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DIY Christmas Tree Collar

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Christmas tree with finished Christmas Tree Collar

Every year it’s the same story. We put up the Christmas tree, have a blast decorating it, and finally finish it off with the Christmas Tree skirt. Then I spend several times a day, every day, straightening out the skirt because my dogs LOVE to make it a bed. Literally, I think I spend most of the season doing this very thing!!! So, I decided this was the year to make a DIY Christmas Tree Collar. I’ve wanted one for years so I finally made one from wood that I had in my scrap wood pile. I am sooooo happy with how it turned out!

How to Begin This DIY Christmas Tree Collar

I started this DIY Christmas tree collar by cutting 2×2 wood into 8 pieces at 21″ long a piece.

8 2x2 wood pieces, kreg tool, kreg clamp, hitachi drill,

Then I used my Kreg tool and Hitachi drill to drill pocket holes into 4 of the 8 pieces.

  • Stephanie Ray drills pocket holes with Kreg tool and Hitachi Drill

Time to Make Some Frames For this DIY Christmas Tree Collar

I made 2 frames for the collar by screwing 2″ pocket screws into the pocket holes to attach the wood that had the holes to the wood that didn’t have the pocket holes. I made 2 frame pieces using 4 pieces of wood for the top of the collar and 4 pieces of wood for the bottom of the collar.

Stephanie Ray attaching wood 2x2 pieces with pocket screws

Let’s Build Some Walls

I had some low profile tongue and groove wood in my scrap pile from a project I did over the summer. I cut that wood into 13″ pieces and finish nailed it to the bottom frame piece. After all the pieces were in, I put the top frame on and finish nailed the tongue and groove wood to the top frame.

  • Stephanie Ray finish nails tongue and groove wood to collar frame
  • low profile tongue and groove boards for walls of Christmas Tree Collar
  • Stephanie Ray finish nails tongue and groove wood to top frame of collar
  • Bare wood collar without corners
  • Bare wood Christmas Tree Collar interior

Let’s Add Some Corners

I had some corner pieces left over from a previous project so I put those on this collar. These corners were made with 2×2 wood pieces. I set my table saw so the blade was up 1.25″ and the guide was 1.25″ from the blade. Then I cut out the center of the 2×2 wood piece and Viola! I had corner pieces. I cut them to fit between the top and bottom frames and glued them into place with wood glue.

  • custom cut wood corners
  • Bare wood Christmas Tree Collar with corners

Time for Stain!

This is one of my favorite parts- the STAIN! I have my colors all custom mixed at Sherwin Williams so I don’t have a name to share but it’s probably close to Walnut if your purchased a color off the shelf.

  • Stephanie Ray staining the Christmas tree collar
  • stained Christmas Tree Color

It’s Finished!

I could not be happier with how this DIY Christmas Tree collar turned out!!

close up picture of finished Christmas Tree Collar

You can check out the video of this project here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrLvc-nmfF8

xoxo

Stephanie

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