Modern Holiday Home: Advent Candlesticks

Hey hey! It’s Friday! The best 24-hour interval of the week. Work is ending. The weekend is coming. And our Modern Holiday Home serial is dorsum amongst about other slap-up calendar week of DIYs! I’ve never had my ain advent candlesticks, but I beloved the tradition of having advent candles burning inwards the weeks earlier Christmas. Just thinking of it makes me desire to dim all of the lights together with plough the fireplace on. But I’ve never had my ain advent candles, together with hence I decided to brand about this year.

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I bring no uncertainty that the other talented bloggers that are business office of this Modern Holiday Home are going to portion about slap-up forest projects this week. My projection consists primarily of wood, copper pipe, together with forest stain. So easy!

Here’s everything y'all quest to brand your ain advent candlesticks:

• Scrap wood


• 3/4″ copper pipe


• Ebony forest stain


• Sander


• 7/8″ spade bit


• Drill press (or drill)


• Ratcheting tool

How to Make Advent Candlesticks:

Start yesteryear cutting your wooden blocks together with hence that they are 2.5″ yesteryear 2.5″ foursquare at the top, together with 3″ tall. You volition quest 4 of these.

Sand downward your blocks together with hence that they are shine on all sides.

Draw a pencil trace of piece of employment from corner to corner to discovery your oculus point.

Using a drill press together with a 7/8″ spade bit, drill a hole into the oculus of your wooden blocks. The hole should live on approx. 1″ deep. You tin lavatory ready your drill to the right depth earlier y'all start.

Once y'all bring the hole cut, stain your wooden blocks. I used the Ebony Gel stain which is my absolute favourite. I was going to role the regular stain inwards Ebony (not gel), which is also beautiful, but only doesn’t plough over y'all that rich, deep colour, unless y'all practice several coats.

Next, mensurate your copper pipe. I made a grade amongst permanent marking two 1/4″ from the end.

Using the ratcheting tool, twist together with cutting the pipage until it breaks. The 3/4″ pipage should jibe snuggly into the 7/8″ hole inwards your wooden block. No quest for glue!

Now y'all bring your ain ready of advent candlesticks! I honestly cannot await to lite these amongst my children this year. I hope to portion about photos on Instagram of them lit up!

The best business office of this projection powerfulness only live on that nosotros tin lavatory role these candlesticks all twelvemonth circular for any nosotros like! They don’t truly bring to live on Christmas specific. Win-Win!

Now it’s fourth dimension to depository fiscal establishment check out the other slap-up wooden DIY projects!

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