How to decorate a table for the New Year 2016 - decoration of the New Year's table 2016( + photo)
The festive New Year's feast involves not only elegant guests and an abundant treat. The table itself must also correspond to the level of the holiday and set a solemn tone throughout the evening. To this end, you can use a variety of techniques, the main thing is that they all fit together harmoniously.
Selection of dishes
Everyone who saw the photo of the festive tables decorated by professional designers paid attention to the choice of dishes for serving. Its color and size, as well as the shape entirely depend on the type of holiday and style of design.
Since the upcoming 2016 is the year of the Fiery Monkey, the use of red in decoration is only welcome.
In order not to create unnecessary variegation, it is necessary to confine yourself to a white tablecloth and red with green utensils. Or vice versa - choose the bright active color of the tablecloth, and select the white one-toned tableware.
When choosing dishes, you can also show a creative, creative approach. Our Monkey is a resident of the jungle? Then she will like a salad dish in the form of a palm leaf, a beverage decanter decorated with colorful tropical fruits or a service with tiny monkeys around the contour of objects. You can beautifully decorate the New Year's table with the help of objects in the house, just by correctly combining them together.
Table textile
Tablecloths and napkins are an indispensable attribute of a festive table.
But you can make an ordinary tablecloth design with a simple enough reception. At the corners of the table, where usually no one is sitting, attach a sheet of a tropical plant, cut from colored paper or bought in a store of artificial flowers, to the fold of the tablecloth. The sheet can be decorated with small light plastic or styrofoam fruits, figurines of monkeys and wishes of a happy New Year. To ensure that the entire composition created by your own hands does not fall apart due to the constant movements of guests, attach items with special durable hot glue, and punch the finished product with large English pins in the tablecloth in several places.
Decor elements and flower compositions
How to decorate the table for New Year 2016, so that the decor was elegant, but at the same time did not interfere with sitting at the table to communicate, see each other and eat? You can use low floral and decorative compositions. They can be made from a variety of objects or from fresh flowers, and combine both options.
Live flowers on the table - this is the classic decoration of feasts. Flowers are always appropriate, but on big holidays their presence is absolutely necessary. Currently, live plants are available all year round, even in the harsh winter. But for the New Year it's not enough just to collect a bouquet of plants, even if very beautiful - it should carry the imprint of the holiday itself.
Many traditions in decorating homes for New Year and Christmas have been borrowed from Western traditions in recent decades. In this there is nothing wrong, they are not a hindrance to the Orthodox faith, only add to the holiday of brightness and beauty.
From plants at this time of year, it is customary to use holly branches, red berries, decorative leaves of poinsettia and branches of mistletoe with fruits.
Well, for our climate it will be logical to add coniferous "paws" and various cones to them.
The whole composition is fastened on a large dish, better oval or elongated, so it will less interfere with the table. To fix plants and objects use special floristic foam, it reliably holds branches and stems, without requiring additional fixation. For living plants apply a foam of green color, which is pre-impregnated with water.
Selected plants and decorative objects are inserted into the foam unit, starting at the level of the dish. Gradually forming the main axes of the composition, all the intervals are filled with details. Do not try to create a motley decoration, enough 1-2 basic plants and 2-3 decorative elements. The table with served food and so very colorful, the decoration in the center of the table should not interrupt his attractiveness.
When composing a composition, consider its height. She should not cover the face of the person sitting opposite and should leave a good overview of the table.
If there is no desire to create a large structure or the dimensions of the table do not allow this, you can go the other way. Make small bunches and put them from each device can even children. No complicated devices and materials are needed here. You can use any improvised means. For example, twigs of any tree with a couple of leaves of holly and red berries bandaged with a simple coarse string. Such an extremely simple bouquet will look equally nice on a white, red or green tablecloth. Or tie a mistletoe with a ribbon of mistletoe with the name card of the guest. It turns out and decorative, and practical - the guests will know exactly their places at the table. Even a simple spruce short sprig on a napkin will immediately make the desired note in the festive feast.
After the holiday, each guest will take a gift lying on his napkin or plate. The gift may well turn out to be edible.
Symbol of the Year on the Table
Decide what to decorate the festive table, but do not want a luxuriant surplus decor or just do not have free time for it? Stop your choice on a small figure of the hostess of the holiday, putting it in the center of the table. It can be a smart porcelain, faience or glass thing or a simple children's plush toy. The presence of the symbol of the year will not go unnoticed and will certainly bring success and happiness in the coming year.
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