DIY Christmas Tree Hack - Make Your Tree Taller!

DIY Christmas Tree Hack – Make Your Tree Taller!

I love tall Christmas trees, and I love to decorate them in different ways, and easy hacks for decorating them. Like, when I showed you How to string on Christmas lights the Decorator way! This time, I am going to show you my DIY Christmas Tree Hack – Make Your Tree Taller! Method for giving your Tree more height.

Through the years, we have always gotten big, tall trees, and they were all so beautiful. I used to make my own DIY Disney ornaments, by gluing two smaller ornaments, to a bigger one, to create a Mickey silhouette ornament. Our relatives who would come over, would stand in awe, next to our Disney Christmas tree, and they asked me, how much it must have cost me, for all of these ornaments. When I told them the truth, that I got the ornaments at the dollar store, and made them myself, they were in shock. I miss our tall Disney trees, with Tinker Bell as our tree topper. Those were the days.

DIY Christmas Tree Hack – Make Your Tree Taller!

These days, my kids are no longer babies, and so now that they are married adults, making all of those handmade ornaments, and getting tall trees, becomes, tasking because lifting it of the roof of the car and so forth, then after the new year, taking it to the curb, or chopping it down, and placing it into green can, is getting kinda hard, so I am on the hunt for a better solution, without giving up the beauty of a big, fat Christmas tree. And I think I found it!

Use Storage Crates

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Now, this is not a sponsored post for Big Lots, but I just wanted to let you know where I got what I needed for this project. I found these bins, that are kind of like crates, and I bought four of them.

I also found these crates that are suitable as well. They measure 13x13x11 you can find them here Stackable Storage Crates

Zip ties can be found here

Foam Poster Boards can be found here

PLEASE NOTE: I am just showing the kind of crates that I personally have used for this project. Please be sure to secure tree to a hook on the wall, so that it does not tip over, especially near children and pets. Also be sure to secure bins together so they won’t shift and cause tree to tip over.

Just make sure that the bins you get, can hold the weight of your tree. That is VERY important. First, I cleared out my corner in my living room.

After, my space is cleared, and cleaned, I place the bins upside-down, and together, to make a big square stage. I then use zip ties, using 3 together, to create a large zip tie, and tie the crates together, so that they will stay attached, and not move around so much. See pic below.

Now that we have our platform, I just placed a large wooden board, and two large poster boards on top, to create a flat surface.

Then I covered the whole thing with an old white tablecloth, that I no longer use for my table, and I tucked it under the edges. This creates a blank slate for your tree.

I places a tree skirt on the platform, just to give you a visual on how the tree skirt will kind of look. Once you have your Christmas tree, on this platform, you can place any color tree skirt, and it will cover most of the tablecloth on the platform. When I place my tree on top, I always secure the tree to the base, to be sure the tree doesn’t tip over, so be sure to do that. I also secure the tree to the wall behind it, for extra measure.

Very important: Please do not leave children or pets around the tree unattended.

So now, I can get a 5 foot tree, and it will look like it is over 6 feet tall. And all around the base of the platform, is where I set up my presents, that look so beautiful. Below, you can see our purple flocked Christmas tree from last year, where it was placed on this platform, and the presents, are displayed around the tree, and you can’t even tell, that a platform is there.

And, with this awesome Christmas Tree Hack, I am able to get a light enough tree, and make it look big, tall, and heavy — when in reality, this tree, is very light, short, and easy to discard when the time is needed. No more hassles! And the best part….You can get a less expensive tree, and make it look more expensive! Save more footage, save more money, am I right?