Good fake tree?

[northerngirl41]

I can't bear the thought of yet another Christmas spent cleaning up pine needles... Tell me about large artificial trees?

I want one at least 7ft tall and realistic looking (not pink, prelit or with fake iceicles!). John Lewis have them going up to 6ft but that's going to look tiny in our big sitting room... I suppose they think that if you have a house big enough to take a larger tree then you can also afford a daily cleaning lady to sort out the needles on a real one!!! Or maybe fakes are still incredibly naff?

Or do I go find some sort of branch and artfully spray it silver and bedeck with fairy lights in an alternative needle-free version?

Are you looking for a green one? Tesco direct have this one in both 7ft and 8ft.

I suppose you can't beat a real tree, but the needles have put me off, I like bare feet in the house!

You can get good looking artifical ones though, just depends on what you want and how much you want to spend?

Or you can get another Tesco 8 footer for just £50?

This one looks very authentic but it's over £150

That looks really good - good old Tesco! Didn't even think of looking there!

Thanks!

You've got me thinking maybe I need a 7 footer for next year...

Our windows are 6 feet long so a smaller tree in front of them would look a bit daft... I suppose I could put one on top of a table with a nice Christmassy table cloth on it, but this Tesco one ticks all my boxes.

yuk to fake trees don't do it you'll regret it

I think the thing is to spend as much as you can. So ours was £120 RRP in homebase (we got it 20% off that). For us that was a huge amount but we used to spend around £30 for a real one and this'll be our lovely fake one's 4th year and still looking great and goes up and down a doddle.

Ours has "mixed tips" FWIW.

Oh no, I don't regret getting a fake tree at all. It looks lovely, I can have it up for weeks on end and not a speared foot in sight.

Plus I always ended up with skanky real tree. About 6 foot around the middle and 4 foot high.

Real ones are lovely in big old houses without central heating, totally impractical if you don't want to wear a hat and scarf and freeze your arse off looking at it

I am definitely getting a fake tree next year, you can get some really good ones with 3D needles which look so realistic.

Real trees are just getting more an more expensive every year and I just can't justify shelling out that sort of money for 3 weeks of something pretty to look at!

We've had our 6' John Lewis tree for 20 years. It's still going strong.

DP put our tree out in january at the side of the house where its too shady insted of at the front so it had died :( its lasted a good 5 years but im thinking of getting a fake tree this year.

We saw a 7ft one in our garden centre with a 'piney' smell whatever next! Sure the smell wont last as long as the tree though lol