DIY Corner Christmas tree

Yes, you can have a slimmer option with your Christmas tree by not installing all the branches. I call this a corner Christmas tree, but in reality, it is more of a “half tree.” Keep reading; I think it will make more sense when you see why a full-sized tree won’t fit in my home.

I got a new couch and a loveseat! My former set was almost 13 years old and only seated three people. That made things a little uncomfortable when Jamie, Andy, and Lucy visited for Thanksgiving. Now I have room for visitors to have a seat!

This is the side of the living room where I’ve only had a chair for years. The Christmas tree always goes in this corner. Over the weekend, when I was putting up the tree, I knew it would never fit with the new loveseat. Enter plan “b”.

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Remove Lights From Pre-lit Christmas Tree

This is my tree in 2010. Pre-lit trees are lovely until one strand of lights goes out…

After Christmas, I spent a whole day removing all of the lights. It’s a really nice tree, and it’s still in great shape!

This picture was taken after I removed the pre-lit lights. You can see that a loveseat would not fit in this area with that tree. You can also see what my old furniture looked like. I used some multi-colored LED lights on the tree that year.

How to Make a Corner Christmas Tree for a Tight Space

So, now I have a much smaller space for my tree. I delivered a corner tree to my military family at Ft. Knox, which gave me an idea. Now that I don’t have the pre-lit strands running around my tree, why not leave off the branches in the back? I hauled the TWO BIG boxes that contain my Christmas tree up from the basement, then proceeded to put the tree up, but I didn’t use any branches in the back. I made my own CORNER tree!

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After I set it up, I put all the unused branches into one box. When I take this corner tree down, I’ll put all of these branches in the empty box. Next year, I will only have to haul one box up from the basement. This is the first Christmas in years that I have not decorated my tree with a bazillion sentimental ornaments. They are in many plastic storage totes. I drag them upstairs and sort through them to see which ornaments make the cut. Because of my shoulder injury, I took the easy way out this year.

The clear lights are from an after-Christmas clearance deal from a couple of years ago.

This is how the living room looked the night before I got my new furniture. The old furniture had been removed. There are some thin spots that I may fill in with some of the unused branches next year.

Had I not delivered the corner Christmas tree to the Lake family at Ft. Knox, I never would have thought of this. For years, I have left off the bottom row of branches to allow for the huge stack of presents, but I really love the extra space I have by removing the branches in the back. Have you ever heard of a corner tree? Have you ever reconfigured your Christmas tree to fit your space?

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Let’s take one more quick look at how it looks now. It makes me smile!

EDITED TO ADD:

I made a DIY Christmas Stand Box for my tree!!!

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