Top 10 Ways to Decorate Your Home Beautifully for Tet, Bringing Luck and Joy in the New Year

Decorating the living room perfectly for Tet is something that almost every family does to welcome the new year. As the new year approaches, change the appearance of your living room. Using bright-colored curtains will bring a spring atmosphere to the entire room. If you can't afford to replace the entire sofa set, you can still create focal points in the living room with colorful throw pillows. Vibrant-colored pillows or cushions with eye-catching patterns will refresh your living room.

Not only the living room, but in the new year, you should also renovate your home to welcome Tet. You can repaint your house to give it a fresher look. For the living room, you can choose warm color tones such as deep yellow, orange, red, or terracotta to make the room cozier. Additionally, you can decorate the living room with various items like potted plants, paintings, couplets, or a television and a cabinet...

On Tet day, almost every family pays much attention to decorating the living room, preparing food and drinks, but overlooks the bedroom space. However, with just a few simple steps, this private space of yours can be transformed, bringing more happiness and luck to everyone welcoming the new year. Cleaning the house in general and tidying up the bedroom in particular is the first and most important task at the end of the year. This act signifies getting rid of the old and bringing luck to the family in the new year. You should tidy up the bedroom, rearrange the items in the room neatly and properly.

For things that are broken or no longer usable, discard them as they will hinder the flow of good luck and blessings. Specific tasks you need to do include cleaning the bed, wardrobe, table and chairs, replacing new sheets and mattresses, organizing the workspace (study area) neatly... A clean and tidy space not only helps the room avoid health risks but also uplifts the spirits of the family members, improving the relationship among them. Hanging a painting with colorful flowers will create a comfortable feeling for the room's owner. For children's rooms, you can decorate with stuffed animals and wallpaper with cute and adorable shapes.

For the new year, consider repainting your house to give it a fresher look. The walls inside your home can be adorned with wallpaper featuring various special highlights. Wallpaper with multiple colors, depicting cherry blossoms, apricot blossoms, and more, are perfect choices. Wallpaper is widely available in various materials and colors, giving you plenty of options to choose from. Tet is perhaps the time when people are most excited about shopping and decorating their homes, so there's no reason to leave your living room wall bare and dull.

Typically, people will refresh their house walls by repainting or painting Tet-themed murals, but that method takes a lot of time, effort, and money. However, nowadays, we have the simplest way to decorate walls vividly and quickly without spending much time: decorating the living room with wall decals or wallpaper. It's convenient, versatile, and offers many suitable options for Tet, such as flowers, fruit trays, or a colorful flower garden.

Fresh flowers and ornamental plants are indispensable for every Tet holiday. In Vietnam, apricot blossoms symbolize the South, while peach blossoms represent the North. Each type of plant or fresh flower brings color, fragrance, and beauty to your home. Peach blossoms also symbolize vitality, while apricot blossoms symbolize the noble qualities of a gentleman and are one of the four precious flowers.

Peach, apricot, or kumquat are essential during Tet, heralding the arrival of a new spring and filling your home with auspiciousness. When choosing decorative plants, consider the size that fits your living room. For large living rooms, opt for larger plants, while smaller ones suit smaller spaces. Additionally, some types of fresh flowers commonly used during Tet include: Narcissus, Gladiolus, Orchids, Carnations, and Money Plants...

Welcoming the Lunar New Year is a perfect opportunity to renovate your family kitchen. First and foremost, we need a kitchen cabinet or shelf to neatly arrange kitchen utensils as well as spice jars. Adding a few hooks for cutting boards and knives will make the kitchen look tidy and organized. Moreover, decorating with kitchen decals is highly favored for their practicality and elegance. Consider replacing some kitchen utensils like cutting boards to ensure the health and safety of your family. Clean the sink with lemon or orange peels to eliminate odors, place a piece of bread to absorb grease, or use kitchen cleaner to clean oil stains, bringing shine and cleanliness to the kitchen area.

The kitchen is always essential for every family, especially during the festive season when everyone gathers together. With the cooking and dining space, we should decorate with warm tones to add joy to the kitchen. For the dining table, adding a few small decorative lights with soft dim light, a vase of flowers... will make the meal even warmer. A clean, organized, and aesthetically pleasing kitchen will surely make you and your family happier in welcoming the new year.

Decorating the ancestral altar on Tet holds significant importance in the spiritual culture of Vietnamese people as it demonstrates filial piety, honoring the roots of the nation. Firstly, we need to clean it thoroughly to show respect, then arrange the offering tray with traditional dishes such as square cakes, cylindrical glutinous rice cakes, candied fruits, especially the five-fruit tray as it represents the beauty of the national culture, and decorate it with fresh flowers on Tet days.

Every Lunar New Year, our families cannot be without the five-fruit tray. Each fruit carries a unique meaning. A diverse, colorful five-fruit tray symbolizing abundance, luck, and happiness for the new year will help you feel the approaching Tet more distinctly. Typically, the five-fruit tray consists of fruits like green bananas, pomelos, oranges, apples, dragon fruits... Depending on each family, there may be different choices of the five-fruit tray, but they all carry a sacred meaning for Tet.

Our ancestors often said, 'First word, second painting, third calligraphy, fourth fortune', these are the four refined pastimes of Vietnamese people through generations. As Tet approaches, Tet paintings are bought by everyone to hang during Tet. This is considered a decoration item with special significance for the Vietnamese people. Tet paintings often depict scenes of abundant, warm, and happy life, making your home warmer during the New Year. You can look for reputable brands such as Dong Ho paintings, Hang Trong folk paintings...

The living room should have a clock to remind family members to stick to the schedule better in the new year. Familial photos hanging as memorabilia will have a significant meaning in your home, helping to bond family relationships and create a cozy, warm atmosphere, fitting with the Tet ambiance. You can also hang paintings based on personal preferences as well as those of family members. However, try not to hang too many paintings that clutter the room.

Just like walls, you can't leave your glass doors plain and dull on the occasion of the new year. There are plenty of ways to decorate glass doors on Tet, such as painting on them or using accessories like string lights, lucky hanging cords for decoration. Beautiful glass doors will make your house more impressive to everyone around.

Moreover, nowadays, people also prefer using Tet Decor Decals to decorate glass doors due to their convenience, vibrant designs, and colors, yet they are extremely easy to clean. With Tet Decor Decals, you can adorn your glass doors with spring sky scenes with flying swallows, blooming peach blossoms, golden apricot flowers, images of the old man of the year, along with festive couplets... bringing a lively spring atmosphere.

No Tet celebration is complete without red couplets, which is a long-standing cultural tradition of the Vietnamese people that we need to preserve. Red couplets not only carry significance but also serve as a highlight to make the living room cozier and more prominent. Every Tet season, the image of the old man with phrases like 'dragons dance, phoenixes fly' has become exceedingly familiar. In an increasingly modern world, people are yearning for the traditional values of their ancestors.

Buying red couplets to hang in the house is a great suggestion if you want your home to be filled with the atmosphere of the new spring. Each couplet expresses different wishes but all carry the meaning of happiness and blessings for every family. Nowadays, besides asking for couplets for the new year, people can also purchase calligraphic couplets with the same meaning for a peaceful new year.

Tet hanging accessories are the most sought-after decorative items during this time because they bring the bustling atmosphere of Tet to every street and corner, even inside homes. Even if you're lazy to decorate, on Tet day, you still have to hang a bunch of red firecrackers, a red lantern in front of the house, or decorate with tinsel, balloons... on the branches of peach blossoms or apricot blossoms in the living room.

If you are crafty, you can make your own decorative accessories, saving costs and adding uniqueness. Use red straws to make firecrackers, stiff paper to make lanterns, banh chung, banh tet, or use fabric to make peach blossoms, apricot blossoms, which are both beautiful and demonstrate your own ingenuity.