How to Update and Repurpose an Old Christmas Wreath

Do you ever go into autopilot with your Christmas decorations and put out the same decorations in the same place year after year? Well, that was the case with my front door wreath.

I had the same Christmas wreath on my front door for years, and while it served a purpose, it was looking more than a little tired, and I was definitely in the mood for a change.

But here's the new and updated wreath this year!

When Ryan and I first got married (WAYYYY back in the 1990s), I decorated in nearly all silver and gold for Christmas, and I kept that look for quite a few years after that. Here's what the wreath originally looked like.

Even IT was sad. Just look at the ornament at the bottom trying to jump ship! (Get me outta here!) Can you even believe it was the same wreath?!?

When we moved into the house we live in now, it came complete with a hunter green front door, so a gold Christmas wreath actually matched pretty well and I kept it (probably longer than I should have).

Well, I could not take the hunter green front door anymore, so I had that painted to purple (which you see here), so last year was the wreath's last hurrah.

Here's the whole Harris Family paying our respects to the wreath last Christmas (2017). Goodbye gold wreath! It's been real!

This year, I was determined to get a new Christmas wreath. I didn't really want to make a new Christmas wreath just because there is so much else to do this time of year. But I also could not find one that I liked that I could just purchase.

So, I decided that I would update my Christmas wreath and give it a whole new look! My gold wreath was getting a makeover!

How to Update and Repurpose an Old Christmas Wreath

Merry Christmas Evergreen Ornament Wreath Supplies

• Hot glue gun and hot glue
• Plastic ornaments in your choice of colors
• Merry Christmas glittered sign
• Holly picks (I used 7)
• Chenille stems or wire
• Wired ribbon to create a bow (if desired - I left a bow off of mine)
• Additional faux greenery, picks, etc. (if desired - see notes below)

Directions

1. Fluff up your wreath and reposition any branches.
2. Next, remove the bow and any other items on your wreath that you do not want to keep. (I removed about half of the gold ornaments.)
3. Hot glue ornaments in a random pattern to the front and sides of the wreath. Make sure to place ornaments of different colors, sizes, and textures next to each other to create interest. I used ornaments with glitter, shiny, and matte finishes in small, medium, and large sizes. And I also included a few ornaments with textured finishes for interest. Continue adding ornaments until you are happy with how your wreath looks.
4. Use the chenille stems to wire the glittered Merry Christmas sign to the front of the wreath.
5. Hot glue holly picks randomly around the wreath. (Note: I made sure that two of the holly picks covered where I wired the sign because my chenille stems were pink.)

Notes:

When I originally made this wreath, I took an artificial wreath base and then hot glued in a variety of plastic greenery to create a heavy and large wreath base. Of course, this gives me added incentive to continue to revamp this Christmas wreath instead of getting a new one.

If you're starting with just a standard artificial pine wreath and you want to add some oomph to the wreath itself, you can take floral picks, parts of another wreath, or even parts of a garland and glue them securely into the wreath. This will add volume to the base to give you a designer look.

The glittered Merry Christmas sign is a heavy tag board covered in glitter. If you want to weatherproof it, you might consider covering it in a protective finish. My wreath is under a covered porch, so it should be safe for just the month of December.

There you go! If you've got about 30 minutes, you can create a whole new look for your Christmas wreath this year! Hope I've given you enough ideas to inspire you to revamp your own front door wreath.

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