DIY Christmas Tree Box Stand

by Niky | The House on Silverado

2 Materials

2 Hours

Medium

This DIY Christmas Tree Box Stand is one of my new favorite things. This farmhouse-style crate is easy to make, comes together in less than a couple of hours, and can be made with leftover pieces of scrap wood.

How We Made Our DIY Christmas Tree Box Stand

We still had leftover wood that I brought home from my parents’ garage. The same wood trim and molding I used for my DIY Wood Scrap Christmas Trees!

It was late on Sunday afternoon, it was cold outside, and would soon be getting dark, when I said to my hubs, “I think we should build a box to cover the Christmas tree stand.” 😗

My husband really is so sweet. He always goes along with my ideas.

“Do you have some instructions?” he asked.

“Yup,” I replied. “In my head.” 😂

“Let’s do it,” he said. ❤️

Out to the garage we went, and in less than 2 hours, we had ourselves a Christmas tree box!

We used leftover pieces trim molding and just pieced them together, using scrap wood 1″x2″s in the corners.

They weren’t all the same thickness or width, and that was okay! I wanted it to be rustic like a farmhouse Christmas tree box should be.

One side of the DIY Christmas Tree Box Stand.

Some of the pieces had already been stained, and some were raw wood. Some were lighter colored and some were darker. It didn’t matter.

One side of the wood crate done and nailed to the side brackets.

We didn’t put a bottom on our box, but it’s very sturdy and nestles nicely around the tree stand base.

When I first envisioned this DIY Christmas Tree Box Stand in my head, I thought I’d stain it. But after we got it done and tried it out on the tree, I loved it just as it is. I really like the variations of tones in the wood, so for now, I’m leaving it like this.

Once we settled the tree down into the stand inside the wood box, it was a night & day difference in how the tree looked!

The crate covered up the awkward height of the bottom stand post, and nestled up nicely to the bottom branches, correcting the odd proportion problem.

It’s so much better than any Christmas tree collar we could have bought, and it’s another great way to use wood pieces that have meaning to me in my Christmas home decor that can be used year after year.

I set up my Hallmark Polar Express Santa that’s been under my tree since my children were very small. This year, he’s sitting on a little, red, 75-year-old antique chair that was my dad’s as a child.

Once I had Santa there, I decided the tree was begging for a red/white theme, and I remembered a plastic tote of all red vintage glass ornaments that I brought home from my mom’s Christmas stash.

This tree is in our lower-level family room, which is decorated with all my husband’s sports memorabilia, so the red theme works well here.