DIY Anthro Holiday Wreath | Home Decor Inspo | Anthropologie Dupe, Farmhouse, High End for Less

welcome to my diy

farmhouse

wreath

tutorial based on a

wreath

i saw on instagram that was a copy of an

anthro

pology christmas wreath. The copy that was made with the

anthro

pology crown was so beautiful and fashionable that I actually thought it was the anthropology crown and I was a little taken aback when I saw that it was not the real anthropology crown that sells for about 200 EE .USA and as beautiful as it is, I really wanted to make my own version of the wreath, which is more of a

farmhouse

style wreath, so let's get started. In what I actually got to do my anthropology hoax DIY, I found the royal crown, which was naked for just eight dollars and fifty cents Canadian at Michael's.

I also ordered bottle brush trees in the exact color she used on Amazon for twenty. dollars I got 48 pieces in a variety of sizes and needed some artificial snow which I found for five dollars at Walmart for a can, one can was enough for this project and then I filled in pieces like pinecones and other miscellaneous ones at the dollar store 4.25 Canadian . I really got lucky with all my supplies for this reef, unfortunately we don't have Target in Canada so I couldn't access the little wooden houses that were used in the hoax anthropology crown and after doing a lot of searching online everything was going well .

It would take too long or be too expensive and I would still have to modify the shape somehow, so I decided to make my own. I should mention that I found a couple of alternatives in my city at local stores, however, they were simply not there. It depends on tobacco and I didn't want to settle for the look of these little wooden houses, so I immediately grabbed a box we had lying around that they gave us the sunglasses in, as well as a Coors Light case, because that's what I had at hand. hand. The supplies I grabbed were an X-Acto knife.

Turns out I had a cutting mat from years ago when I was in school for interior

decor

ating, so I took any surface that you don't mind getting torn and that will serve as cardboard, pencil, ruler, eraser. duct tape and my hot glue gun and hot glue sticks so I just pencil sketched out where I wanted the windows and doors based on the houses in the wreath that I was inspired by that were from Target and then I cut them out. With an X-Acto Knife I wasn't too exact with this, it was difficult but I obviously kept things somewhat aligned.

I didn't have to worry about being too perfect because I was going to paint around all the windows later on the doors, but I obviously used a ruler to try to be as neat as possible, so the only thing I really took my time on was the the dimensions of the houses and making sure they looked appropriate, balanced and to scale for the crown and what I wanted. To achieve this based on the inspiration photo, I also made two styles of roofs, one style involved four separate pieces and was used for the two rectangular houses I made with this sunglasses box.

The other style of roof was much easier and was two rectangular pieces that came to a peak. I also took very thin strips of cardboard and glued them to the inside of the windows inside those little houses to make them look like real mullions or styles. This is what was in the houses in the crown of inspiration. and I loved it, it added so much dimension to those little houses, made them look a little more realistic and gave them some characters, so I had to make part of this process, you're inside, the inside of your houses look like a It's a mess. , but no one will ever know once they are in your crown, so take comfort in that, once I started creating the house with the Coors Light box, I realized that when I looked through the windows of the houses I could see that pattern on the inside, so as a quick fix I just took a piece of cardboard and glued the craft brown side to the inside of the house so that once they were placed on the branches of my wreath you could only see that handmade brown color.

On the inside it actually doubled as additional stability, so it didn't bother me too much. Along the way I tested what the scale of my houses looked like on my royal wreath, so I originally made five and then ended up adding a sixth. As for the wreath, I found that I really needed it for balance, regard

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of adding trees after the fact, but as you can see, I have two of each style here, although each has slight variations, which I liked a lot. any white craft paint would do and once they were dry, which didn't take long, I placed them in their respective little houses so I could make sure they fit, obviously while I was making them I had to do this too, but this was just a Final shot of me testing the roofs of the houses, they look a little crooked but that's okay because we're going to finish gluing them together and at that point they'll stay in place, but so far they looked pretty good.

I was very happy with this, so the next step was to add paint and hot glue

decor

ations to the houses. I already painted my ceilings white like I mentioned, so I used the same white paint and went in and roughly outlined everything. the windows and doors and I also painted the window mullions the same white on two of the houses that had pointed roofs. I actually added little scallop details, just by hand, because that's what was in the original inspiration wreath photos and I really liked it. the look of it just mixed it up a bit and for the roofs I really focused on the peaks and any of the edges and corners where the snow would naturally accumulate after adding the hot glue you can go in and glue and I say goop I mean glue about the white paint you used for the other ornaments on top of the hot glue once it was dry, this made it so that if you were missing artificial snow when it fell on the houses or roofs, you would have a white. shelter under fake snow, so this was the fun part, um messy but fun.

I took all of my roof pieces that were now painted and had dried hot glue on them and placed them just in a cardboard box outside of these roofs. I wanted them to be completely completely. covered in artificial snow so I didn't have to be careful with these and try to avoid any areas. I just tried it, so I sprayed that fake snow at every angle I could. Next was spraying the houses and this was a little more tedious. Since I didn't want them to be completely covered, I kept them as far away from me as possible and then took the false note and sprayed from the bottom of the houses up from the bottom back corners up. the sides and then very, very, very slightly messy from top to bottom, just a shot of that at the end.

I really didn't want them to be completely covered in snow. I wanted you to see the details. I wanted you to see the ship. They look brown, but I wanted them to have a coat of powder since the roofs were going to be completely covered, the house would inevitably have snow on them too, so that's the look I wanted after spraying them. I let them sit for quite a while. While and when I brought them in, I took a little dry brush and went in and just perfected the look of the front of the houses. I removed some of the excess snow that I may have sprayed too much. heavy and I just made it look exactly how I wanted it and I love the way they turned out.

They look like gingerbread houses just covered in snow. This is the final look of my snow covered houses without their roofs. I think they looked like this. nice and I was really excited at this point to build everything so the next step was putting on my roofs which was really exciting again the inside of your hoses isn't going to be pretty but no one will ever know so I give you the return I held the roofs and glued them in place from below and inside the houses. I didn't want the glue to show on the outside, so I really focused on only applying it inside the house.

I applied it to every crack and gap I could. I found it and then I checked it again just to make sure everything was sticking correctly and then obviously I let all the hot glue dry and sit until the next day just to make sure everything was secure and here is the final product of my houses with their stuck roofs and snow and they look so cute, but I was in love and I am in love with these little houses and how they turned out considering that they are all made of reused cardboard that I had lying around my house, I just think that it turned out like this small town gingerbread magic and I am so proud of them, they are not perfect, they look handmade and are the exact type of farmhouse feel I was going for.

The next thing you need to do is spray the royal crown. with fake snow, it doesn't matter if you do this before or after the house, the order doesn't make any difference, but I made mine after and I just took my simple wreath that I bought at Michael's and put it outside, completely sprinkled. with artificial snow all over the front and it is important to remember to collect it and do the back as well and the sides of the wreath and the corners between the branches in case you are going to see it from various angles. when it's hung you want it to look really cohesive then you can start putting your wreath together with all the supplies you collected the filler pieces your trees and the house you made so you also want to take the wire and you're I'll use it to hold the bottle brush trees and you will need your hot glue gun and glue sticks to assemble all the filler pieces into the wreath, as I mentioned before while arranging my layout with the houses. and I had six houses in total and this wreath is a 24 inch wreath so I needed to figure out where I wanted my houses and then use the filler pieces and trees to fill in all the spaces, so once I had my design figured out, I glued my houses to the wreath, applied hot glue to the back edges of the houses and then placed them on the branches making sure they fit well and stuck to my wreath in the places I wanted them.

From there I was able to wrap the wire around the base of my bottlebrush trees and secure them to the branches to hold them in place while I worked on the rest of the wreath. I added all my filler pieces with hot glue and then was able to hold my crown lift up vertically so I could see if anything was out of place, everything looked good if something fell forward and make adjustments and modifications from there after I assembled all my pieces On my wreath, unfortunately, much of my fake snow had fallen off. At the time, it was a disadvantage to spray the wreath first, but it was necessary so there would be snow behind all the pieces, so what I did was take my wreath outside, covered my houses with paper towels, and took my fake snow. and I gave my wreath a complete overhaul with the fake snow spray like this, with the paper towel covering the houses.

I didn't add any additional snow to that part of the wreath. I was able to keep them exactly how I wanted them, except for the ceilings. and the trees and crown branches received an extra layer of artificial snow. My final step after some compelling suggestions from family and friends was to add string lights to my wreath. I wasn't sure if I was going to do this but in the end I decided I wanted to be able to enjoy it at night too and I went in and just added a row of little string lights and made sure there was a light in each house as it went around my wreath of lights.

They weren't part of the original anthropology hoax that I fell in love with, but I really like that they added a magical quality to the wreath, especially at night, and here is the final wreath both day and night with the lights on and I'm very happy with the result. I love my DIY houses that I made from recycled material and it all feels very cozy like a farmhouse, a little whimsical, especially with the lights, and I'm very proud of it. It's the only thing I would do. The change in this crown process is artificial snow. If it were up to me, I would use a more permanent solution because I know that this artificial snow will come off when I put this wreath away and take it out again, and I am constantly adding snow to it because I like how it looks with the snow on the wreath and I really feel like it There isn't enough right now, so what I'm going to do is try a process of using some snow.

Sort of a textured white spray paint for a more permanent solution and I'll post an update on that in a separate video and let you know how it goes. I couldn't wait to share this process and this wreath with everyone and I have my blog post up. about him too, which I'll link in the description, but if this inspires you or you just love what I created, leave a comment below and if you have any questions, I hope you all have the happiest

holiday

s. and a happy new year thanks for watching