Black Christmas Trees

It’s said that apart from the Beatles, there are very few British fads that made it well in continental USA. One of them is the black Christmas tree that seems to have caught on with the chic and trendy Americans back in 2005. If you want to bring in a unique style and elegance to your home decorating this holiday season, you can go conventional or go with a black Christmas tree.

But don’t go about looking for one among natural pines cut and sold as your traditional Christmas tree. The closest would be a dark green natural pine. A black pine tree for Christmas decoration is artificial.

Origins

The black Christmas tree started in the United Kingdom in ultra chic modern homes with a stark black and white color motif. You find them even in sophisticated apartments using black sofas and mini-blinds on white carpets and walls, or in reverse. Their homeowners, wanting to preserve this motif, sought unique alternatives to the traditional red and green holiday color themes and started the modernist minimalist trend for black Christmas trees without losing the festive air around the season.

How to Get Them

You may not see a lot of them in traditional home décor shops but they are growing. Your best bet would be to go online. Do a search on Google and it will return a quite a lot of websites offering artificial black pine trees ranging in price from $10 to $1000 or more in different sizes.

Another alternative and possibly the cheapest is to have an old artificial green Christmas tree painted in black. A bit messy and best done in open air, spray-painting it with black aerosol paints will do the job. Once done, you can be sure to have a strikingly novel décor idea this holiday season and a definite conversation piece during your Christmas party.

Decorating a Black Christmas Tree

But it won’t be complete without putting the right trimmings. Not to worry. Your last year’s holiday décor will do just fine on a black pine tree. In fact, anything will look great on a black background. Your red, green, silver and gold trimmings will surely stand out on it.

But you can try out something new. White fake snowflakes on them can lend a dash of chic dramatic contrast with plain silver balls. Large satin red balls in silver ribbons in just a few places will complete the accent. Check out the internet for novel ways and ideas to decorate a black Christmas tree.