Any artificial Christmas tree can look stunning with the right décor, care, and attention to detail.
However, our top recommendation among the dozen and more trees we’ve tried since 2016 is the 7.5-foot National Tree Company Feel Real Downswept Douglas Fir. For any home, it is versatile, reasonably priced, realistic, and especially attractive.
The 7.5-foot National Tree Company Feel Real Downswept Douglas Fir (PEDD1-D12-75)
is a good compromise between cost, realism, and ease of setup, compared with both costlier and more affordable artificial Christmas trees.
Incorporating nearly 2,000 lifelike polyethylene branch tips, the tree is fashioned similarly to those other high-quality artificial trees-except that at 37% polyethylene, a higher proportion than normal, it creates an illusion of a living tree.
The 750 LED bulbs on its branches provide plenty of light, and the lights can switch from white to multicolored or a mix of both, enhancing its versatility.
Power Connect automatically connects the plugs in this tree’s foliage when you stack up the three sections, unlike most trees that require you to find and attach the plugs in the foliage manually.
The 7.5-foot Vermont White Spruce Flip Tree Color + Clear LED from Balsam Hill
has a higher proportion of realistic branches than National Tree’s Downswept Douglas Fir, which makes it appear more lifelike from a distance.
In addition, it has two-and-a-half times more lights (1,620 versus 750), resulting in a luxurious display most of our testers preferred. Like the Downswept Douglas Fir, the Vermont White Spruce’s lights connect automatically through plugs inside its trunk.
The wheels on the tree’s base are an appreciated feature among our test group — this tree weighs over 90 pounds due to its realistic branches, so the wheels make it much easier to move it into place and out of storage.