What is the Best Christmas Tree for a Small Apartment?

When you live in a small apartment, finding the right kind of Christmas tree to suit the restricted living space needs ingenuity and imagination. Slim trees can be found that can be fitted into the smallest of spaces and still provide you with a festive "big tree" display without the "big tree" space hogging aspect.

There are several different kinds of slim Christmas tree suitable for a small apartment or condo. The final choice will depend on how much space you have available in your min living space and how big you want the decorative display to be.

Trees with the Smallest Small Footprint

If you are really stuck for space and want the tree with the smallest footprint that will still provide a good display in your living room, you might like to take a look at some of the pencil trees that are on sale. The narrowest realistic trees that also come up with a decent height generally have a base width starting at under 40 inches for 7 foot trees.

I'm pretty sure that you can spare a little over three feet of floor space to put up a great looking tree that still has enough height to look amazing without the risk of toppling over. After all you want the best Christmas tree for your apartment that is safe as well as amazing to look at!

Things to Watch Out For

It's always a good idea to look at some aspects of a tall and slim artificial Christmas tree before you buy to make sure it is what you want and it will be safe to put up in your home.

1. Check the base of the tree to make sure it is wide enough to ensure it won't easily topple over. Tall trees with very narrow bases can be unstable especially when loaded with lots of decorations.
2. Check the profile of the tree to ensure it still has a fairly even triangular shape tapering nicely to a point at the top. Some cheaper trees are not so evenly shaped and that can contribute to a lack of good stability.
3. Pre-lit trees are great for saving you the hassle of putting your own lights up, but make sure the lights are evenly distributed with more around the lower part to balance the lighting display effect and not adding too much weight to the upper part to make it unstable.
4. When decorating your own tree, be mindful of the weight of items going up and put heavier items near the base with lighter ones toward the top.

What Types of Slim Tree Are There?

It would probably not be completely correct to call them species of tree since they're artificial, so "types" is probably a better word to use! But there are several types of pencil tree that emulate real tree species and so I'll take a look at some of the more popular ones by name.

• Camdon Fir is a popular well shaped tree but generally comes with a lightly wider base at around 45 inches.
• Kingswood Fir trees come in as slim as 28 inches in diameter at the base while providing as tall as 7.5 feet.
• Douglas Fir trees come as slim variations, although the base width is wider at 48 inches on many of them. Great if you have just a little ecxtra space but still need a slim tree to fit in a small room.
• Utica Fir trees are popular as white flocked variations and come as slightly shorter trees at 6.5 feet with 44 inch bases.
• Oregon Pine trees are also a little shorter at 6.5 feet but come with much slimmer bases at just 30 inches in diameter and are perfect for tight spaces where a good display in wanted without hogging all the floor space.

There are plenty of other tree types that can be found by looking around. If you want to see more, by all means come back as we add individual reviews of trees so you can see for yourself what is available.

Which Slim Christmas Tree is the Best?

From our own research and knowledge of slim trees and how they perform in small spaces, our recommendation as probably the best in its class of slim tree for a small apartment or living space would be this one:

7.5 foot tall Kingswood Fir with the 28 inch diameter base

Click that link (when it goes live) for a full description and review of the tree. I think you'll find it is perfect for most people, but as always, personal preference will be the deciding factor as we all have slightly differing opinions on what is best for us!

Apartment Christmas Trees

Living in an apartment is great until you need to put up a Christmas Tree and suddenly you find you don't have much space anymore. But you can buy smaller trees for apartments that take up very little space while still looking just fine and festive!

Welcome to this handy resource for finding the best apartment size Christmas trees that will not only make your living space a lot more spacious but also add an amazing centerpiece to your main living space for the festive holiday. That's because living in a small dwelling means you need to be mindful of how you use the available space, no matter if it's an apartment, condo or even a very small house.

Cramped Living Quarters

I should know as I live in an apartment with limited space just how frustrating it can get around Christmas time when a standard size tree goes up and I say good bye to my once apparently spacious living room that suddenly gets transformed into a cupboard! I found the perfect solution one day while wandering around a big local hardware store that was selling a new range of artificial pencil Christmas trees.

They caught my eye because they still had the height I wanted but without the space hogging girth!

Now I have a beautiful seven foot tall tree that sits comfortably in one corner of my living room and I can still enjoy my space and have the pleasure of looking at this gorgeously decorated tree. The old one went to a good home (I can't stand to throw out perfectly good stuff and there was nothing wrong with my old tree), so my conscience was clear when the new one took its place.

Or more exactly it took about a quarter of its old place!

You'll Love Slim Pencil Christmas Trees Too

Feeling pretty pleased with myself at this stroke of space saving genius, I decided to write about my discovery. I do this in the hope it will give some inspiration to other apartment dwellers when it comes to buying a tree for Christmas that will look amazing but not overpowering in the space hogging department!

Buying a slim pencil Christmas tree was one of the best investments I ever made in the festive season as far as decorations are concerned because it has already put in sterling service for the last three years and when I get it out of the box this Christmas it will look as pristine and well formed as it did the first time I got it out.

I know that because it's not just the tree is really great quality but I'm also pretty careful when I put stuff back in the box!

So take a look at what I'm putting together here and just see if I can't tempt you with some of the great resources I found online where you can get some awesome narrow Christmas trees that are perfect for decorating a small space like an apartment or small home when space usage is a prime consideration.