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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Eleanor Richardson

This viral hack turns a basic Christmas tree collar into an elegant basket – it's the simplest way to elevate the base of your tree

Christmas tree.

What to do with the base of your Christmas tree is a consistent yearly struggle. Whilst there are several ways to cover your tree's often not-so-pretty base, it can be a bit of a faff getting it into a basket or pot. Luckily, designer Drew Michael Scott (A.K.A Lone Fox) has created a simple 'flip' hack that effectively hides the trunk of a tree and creates the illusion it's sitting in a basket.

Drew sums up his nifty tip, ‘You simply flip your tree collar. One year I was like, "Why have I never thought to flip it before?"' It takes literal seconds to do and the sides of the collar appear to hold the tree like a basket, creating a beautiful vision of a real, planted Christmas tree without the fuss of using an actual basket or pot.

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