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4.5
Like several other reviews stated, the lights are not well spaced on these, with the upper portion of the tree (or in my case, one side of the upper portion) the lights poorly distributed.Sturdiness is another issue, I used smaller barbell weights to help hold the trees down as they were placed on my front porch and the wind frequently knocked them over (the porch is exposed). Even that was not enough and had to secured them another way to keep them from being knocked over constantly.Regardless of the two listed above negatives, with a little bit of light restringing and ingenuity I was able to display these on my porch and plan to do so for many years to come.PRO: These trees look pretty nice, fuller and nicer looking than a lot of porch trees I looked at.CONS: After "fluffing and puffing" so that the tree branches looked nicely placed, we thought it looked good until we viewed it from the street. The lights didn't look evenly spaced around the tree at all. It was not an easy fix so we'll need to work on it a lot more to be satisfied with the light placement.I didn't realize they had glitter on them - thought it was flocking when viewing the trees online although I went back and found "glitter" in the description. The glitter was a nightmare - be sure to open them and fluff them outside where you won't mind seeing specs of glitter showing up later despite vacuuming.Not sure that the plastic "urn" will keep the tree upright if it gets windy.Not exactly 5 ft tall. We went to the cabins in Gatlinburg and they had a tree up in June just like this but about a foot and half taller and fuller. It made me really want a small tree to leave up year round. I get seasonal depression and by the time Christmas rolls in gettingba regular sized tree up and decorated and then back down with no help really sucks the joy out of it. So I thought why not? Get a sweet smaller tree and just leave it up and do a rustic year round theme to go with it. It was so simple I put it up in 5 minutes and this crazy old lady is enjoying her Christmas tree in July! When the actual season gets here I'll put some real decorations on it. I love it.This is a really nice tree! Once you fluff the branches, it actually looks like the picture on Amazon. It comes with attractive red berries and pine cones firmly attached.As one other reviewer suggested, though all the lights worked when I received this tree, I added an additional string of 100 lights. In selecting lights to match the warmth/intensity of the white lights that come on the pre-lit tree, these are the warmer, not as bright kind.We also added ornaments and ribbon, and could not be happier with the result. We used shatterproof, lightweight ornaments, and lots of them! No problem with the branches supporting this kind of weight.The urn/base is very attractive, and sets the tree off nicely. I did add several floral picks of greenery/color around the base of the tree to fill out that area, but it looks fine without.I ordered the Kurt Adler pre-lit Norway pine wall tree from Amazon two years ago, and found that one underwhelming and to be very much like Charlie Brown’s Christmas tree: looked terrible (even after fluffing), but after loading it down with ornaments and holiday floral picks to fill it out, it looked ok. Also, was disappointed it did not arrive in a timely fashion.Summary: The Crestwood Spruce Entrance Tree was a much better purchase than the Kurt Adler wall tree —this product arrived quickly, no breaks in the urn or problems with the lights. This is a great entrance/table top Christmas tree—we are very pleased with it.PS: As another reviewer mentioned, the replacement bulbs are loose in the box, so be ready to chase them down.Due to my back problems, after a car wreck, I was not able to put up a real tree this year. This is the first year in my 64 years we used an artificial tree. This worked nice as I have a large round oaken dining table and I set the tree in the very middle and stacked all the gifts around the tree.Very pretty ~ pre-lit ~ perfect for our small spaceok but not specialUpon arrival the base was completely busted. I contacted customer care like it says to about replacing any parts and they just give me the run around. How hard is it to just replace a cheap plastic base?Aside from that it’s a pretty tree and easy to assemble but be prepared to have glitter everywhere, praying it holds up!I spray painted the urns silver to match my blue, sole & crystal Christmas tree. Looks 100% better.New out of the box, issues with “one third “of the bulbs not working.Nice looking tree, does not look like a 5 foot tree though, looks more like 4 ft and very skinny.
