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DIY huge wood bead garland

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This post is for those people of you who have been asking about my big wood bead garland from last year. It’s one of the number one items in my home that people ask about and I have been wondering about a way on how you can make your own since Pottery Barn stopped selling it. It was originally pretty pricey at their stores too and then finally dropped to clearance which is when I purchased it.

Wood beads aren’t really all that cheap on Etsy and Amazon and they sure aren’t widely available either. So the other day when I was looking at my chaise in our bedroom and saw the feet I had a light bulb moment. And I went to google around.

So here is what I came up with and you can make it as big and have as many varieties of wood pieces as you want.

DIY huge wood bead garland

DIY huge wood bead garland

large wood bead garland components

Supplies needed for large wood bead garland

  • different furniture legs HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE or the ones in mine look like a modern peg leg.
  • wood stars HERE
  • strong twine HERE
  • power drill HERE
  • long thick drill bit HERE or HERE
  • large wood beads HERE, HERE and HERE or any other ones you can find

Or you can take wooden body massagers apart and use the affordable various sized wood beads from that to make your own garland. This massager HERE only costs around $8 and has about 31 large beads on it. You can’t find that price for wood beads at any craft store 😉


Instructions:

The instructions are super short because it’s really a straight forward and easy project, where you don’t need to do a lot of steps.

If you are buying legs or beads from Etsy then you can just ask the shop owner to maybe drill the holes for you all the way through the legs or beads. If you are buying from a home improvement store then you need to remove the screw and drill the holes yourself with the long drill bit.

Thread the legs and beads onto the twine and hang the stars randomly and voila. You have a DIY huge wood bead garland.

 

DIY wood bead garland

DIY huge wood bead garland made with unfinished furniture feet

 

DIY wood bead garland made with large wooden beads and furniture feet

 

wood bead garland with wooden stars

 

Here is a sneak peek of where the garland ended up this year. And I love it there!

DIY large wood bead garland styled for Christmas

lamp HERE | similar candle sticks HERE | black candles HERE | art HERE

Or you can use the unfinished wooden furniture legs and beads to make you own wood bead pendant like I have in our kitchen (click HERE for post):

DIY large wooden bead pendant light

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And if you aren’t the DIYing kind and rather just buy the finished product then you can find smaller similar versions:

 

If the widget doesn’t work then you can find them HERE, HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.

 

As for me I love a huge chunky version. Mine is super heavy though but I was able to hang it with strong command hooks (HERE).

Tschüß,

 

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  1. cassie bustamante says

    November 29, 2017 at 5:42 am

    this looks awesome! love the stars on it, too! i made a small one for my mantle, but love this chunky one more!

  2. Margaret says

    November 30, 2017 at 10:53 am

    Great Idea.
    Thanks for the inspiration.

  3. Kathy says

    November 30, 2017 at 4:27 pm

    LOVE the chunky garland (and light pendant!)! Thanks for sharing your resources and what a creative idea.

  4. [email protected] says

    December 7, 2017 at 6:47 am

    I really really love this!! Way to think outside the box!

  5. Kim says

    December 22, 2017 at 3:50 pm

    I love this! Too late for this year, but I think these beaded garlands could work all year!

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