 Hello everybody, welcome back to my channel Drew here from Lone Fox now today's video is a very exciting one Or I hope it's going to be a very exciting one So I was in the car the other day and this idea popped in my head and I went through all the steps whenever I DIY idea pops in My head I go through like every single step in my head to see if it's like doable or not And it was super doable in my head. I was like, oh my gosh This could be a really amazing DIY and it was for this large scale like faux tree for your home Because if you guys don't know if you purchased large faux trees, they are extremely expensive I'm gonna pop some up on the screen right here. They're like upwards of six hundred to a thousand dollars So I have this idea pop in my head and then I went on YouTube and realized that it has been done so many times before So I must have seen this in like my subconscious or something and then or like kept it there You know and then remembered it later. So many of my favorite creators have done tutorials like this before we have a Genesu design on Instagram. I love her Emily faith has done one Valerie Aguiar here on YouTube has also done one There's a quite a few people that I've done them I'm gonna link their tutorials below as well But I figured today I would do my own take on a DIY faux tree and you guys believe it or not This tree actually cost a fraction of the price of a real one I think we're gonna be able to create this for under fifty dollars, which is insane and one last thing before jumping in I do want to mention that I'm hosting a little giveaway over on my stores Instagram page So I just actually created an Instagram for my shop. It is shoploan fox I'll put it right here for you guys and I'm giving away ten $100 gift cards to absolutely anybody in the world Open a hundred percent worldwide and there are ten chances to win a gift card So if you guys like to go ahead and enter that just head on over to shop loan fox on Instagram All you have to do is follow the account and find this photo on the feed and just leave a comment on it And that is your entry to the giveaway, but let's go ahead and see if I can pull off a DIY faux tree So the first thing you're gonna want to decide is what tree you want to make and there's a lot of different types of trees So we have an olive tree. This is a Milan leaf tree There's also oak trees And then I feel like one of the most common types of trees is a ficus tree and lastly a fiddle leaf fig tree Of course, there's more than this but those are the main ones and then once you decide on a style We're gonna gather the supplies now here is a supply list for you to screenshot and we're gonna jump into the process. I Am outside of my apartment and I have this large tree in the front yard that looks like this It's literally all sticks It's always looked like this since moving into the space and I'm going to steal a branch from it I don't think it's going to be too sad if I take one gonna cut one of those off Just using a little hand saw and head back inside so that we can work on the next process All right guys these are my foraged branches from outside This left one here is going to act more so as my base now all of the people that I watched videos of they were able to find Really great branches to use for the entire tree. I myself couldn't so I found this one too Which has lots of sticky bits to it small little sticky options and I think I'm gonna have to do some Modifications to our base here the largest stick that I found is this tall Which is pretty tall as you guys can see it's probably two feet taller than me So right now it's about eight feet and we have a great pretty straight base as well But I do think it's just a little bit too tall for my apartment So I'm gonna cut it down maybe like six to nine inches like say and then we're gonna be adding the other branches onto it So I'm gonna cut that down before the cement Once your sticks have been found we're gonna want to actually cement our base stick into a bucket So whether this is your full-on stick that you're gonna be using or if you're gonna be adding to your kind of base Stick that you're starting out with you're going to want to create a bucket full of cement now You can actually use the bucket that the cement comes in and I'll link below the exact one that I use I always buy this same exact cement. It's pre-sifted. It's a 20 pound bucket and it's like $25 So I mixed about half of that into a separate bucket with some water And then just put my branch inside and use some tape to just hold it in place and smooth it out While it cures for about an hour and a half Well art just so you can see the process a little bit better or more I dropped it on the ground and our main stick or our main kind of branch here has been cemented into our bucket So it's looking Like that I drilled a hole into our base here and I cut our other stick. I'm going to be connecting them together Like that So yes, essentially we are doing some trial and error to create a tree shape And I'm using drill bits and hot glue to attach my different tree pieces together Don't let this process intimidate you if you cannot find a branch large enough to use as a tree base itself You could totally create your own. That's exactly what I did I literally elevated it in height and I also made it wider by adding branches on the left and right sides You're just going to want to make sure that it's full enough to where when you have all of your leaves added It kind of fills it in so try to make sure that you have a branch going in a lot of different directions So there's lots of areas to apply leaves to So I Created this base for our tree now a lot of people on YouTube or tutorials that I've seen They've just found tree shapes that look like this already which is so lucky But in Los Angeles hard to come by something like this So I was able to make it with just two sticks so guys I picked these up at Michaels and I got two different kinds The first one is just this like ficus tree greenery and each one of these stems was $1.99 And they were having a sale 50% off the florals So they were a dollar each which is such a good deal And these are exactly kind of what I'm going for and then I also ended up grabbing this two of these These were a bit more expensive. I think they were like $8.99 a piece Yeah, they were and they're just a little bit of a different style of ficus leaf I believe but I thought kind of adding this leaf in there as well would be quite nice It's now time to give this tree some life So I'm starting off by cutting my branches down to little sections of three like this I also did go ahead and use some larger sections as well But I primarily used the smaller sections of three and some hot glue I used gorilla hot glue sticks for this project and I honestly felt like this worked really nice I saw a lot of tutorials where they were actually drilling every single leaf into the tree and While that's probably really great and reinforces it. I just don't have the time for that So I use the hot glue gun and I think it works great. I love the way that it turned out It seems to be holding them all really nicely and of course this greenery is extremely lightweight and also guys keep in mind I saw a lot of people actually go to thrift stores and look for old trees And then they just pulled the greenery off those old trees to utilize on their new one Checking in with you so far. So this is the status of the tree. It is looking at pretty good So I've been adding the little clusters of leaves on and kind of like these little sections of three And the reason I added a lot of those other branches because they're super super I'm calling it sticky. That's what I keep calling it There's just lots of branches and smaller little twigs kind of sticking off Which allows you to add on a lot with these little like triple leaf sections to those areas But so far it's honestly looking really really nice I love the shape that I came up with for it and as I'm adding more I'm kind of realizing where I need to place more to kind of offset them and Overall, I hope in the end it's going to kind of even itself out But we're gonna continue on with the process. It's very very easy. It's honestly kind of fun I'm not gonna lie and I'm excited to see what it looks like in the end So in the middle section here is kind of like this big open sparse area So I'm actually gonna use an entire branch I just bent it up in a ton of different ways and literally gonna glue this here to fill in that whole gap Keep that in mind, too You don't have to cut everything up if you need larger sections You can totally use the stem itself and always remember you can always add or subtract from your tree So if you feel like you need more branches here or there just head outside Grab a couple more sticks and add them into your tree to create the fullness or desired outcome you're looking for Guys How does this tree look like this? I cannot believe this looks like this I actually just tried bringing it downstairs to give a little spritz of spray paint and it was not working Okay, I don't know why I do this to myself you guys, but I'm trying to bring my tree outside now to give it a little spray paint And it Oh my gosh pieces are flying off if you guys remember when I added the kind of brownish tone spray paint I added the tiniest bit onto this leaf here I thought it would be nice to just kind of make the depth of the tree a little bit more darker But I'm just gonna leave it natural like this I think it looks really great and the shape of it actually is super super fun I love how it just has this organic kind of free flowing shape Which is also something that's great about making your own tree is you could totally create the shape You want to fit your space So I'm going to go ahead and actually transfer this over to where my olive tree currently is because I want this one to take its place I'm going to head to joanne's and actually get some moss and put it in the pot so we can see what the finished tree looks like Once you add your moss you have your finished tree I just got finished going through the edit for the tree video and I wanted to add one more project to the video It just didn't feel full enough to me and I had another concept in my head that I saw from a tv show Actually, let me give you a little bit of a backstory on this So if you've ever seen those incredible designed homes that have the really big kind of organic very branchy Like vases filled with just stems going everywhere. I always think it looks so unique It adds this kind of just an organic look to the space. I love it It also was really great to fill in large areas. So if you need like a really large scalable piece It's really easy to do that with large branches However, I always wondered where these designers got these branches Like where are they buying these perfectly humongous like different sections and adding them in this pot Where are they getting them? That was the real question So when I came across homework on the magnolia network, there was a diy that kandis from the show actually did in the Series and it was incredible. She shared with you how to create these kind of styling branches from just branches outside So I went ahead and went outside and got some of these branches off of a tree in the backyard For additional supplies, all you're going to need is a hot glue gun with some hot glue sticks And then an additional stem. So this one here, I believe Creighton barrel sent me this a long time ago But I only got sent one of these stems and so I always never really used it for anything because it wasn't full enough You know, so I'm going to actually turn it into multiple stems and utilize the leaves off of this one and add it to our sticks So we're going to start working on making them So what I'm going to do is actually just cut off some of the leaves and you can go ahead and opt to leave some Of the stem if you'd like to or you can just cut it off all in all And I'm going to leave some of the stems for some of them and then cut some of them pretty close to the leaf as well We have a bunch of our leaves cut and now I'm going to probably use some of the smaller ones towards the top And where the twig kind of has like a bend in it where it kind of bends from just its natural growth I'm going to go ahead and pop a little leaf stem Right in that bend section. So it kind of looks like it's growing right out of it Our first little leaf is added on it's looking really cute And then I'm going to work my way down and probably add maybe another one on Let's just say right about there Also, one of my biggest tips when using hot glue and you want it to dry quicker is you're going to take the hot glue And add a little dollop like right on the end of your leaf and this works for any project So I'm going to add the tiniest bit right on the end there Find where I want to put it and I'm going to place it in that spot and just kind of move it in and out It's going to cool down your glue. It exposes it to more air And it just cools it down so much quicker You could probably like honestly reduce it by five times the amount that you would have to hold it normally See it's pretty much almost dry The thing that I love about this project in the tree as well is that we do use real stems to create both So it really does look super real because they are real stems But then the leaves added are fake But you can barely tell because it's just such a natural looking piece which is really nice because it gives you that realistic look So all of our branches are created and let's go put them in a pot so I can share with you guys what they look like You guys love today's video and if you did make sure to give this video a big thumbs up and also subscribe to my channel If you guys are not already there is actually 60% of viewers in this channel that are not subscribed So if you were not subscribed click that subscribe button and also make sure to tap the bell icon next to it That way you are notified when I upload brand new videos And that is all for today you guys don't forget to also enter the giveaway over on the shop loan fox Instagram account and you can also follow me on instagram and tick tock both at loan fox home I will catch you guys on my next one. 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