It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year to Buy a Fake Christmas Tree
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“Buy onBlack Friday” was an oft-repeated piece of advice I heard for our guide to thebest artificial Christmas trees. (Don’t overspend at a Christmas-tree farm was another.) Throughout Cyber Week, the deals tend to be even better than they were for, say,Prime Dayor a “Christmas in July” sales event. Not only forNational Tree Company dealsat Amazon but the annual sales at Balsam Hill (where interior designers, set decorators, and Christmas enthusiasts get their fakes that look straight out of aHallmark holiday movie). Have yourself a merry little Christmas, and save a few bucks while you’re at it. Sign up for theStrategist SalesAlertnewsletter, too, for all the latest deals, right to your inbox.
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Balsam Hill makes the best fakes, and its Classic Blue Spruce (which was featured in Hallmark’sOne Royal Holiday) currently starts at $199. And the tree that helped introduce Strategist contributor Ivy Pochoda to her new neighbors as “the person with the pink tree” is going for less than $100. There’s also the tinsel number from CB2 that senior editor Jen Trolio likes as a unique alternative to evergreen; originally $699, it’s marked down to $349.
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That’swayless than you’d spend at a Christmas-tree farm.
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Pochoda’s neighbors go out of their way to pass by her window to look at this “profane pink number.”
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National Tree Company Pre-Lit Downswept Douglas Fir Artificial Christmas Tree, 6.5 ft
Actually studio-apartment-friendly.
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No more picking up dropped pine needles here.
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It’s pencil-slim for a nook (or cranny).
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A shorter version of the Kingswood Fir our writer Brenley Goertzen kept by her fireplace.
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Stefania Orrù, director of production atEater, decorated this in a “disco junk food” theme (with ornaments shaped like a hot dog and pizza) one year.
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Let it “snow,” without any need to applyElmer’s liquid glue and baking flour(a tip from set decorator Samantha Twist).
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To channelA Charlie Brown Christmastelevision special.
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Founded in 1954, Puleo bills itself as “the oldest family name for Christmas trees in America.”
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There are approximately 1,023 branch tips on every Puleo Teton Pine.
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From Target’s Wondershop comes the Alberta Spruce that e-commerce consultant Brittany Nims kept between her husband’sdeskand the entertainment console in her old apartment’s living room. It’s available in 3-, 6.5-, 7.5-, and 9-feet sizes (starting at $23 on sale).
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Bring the great outdoors indoors.
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Not a bad deal for dual-color LED lights (in white and multi).
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It resembles balsam firs in Maine. “Some trees just look like plastic,” says Erin Swift, founder of holiday-decorating firm Holiday Workroom. But if you’re going for realistic fake, “the answer is simple: Balsam Hill. Always Balsam Hill,” she adds.
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Balsam Hill Vermont White Spruce
Trolio, who was sent a sampler kit of Balsam Hill’s branches, notes that the ones on the Vermont White Spruce have pointier needle tips than the Balsam Fir’s.
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Balsam Hill Sanibel Spruce Tree
“It’s one of my absolute favorites of the handful of Balsam Hill trees I’ve actually seen in person,” says Trolio. Plus it “very much matches the product photo on the site.”
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It starred in Hallmark’sOne Royal Holiday,and themovie’s set decorator calls it “majestic.”
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Balsam Hill Fraser Fir Flip Tree
Flip Trees from Balsam Hill“flip” open on a rolling stand (here’s a video of how it works) for an assembly that takes only minutes. Prop stylistAndrea Grecosays they’re a “game changer.”
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Or maybe you’re more the coppery type.
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This one makes me want sing along to “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.”
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Because of the flocking on this blue tree, it seems much fuller than it is. “Think of thickeningmascaraon eyelashes,” Trolio says.
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King of Christmas Rushmore Fir Artificial Christmas Tree 750 Warm White LED Lights, 7.5 ft
Based on the ponderosa pine, which the faces of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln see across the forests near Mount Rushmore.
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