Can you trim a Christmas tree??

[LittleLego]

We have a Christmas tree. It's beautiful and smells amazing and it's also taking over my living room. It's just so big, and wide. I don't know what I was thinking.
Can I trim the branches back a bit or will it look awful / kill it?

Trimming it means decorating it, right?!

Snip away. It’ll be fine!

I always trim ours a bit and use the offcuts to decorate the mantlepiece.

Yes - you often find they've been pruned to remove stray bits before you buy them.

I remember going with DF to get the tree one year and DB and I basically egged him on 'oh that's really small look at this one, isn't it lovely' etc, until we had this huge thing. Got it home and it took up a whole large bay stuck right out into the room and was too tall for the ceiling, DF had to saw the top off, so it didn't even have a point 😂. It didn't die any quicker than usual though

We do it every year as I love a huge tree. Just be careful not to get the trimmed branches too close to walls/soft furnishings as sometimes they can leak a little bit of sap

Remember to water it

Fine to trim it. Often there is a long out of proportion piece at the top, you can shorten that then trim branches nearby in order to get that perfect shape.

When dds were still at home and they went with dh to get the tree, it was always so huge, he had to saw a good foot off the bottom and cut off lots of lower branches, so that it’d a) go in the bucket of wet gravel, and b) not be squashed up against the ceiling. And we’d still have to rearrange the furniture to make space!

Thanks all. That's reassuring. It's just so dominating, and did I mention wide. I don't think I can cope with it til Xmas. We have high ceilings so nothing off the top is needed

I'm just hoping this doesn't go like my first diy haircut where I tried to neaten up the sides and ended up with a short bob

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