Wooden Christmas Trees with Lights – Rustic Christmas
Learn how to build these beautiful wooden Christmas trees with lights.
Years ago I made a set of Wooden Christmas Trees (with lights) with my Mom and sister Emily. I think it was back in 1999, I should check under my Mom’s trees, she always writes the year on her projects (such a great idea!).
I’ve been wanting to make a new set with a brighter color (my previous set is forest green).
When my fellow BEHR DIY Experts asked if I wanted to join them in BEHR Holiday Hues blog hop, I knew this project would be perfect!
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Wooden Christmas Trees with Lights
Supplies:
- Wood (We used left over pieces we had in the garage! YAY!)
- Paint – BEHR MARQUEE Interior Matte – Pistachio
- Paint – BEHR Premium Plus Ultra Interior Matte – Sweet Molasses
- Set of 50 clear lights
- Ruler or tape measure
- Paper
- Pencil
- Scissors
- 3x 3inch screws
Tools
Instructions:
Step 1: I started off by drawing three different sizes of trees on long sheets of paper. (See dimensions below)
Dimensions
- Large: 22″ high x 5.5″ wide + Trunk 2″ high x 1.75″ wide
- Medium: 19.5″ high x 5.5″ wide + Trunk 2″ high x 1.75″ wide
- Small: 16″ high x 5.5″ wide + Trunk 2″ high x 1.75″ wide
If you would like to see the pattern of one of the trees, I made a template for my Christmas Tree Wood Lantern.
Step 2: Once I was finished drawing them, I cut them out.
Step 3: I traced the patterns onto wood and used a jigsaw to cut out the shapes.
Step 4: Since I was using a set of 50 lights, I marked a total of 50 places where we had to drill holes.
We made sure to use a drill bit big enough to allow the lights to poke through.
Step 5: Once the holes were drilled, we give them a light sanding with a palm sander.
Step 6: I gave the trees one coat of BEHR MARQUEE Interior Matte in Pistachio.
NOTE: If you are going to make some to go outside, use BEHR MARQUEE Exterior.
Step 7: We made a 16″ x 11″ base.
Step 8: I stained the base using BEHR Premium Plus Ultra Interior Matte in Sweet Molasses.
In order to stain the base, I applied small amounts of paint to the base and dipped my brush in water to water down the paint.
NOTE: Use BEHR Premium Plus Exterior if you are making some to go outside.
As soon as the entire surface was covered, I proceeded by wiping it off with paper towel.
Step 9: We determined where we wanted to place the trees and drilled holes in the base and the trees (using a drill bit smaller than the screws we were going to use). We attached the trees to the base with 3″ screws.
Step 10: We inserted the 50 lights and voilà, we had a new brighter set of Wooden Christmas Trees with Lights aka Marquee Christmas Trees!
What do you think of my trees? Aren’t they beautiful?! I’m absolutely IN LOVE with the color, so bright and cheery!
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BEHR Holiday Hues
Want to see what my fellow BEHR DIY EXPERTS created for the BEHR Holiday Hues blog hop?
First though, let me introduce them to you in case you haven’t met them before:
Ready to see all our projects?? Get ready to be blown away with lots of creativeness!
1. Angels Wings from All Things Heart and Home
2. Joy Sign from Clean and Scentsible
3. Wooden Christmas Trees with Lights from The DIY Dreamer
4. Rustic Wood Joy Christmas Sign from The Frugal Homemaker
5. DIY Christmas Card Display from Frugal Mom Eh
6. Christmas Shelf Decor from Just a Girl and Her Blog
7. Red Christmas Table from Liz Marie Blog
8. Christmas Countdown from Marty’s Musings
9. Christmas Star Marquee from NewlyWoodwards
10. Joyeux Noël Wood Sign from A Pop of Pretty
11. Antique Christmas Sled from Small Home Big Start
12. Porch Decor Trees from Sugar Bee Crafts
Really awesome projects, right?! I love every single one of those projects!!!
Did any of these projects inspire you to create? Which one(s)?
Have a FABULOUS day!
P.S. I’ll be linking to these Parties.
Disclosure: A big THANK YOU to BEHR for supplying me with paint to complete this project. As always, all opinions in this post are 100% my own.
Hi Christine, I absolutely love your Twig Christmas Tree, and your wooden trees with lights. When my studying slows down, I will give them a try.
Take care.
I love the bright green! And the lights are such a great touch!
These are extra sweet to me because they remind me of some trees I made with my grandma back in the 90s. Some were with lights and some were with buttons. I still display mine every year.
Did you do anything to keep the cords in place on the back?
Oh!! Love the idea with buttons! Must have been so pretty!
Great question! I made sure the holes were just big enough to be able to push the lights through tightly. They are nice and snug in the holes. I did use a couple pieces of wire to wrap some the the exposed wire together.
Christine these are adorable! I love the lights and the color you picked is just HAPPY!!! xo
I love that green. I love the how it glows at night. Great project!
I’d get some cool colours, like shades of taupe and brown, to re-do my office.
So hard to choose! I’d pick a nice blue for our bathroom. And I LOVE the trees – pinned them!
Super-cute project! I’d love to have these outside the front door :) and the green you chose is perfect too. Pinned!
Christine, you go with your power tools! This project is so cute and I love the color!
Those are ADORABLE! I’m in need of some more Christmas decor and those would work great! Pinning. Found you at Made by You Monday linky party.
I just LOVE your website!! If I had the chance to pick colors, they would be various “off white”
And my house could use a fresh coat.
thanks sherry elston
Love this project! They look so pretty all lit up!
Every cute!
I LOVE all the colors in the Opulence line!!!
Popping over from The Makers link up party. I love wood crafts, I don’t like doing them. Maybe once I get my basement cleaned up I can tackle something like this. Thanks for sharing!
CUTE! I love that you made Marquee Trees with Marquee paint! :) And I need you to teach me how to use power tools– I always have to have my hubby do it for me! Heading of to pin! Have a great week, Christine!
~Abby =)
Love them all!
Your trees look SO cool – love that colour too!!
I love your little trees! My choice of paint would be pure white.
I like the green you choose! The trees are great!
I have a new project to create! Love these trees! Thanks for sharing!
i really need to paint my sitting room, i think the Grape Creme would be a great choice
How festive! I bet this looks amazing with the house lights off and only Christmas lights on. Beautiful!
This is a great project. I love how it turned out. Stopping by from Homework link party.
You always have amazing projects! This one is no exception! Love it!
I think hubby wants a jigsaw for Christmas so I can borrow it to make these trees for next year :) or eggs for Easter…
Here via The Foley Fam’s Sunday FUNday link up
I love the fact that you made it fit a traditional light set. We got a beautiful one from a craft fair years ago but it wasn’t a standard light set. When the lights went it was impossible to find a set that would fit.