Tuesday, December 31, 2019
A 100% decorative wooden Christmas tree
Tired of the fir thorns invading the house? This year, we are putting on a DIY wooden Christmas tree! Easy to make, guaranteed without thorn fall and inexpensive with recycled wood, it comes in different shapes to adapt to the decor. Prepare the nails, we tell you everything.
The material to build a wooden Christmas tree
Scraps of wood: branches, pallets, crates…
A saw
Nails or screws
Wood glue
String (for a wooden Christmas tree to hang)
Fine-grained sandpaper
Which Christmas tree wood choose?
Good news, there is not a tree, but wooden Christmas trees to make homemade. The first option, the tree made with branches recovered from the woods and carefully dried, stacked in a pyramid to create a 3D tree that has the shape, but not the thorns. The advantage? You can hang balls and garlands on it like on a real tree.
The second option, the flat wooden Christmas tree, to be made with scrap boards or pallets, assembled to form a large surface of the wood to be cut into a triangle and then placed directly against the wall. The advantage? You can add shelves as on a shelf to increase the decoration options.
The third option, the hanging wooden Christmas tree, made up of recycled branches connected together by wires, from the largest to the smallest, to form a triangle to hang on the wall. The advantage? We get a real space-saving wall decoration that can easily be transformed into an advent calendar, by simply hanging small numbered packages on it!
The stages of the wooden Christmas tree
For a wooden Christmas tree in branches:
We start by making afoot with four thick branches glued in a star, then reinforced with nails. Even simpler, you can use a log!
The branches are then stacked on top of each other, from the largest to the smallest, by turning them on each floor to orient them differently.
For simplicity, we put them in place with glue, before fixing them with nails for better strength.
For a flat wooden Christmas tree:
Unless you are using a real whole board, you start by screwing several boards against each other on another long one, at right angles, to form a large flat surface.
With a ruler and a pencil, we then draw an elongated triangle to constitute the tree, to be sawed with a jigsaw or by hand ... with a little elbow grease.
We sand the edges with sandpaper and then paint the Christmas tree in wood if necessary.
For those who would like to add shelves, stick sticks to the tree, then consolidate them by adding screws to the back.
For a wall-mounted wooden Christmas tree:
This time, we start by preparing the Christmas tree flat on a table, by cutting branches before placing them to form a triangle.
We adjust the spacing between the branches to get about 10 cm, 20 cm for a calendar version of the advent.
Once the tree is visually satisfying, we form a loop with the string, then tie it at the very top, in the center of the smallest branch. Then simply unroll the wire to the one below to tie it with a knot, and so on from branch to branch to the largest, below.
We then proceed exactly the same way but starting at one end of the upper branch to finish at the end of the lower branch, then the same on the other side.
It's over! It remains only to hang the wooden Christmas tree on a nail and decorate it.