Decor of the New Year's table: ideas for the festive decoration
New Year's holidays are already close, which means you canstart planning the celebration of the New Year and Christmas. If you are going to celebrate New Year at home, with family and friends, it is important not only to beautifully decorate the interior, but also to pay special attention to the festive table setting. And although we are supposed to make the whole table surface with salads and other festive dishes, we suggest you to be inspired by ideas how to make the original decor of the New Year's table to create a pleasant solemn atmosphere. Content:
When serving New Year's table, it is important to respectbalance between the convenience of the arrangement of all dishes and decorative decoration. On beautiful photos we often see only festive laying and decor, which occupy almost all the free space of the table. "And where to put food?" - you ask? It should be remembered that, firstly, the photos reflect only the general ideas of decoration, which you can fully or partially use. Secondly, most of the decor ideas are borrowed from the countries of Western Europe and the US, where both the symbolism and the tradition of celebrating Christmas are somewhat different from the meeting of our New Year. Often there is not such a variety of festive dishes, they are not put directly on the table or next to the main dining table is an extra, with food. That is why it is possible to beautifully and brightly decorate the central compositions of the New Year's table and serve the table according to all the rules of good taste. But remember, in all important sense of proportion and style, do not put the table with toys and cones.
New Year's central composition of the festive table
The central element of the New Year's table decoris a festive thematic composition. Very conventionally, such compositions can be divided into those in which mostly natural materials or mostly different toys and ornaments are used. 
Always look good bouquets usinggifts of nature - coniferous branches, cones, fresh flowers, fruits, nuts, berries. Variants of such decor - a huge variety, from several coniferous branches in glasses to scale compositions from real flowers and needles. Make a Christmas wreath from the billet, arrange the big bumps on the table, put nuts or fruit in glass dishes, put live bouquets of flowers in vases. Such compositions can be decorated with small Christmas trees, serpentine and beads, decorative candles and Christmas trees. 
Use as a New Year's table decoronly toys has its advantages. First, there is no risk that coniferous branches fall into a plate with food, and secondly, someone from the guests may be interfered with by the active smell of needles or live flowers on the table, and, in the end, decorate the table with Christmas balls and figurines much easier. Give free rein to fantasy! 
Plates, napkins and cutlery
Even if there is no room for a central composition,New-year decor of the table can be done point-by-point, focusing on the design of plates, cutlery and napkins. For example, you can buy themed Christmas rings for napkins or make them yourself from twigs; cutlery put in tailored from the felt cover in the form of Santa Claus hat or Christmas socks for gifts; on each plate put a Christmas ball, a lump or a small gift. Such trifles "make" the mood and set the tone for the entire serving. 
Tablecloth and décor of chairs
Do not forget about such important elementsdecor of the New Year's table as a tablecloth and chairs. Tablecloth with thematic ornaments, embroidery or pattern in the cell can become both the main decorative technique, and emphasize the overall stylistics. About the decor of chairs is usually rarely remembered, but in vain! Small wreaths of branches or Christmas toys on the back of the chair will look very nice. If you want, you can buy or sew self-contained covers in the back of the chair in the form of a Santa Claus hat, or simply hang beautiful napkins with embroidered snowflakes or Christmas trees. 
