5 Amazing DIY Kirkland Dupes Made Using Items From Dollar Tree

1. Glass candle holders

For our first project I'm making two glass hurricane candle holders with woven bases. Kirkland’s are $17 for the ten-inch size and $15 for the eight-inch. For our Dollar Tree version, I used their nine-inch vase and their seven-inch vase. 

I took a Dollar Tree hula skirt and braided the strands. To make them look like the inspiration pieces, I used some watered down antique colored paint and brushed that over my braids. 

I hot glued those strands around the bottom of my vases, making sure to end at the same place I started so my work wouldn't show. I used a couple of empty ribbon spools to lift my Dollar Tree battery-operated candles. 

Kirkland's price for the pair of these candle holders is $32. Ours only cost $5, which is a savings of $27. 

2. Hydrangea door swag

For our next dupe, I recreated this hydrangea door swag. I used Dollar Tree Styrofoam balls, burlap ribbon, a shower curtain ring, and artificial hydrangea petals. One of the Styrofoam balls was green, so I painted it white just in case any of it peeked through. 

To attach the burlap ribbon, I folded the end and stuck some straight pins into the ball to hold it down. I cut flowers from the hydrangea stems, used some hot glue, and started gluing them on in little clusters until the Styrofoam balls were completely covered.

For the small Styrofoam ball, I folded the ribbon in half lengthwise before pinning it in. You would need a total of approximately four full stems of hydrangeas to complete this project. 

I attached my ribbons together at the top with some twine and took a shower curtain ring and used some of that excess ribbon to wrap around it. I used another piece of twine to keep it all in place. 

For the top, I used a sweet little bow I made from the burlap ribbon. I wrapped that around under that shower ring with some twine, and that was it. The Kirkland inspiration was $18, and ours was only $7, which saved a total of $11.

3. Welcome sign

This next Kirkland's dupe has a whopping price tag of $60. I cut down a few of those wooden signs they have regularly at Dollar Tree and combined them to get a nice long frame.

I sanded my boards down and made my frame by gluing and stapling them together. Then I painted it using some antique color paint.

To make it a bit softer, I used some white chalk paint and dry brushed it on there. 

I printed out the letters and then I traced them out on the back of a Dollar Tree rug. I used a Sharpie and went slowly along the edges of my letters. Then I lifted the paper and followed the lines to cut them out with scissors. I painted the letters with white chalk paint. 

I took my black ribbon like the inspiration piece and hot glued strips of it vertically to the back of my frame. Once it was glued down, I cut off the excess ribbon hanging over the edge.

I weaved the horizontal pieces through the vertical ones and glued them, pulling them nice and tight. Finally, I took my welcome sign and glued that to the ribbon. 

I hung it temporarily on some command hooks, but you can just add a sawtooth hanger to hang it on the wall. I really love how it turned out. The cost of the original was $60. Our dupe cost us $4. That’s a savings of $56. 

4. Wooden apple

Our next project is a wooden apple that costs $13, but we're only spending a dollar using a ceramic apple from the Dollar Tree. I painted it with white chalk paint as a base. I used a scrap leaf and cut it down and then painted that as well.

I used some brown paint to get it to look more like wood. 

Then I used some metallic gold acrylic paint on the leaves to give it that antique brass look like the inspiration piece. I used a little bit of watered-down black and rubbed that on top. Then I hot glued that to the stem. 

Instead of paying $13, we saved $12 by making it ourselves. 

5. Monogram plaque

For our final dupe, I copied a monogram plaque using a Dollar Tree pizza pan and some black faux leather ribbon. 

I painted the pan with white chalk paint. I used a dinner plate to trace the outer circle using my black paint pen. 

I made a B for the family name using chalk so if I messed up I could rub it off and redo it. I traced it with my paint pen and filled it in with chalk paint. 

Using a sponge brush, I painted the outer edge in black. Then I used a paper plate to make a partial circle for our vines. I added dots and leaves in random places, going all the way around in the same direction. I attached my ribbon as the hanger, and it was done. 

Kirkland's price is $17, and we made ours for just over a dollar. That's a savings of $15. 

DIY Kirkland dupes from Dollar Tree items

I hope you guys enjoyed these projects. I love looking at high-end items for inspiration to make my own affordable home décor. It’s so gratifying to see how much you can create on your own.

Leave me a comment as well and let me know if you tried any of these projects, or if you have any of your own dupes you’d like to tell me about.