Festive interior decoration
Christmas is a special holiday. Both children and adults look forward to it and believe in miracles. Christmas has the deepest spiritual significance, and its customs, including the decoration of the room, go back to ancient times.
The holiday atmosphere is in the air and you want your home to look festive.
We bring to your attention several ideas for Christmas interior design. Let's start with the main attribute of this wonderful holiday.
Christmas tree
Spruce symbolizes life. Initially it was decorated with apples. Later, heavy and perishable fruits were replaced with light artificial balls, but the tradition of decorating the Christmas tree with sweets and cookies was partially preserved.
Spruce or pine can be natural or artificial - now there is a huge selection of synthetic Christmas trees and pine trees on sale for every taste and budget. And even better, a live spruce will decorate the house.
For a dacha or country house, you can choose real spruce or pine with a bright pine aroma. Araucaria is perfect for a small apartment. This decorative Christmas tree is not prickly at all and will delight you year after year with freshness and bright green needles. The branches of araucaria are delicate, you can decorate it with light toys and rain.
Poinsettia is also used as a floral decoration on Christmas Eve.
Poinsettia (euphorbia, "Christmas star")
Pots with bright red Christmas stars can be placed around the house, on windowsills. Traditionally, a pot of Poinsettia is placed in the center of the holiday table, as a symbol of the Star of Bethlehem.
You can also decorate a wreath, Christmas composition or basket with it, or decorate the foot of the Christmas tree.
Tangerines in the interior
New Year is always associated with the aroma of citrus fruits. Can you imagine what kind of atmosphere several pots of indoor tangerine can create? The plants themselves are very beautiful, but here you can reach out and pick a fresh tangerine right from the tree! Wonderful!
A citrus aroma with notes of warming spices will also be provided by mulled wine - the most Christmas drink, creating coziness and giving warmth. By the way, it doesn’t have to be prepared with alcohol - instead of wine, you can take strong tea or grape juice.
Brew black tea along with ginger, orange, spices to taste (cloves, cinnamon, anise, cardamom, maybe even chili pepper) and gather your family at the festive table, where a fragrant warming drink awaits everyone in a cozy large teapot!
Tangerines and oranges are also used to make such Christmas decorations as pomanders.
Pomanders
Particularly common in Western European countries. This is a decor made from dried citrus fruits and spices that spreads the Christmas aroma throughout your home.
Making such a decoration with your own hands is not at all difficult - just stick cloves into the orange peel. You can place the cloves over the entire area of the fruit, or you can lay out a special pattern. An orange decorated in this way is placed in the center of a beautiful dish, decorated with ribbons, anise stars, and fir cones.
A pomander will fill your home with a charming aroma and create a festive atmosphere. Another decoration is made from dried citrus slices - potpourri.
Medley
Use as a stand-alone composition or together with a pomander.
Slices of orange, lemon, and apples are dried in the oven, placed on plates, and combined with pine cones, chestnuts, spices, and candles.
Candles
The tradition of lighting candles for the holiday goes back to ancient times. As you know, you can look at a fire forever, and it’s no secret that candles create a special romantic and cozy atmosphere.
Candles are beautiful in themselves, but you can buy ready-made ones, decorated for Christmas, or decorate them yourself using ribbons, glitter, cinnamon sticks or cloves, fir cones, and dried citrus fruits. Candles are placed throughout the house, they decorate the festive table, and they are always placed on the windowsills - it is believed that the light in the window attracts goodness into the house.
Christmas wreaths
A wreath made of coniferous branches as a Christmas attribute appeared relatively recently. In the 19th century, the theologian Johann Hinrich Wichern took in the children of the poor to raise them. They couldn't count, but they asked him every day when Christmas would come. Johann took the old wheel and placed small red candles and large white ones on it. He ordered the children to light a red candle every day, and a white one on Sundays. When all the candles burn out, then Christmas will come. Over time, only the shape remained of the wheel.
Modern Christmas wreaths are made from pine branches and decorated with Christmas tree cones, fruits, nuts, flowers - everything that your imagination suggests. Festive baskets for the New Year's table are also made from coniferous branches.
Christmas is a great time to get together and show your creativity in decorating your home. Decor made with your own hands expresses your love for your loved ones, faith in miracles, and brings you back to childhood. We hope our tips will help you create your own unique Christmas interior and give you the feeling of the upcoming holiday.
