Important Points about sizing your Christmas Tree:
1. The height of the tree includes the stand.
2. Base Width is measured from the tip on the left to the tip on the right.
3. Use masking tape to create a circle on the floor and a spot on the wall.
4. Visualize the upside down cone shape to understand how much space the tree will use.
Transcript:
Today I’m going to talk to you about how to select the perfect Christmas Tree for your Home.
First let’s talk about how to determine the height and the width of the Christmas tree. And the very first thing, this tree has been set up and how you would measure it is from the very tip top, the stick is on the top, down to the bottom to the floor including the stand. That’s very important. That’s the question we get all the time is that including the stand? Yes it does include the stand.
As far as measuring the width, if you pull the branch taut and then have someone pull a branch taut on the other side and then measure thru the middle that is how wide the tree is. That’s how it’s measured when you see on the side on the box. The point being, if you let go there’s going to be a little bit of spring or if you put some heavy ornaments on the branch it will make the tree a little bit more narrow. If the tree is 54 inches it may actually be 52 inches when you decorate it because the branch is going to sag a little bit with heavier type ornaments.
This tree has obviously been set up and measured for this point, how did we determine the width and the height of the tree? Well, what we’re going to do. Here we’ve selected this general area for our Christmas tree, we’re going to take some masking tape and we’re going to lay down some pieces of tape so that we can get an idea of what the Christmas tree is going to look like once its set up. How much space is it going to take up on our home? And we’re going to put a piece up on the wall so we can approximately get just underneath the window. So that when we put our topper up, the topper’s going to line up just with the top of the window sill.
So now what we have if you can visualize a cone coming up. Now we’re going to measure how wide the tree we are going to be able to have. Okay so this is about 54 inches and then the height so in this case we’re looking at about 7 – 7 1/2 feet so we’re able to have a 7ft tree in our home.
And one note about the description you’ll see on Christmas trees, you’ll see words like pencil, slim, medium and full. People mistakenly think that that’s talking about the density of the branches. There is no standard in our industry that says a full tree has to be 54 inches wide. Really what it means is if it says full, there’s probably a medium or a slim or a pencil version of that same tree available.
Now we’ve successfully determined the height and the width of the tree that we can put into our home.
Next let’s talk about whether you should have an artificial tree or a fresh tree.
