Shabby chic style new year decorations: make the materials the protagonists of your end of year parties. How? Follow our few but valuable suggestions. Are you ready to go on this journey that will lead us to 2021? Let’s go.
The shabby chic style characterizes the homes of many precisely for one simple but refined aesthetic taste, its elegance distinguishes every room of the house and it does so starting from very simple materials. Even for home decorations they become protagonists: which ones to choose? Make way for wood, yellowed sheets of paper, browned silver, iron, jute, twine and so on.
Let’s try to create together some delicate decorations in perfect shabby chic style with what we have in the house or rather in the attic. Commonly used objects will become indisputable protagonists of your New Year’s Eve embellishing some corners with class. Let’s enjoy some ideas together.
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1. Wooden frames with garland
Let’s start with what most of all represents the shabby chic style: the frames which, of course, must have some characteristics. In wood, white and with essential lines. If during the year they stay on the wall, embellishing it with discretion and welcoming inside them a bouquet of flowers designed in the tones that most characterize this style. How about making it a true masterpiece for New Year’s Eve?
Create the right scenography that will be the background to your family dinner and then green light to these frames for the ritual photo memories but even more. A really nice idea and of easy realization is to pose in the center of it a beautiful wreath with a lot of mistletoe under which to kiss at the stroke of midnight. Let’s move on to the next must that those who love this style will certainly have at home: the sideboard.
2. Grandmother’s sideboard dressed up
If you want to dust off your grandmother’s old sideboard for the holidays, we have the right idea for you. It will undoubtedly be a strong point of your shabby chic furniture, welcoming inside dishes and cups with a slightly retro taste. To embellish it without forgetting the good taste and simplicity that actually guide the choices of those who prefer this style of furniture, it will be enough to add a small series of fairy lights to define its contours even in the dark.
Between one cup and the other some star-shaped decorations that you can make yourself in iron rather than natural wood. Enhance your corner in the living room with just a few gestures.
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3. Precious details on doors or windows
If then rummaging in the attic or passing by the flea market you could not resist buying one old wooden window make one really precious decorative element for your wall. How? It will be really easy to create the right end-of-year scenography by placing next to it, for example, a vase from which they sprout dry branches.
They will go decorated like a tree with few elements: yellowed sheets of paper and cut out to recall typically Christmas decorations such as trees, stars, bells and so on is, as a contrast, the transparency of some glass balls. Add, if you like, a pinch of light and a little jute to cover the vase that welcomes it. Et voilà also our scenographic corner is ready. Let’s move on to other ideas decorative: protagonists? The pine cones.
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4. The decorative pine cones
A simple idea but the effect is to use pine cones to create unique corners in the house. If you haven’t been able to go around the woods to stock up on them, and are wondering where to find them, remember that at this time of year it will be easy to find them for sale just about everywhere. Having said that, let’s try to make some small decorative elements with them together.
The classic idea is to slip them on in a glass jar with a few cinnamon sticks and a few other wood elements to keep them company. You could also think about making some small pout pourri to give as a gift at the end of the dinner: you will need some jars and a thread of string with a card on which to write down the name of the guest to whom it will be given. Self However you prefer something more spectacular, you could hang them making hanging garlands and whitening your pine cones with fake snow: suggestive isn’t it?
5. A touch of light: the lanterns
Finally, here we are at the last and perhaps most romantic idea: how to light up the evening? At the table definitely with some white candles as well as the shabby chic style suggests and loves, around the house however you could create some DIY lanterns.
If you have some jars to recycle, just glue a few sheets of yellowed paper on its surface on which to write down a thought or some poetic phrase, add a candle inside and let this romantic atmosphere spread everywhere.
Shabby chic style New Year decorations: photos and images
These are just some of the ideas you can use to decorate your home for your New Year and may it be a good year for everyone. Browse the gallery of images below for some other creative ideas strictly in shabby chic style.
