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Artificial Christmas Trees: How to Choose Size, Lights and Shape
How to choose an artificial Christmas tree: the height for your ceiling, the shape for your floor, pre-lit or unlit, realistic tips, flocked or colored.
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How to choose an artificial Christmas tree: pre-lit or unlit, flocked or green, the right height and width for your room, and the topper and skirt to finish it.
Artificial Christmas trees by type
Pre-lit, flocked, realistic, colored, fiber optic and pop-up trees: what each type is and how to choose.
02Artificial treesBuying guide
Fiber Optic and Pop-Up Christmas Trees Explained
How a fiber optic Christmas tree lights up from its base and changes color, and how a pop-up tree folds into its box with the decorations still on.
Photo: Sean O'Flaherty (Seano1) / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.5
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Flocked Christmas Trees: What Flocking Is, Shedding and Care
What a flocked Christmas tree is, how it differs from a frosted tree, why flocking sheds at setup and how to handle, decorate and store one.
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Most Realistic Artificial Christmas Trees: PE vs PVC and Tip Counts
What makes an artificial Christmas tree look real: molded PE tips against flat PVC, how many tips a 7.5 ft tree needs, and how to shape the branches.
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Pre-Lit Christmas Trees: How Many Lights and Which Kind
Pre-lit Christmas trees explained: how many lights a tree needs per foot of height, clear or multicolor, bulb shapes, and how to check the lights safely.
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White and Colored Christmas Trees: Lights, Ornaments, History
How to pick a white or colored artificial Christmas tree, which lights and ornaments suit a white tree, and where colored trees began.
Photo: Jernej Furman / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0Christmas tree sizes and shapes
What height and width of tree fits your ceiling and floor, from tabletop trees to 12-foot trees, slim and pencil shapes included.
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What Size Christmas Tree Do You Need? Ceiling Height and Width
What size Christmas tree fits your room: tree height by ceiling height, how wide full, slim and pencil trees are, and how much room to leave for a topper.
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Slim, Pencil and Flatback Christmas Trees for Small Rooms
How narrow slim and pencil Christmas trees are, how a flatback tree saves space against a wall, which rooms each suits and how to decorate one.
03Sizes and shapesBuying guide
Small and Tabletop Christmas Trees: 2 to 4 Foot Trees for Desks
How to choose a small or tabletop Christmas tree: sizes for a table, desk or dorm, plug-in or battery lights, ornaments to scale and a skirt to match.
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Tall Christmas Trees: 9, 10 and 12 Foot Trees for High Ceilings
Which tall artificial Christmas tree fits a 10 or 12 foot ceiling, what real 10 and 12 foot trees measure, how many lights they need and how to set one up.
Christmas tree toppers and skirts
The star, angel or bow on top and the skirt underneath: sizes by tree height and how to secure a topper.
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Christmas Tree Toppers: Stars, Bows and Angels, and How to Secure Them
How to choose a Christmas tree topper by tree height and ceiling, the main styles, and how to secure a star, angel or bow so it stays straight.
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Christmas Tree Skirts: What Size by Tree Height, and Which Style
What size Christmas tree skirt you need for a 4, 6, 7.5 or 9 foot tree, how to measure the tree and stand, and how to choose a skirt style.