We Made An Unconventional Christmas Tree From A Stack Of Paint Samples And Some Old Blinds
My husband and I make an unconventional Christmas tree every December. Do you remember our Christmas tree from last year on Bored Panda?
This particular year we also bought a fixer upper house and are in the process of home repairs. Months later, after countless trips and thousands of dollars spent to various home improvement stores, we also managed to save a stack of paint samples we would consider using in the process!
(In the future we plan to use the color samples to pick paint for the house!)
It became clear that the paint chips weren’t enough to actually build a tree, so I found an old set of Venetian blinds and some wire to form a tree structure before attaching the paint samples and decorating.
After creating a base for the “trunk” we drilled holes into the metal head rail and inserted metal wire branches. After that I attached an individual blind piece to each metal branch.
Hot glue was a life saver for this project! To give the illusion of floating colors I hot glued each individual paint chip to the branches in an alternating pattern….we had just enough!
Even the star is made from the blinds cut into smaller pointed pieces, glued onto a Styrofoam center. The small colorful ornaments and string lights really make them pop!
After adding some colorful ornaments we have the finished tree!
Lights on…look at that shadow!
Lights off!
Watch the building process in this video: