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With the holiday season fast approaching, the thought of decorating the inside of your home has probably crossed your mind a few times. If you are like me, you prefer an artificial tree to a live one.

Have you ever seen an artificial tree all decorated in a store that was so prefect, if you didn't know better, you would think it was a real tree? And have you wondered how the decorators made the tree look so perfect? Well, read on ...

All artificial Christmas trees come with directions for assembly. Some even state that the tree can be assembled in minutes. Sure, this is true. The key word here being "assemble". Now decorating, that is another story. Artificial Christmas trees were not meant to be decorated in only a few minutes. Time needs to be taken and attention paid to each an every branch.

As you assemble your tree, usually starting from the bottom, it is very important, after you attach the bottom to the stand, that you take the time to loosen the branches and spread them out. This includes any of the smaller braches that may be to the center of the tree. The tree has been crushed in a box all year and it is not going to loosen the branches on its own. After you have tended to each branch on the bottom section, attache the middle section, attach any electrical cords (if it is a prelit tree) and again, loosen all the branches. After you attach the top section of the tree and attach electrical cords, start from the bottom part of the section and work the branches downward. As you get to the very top of the tree, there are going to be branches hidden that need to be loosened. Once theses procedures have been completed, your tree should look like it has some kind of shape, altough at this point you still are not finished.

You can now work on your lights, unless of course the tree is prelit. Either way, you need to work the cords so they are as invisible as possible. As you are working with the strands of lights, you can begin to arrange the tree branches working the branches from each section into the other to avoid having any bare spots (if there is a spot that is going to be branchless regardless of how you work the branches, plan on turning the tree so this area is toward the wall where no one will see it. The object of this whole procedure is to create the effect of a live, natural tree that you have just brought in from the outdoors.

I have spent as long as two hours arranging branches (usually this is when the tree is new). Holiday decorating comes but once a year and everything should be as perfect as possible. Company will definately notice your tree. Spend some time and make your tree look like the tree in the departmet stores.

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