As the Lunar New Year approaches, families all over are busy cleaning and redecorating their living spaces to welcome the new year with hopes and wishes. Many people are concerned about what to decorate and how to decorate to suit their homes.
Understanding these concerns, we will provide you with simple but beautiful Tet decorations, so that you can design and have a complete Tet holiday in your own home!
1 Tet decoration with fresh flowers
Fresh flowers are an essential item during Tet holidays, making your home brighter and full of spring colors. Each type of flower carries a special meaning, bringing good luck to the homeowners. And for sure, the cherry blossom and apricot blossom are indispensable during Tet, as they are also symbolic flowers for traditional Tet in Vietnam.
Tet decoration with fresh flowers
Alongside these flowers, other flowers that symbolize wealth and luck are also popular, such as money plant, sunflower, longevity flower… You can use them to decorate the ancestral altar, drinking table, reception table or dining table, which is extremely reasonable.
2 Tet decoration with twinkling lights
Lighting is a factor that contributes to making your home more radiant, sparkling, and warm. You can use twinkling lights to decorate the exterior of your home, such as the yard, garden, or even indoor plants and objects. Especially, positions like apricot blossom, peach blossom, or kumquat trees are indispensable.
Tet decoration with lucky hanging ornaments
You can use various types of hanging ornaments, such as lanterns, decorative papers, couplets, to decorate your home or gold envelopes, gold ingots, red packets… to hang on branches of apricot or peach trees. Especially, to give your home the characteristic feature of traditional Tet, you can hang a bunch of red firecrackers in front of the door, creating a lively and joyful atmosphere, feeling the arrival of Tet on every street.
4 Tet decoration with wooden shelves
Tet decoration with wooden shelves
On Tet day, everyone wants their home to be tidy and clean for a smooth start. Therefore, choose wooden shelves to arrange items for your home, especially the living room and bedroom. These shelves will not only provide a neat space but also bring aesthetics and elegance. If your home space is limited, you should choose small and compact wooden shelves that are tidy and cute.
5 Tet decoration with handmade items
Along with commonly available decorations sold in stores and markets during the end of the year and Tet, you can creatively design your own products to decorate your home. Handmade items have also become a popular trend in home decoration in recent years.
Tet decoration with handmade items
It is not difficult to create your own decorative items. With simple materials like voile fabric, paper, zinc wire, straws, colored threads… you can easily create small pretty lanterns, red envelopes… or even flower pots.
Using handmade items is not only cost-effective but also demonstrates your creativity and skill, creating unique highlights for your home.
6 Tet decoration with floor mats
Tet decoration with floor mats
Many people think that floor mats are insignificant objects, so they can choose any type. But floor mats are an important element that adds a focal point to your home and reflects the tidiness and meticulousness of the homeowner. In the new year, it is also advisable to renew the floor mats with colors that match the space and Tet occasion, to bring wealth and luck in the following year.
7 Tet decoration with red couplets
Tet decoration with red couplets
Red couplets are familiar decorative items during Tet, representing a longstanding cultural beauty of the Vietnamese people. Couplets often bring meanings of wishing for a “smooth sailing” and “peaceful and prosperous” new year. Red couplets are often hung on both sides of the door or on both sides of the ancestral altar, making the Tet atmosphere fill every corner and attracting the attention of visitors.
8 Tet decoration with porcelain sets
Tet decoration with porcelain sets
Porcelain sets are everyday familiar decorative items, especially during Tet. They bring a combination of traditional and modern beauty to your home. The porcelain flower vases with Tet themes placed on the TV cabinet, table, or display cabinet are a unique decoration idea that reflects the sophistication of the homeowner and brings elegance and luxury to the room, attracting the attention of visitors.
9 Tet decoration with cross-stitch artworks
Tet decoration with cross-stitch artworks
Cross-stitch artworks bring a touch of elegance to your home. Many people choose them for their affordability and ease of implementation. You can create your own artwork in your free time with various beautiful and eye-catching patterns and put them in frames for Tet.
10 Tet decoration on the ancestral altar
The ancestral altar is a very important place in Vietnamese culture. It is a place for family members to gather, showing respect and filial piety to their ancestors during the Tet holiday. Therefore, an important task is to decorate and clean the ancestral altar before Tet to express reverence for the origins. First, you need to cleanse the area by wiping away ashes, arranging rituals items, and then setting up an offering tray with traditional dishes such as banh chung, banh tet, Tet jam, especially the five-fruit tray and fresh flowers.
11 Tet decoration with the five-fruit tray
The five-fruit tray is an indispensable part of Tet because the colors and names of the fruits symbolize good things and represent the wishes of the homeowners for the new year. The five types of fruits on the tray represent the five elements with the meaning of wishing for everything to go smoothly and having a lot of good luck.
Tet decoration with the five-fruit tray
In addition, the five-fruit tray is also placed on the ancestral altar as a distinctive feature of Vietnamese Tet. Although each region has different beliefs about the types of fruits on the tray, all these fruits have a common characteristic of bringing colors like green, red, and yellow and avoiding white, black, gray, brown… to wish for a smooth and prosperous new year.
12 Preparing cakes and sweets for Tet decoration
Tet is associated with traditional dishes such as banh chung, banh tet, and various Tet sweets. They are placed on the ancestral altar to bring warmth and prosperity for the new year.
Preparing cakes and sweets for Tet decoration
In addition, cakes are also used to treat guests and bring families together with tea cups, creating a warm atmosphere during the cold spring days. Nowadays, there are a variety of beautifully crafted cakes available on the market, from traditional to modern designs, so you can easily choose the one that suits your preferences and home.
13 Tet decoration for the reception table
Tet decoration for the reception table
The living room is a cozy space for the family to gather during Tet and a place to welcome guests. Therefore, decorating the table in the living room is extremely important, showing the face of the home and the homeowner.
If a table is at the center with a well-decorated tea set, a box of jam, plates, flower vases… beautiful and reflecting that the homeowner is meticulous and impressive to guests on Tet.
14 Tet decoration with plants and flowers
Tet decoration with plants and flowers
In addition to fresh flowers, plants are also popular choices for home decoration during Tet. You can choose familiar plants such as jade plant, chrysanthemum, longevity plant… or unique and eye-catching potted plants such as bonsai… They not only create a cool and peaceful atmosphere for your home but also have the meaning of feng shui, bringing good luck to the homeowners.
15 Tet decoration with wall paintings
Tet decoration with wall paintings
Wall paintings are always the top choice when it comes to home decoration for Tet, bringing elegance and harmony to a room. During Tet, you should choose paintings with bright colors to create a luxurious and gentle space or choose paintings with Tet themes to bring luck and abundance.
16 Tet decoration in the kitchen
Tet decoration in the kitchen
Your kitchen also needs to be cleaned and decorated since it is an area that is usually not cleaned after every cooking session. Therefore, clean and organize your kitchen utensils and decorate with a few hooks to make it look neat and tidy. A clean kitchen will make your home bright, tidy, and ensure hygiene and safety for your family.
17 Tet decoration in the courtyard
Tet decoration in the courtyard
In addition to decorating the interior of your home, you should also take care of your garden. Arrange flower pots, tables, and chairs in a reasonable way to create open space for the area and combine them with decorations such as lanterns, string lights, flower pots… And clean the garden for a welcoming new year.
18 Tet decoration with wall patterns
Tet decoration with wall patterns
The traditional method is to completely remove the old wall paint and replace it with a new paint. However, nowadays, decorating the living room with wall decals or wallpaper is the most popular method. It is cost-effective, convenient, and fast. You can create a wall with many suitable designs for Tet, vivid and colorful, not monotonous like traditional wall painting.
19 Tet decoration with new picture frames
Tet decoration with new picture frames
The Tet holiday will be more warm with family photos, memories of the past… reminding family members of beautiful moments and making the Tet day more meaningful. Using picture frames for decoration will reduce the empty walls, create a cozy and united atmosphere for family members to have a warm and joyful Tet holiday.
20 Tet decoration on glass doors
Tet decoration on glass doors
Just like walls, you cannot leave glass doors unadorned and boring during the new year. If you are hesitant about painting on the glass, then use string lights, hanging ropes to decorate the glass doors. Or you can also use Tet decorative stickers with beautiful patterns like apricot, peach, couplets, gold coins… to easily maintain and bring a lively Tet atmosphere to your home.
21 Tet decoration with artificial flowers and plants
If you feel that your walls are plain and lacking vitality, you can decorate them with artificial flowers and plants that are realistic and affordable. Artificial flowers and plants come in various designs, colors, and materials for you to choose from.
Tet decoration with artificial flowers and plants
22 Tet decoration with calligraphy artworks
In the ancient belief of the Vietnamese people, fortune and good luck always start with the word “Phuc” (Fortune). Therefore, during Tet, it is common to hang calligraphy artworks with the word “Phuc” on the walls. This is considered a good thing because of the blessings it brings.
Tet decoration with calligraphy artworks
23 Tet decoration with feng shui items
Nowadays, with a more abundant life, in addition to inheriting old customs, the Vietnamese have more choices for home decoration that is suitable for feng shui, such as feng shui statues, feng shui buffalo paintings, Kim Long Bach Long…
Tet decoration with feng shui items
24 Tet decoration with porcelain landscape plates
The living room is a very important place for each family. Decorating the living room with porcelain landscape plates brings luck and wealth to the homeowners.
Tet decoration with porcelain landscape plates
25 Tet decoration with thủy sinh aquariums
An aquarium with sparkling lights and vibrant life is an ideal space for Tet banquets. First, you need to come up with design ideas based on the aquarium’s size, materials, and location in the house. Then, clean the aquarium.
Tet decoration with thủy sinh aquariums
Cleaning the aquarium not only makes it look more beautiful but also provides the best development environment for living organisms. Healthy and lively fish swimming around brings good luck to the homeowners in the new year.
26 Tet decoration with hanging curtains
If you feel that your walls are plain and lacking vitality, you can decorate them with beautiful curtains that are simple to make but eye-catching and rich in traditional culture!
There are many traditional hanging curtains made of bamboo that are suitable for Tet for you to choose from, such as red Phuc hanging curtains, large plum blossom hanging curtains, red firecracker hanging curtains, red couplet hanging curtains for Happy New Year…
A large plum blossom hanging curtain
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Through this article, we hope you can find your own Tet decoration ideas. Good luck!
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