Best Choice Products Douglas Fir Christmas Tree, 6ft Unlit Artificial Full Fir Holiday Decoration, Realistic Appearance w/Metal Stand

I got this tree on sale after Christmas last year because it was a great price, marked down considerably. I wanted a bigger tree, one that had some quality and, if possible, a touch of reality to it. Got both! I've read reviews of people buying artifical trees, putting them together, then complaining how skimpy they look. First spoiler: they don't come out of the box looking like they do in the picture! If you buy one, commit to the idea that it's going to look okay, or alright, or even great, depending on how patient you are and how much time you want to take for the intitial setup. There are NO instructions in the box, just a picture that's very deceiving, and a hilarious claim that it's a "fifteen minute setup" for one person. No, for one person, especially if you want "great", we're talking minimum of at LEAST three hours, probably more; I was at it off and on for two days. Once you start understanding the way the branches are all bound together, each section on its own hinged swing-down rod, it gets easier. There are multi tiers of branch sections, which looked daunting. But I got a giant rubber band--like 14" unstretched, I found a pack on Amazon. Starting with the bottom section, and the biggest, I folded all of the tiers, except the very bottom, all back up and the rubber band held them up and out of the way. Then, branch by branch, around the whole bottom circle, I just started separating each one and was amazed at how many branches there were once they were opened out. They're very strudy, yet bendable, so you can use your imagination to create the natural look of an irregular realy tree--which is the route I took--or you can keep them all at the same density, for that "perfect" looking tree. I like the natural way, just because you can open up more spaces for hanging ornaments, and twist a branch a bit this way or that way to keep the real look going. The bottom section is the most important because here's where you determine how wide, or full, you want the tree. It can be quite wide, which is good if that's what you want and you have the space;; I don't have the space, so I just began bending the main branches in an upward direction at the ends. Once you get the idea, it goes pretty well, just takes time, as I mentioned. Then one by one, I released each section from the rubber band to work on that part of the "circle". KInd of like when you get a haircut and they "layer" it, section by section; if you never paid attention to your haircuts, let that be a lesson to you! Once the entire bottom section is spread out and fixed the way you like, just put the middle section on top of that. It slides easily into bottom support hole. Band up the branches except for the lowest section, and do the same thing, adjusting and bending as you like. The top section is the smallest, but probably the hardest of all, because there are no hinges on these branches, so you just have to wing it, bending them upward, or downward, whichever you like best. It's a great looking tree once its all set up. Then you can do a last minute fix-up for any gaps you don't like, or maybe gaps you want to add if you have a lot of big ornaments. The color is a deep green, and the underside of each branch is a bit lighter, for a natural look. It looks amazingly like the real thing, and when I sent a pic to a friend, she said "Why did you get a real one this year? They're so expensive"! It actually made me nostalgic for the sap in the hair, all over the hands with ornaments sticking to you. Or super-sapped to the steering wheel on the way home from cutting down a real tree when I lived in Connecticut. City life has its drawbacks because now you have to get rid of your own dead tree after the holidays, as they don't do those special Christmas tree pickups anymore. Highly recommended. The two biggest plusses: the flexibility to make it "your own", the way you shape it, and the color is very nice. Oh, and the branches have brownish looking areas like on reall trees. I put it on a six inch stand, and it looks really good! And really real!

I bought this on a Black Friday deal to go in our front living room. I bought it unlit because I wanted to decorate with ribbons and such.First of all, there are quite a few negative reviews due to people not taking the time to fluff this tree. There are three individual branches on the ends of each branch that need to be spread too. It took me about 2.5-3 hours to fluff and I still fluff as I’m decorating. It usually takes me around 4-5 hours to decorate a tree if I go non stop.This is worth the money though. Very nice, very full tree with over 2500 tips. I research before I buy about everything because I don’t want to buy again later due to buying junk. This tree is excellent.I will most likely buy another one next year in a 9 ft pencil style for our dining room.We have a 1937 house on main st, so I try to decorate all rooms in the house.Height was also great! I use the large tree collar on mine as well. The distance from the bottom of the tree is a bit much, I would lower it a bit though if I could. I Amy cut some off of the bottom that goes into the stand next year, we will see.

This tree is legit. If you see any spots that look “bare” in the picture, that’s just because it needs rearranged or fluffed to not show light through the tree. This has so many longer branches that fill any area you need. It’s easy to fluff, good height and super simple to assemble. When I assembled the tree, there were no green leaves that fell off as it is very robust. It’s a wide, thick and tall that looks very full! You won’t regret it. Side note, that’s a 55” tv to the right for comparisons sake.This is not a paid advertisement, lol. Good luck folks

Fairly full and natural look. A couple of the smaller branch pieces fell off during handling but overall good construction.The directions for fanning out the branches did not match the branch design but the concept is simple enough and the results look good. I will be happy with this tree for Christmas decor this year.

UPDATE: I am still not changing my rating but it's very hard to put a tree topper on this thing if you don't have the right things to rig it. I did!!! I used heavy gauge floral wire and tada!!!! tied the star the flimsy top branch. It's not perfect, I have to adjust it every few days but who cares, even natural trees are not perfect and they cannot be reused!75% of buyers were not wrong. This is a great tree even if you decided not to take into consideration the reasonable price. I went to look at similar trees in big box stores and they cost a lot more for less branch tips.Tree assembly time? 1 person, female, 5'3" - 30 seconds.Fluffing time? Get a chair, it's an hour if you're doing it by yourself.Even as I "fluffed the top part of the tree and it will filling out well, I was still skeptical about the bottom part, how is a $75 tree with these spindly attached pieces of wire going to look like a real tree in an hour? Well it did. Plain and simple, it's deceptive when you open the box and never had an artificial tree before.The instructions are clear and simple, there was no extra-packaging, just the box and the tree. Grab the base, put the tree together in order A, B, C and there you go. Christmas tree.Fluffing caution: Put on a pair of gardening gloves. After the first 3rd of the tree, my skin started getting a little irritated from rubbing against so many needles. Once I got to the bottom, I got a little bench, and rotated the tree on its base to finish the "fluffing process". I love saying "FLUFFING".I wanted one of those realistic, prelit trees but the price for those fantastic-looking conifers with gorgeous PVC needles was prohibitive at best. So I opted for this one and it does not disappoint. Stand 3 feet away and you could swear it real. With the base on, it's about 75" tall.I am about to decorate, I will post pictures.