Door Decoration Ideas

Door is the first thing that interacts and welcomes your guests and even you while entering the home. Door decoration is an interesting activity while celebrating different events and festivals. Let's take a look at some unique door decoration ideas for your home.

Door decoration ideas for various celebrations

Christmas - You can make attractive Xmas decorations at your door. To create the effect of twinkling stars in the Xmas night, first select the area of door that you want to decorate. It can be painted with the black color, which will give the feel of a night. Now put some silver and golden artificial stars available in the market onto the painted area. You can also arrange a garland on the middle of the door around the twinkling stars. Decorate the Christmas tree near the door with ribbons and light. For a contrast effect, you can also buy curtain that has fearful images like a ghost gathers with a group of witches, dragons swallowing insects and animals etc.

Halloween - Halloween is a scared festival. Halloween decoration is associated with black and orange colors. Your door decoration idea can get scarier and exciting by decorating the door with a blocking curtain at the entrance. Here you can draw the pictures of eggs, cartoons and pumpkins etc. If you opt for pumpkin curtain, you can draw a lantern of 7 pumpkins with different emotions like teasing, laughing, crying, surprising, welcoming, zealous and fearful emotions that will attract everyone who knocks at your door!

Easter - Bunny Basket can be a great idea for Easter. You can stick each bunny either on the door or can put all the bunnies together creating a basket hanging on the roof towards the door. You can also build an Easter egg hut. Arrange a decorated hut in the middle of the door. The things you require are white sheet of paper, gum, staple, decorated eggs and some chocolates. Make a hut with - a sheet of thick paper 4-5 inch square and roll it down and staple it with pins. It will look like a cylinder. Mark a rectangle shape with pencil on that cylinder. Cut three sides of the rectangle as if you can open it like a door that will rest on the fourth side. This fourth side will be vertical. Give nice paint to the hut from inside and outside. Make a cone and stick it above the hut that will be the roof of your hut. The base of the hut can be closed by a circular sheet of paper. Stick a red closer button at the door of the hut, it will work as a knob. Now attach the decorated hut to your door with the gum that will stand upright. Put around 3-4 adorned Easter eggs in that hut. You can also store some chocolates, jellies and gifts for children. The red color knob indicates danger, so some children maybe scared of opening it, making it a nice option to have a fun. Secondly, children who come to wish you, will try to press the red door knob enthusiastically, will get nice gifts kept inside.

Birthday - You can decorate the door with balloons and craft-papers. Color changing gazing ball is an amazing magic to greet a birthday boy or girl. This Color changing gazing ball is available in six interchanging colors that runs on batteries. You can put this ball in the veranda or near the door.

Wedding - Flower arrangement is an evergreen idea for the door decor. You can arrange flowers on the door at different positions using various themes. Arrange the flowers in the shape of a heart. Decide the size of the heart according to the width and length of your door. It should match and suit to your door. Now create a 'Happy wedding' tag attached with the name of the bride and groom. This tag can be either made up of a flower-pattern handicraft or you can sketch them on a drawing paper. This decoration will be a lovely welcome for the newly-wed couple.

New Year - How about wishing your guests 'happy new year' by decorating the door with a haunted skull curtain? You can create a white skull and two hands using a weatherproof foam. First stick this skull in the middle of the door, then try to arrange both the hands opposite to each other as such that the skull will take the center position. As soon as the guests press the door bell, the mouth of the skull will open and your guests may scream watching the white teeth of the skull that are coming out automatically making the noise 'Happy New year!'

Door decoration ideas for kid's bedroom

Door decoration can be done on both sides of the door. You and your kid can enjoy the summer vacations together by decorating his or her bedroom door.

Front side of your kid's bedroom door - Lovely pictures of nature or animals and birds he or she likes. Putting pictures of cartoons can also be a great idea!

Back side of your kid's bedroom door - Make some hanging box. Each box may possess its own section for putting colors or pens, makeup accessories, letter box and painting. A little tiffin box can also fit at such back door space!

Door decoration ideas for office employee

Office door decoration should be formal and decent. While celebrating different events and occasions, a stylish door decoration can create a festive atmosphere in the office. You can decorate your office door for Christmas by some hanging pictures. Take a piece of plywood or cardboard and cut it in the shape of a Santa Clause, snowfall, Christmas tree, star and stocking. Now color them and hang them on the front door of your office.

Door decoration ideas for school student

If it's the first day of your school, you can decorate the school door by drawing the picture of different animals playing a game together and at the same time some birds flying in the sky. You can also put a sign like 'welcome to school' or 'name of your class' above this picture. Here remember, you need to stick the drawing at the middle of the classroom door. This is because sometimes the drawing may get damaged, if it's down or some may not see the picture properly due to its high position. Students can also create some handmade paper banners or can buy them for different occasions like ice-breaking activities, competition, welcome or farewell parties, independence day or exam duration with suitable pictures and decorations.

Interesting ideas for door decoration

Door Hanging - Door hanging is an ancient home décor idea. Door hanging idea is basically from India. You can buy these hangings from the market or make it yourself. In Indian festivals, people hang jingling bells, torans of fancy beads, glasses and motifs, flowers and crystals to decorate the door.

Drawing a picture - You can decorate the door by your own paintings. Paint the whole door with a nice color and draw some free hand drawings or nature scenery like the sea with coconut trees, mountains, sun rise etc.

Greetings - Stick some attractive greetings according to the celebrations on the door.

Bouquet - Bouquet can be used for decoration only for the one day celebration like the wedding day or anniversary celebration.

Frame the door - Framing the door with flowers, metal art or paper crafts and lighting is the wonderful decoration idea. The decoration surrounding of the door will give an appearance like a beautiful frame.

Wreath - Wreath is popular for door decoration as it can be used in various styles and themes. Moreover, it is easy to shift or rearrange. You can make different sized butterflies, each butterfly follows a flower. The flower can be of different varieties or colors. Join them on the metal wreath that you can buy from a nearby shop. If you are planning to welcome the harvest season, then create a wreath that is decorated with apples, grapes, berries. Now randomly put some flowers and leaves between the selected fruits.

Door decor is the first impression of your home. Therefore, while decorating door, some precautions and care should be taken in advance, like the decoration you make should be durable, simple, easy to change or set up and suitable to the occasion.