15 Ideas for Unique Christmas Trees
Want something different for Xmas ? How about a tree that’s not a tree?
If you are limited by space or are generally unexcited about the same old ways of decorating the same old Christmas tree, here are some out-of-the-box designs that will immediately set your Christmas decorations apart.
2. Instead of lights, you can use ribbons, strings and wires to make a wall-mounted tree and stick or tie your decorations on it. You can decorate the wall-tree as much or as little as you like. This one has lots of Christmas ornaments, which have been collected over the years.
4. This simple tree is made with Washi tape. You can use a variety of colours and patterns from the many kinds of tape available. Putting up your tree on the wall allows you to have a really large one, and maybe even more than one in the room.
5. This one requires a bit of a work, especially if you live in an urban neighbourhood with not so many trees around. But a weekend out and about can give you enough to make a rustic tree from salvaged dry branches.
String some fairy lights through or around them and watch your creation sparkle.
String some fairy lights through or around them and watch your creation sparkle.
6. You might need the help of a carpenter for this one. You would also need flat wooden slats of about four to six decreasing lengths (and widths), depending on the height of your tree, and a small flat piece of wood between each plank to separate them. (The trimmings from your slats will work perfectly.) Stick them in a spiral, supported by the pole. The bigger-sized slats make the base spiral; then keep adding your slats, alternating with the separators, one on top of another, in reducing size. Your Xmas tree is ready to be dressed.
7. This tree is made of painted wooden ice-cream sticks. It has been used to make an Advent calendar, but instead, you can hang your decorations. In Christian households, Advent calendars are made (with Christmas-related pictures covered by a flap, one for each day from the 1st to the 25th of December), and each day a new picture is revealed. It builds up the festive spirit as Christmas day nears. Some Advent calendars also hide a sweet or chocolate behind each flap. This one seems composed of little boxes tied up with red ribbon – containing a delicious surprise for the kids, every morning.
8. Here, leftovers from last year’s decorations have been used. This pretty little tree is so easy to make. You can mix up the baubles or stick them according to a colour theme.
9. There’s a delicate, airy touch to this one – notice how just the ornaments and string lights define the tree. There are no branches or any part of a tree. Plenty of multicoloured baubles, snowflakes and other ornaments give it a pop…
…and this is how it looks at night. Suddenly, it looks solidly three-dimensional. The illusion of depth is given by putting more and brighter lights in the lower part of the tree, leaving fewer and dimmer lights above.
Ensure that wherever two light strings are joined to each other, the joint and bare wires have been properly covered with electrical insulation tape.
Ensure that wherever two light strings are joined to each other, the joint and bare wires have been properly covered with electrical insulation tape.
10. A combination of letters, pictures and photo frames creates the silhouette of a tree. You can use DIY felt letters or readymade letter cutouts to make a tree that spells out a message too, like here.
11. It is perfectly clear that this tree belongs to a family that loves reading and books.
12. This tree makes use of the leftover wooden planks from a recent renovation.
Think of what items you have or can collect to make a unique tree of your own. You can make trees out of felt balls, wine corks, pipes and loads of other materials.
Think of what items you have or can collect to make a unique tree of your own. You can make trees out of felt balls, wine corks, pipes and loads of other materials.
13. Check out this Christmas tree that people in my office made with the empty Old Monk bottles. Just don’t ask how many people or how many days it took to collect all the bottles…
You will need superglue or any other strong quick-working adhesive, and rectangular strips of hardboard or wood fixed in an X shape to stick the bottles on. Adjust the height of the tree depending on how many bottles you have. A minimum of four to five levels are necessary to give it a tree-like appearance.
You will need superglue or any other strong quick-working adhesive, and rectangular strips of hardboard or wood fixed in an X shape to stick the bottles on. Adjust the height of the tree depending on how many bottles you have. A minimum of four to five levels are necessary to give it a tree-like appearance.
14. You can use conical stepped frames and decorate them in any way you like. You could also use a fold-out stepladder to get a tree effect.
15. For smaller arrangements around the house, get small branches of a suitable tree and put them in pretty vases and jars. Decorate them with bells, candy canes and other traditional items to make them look like miniature trees.
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Read more:
Quick DIYs to Setting Up a Festive Table
What to Do With Diwali Lights When Diwali is Over
Tell us:
Have you ever made Xmas trees of your own? Tell us and show us your pictures in Comments below.
It’s pretty simple to make. I used two consecutive strings of fairy lights. If you are not used to doing electrical work yourself, ask the shopkeeper or electrician to connect them in series for you. Mark a tallish triangle for the shape of a Christmas tree on your windowpane, and draw equidistant horizontal lines of decreasing length from the bottom to the top, keeping to the triangle. Now, just follow these lines, starting at the bottom and widest level, to cellotape the light string till you reach the top. End it off in a point.
We used green lights; you can choose any colour or even a multi-coloured string. We even decorated our ‘tree’ with a star on the top, mini baubles, bells and a little Christmas stocking.