plastic bottles, paper, yarn;
voluminous paper balls - kusudamy.
Christmas trees separately, snowflakes separately
It is enough to cut snowflakes, figures of hares, bears, snowdrifts and Christmas trees from white paper, and the decoration for the curtains is ready.
One repeating motive looks interesting, but beaten in different material.
For example, you can pin on the curtains only Christmas trees, but made of different materials. Interesting Christmas trees are obtained from chopped plastic bottles. Paper trees are made according to the same principle. Paper fringe is cut, a stylized Christmas tree is twisted from it. If it is possible to complement the curtain design with Christmas trees made of felt or fabric, it will look stylish and modern.
In the same version, you can decorate the curtains by choosing a different motive.It can be Santa Clauses, snowmen, bunnies and various snowflakes made using different techniques. Here, diversity is achieved not due to the plot, but namely designer finds.
Some paper plastics and sculptures
Another quick and original way for our breadth to give a festive surroundings is to hang not only glass balls on tapes, but also homemade paper kusudamas. 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 options that are very easy to execute biting, such that even a child can easily do.
The effect is amazing anyway. When instead of a lambrequin a garland of volume balls hangs, it looks like a real work of art.
Stars with a frame made of wooden rods or wire wrapped in threads look original.
You can leave the natural color of the threads, or you can dye it in golden or silver color, then the feeling of Christmas will become real. You can evenly decorate the entire canvas with stars, it will initially be used to strip them with a strip, an arbitrary pattern or around the perimeter of the curtains.
Bows or other decorations look a little different. According to your choice, it is possible to create a traditional atmosphere or decorate a house in the style of postmodernism. The most important thing is to have a holiday feeling that suits everyone according to their spirit and style. Then the holiday will bring good luck.
Winter came. The end of the year, it's time to take stock, update life plans and take a step into the future. New Year's Eve is held differently in all countries. But, in addition to original traditions, in each holiday there are unifying features. The tradition of decorating your home is as old as humanity itself. Modern conditions provide opportunities incommensurable with those that were in the last century. A variety of materials and tools for home decoration is constantly growing. An important element in creating a magical atmosphere of the holiday - New Year's curtains. You can decorate the window so that the interior takes on a unique look.
How to decorate ordinary curtains so that Christmas curtains on the windows become an atmospheric and original element of the holiday?
Curtains are a great backdrop for additional elements. To decorate any curtain, whether it is roller blinds, blinds, plain fabric, straight, with folds, you can use literally everything that is at hand.
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How to make regular curtains festive
Taking curtains that already exist and adding them with decorative accessories is the fastest option. For example, it makes sense to beat a noticeable part of the curtain, like a lambrequin, with artistic details or, if there is no lambrequin, to attach a home-made one for the holiday.
The choice of material and form is entirely at the mercy of your imagination.
Paper, pieces of fabric, natural materials, use everything that comes to mind. The colors that combine in style with New Year and Christmas - white, blue, red, gold. Braids, ribbons, any elements that are suitable in color, tastefully decorated, will immediately change the appearance of the curtain. In addition to the cornice, for decoration there is the canvas itself, which can be draped in different ways, add details from paper, applications. It can be figures of snowmen, deer or abstract drawings. Rhinestones, buttons, and braid can be easily glued with a non-woven fabric and iron, and soft toys, balls, paper figures should be hung from the cornice.
Choose what is more interesting to you:
Silver and gold are the traditional colors of the New Year.
The figures made of sparkling or matte materials with metal textures - foil, brocade, lurex look spectacular on the curtains. You can attach them with thread, sewing pins. A simpler decoration is with rain and garlands.
The Japanese curtain consists of several paintings. This is convenient, you can replace one or more paintings with inserts made by hand. On such modules apply drawings, applications.
3D printing as a modern version of the holiday design
In the 21st century, new technologies have become an invisible, but nonetheless integral part of life. The best part in progress is that it significantly simplifies life and saves time. UV printing on fabric or special paper will instantly create real New Year's magic.
If you take into account the amount of expended forces in relation to the effect produced, you can call New Year 3D curtains the most technologically advanced.
Photocurtains come with a finished pattern, with a festive theme. Using UV printing, you can put on the curtains the picture that 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 satin will create different effects. Of course, it is advisable to take into account the color of the apartment and try to ensure that the color of the curtains does not get 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 illumination completely changes the perception of an ordinary room or kitchen, transferring them to 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 shackled either by the color of existing curtains, or by the presence of a pattern and type of fabric, if you decide on photocurtains. From simple options - make filament curtains. Usually such curtains are made of beads. For example, you can string on threads, instead of beads, figurines of bunnies and snowflakes or handmade toys, and now the curtains with New Year's theme are ready. Instead of threads, it will be interesting to use twine, braid, paper strips, which will give curtains liveliness and comfort. And absolutely any objects can be glued to the strips, starting with natural materials, such as cones, ending with crafts from plastic bottles, which make stylish Christmas trees. If you can sew, flat toys with felt or cardboard inside are very practical, they are also convenient to use next year for decorating curtains.
The smell of a Christmas tree, the taste of orange and Santa Claus
Of course, it is advisable to include Santa Claus and snowflakes in the decoration of curtains. But the main thing is to convey the atmosphere of the New Year holiday. If you are creative in this matter, you can use non-standard things. To fix the curtains, it is original to use decorative elements with rhinestones. Christmas stars, bells, angels are first cut out of cardboard according to 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.
Stars look beautiful anywhere - as a fastening in drapery, in the form of appliqué, for pickups to curtains.The stars and balls on the twine of different lengths hanging on the cornice look great.
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 the things that turned up at the arm, which are no longer needed in the household.
Scattered children's socks, painted from a spray can, decorated with ribbons look no worse than an expensive industrial toy. Draperies, lace, twine go well with ready-made applications, now there is a large selection of them. In addition to the Christmas theme specifically, you can apply beautiful accessories such as leaves, geometric figures.
There are unlimited possibilities and options for decorating curtains.
Paper curtains as a touch to history
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 notches. Its modern application includes almost all areas of science, industry, and art. Paper curtains are more than one thousand years old, given that paper was officially invented and began to be used in 105 AD in its modern form, but in fact even earlier. Therefore, to create New Year's curtains from paper with your own hands, this, in a sense, to join the story. The most suitable option for the New Year holiday, which combines tradition and modernity.
Paper curtains can be made from individual elements fixed on fishing line wire, paper clips. Other methods are the manufacture of curtains from a whole sheet. These are traditional, long-known methods of making paper curtains.
What paper curtains are easy to make for the New Year
In order for the curtains to become New Year's, it is enough to choose the texture and paper pattern correctly.
For the manufacture of curtains from paper modules, candy wrappers, pieces of beautiful paper, postcards are suitable. You can interleave paper elements with others - for example, buttons, glass beads. The process of the method is to string multicolored 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 together, you can have fun.
The fastest way to make beautiful paper curtains is with pleated blinds. The manufacturing process is simple, and as a result we get stylish curtains. Any paper is good, but the most popular technique is to use wallpaper. It turns out inexpensively and beautifully.
The process of creating pleated and tubular blinds
For pleated curtains, the width of the paper sheet is measured by the window minus 1.5 centimeters. The first thing to do is mark the paper into strips of the same width, then fold them with an accordion. To keep the folds, it will be correct to draw along the fold lines with the back of the knife or scissors, guiding with a ruler. Fold the accordion, put under the press for three hours. Glue double-sided tape to the upper strip, make a through hole for the rope with a latch and the curtain is ready. The latch not only lifts the blinds, but also creates a beautiful semicircular shape, similar to a fan. That perfectly adorns the interior.
Roll paper curtains look luxurious on the window. They are collected from thin paper tubes that are twisted from suitable paper. The thinner the paper, the more elegant the result. Newsprint is good to use. It turns out sticks that can be painted with a brush or spray paint on them from a spray can.It is preferable to collect on a tape, or a decorative rope in several rows. As a result, we will have curtains similar to bamboo, but more beautiful. Screen printing will further 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? You can hang New Year's decorations on the curtains in a few minutes, taking out what is stored in the closet and from year to year. And you can supplement them with new items in which we have invested creative energy and our love. Then the holiday will become more eventful and comfortable.
You can create a fairy tale from paper, fabric, threads and glue, apply various objects, natural materials as a decor, most importantly, turn on your imagination and give freedom to the creativity that always exists within us.
Several ways to create decorations on the curtains:
Christmas trees separately, snowflakes separately
It is enough to cut snowflakes, figures of hares, bears, snowdrifts and Christmas trees from white paper, and the decoration for the curtains is ready.
One repeating motive looks interesting, but beaten in different material.
For example, you can pin on the curtains only Christmas trees, but made of different materials. Interesting Christmas trees are obtained from chopped plastic bottles. Paper trees are made according to the same principle. Paper fringe is cut, a stylized Christmas tree is twisted from it. If it is possible to complement the curtain design with Christmas trees made of felt or fabric, it will look stylish and modern.
In the same version, you can decorate the curtains by choosing a different motive.It can be Santa Clauses, snowmen, bunnies and various snowflakes made using different techniques. Here, diversity is achieved not due to the plot, but namely designer finds.
Some paper plastics and sculptures
Another quick and original way for our breadth to give a festive surroundings is to hang not only glass balls on tapes, but also homemade paper kusudamas. 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 options that are very easy to execute biting, such that even a child can easily do.
The effect is amazing anyway. When instead of a lambrequin a garland of volume balls hangs, it looks like a real work of art.
Stars with a frame made of wooden rods or wire wrapped in threads look original.
You can leave the natural color of the threads, or you can dye it in golden or silver color, then the feeling of Christmas will become real. You can evenly decorate the entire canvas with stars, it will initially be used to strip them with a strip, an arbitrary pattern or around the perimeter of the curtains.
Bows or other decorations look a little different. According to your choice, it is possible to create a traditional atmosphere or decorate a house in the style of postmodernism. The most important thing is to have a holiday feeling that suits everyone according to their spirit and style. Then the holiday will bring good luck.