The Best Artificial Christmas Tree
- by The New York Times
- Nov 21, 2016
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By Tim Heffernan
Tim Heffernan is a writer who covers air and water quality and sustainable-energy technology. He prefers Flare-brand match smoke for purifier testing.
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We’ve set up enough artificial Christmas trees to know that there’s no single best artificial tree. They come in dozens of species, shapes, sizes, prices, lighting options, and levels of realism. Some are exuberant in their artificiality—who but a Scrooge wouldn’t smile at a flamingo-pink tinsel tree?
With care, decoration, and attention to detail, many of them can look beautiful. But we have to start somewhere, and among the 20-plus trees we’ve tried since 2016, National Tree Company’s 7.5-foot Feel Real Downswept Douglas Fir is the attractive, realistic, versatile, and competitively priced option we recommend first.
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Compared with both pricier and cheaper trees, National Tree Company’s 7.5-foot Feel Real Downswept Douglas Fir strikes a terrific balance of cost, realism, and ease of setup. Its nearly 2,000 lifelike polyethylene branch tips create a convincing illusion of a living tree, and its 750 pre-strung LED bulbs fill the branches with light. They can also switch from all white to multicolor to a mix of the two, giving the tree uncommon versatility. While some trees require you to hunt down the light strings’ plugs among the foliage and manually connect them, the Downswept Douglas’s trunk-mounted PowerConnect system automatically does the job for you when you stack its three sections together. At 7.5 feet high and almost 5 feet across, the tree will fill the corner of almost any living room. Finally, it’s widely available, easy to set up, and competitively priced. (For smaller homes, we recommend the 6.5-foot version.) Like all artificial trees, it takes up a chunk of storage space in the offseason, even when it’s disassembled.
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