This "super realistic" Christmas tree from Home Depot is going viral - we think it might be the best tree to buy this year
TikTok users are raving about a 9' faux tree from Home Depot and it could very well become the big buy of the 2023 holiday season
If you identify as a Christmas lover, someone who will proudly purchase their decor and put up their tree some 40 days in advance, boy, do I have the product for you.
If you are someone who loves efficiency and ease, even better. And if you are someone who lives nowhere near a Christmas tree farm but still craves the look of a classic Tanenbaum during the holiday season, well, I hope you're listening.
Though we have yet to make it through November's Black Friday sales (which we'll be chronicling at length at Livingetc), I may have, thanks to TikTok, uncovered the best viral holiday buy of the season. If you identify with any of my shoddily-created categories above, this is a purchase you're not going to want to miss.
The TikTok-famous faux Christmas tree
Specifically, TikTok is currently fawning over this 9-foot, pre-lit LED faux Christmas tree available at Home Depot. It's retailing for $499, so this isn't your budget tree, but there are lots of amenities here to justify that price tag.
For one thing, the sheer size of the fir is something to marvel — 4,539 branch tips and 3,400 LED lights across 9 feet. Assembly is as easy as stacking three separate sections on top of one another before plugging the whole structure in, at which point you can use the included remote control to switch between 10 different light functions.
The 779 reviews are overwhelmingly positive, with a majority 584 5-star reviews and a 4.4/5 average rating. And it seems to be moving rather quickly, too — I could only find the 7.5-foot option when I looked the other day, though the 9-foot currently looks to be back in stock now. As for how long, however.. well, that's another story..
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I can't think of a room this tree would look poorly in, so it's really up to you as to where you'd like to place it. That said, think of how festive and welcoming it might look in your entryway — At that point, Santa might even be tempted to just use the front door.
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Brigid Kennedy is a freelance writer and former style editor for Livingetc.com, where she scoured the internet for the best and most stylish deals on home decor and more. She also served as the website's in-house sofa expert, completely revamping and reworking Livingetc's expansive sofa buying guide by interviewing a total of 17 interior designers and sofa experts at top brands like Article and Benchmade Modern; sitting on upwards of 50 sofas across both Pittsburgh and New York City; extensively polling her friends and family for their own sofa-buying anecdotes and product recommendations; and traveling to Dallas, Texas, to tour the floor of a couch factory. In total, she estimates she has spent 40+ hours (and counting!) reading, writing, and talking about couches with accredited sofa connoisseurs o then pass that knowledge on to you. She describes her personal design style as colorful and clean, and in her free time enjoys reading, watching movies, and curating impossibly niche playlists on Spotify. She recently relocated from Manhattan to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she's decorating and DIYing a new home downtown.
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