Winter holidays carry a special spirit that envelops everything with a magical mood and expectation of good miracles. Of course, creating such an atmosphere requires preparation, thoughtfulness of details and very specific decor. Garlands and decorations made from natural materials play an important role in New Year's decoration. There are many options for decorating a room with a garland and diversifying the interior with it.

The use of diode lights in the interior

Lighting plays an important role in interior decoration. With its help, you can zone the room, disguise some of the defects in the repair and highlight the advantages of the interior. Central light, backlighting, side lights, garlands, sconces and floor lamps - all this can be used for decoration and home decoration... But many do not know how to decorate a room with a garland so that it turns into a fabulous corner.

Zoning with garlands

The location of the electric garland plays, perhaps, the most important role. Several options with which you can transform a room, and how to decorate an apartment with garlands competently.

Zoning and highlighting sleeping place... To do this, it is better to use LED bulbs, since they are lightweight, practically do not heat up, and their price is quite affordable. Warm yellow lights can be placed horizontally or vertically on the wall at the head of the bed. This option can completely replace a night light and a weak side light in a children's room or a teenager's room. This solution can be supplemented in different ways.

  • Attach family photos, drawings, etc. to horizontally placed wires with weak wooden clamps or decorative clothespins. It is strictly not recommended to use metal clamps with sharp "teeth".
  • The vertically placed lashes can be supplemented with ribbons and small but memorable gizmos attached to wires and light bulbs.
  • Garlands can be intertwined with light tulle or organza, forming a curtain around the bed.

Modern technologies are gradually replacing books on paper, however, true book lovers still continue to buy them and replenish their own library. You can zone the "reading" place with a garland and a canopy on a round base. This requires tulle or nylon (or any other airy translucent material), aluminum hoop, smaller ring, hanging hook and garland. The lightweight fabric is attached first to a small ring, then goes down and attached to the hoop. The distance between the two circles is arbitrary, but the optimal figure ranges from 15 to 30 cm.

Further, the fabric is straightened and distributed with a tent, and diodes are already placed on top of it. The entire structure is suspended from the ceiling. The length of the fabric should be sufficient to the floor. Inside the resulting canopy, you can place a small, but comfortable armchair, or just a few pillows on the floor. Such a structure is placed closer to the battery and bookshelves... You can supplement the canopy not only with a diode garland, but also with a thread with beads, paper leaves, flowers, etc.

You can decorate a narrow niche in the wall not only with the help of porcelain figurines, old toys and other trifles. You can refuse such dust collectors in favor of a panel with a garland, which you can do yourself. This will require:

  • Bars for base 2 x 2 cm, 4 pieces, nails.
  • Sackcloth.
  • Whatman.
  • Stationery knife, pencil.
  • Diode garland.
  • Thick cardboard for the back.
  • Double-sided foam tape, good quality regular tape.
  • Stencil of flowers.
  • Two fasteners with an eyelet.

First of all, you need to determine the size of the future panel. It can occupy almost the entire niche or only its central part, be located above or below - in a word, whatever you like. It is also important to consider the distance to the outlet into which the garland will be connected.

Having decided on the dimensions, make a frame-base for the panel from bars. Cover it with burlap, turning the edges of the fabric onto the inside of the wood frame.

Cut out a piece of drawing paper that matches the size of the panel. Circle flowers, leaves and others on it abstract patterns... Make cuts along the contours of the drawings with a clerical knife and slightly lift the paper. Attach the sheet to the panel with foam tape around the entire perimeter of the fabric.

Attach a diode garland to the back of the panel with tape, duplicating the location of the pattern on the paper. Leave the tail with a fork of the desired length free. Cut out the back cover from thick cardboard to fit the panel. Screw two fasteners to the upper part, and the panel can be hung on the wall!

Window decor

Decorating windows with a garland is very common, it is thanks to him that the New Year mood begins to be created not only among households, but also among completely strangers who see it from the street. A grid with multi-colored lights stretched across the glass over the entire window opening is the most popular and widespread option, which is used not only in apartments, but also in offices and shops.

A little bit more original version proposes to vertically arrange individual threads of the garland and additionally decorate them. To do this, you can use stars cut from ordinary cardboard, Christmas trees, circles and rhombuses - in a word, any shapes and shapes that you are not too lazy to cut.

Another home decor technique involves placing small diodes vertically on the tulle. Since the curtains are usually pulled apart in the daytime, and the window is closed at night, the garland will beautifully shine through the material. But at the same time it will not suffer with periodic movement, as if it were fixed on the curtains.

The third option for placing a wire with bulbs is along the entire length of the cornice or curtain. it optimal solution, thanks to which the room will acquire a festive look, and contact with a thin fabric will be minimized.

Christmas home decoration

Since childhood, everyone's favorite multi-colored lanterns and bulbs, so comfortably shining through the needles, glittering on the balls - practically main association happy new year holidays. Decorating houses with garlands is sometimes striking in its variety and beauty of execution and is the most popular and integral part of the interior and exterior New Year's decor.

Using LED Strings

Original ideas on how to decorate a wall with a garland for the New Year often surprise with their simplicity and brevity. Most options do not require special tools and additional materials.

A stylish and original replacement for an artificial or live Christmas tree, will become a silhouette of a green beautyindicated by diodes directly on the wall of the house. The fastening of the garlands depends on the coating on the wall itself. Basically, it is advised to use decorative wallpaper carnations, on which loops of wire with lights cling to.

  • It can be a simple triangle, the inside of which is filled with chaotically intertwined threads with lights.
  • The classic version of the Christmas tree, outlined with an electric garland.
  • A silhouette of a Christmas tree filled with small balls and other Christmas tree decorations.
  • Unbreakable zigzags starting from the crown and gradually widening downwards.

It is also customary to decorate the outer walls of a private house with garlands, especially on the eve of Christmas in the West and America. Basically, home owners prefer to decorate the cornices and wing canopies, as well as railings and steps with lamps. The walls of the house can be decorated with a stylized image of winter characters. Snowman Olaf from "Frozen", stars and hearts, wood woven from shining wires - all this can be seen among the winter decor.

Interior decoration of the house

Indispensable materials in the manufacture of New Year's decorative elements and crafts are cones, acorns, spruce branches, anise stars and orange peel crafts. With the help of such a simple set, you can create chic jewelry for home interior and complement them with flickering bulbs and small flashlights.

Decorations for the mantel

Even if your house has an electric fireplace or even a painted fireplace, this does not interfere with decorating its upper part with a special winter decor. Several simple, but beautiful and effective options that you can make yourself:

  • A loose and stretched spiral made of thick wire is wrapped in tinsel and a garland. If you wish, you can use not tinsel, but decorative fishing line, on which beads are strung different sizes, flowers and leaves. The decoration will be light and airy and will fit into any interior.
  • Felt boots and socks cut out of felt, decorated with snowflakes and caramel canes. They can be attached to a cord or rope with clothespins or sewn on with thread. You can supplement such a garland with cones, bows of red and green ribbons, Christmas balls, etc.
  • Artificial spruce paws and juniper branches decorated with fake apples, poinsettia flowers, cinnamon sticks and small Christmas balls. Supplement from medium-sized bulbs or flashlights original form will fit into such a decor as well as possible.

Railings and ceilings

It is categorically not recommended to use breakable and easily breakable objects to decorate railings and similar planes, therefore, it is better to refuse plastic and glass Christmas tree balls and toys. They can be replaced by foam bases, painted accordingly. They need to be fastened to the interweaving of tinsel and artificial spruce paws.

A good addition will be all the same natural materials, as well as bows of traditional colors - red, green and red-white checks. In addition to these colors, gold and silver, saturated purple and blue shades ... It is better to refuse orange, yellow and brown shades.

It is worth supplementing such decorations only with diode garlands, since glass bulbs can be accidentally broken and plastic ones broken. Small diode bulbs will have nothing.

Decorating the ceiling with garlands is not so common, since not so few wires with bulbs will be required for this purpose. But with the proper decoration, the room decorated in this way looks like the palaces of Santa Claus. To do this, you need to symmetrically pull the threads of the garland at an equal distance from each other. In combination with a glossy ceiling, this design will look magical.

A simple but effective option for a similar decoration with garlands at home is to stretch it under the very ceiling around the entire perimeter of the room. Such lighting will add a festive mood and will be out of the reach of children and animals.

Magical transformations

Often there is an old garland in the house, which is a pity to throw out, but its appearance is already so unpresentable that it is not suitable for decorating a Christmas tree either. To reanimate such a thing is simple to disgrace, you only need paint in an aerosol, best of all gold or silver. The bulbs need to be unscrewed from the shades, and the wire itself with shades should be laid out on a covered newspaper. Further a matter of technology, you just need to evenly cover it with paint from all sides and let it dry. Then screw the bulbs back in.

If the lanterns themselves came to a deplorable state, stained glass paints or paints on glass will help to correct the situation. They can restore the old drawing, at least approximately, or put dots on clean glass. With a certain skill, you can even make a garland yourself from small bulbs... They can be painted to look like penguins, snowmen and gnomes of Santa Claus.

Another way to freshen up an old well-deserved garland takes a little more effort. In addition, you will need tulle, which must be cut into pieces of 8 by 8 cm. The number of squares should be equal to the number of bulbs. From the cut tulle you need to twist a "skirt" for each light bulb, which can be fixed with simple rubber bands or wrapped with threads. Straighten the fabric and the garland can be plugged in!

The easiest and fastest way to add a festive note to the interior is to decorate the house with garlands. Initially, electric garlands were used to decorate Christmas trees. But gradually such illumination became a real magic and went far beyond the New Year and Christmas paraphernalia.

Not everyone knows how you can use garlands to decorate your home. We will share with you unusual ideasthat you can put into practice.

Create a special mood before bed by decorating the curtain above the bed with garlands

Garland decor is so versatile that the places and ways of using it are almost endless.

In minimalistic interiors, one thin luminous garland will look beautiful. For the bedroom, textile garlands of pastel shades are ideal, which will set you up for relaxation. If you do not plan to put a Christmas tree at home, you can also build an alternative to it with the help of a garland: just repeat the silhouette of the tree on the wall and secure the ends with buttons.

You can also make any meal festive. Hang the garland above the table or lay it directly on the tablecloth, creating a backdrop of light for special occasion and a warm, welcoming atmosphere at home. Try combining the light of the garland with the natural beauty of the tree. Wrap beautiful branches with lights and decorate with them a fireplace, shelves or table. But don't overdo it. Just one garland attached to the wall can create an unforgettable effect.

Decorating with garlands will turn a vase into a night light and just a beautiful decorative item

What to look for when choosing a garland

Buying a garland is not just an exciting pastime, but also a big responsibility. The first thing worth paying attention to is the power of the garland. Some easily tolerate frost and are intended for decorating the facade, while others are usually used indoors. For safety reasons, it is recommended to buy a 50 watt garland. Also check the documents that confirm the quality of the product, the availability of instructions and the service life of the product. It is best to purchase such a product in specialized stores or large retail chains.

Garlands of Edison bulbs will decorate any home holiday

How to make a garland decoration with your own hands

You can create beautiful illumination in your home yourself. Decorate your main furnishings with LED bulbs, or make an old photo frame twinkle with bright lights. You can also make your own frame out of the lights and place your favorite photos in it.

You can add other decorative elements (ribbons, tinsel) to the garland and hang it along the wall. Don't rush to throw away empty glass bottles. In them, you can create a wonderful composition and transform it with garlands.

Want to surprise your guests? Place different colored paper cups around the lights. The effect will be amazing!

Quite often, the question arises about how to hang a garland on the wall. Before proceeding with mounting, select suitable wall, which will have enough space for your garland. Decide on the form in which you want to hang it on the wall.

Many people use adhesive tape to attach the garland, however, this is not the most the best way... Try using safety pins. They leave behind small holes that cannot be seen.

Even a candy wrapper can be a decoration for the lights!

The garland attached to the wall can be thinned with cloth, paper and old cans

An interesting decoration for your living room will be a garland of wire flowers

LED garland can be transformed even with pom-poms

Build the mood all year round with a cotton ball garland

Beautiful garland fixed on the wall

An example of decorating a hall with garlands

The soft light of white or yellow garlands can serve as a night light in the bedroom

Garlands in the interior look very stylish. Try writing or painting something on the wall using a garland.

A wire with bulbs can be used as a base for attaching a photo

An old wooden ladder wrapped in a garland is a rather interesting design idea

Electric garlands make the interior magical, create a romantic and festive atmosphere. It is not necessary to decorate only a Christmas tree or a window opening with garlands: there are many other amazing ways to transform an interior with lights. The garlands are so good that we are sure you will not want to put them away after the New Year.

Bed decoration

The soft light of garlands, especially white or yellow ones, can serve as a night light or gently prepare the body for sleep. We propose to combine the pleasant with the beautiful, and make a headboard out of electric garlands. An elementary technique is to "draw" something behind the headboard with a garland: for example, a house or a heart. A more difficult option: make a wooden frame with cells, each of which is filled with a garland. On top, you need to fix translucent sheets of polycarbonate, which will soften the light and complete the headboard.



Garlands will help make a stunning canopy. Use for easy basics translucent fabric and wrap the lights in it. In the same way, you can decorate any other curtains in the rooms. It is better to use LED string lights, they do not heat up and are completely safe.





Garland chandelier

Want an unusual chandelier? Making it easy. Create any base that your fantasy tells you, and add a garland as a light source. To get a bright enough light, pay attention to the size and brightness of the bulbs. We really like the rustic version with a twig frame and a retro garland with incandescent bulbs. Any glass vessel with a garland inside looks simple and impressive.




Object + garland \u003d art object

By simply wrapping a garland around a piece of furniture, you can achieve a delightful effect. Our favorites are solid-framed mirrors and wooden ladders. But you can even wrap an ordinary chair with a garland, it will immediately become an interesting design idea.




Bonfire in the apartment

A small corner of romance right on your carpet. Build a fireplace of stones, put a garland shining with warm light in it and add twigs. This trick will make your mini-fire especially tender: wrap real twigs with foil, and then wrap with lace dipped in glue. When the fabric is dry, cut lengthwise and remove the foil and twig. So you get sticks of thin lace, which will partially transmit light, as if smoldering.



Festive table

Non-standard decoration of the festive table: use garlands instead of the usual candles. That is, do not pull it over the table, but make the garland part of the serving. If you also decorate it before that, softening the light of the lamps with decorative elements, the table will be wrapped in a mysterious and festive radiance. It is enough just to stretch the garland with a thread through the whole table, but if you want something more interesting, you can experiment with winding the dishes or even put lumps of garlands in glass vases or empty bottles.

As you have seen in fasting, these wonderful lights have great potential in home decoration. But ordinary garlands can be made much better if they are additionally decorated. To summarize, there are two ways: to put something on each light bulb, or to add decorative elements to the garland wire. Ahead of you are waiting for simple master classes that will help you transform the garland according to your mood or interior style.

Ping pong balls

This adorable garland with soft glowing balls is made using ping pong balls. Stock up on an amount equal to the bulbs on the garland, punch holes in them and put them on the bulbs. A LED string that does not heat up would be the smartest solution here. Both white lights and multi-colored ones look great.

Flowers from cupcake molds

A very delicate option is a flower garland made of paper baking tins. To make it easier to keep the flowers symmetrical, fold them before cutting. You can also make a winter version of white molds by cutting out snowflakes from them.

Marine mood

By simply decorating the garland with sea rope, you will get a unique decor element for nautical style... As a bonus, you can hide the wire with the help of a rope to make the electric garland look more elegant.

Balls of thread

This garland will take quite a while to create, but the effect is excellent. You will need a lot of small balloons, threads and PVA glue. The balls are braided with a thread dipped in glue, and then burst and get out through the hole when the thread dries up. A light bulb is threaded through the same hole. The garland looks warm and cozy, while the weave of threads casts interesting shadows. Try to make these using twine instead of thread, as we described in the post.

Rattan balls

This garland is conceptually similar to the previous one, but it is made easier: such balls are sold in florist shops. The light from the rattan balls is not so soft, and they look brighter and more decorative.

Graceful bows

A light and romantic mood will be created by a garland with organza or lace bows. Simply cut the fabric into ribbons and tie fluffy bows around each light bulb. You can combine both types of fabric for even more fun.

A bit of origami

Suitable for decorating garlands, especially LED, various paper crafts. From the simplest ones, such as snowflakes, to complex origami. Try folding these cute Japanese lanterns (diagram in the last photo) or use.

Disposable cups

Disposable cups are like mini lampshades. That is why they make an excellent basis for garland decoration. It is better to use paper coffee cups rather than plastic ones. There are many decor options: you can paste over with colored paper, paint or paint, you can decorate with ribbons or wrap with a tourniquet.

Garland with pictures

An interesting alternative to placing photo frames on the walls. The combination of a garland and photographs or postcards looks magical, while the walls do not deteriorate so much, the photographs are always sufficiently illuminated and conveniently held on the wire between the bulbs.

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There was a time when real candles were used to decorate the Christmas tree. They were lit, and although the tree became more beautiful and brighter from this, it could catch fire from fire, it was risky. Therefore, later, garlands of electric bulbs appeared specifically as a festive decoration for the Christmas tree. It has become less dangerous, in addition, electric garlands look more elegant than regular candles.
A lot of time has passed since then, it has become customary for us to use just such garlands to illuminate toys, rain and other Christmas tree decorations. The choice of electric garlands has become richer. There are light bulbs different colors... Or if you want, opt for garlands that blink, as if enchanted by a fairytale sorceress. It is not for nothing that some peoples call this wonderful decoration "magic lights".
Of course, such a wonderful decoration should be used not only for the winter holidays. They can also be seen as part of the design of an anniversary or birthday, wedding, matinee in kindergarten or prom at school. Wherever they are not! It is difficult to list all the cases when this spectacular decor has been successfully and successfully applied.

And in an apartment, an electric garland can become an element of decor. Due to the fact that individual objects (for example, a mirror, a painting, a fireplace, a window frame) will glow along the contour, the whole situation will instantly change, some objects will stand out, and something will disappear from view.

It is easy to decorate the interior with the help of garland bulbs, to do this, fix it on a bed or on a mirror, repeating its shape, place it on top of a cabinet, on a shelf, a chest of drawers so that free, unfixed parts hang down. Thus, you can highlight any object or interior detail.

If you want your electric garland to decorate the wall in the apartment, it must be fixed. Use scotch tape (regular or double-sided). If the wall is drywall, then pushpins will help you.

To make "magic" lanterns using an electric garland, use any containers through which the light of the bulbs will penetrate. It can be bottles and jars of interesting shapes, glass or plastic jars, crystal vases, lanterns for candles. Place the garland in the containers of your choice and your fabulous shining lanterns are ready. Looking at them, it is easy to believe that wizards take lights from just such lanterns in order to light the tree.
For decoration from the entire assortment of garlands, LED ones on batteries are more suitable, micro-bulbs will probably be more convenient than usual ones.

Among the options for using decorative electric garlands there is a very creative one, namely, a drawing from a garland. You can depict anything that is closer to the holiday on the topic. It can be an asterisk, a snowflake, a heart, a Christmas tree, a house, or something else.

Small bulbs in a garland can resemble a light that smolders in a stove. Use this to decorate a decorative fire with a garland. You will need some branches or firewood, you can take stones. Place these items on a tray somewhere in the apartment, for example, near christmas tree or inside decorative fireplace, lay out the garland on top as if it were embers.

In some place of your apartment, for example, above the bed, sofa, you can make a drapery of thin fabric, which will let the flickering glow of the bulbs through. The smaller the bulbs, the softer the glow. This drapery looks very impressive. You can also decorate the curtains on the windows, canopies over the bed. With this decor, you will create a fairytale atmosphere. Shining fabric is a wonderful decoration for your home.

This garland of lights can be used as a gallery holder of funny and cute photographs that remind you of the joyful moments in your life, and now you are going to hang them for decoration. The wire itself can be fixed on the wall in any interesting form. A zigzag shape will work, but if you want, place it in a wave. You will need clothespins to hold your photos tightly on the garland. Hang related images instead of or with photographs. If it's New Year's, then use postcards and drawings with a Christmas tree, a snowman, Santa Claus's sleigh, etc.

Garland wreath

At Christmas it is customary to hang a festive wreath in the apartment. And here you can use a garland. Make the frame, which must be in the wreath, from strong wire or slats, branches. The shape can be either ordinary or special (a star, for example). Make a braid for a wreath from an electric garland.


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