The Best Lunar New Year Decorations to Bring Good Fortune Into 2024
Prepare for the Year of the Dragon with these indoor and outdoor ideas.

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Welcoming the start of spring, Lunar New Year is an annual holiday celebrated by many Asian countries and communities around the globe. This year, Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year, begins on February 10 and is celebrated for up to 15 days. Communities celebrate the holiday with a variety of traditions, from throwing dinner parties, giving red envelopes, exchanging meaningful gifts, planning parades and hanging festive and symbolic decorations.
Lunar New Year is a holiday with vivid visuals. Decorations are usually ornate with splashes of red, gold embellishments and lucky symbols, often including the year’s zodiac animal. Twenty-twenty four is the Year of the Dragon, so many decorations will incorporate a dragon motif in playful and majestic ways. The decoration possibilities are endless with this mythical creature that can fly, hang and flutter figuratively and literally.
With so many options for decorating your home for this holiday, we’ve curated some beautiful, useful and affordable Lunar New Year decorations that you can use whether you’re preparing for a small or big celebration. This list includes both evergreen and classic decorations that can be used any Lunar New Year, and those that incorporate this year’s zodiac animal. Whether you’re preparing for 1 or 100, be generous with your decorations: the more luck you spread, the more it will multiply.
Alyssa Gautieri (she/her) is the associate lifestyle editor for Good Housekeeping, where she covers all things home and interior design. Prior to joining GH in 2022, she wrote for publications including ELLE Decor, Chairish, BobVila.com, Unique Homes Magazine and LODGING Magazine, in addition to crafting product copy for home brands like BrylaneHome and VIGO Industries.
Minhae Shim Roth is a writer and reporter based in the San Francisco Bay Area.


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