15 Crafty Wood Slice Projects You’ll Want For Your Home
Having a low budget? Fear not! Because today, we will be going for some great ideas that utilizes resources from nature – wood slices! Whether you’re going for fishing of hiking in the mountains, it’s always a great idea to bring back some wooden branches that has a good shape to it. It’ll be like a side quest to retrieve items that will be of good use later! You can use them for interesting tree branch DIY projects to make shelves, chair, table, and more. There are also nice little ideas that you can make to bring more nature into your home. Most of them require little efforts. Just a weekend is all you need to get things done. While it may be simple, the effects that it will bring to your interior is massive. Having that said, let’s explore what wooden slices can do to colorize our life a bit more!
1. Rustic Wood Slice Garland
Got some wood lying around or some slices? You can easily make this “thankful” rustic wood slice garland for Fall in just a few steps! Construct simple messages to convey a positive vibe all around the house. It’s rustic texture makes this decorative garland pop and suits most home both modern and rustic ones. It’s also good to change the color of the ribbons according to the style and color of your home so as to harmonize the decor.
2. Botanical Wooden Slice
Fill in your dining table with spirits of spring and summer with these lovely wooden slice coasters! It’s particularly an interesting gift for people who enjoy flowers and smell of nature. The creator prints out a pattern on to the wax paper. Then, she rubs it onto the surface of the wooden slice with a card. Sand paper is later used to scratch off excess of the coating. You can also spray it with some shellac to protect the surface.
3. Wood Slice Mirror Frame
Get your home touched with a hint of nature by decorating your mirror frames with tiny wooden slices. It’ll be like solving a puzzle. Larger slices would need to be glued to it first before filling in the gaps with smaller ones. It’s a time consuming project but this isn’t even it’s final form. You can actually customize the wooden slices to be more artistic and pleasant if you transfer some of your photos onto them. Here’s a tutorial that will guide you on how to transfer photo onto wooden slice.
4. Wood Slice Planter Decor
Planter pots is a typical item that we would usually never thought of decorating. However, if you do, it will level up the appearance entirely! There’s a lot of ideas on how you can decorate planter pots. Here’s one that uses wooden slices! Hundreds of wooden slices are carefully arranged onto the planter surface. You can also go for more customization options such as sticking faux leaves onto the cracks of the slices, color the wooden slices on specific patterns, and more.
5. Spherical Wooden Slice Light Ball
Sleep well with this unique ball of light made of wooden slices! You can integrate a functional light circuit to it or just make it into a lamp shade. The lamp shade idea could possibly be the simplest one to execute considering that you just need to glue some wooden slices around a ball or balloon. Be sure to make an opening on the bottom so you can use it to cover tea light candle. It makes a fun lamp shade to be put around the house or outside as well!
6. Hoop Wood Slice Art
You can make art out of anything! Even wooden slices! This beautiful tree is painted using wooden slices. The hoop around it serve as a frame to hold the piece of art together. Jute cords can be used as the trunk of the tree because of it’s flexibility and amazing texture. Go wild with your imagination and create more wooden slice arts! They’re good for selling on Etsy or just something nice you can make as housewarming gift.
7. Wooden Slice Photo Frame
Photos capture the wildest memories that you may be experiencing with the people you know. Therefore, they make fascinating gifts too that will bring a smile to your loved ones. Getting a printout of the photo and stuffing them into the frame as a gift is way to basic. Why not try and customize it a little to make it special. Wooden frames is one idea you can use for the photo frame decoration!
8. Wooden Slice Wreath
This natural organic wood slices make the perfect Christmas wreath for those who love rustic accents. Made with several large wooden slices as the base, smaller wood slices are also placed on top of the and between the gaps to create a magnificent woody landscape. It’s best to arrange the pieces on the floor to get a look and feel of the wreath before gluing everything together. You can also glue the base pieces onto a thin board for structural integrity. Stenciling the wooden slices may be a bright idea too! Fill in the texts that you desire or ones that suit the season!
9. Wood Slice Photo Board
Sometimes we desire a unique hanging board for our things like photos, sticky notes and whatnot. Here’s a great idea using wood of different color and textures. It works like a typical board with a very strong and unique texture. It might not be recommended to use pins to hold your things in place. Instead, you might have to opt for sticky tapes.
10. Wooden Slice Wall Art
Once again, art made its way into our lives in means that we could possibly never imagined. It’s art on a wall with wooden slices! Each frame is basically a painting of wooden slices, branches and barks. They’re stuffed into a rectangular frame nicely in a compact manner. It’s just so satisfying to watch!
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11. Wood Slice Stacking Shelves
You may have seen some shelves are made with half a slice of a wood that is setup on a wall. Those are good and serve their unique purpose well. However, when you have several of these and lined up on top of each other, it looks a little different but in a nice way. This vertical display of wooden slice shelves look incredibly unique. You can probably put some of these at the corner of the house for decor. They don’t occupy much space and you can fill it up with exotic ornaments as you desired!
12. Wood Slice Tealight Candle Tower
Make your own tower of light with this fantastic tealight candle tower! The wooden slices are stacked up in a spirally way. Each levels has an indentation where you can put a tiny tealight candle in it. Battery-operated tealight candle is the best for this so you can place several of these outdoors!
13. Floating Wood Slice Shelves
Looking for a little a little height? Fill that negative space with these floating and hanging wood slices! You can have several of these on the wall to be used as a normal shelves. I love how the faux greens just turned these shelves to be extra charming!
14. Wooden Slice Table with Hair Pin Legs
Everybody could use an extra mini table in their home. You can use it as a night stand, side table or simple coffee table. With the right leggings, you can even use it as a chair!
15. Wood Slice Tiered Table
Like a stage to an artist performing, these wooden slice platforms make the best staging area for you food, photos and anything that you can think of!
