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We Continue Our Tradition Of Making Unconventional Christmas Trees And This Year We Made One From Old Mirrors (21 Pics)

My husband and I have a tradition of creating an unconventional Christmas tree every year. Do you remember our DIY Christmas tree from last year on Bored Panda? This year we used mirrors and reclaimed wood to create a futuristic-looking tree. As this decade comes to an end you can say we’ve done a lot of “reflecting”!

With the lights on in the room it’s very plain and reflective, but with the lights off and tree lights on the look changes entirely. The result is very abstract but perfect for entering the year 2020!

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Lights on

We Continue Our Tradition Of Making Unconventional Christmas Trees And This Year We Made One From Old Mirrors (21 Pics)

With a black light and string lights, it goes from elegant to otherworldly

We Continue Our Tradition Of Making Unconventional Christmas Trees And This Year We Made One From Old Mirrors (21 Pics)

Lights off and tree lights on

We Continue Our Tradition Of Making Unconventional Christmas Trees And This Year We Made One From Old Mirrors (21 Pics)

I used a black curtain for some shots to cover the mirrors on the wall

We Continue Our Tradition Of Making Unconventional Christmas Trees And This Year We Made One From Old Mirrors (21 Pics)

First, we removed the mirrors from their frames

We Continue Our Tradition Of Making Unconventional Christmas Trees And This Year We Made One From Old Mirrors (21 Pics)

We then built boxes to glue the mirrors to

We Continue Our Tradition Of Making Unconventional Christmas Trees And This Year We Made One From Old Mirrors (21 Pics)

I found cheap full-length mirrors for the wall behind

We Continue Our Tradition Of Making Unconventional Christmas Trees And This Year We Made One From Old Mirrors (21 Pics)

Broken up mirrors for the mosaic garland. Good thing we aren’t superstitious!

We Continue Our Tradition Of Making Unconventional Christmas Trees And This Year We Made One From Old Mirrors (21 Pics)

Mosaic garland was added before decorating

We Continue Our Tradition Of Making Unconventional Christmas Trees And This Year We Made One From Old Mirrors (21 Pics)

Finished! Which effect do you like best?

We Continue Our Tradition Of Making Unconventional Christmas Trees And This Year We Made One From Old Mirrors (21 Pics)

Watch the building process in this video:

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Vėjūnė is a community manager who helps artists all over the world introduce their artwork to Bored Panda readers and in that way, become more popular. Since she was always fascinated by the art world, she studied Culture Management and Cultural Policy at Vilnius Academy of Arts where she expanded her knowledge about it. Now she's using all this knowledge to showcase its beauty and help others dive into the fascinating world of art.

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Night Owl 4 years ago (edited)

Cool! But not something I'd make for myself (one of the reasons is my cat ... and I'd probably cut myself on one of the mirrors too)

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Emily Seilhamer (Post author) 4 years ago

lol yes, luckily we don't have cats or children yet, but I did get quite a few minor scrapes and cuts! I plan to turn the mirrors into mosaic art after Christmas so it was great practice.

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Darcey Young 4 years ago

This is a really creative idea and I think it works beautifully. It gives me great modern art vibes!

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Teresa Cline 4 years ago

This is a brilliant idea and very beautiful. When the curtain is up, there's a very definite kind of Peanuts' Charlie Brown esqe tree image going on. I love the eclectic and futuristic vibe. Congrats on your awesome tree!

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M O'Connell 4 years ago

It looks like a department store display for fancy china. I like it!

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Bill 4 years ago

I made a Christmas tree out of empty Evan Williams(rot gut whiskey) bottles. It took two months of hard drinking to make a floor to ceiling tree

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Jane Tresidder 4 years ago

I think this is amazing!

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EweAreSewCute 4 years ago

Cool mirror shelf (trees are tree shaped this is shelf shaped) but pretty anyway. I guess blood red which is Christmas coloured I assume bleeding was part of foolishly playing with broken glass without lather gloves. Silly idea that kinda looks pretty to someone (not me) stick to broken glass branches and make a tree shaped tree nobody would assume tree unless told this is why it's a shelf at best

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Darcey Young 4 years ago

Not a cute comment at all!

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Night Owl 4 years ago (edited)

Cool! But not something I'd make for myself (one of the reasons is my cat ... and I'd probably cut myself on one of the mirrors too)

3points

Emily Seilhamer (Post author) 4 years ago

lol yes, luckily we don't have cats or children yet, but I did get quite a few minor scrapes and cuts! I plan to turn the mirrors into mosaic art after Christmas so it was great practice.

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