Christmas Tree Stands

Bring on the presents, bring on the carolers, bring on Christmas and bring on the tree, but before you bring that Christmas tree into the house maybe you should think a little bit about the Christmas tree stand you’ll use to hold it up. Nothing brings down a houseful of Christmas cheer like struggling a Christmas tree into poorly designed Christmas tree stand. A couple of Ho Ho Ho’s later you stand the whole mess up and it crashes, stand and all back to the ground. The image is as much Christmas as opening presents is on Christmas day.

Christmas tree stands are important. They come in various shapes and sizes, offering a multitude of variety. Artificial Christmas tree stands, rotating Christmas tree stands and revolving Christmas tree stands are all available to do one thing, hold a Christmas tree. But what’s the story here, what kind of things sets a good Christmas tree stand apart from all the others. You need to think about what you want to get out of your Christmas tree stand. On the technologically advanced side, you may want your stand to rotate or revolve your tree 360 degrees. Designed for artificial trees, rotating or revolving Christmas tree stands are designed to spin the tree around slowly, this allows viewers to see all the ornaments and decorations. Rather than being fixated on one side of the tree, a viewer can stand and watch as the tree plays decorations like a music box playing music. A clever family can arrange the decorations so they read in the direction of the trees rotation, now all of those chronological ornaments take on new meaning as the tree displays the family’s Christmas history. Keep in mind that a rotating stand may tend to wrap Christmas lights around it as it spins so it may be a lights optional display.

For more traditional fresh cut trees stands should be sturdy and robust, with a solid base capable of holding large, awkward things like Christmas trees. They should be easy to manipulate with a base large enough so the tree sits in it well and is balanced. Bases sometimes need to compensate for a bent tree trunk, if this is the case it needs to be large enough to let the tree be a little off center but look straight to the viewers.