We Made A Floating Christmas Tree From Reflective Foam Insulation, And Here’s The Result
Every year my husband and I create our own Christmas tree from random materials. This year our tree floats! We used reflective foam insulation to create 3d snowflakes in different sizes. Because the fabric was so light, we were able to hang the entire thing from the ceiling with a fishing line and a few nail hooks. Luckily in the dark, the fishing line is barely visible. Here’s how it turned out:
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This is the material we made it from. 50 feet of reflective foam insulation
Measuring and cutting the snowflake sections
An assembled snowflake
All the snowflakes ready to be hung
Each snowflakes is hung from a series of nail with fishing line from the ceiling
It doesn’t touch the floor
Adding strip lights with a sticky back so they stay in place
Strip lights before peeling off the tape
Going with a “cool” theme, we did a series of blues
Finished
Us
Here is a video of the building process:
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Oh no, if we did it would be a swing! XD
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So what kind of cookies does one leave equal to this show stopper. Santa must love the creative side of the tree. Christmas is from the heart. Tradition must get a tweak every so often. Evolution. Or amendments added to The Christmas Tradition. Flexibility of the mind. Plus it always is good as a conversation starter for those open to seeing another side.
Incredibly creative and beautiful, congrats! Sadly the video doesn’t want to play…it just continually buffered for me.
Update: got the video to work, thanks so much for taking the time to photograph and video the process for us untalented one’s. Love it.
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My compliments on pulling this off.... if I tried this, I'm 90% sure it would look like a pikey's back garden, minus the washingmachine and car wreck.
This is a great tree. I am struggling with my tree... it's falling apart, but I hate to put it in the landfill and get a new one. Maybe I can do something like this. As long as I can hang all my treasured ornaments, I'll be happy.
I have never become emotional over a Christmas tree until now.
Each section is an individual snowflake. I'll just take off the ornaments and garland and store the sections with the rest of the Christmas stuff lol
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Or "How to make christmas even less sustainable". But I guess it'll make for a interesting story 40 years from now when someone finds a reflective foam christmas tree inside a whale..
How is this less sustainable than any normal, boring and ordinary fake Christmas tree? Or do you prefer the practice of trees grown specifically and chopped down just to grace your living room? Christmas tree farms require certain resources for the trees to grow until they reach the best height to cut them down. For trees species that don’t originally grow in a certain region this means using dirt, water, herbicides, pesticide and fungicides, all substances that can potentially damage the environment. If the Christmas trees are not grown on specialized farms, uncontrolled forest exploitation can create serious environmental imbalances, climate changes, the development of natural disasters such as landslides or floods, or endanger animals that have forests of conifers as their natural habitat. Not sure this is really that bad as the product exists to go under flooring anyway. What do you think happens when people rip up and replace floors? Humans are dreadful polluters.
Load More Replies... Oh no, if we did it would be a swing! XD
Load More Replies... So what kind of cookies does one leave equal to this show stopper. Santa must love the creative side of the tree. Christmas is from the heart. Tradition must get a tweak every so often. Evolution. Or amendments added to The Christmas Tradition. Flexibility of the mind. Plus it always is good as a conversation starter for those open to seeing another side.
Incredibly creative and beautiful, congrats! Sadly the video doesn’t want to play…it just continually buffered for me.
Update: got the video to work, thanks so much for taking the time to photograph and video the process for us untalented one’s. Love it.
Load More Replies... My compliments on pulling this off.... if I tried this, I'm 90% sure it would look like a pikey's back garden, minus the washingmachine and car wreck.
This is a great tree. I am struggling with my tree... it's falling apart, but I hate to put it in the landfill and get a new one. Maybe I can do something like this. As long as I can hang all my treasured ornaments, I'll be happy.
I have never become emotional over a Christmas tree until now.
Each section is an individual snowflake. I'll just take off the ornaments and garland and store the sections with the rest of the Christmas stuff lol
Load More Replies... Or "How to make christmas even less sustainable". But I guess it'll make for a interesting story 40 years from now when someone finds a reflective foam christmas tree inside a whale..
How is this less sustainable than any normal, boring and ordinary fake Christmas tree? Or do you prefer the practice of trees grown specifically and chopped down just to grace your living room? Christmas tree farms require certain resources for the trees to grow until they reach the best height to cut them down. For trees species that don’t originally grow in a certain region this means using dirt, water, herbicides, pesticide and fungicides, all substances that can potentially damage the environment. If the Christmas trees are not grown on specialized farms, uncontrolled forest exploitation can create serious environmental imbalances, climate changes, the development of natural disasters such as landslides or floods, or endanger animals that have forests of conifers as their natural habitat. Not sure this is really that bad as the product exists to go under flooring anyway. What do you think happens when people rip up and replace floors? Humans are dreadful polluters.
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