Design: One, Two, Tree

I swear I haven’t spent all day thinking about Christmas! I was just surfing the internet and it seems like I found another pretty lovely idea for Christmas.
Are you tired of those Christmas trees you buy year after year because they don’t last long enough? Then this might be a solution. An eco-friendly, stylish Christmas tree and the packaging is also rather funny.

2011 was a big year. We had a new home, a new baby, and were super excited about our first family Christmas. Even though a baby put a strain on our finances, we knew that buying well-crafted, beautifully designed furniture was cheaper in the long run – and our Christmas tree wasn’t going to be an exception. But add environmentally friendly onto the checklist, and we were on a one way trip down struggle street.

Everywhere we looked we saw cheap, throwaway trees that wouldn’t last through the festive season, let alone a lifetime. The other option was a plantation tree, but the idea of chopping down a tree for short-term decoration just didn’t appeal. Then we asked ourselves; why are we trying to buy our perfect tree? We’re both creative, hands on and pretty nifty with a power tool, we could make it ourselves!

Weassembled our first tree using hardwood leftover from one of my hubby’slandscaping contracts. Over the next few weeks we tweaked the design andincorporated sustainable wood. As we sat admiring the finished product werealised we had created something unique: an eco-friendly, stylish alternativeto the traditional Christmas tree that would last for years to come. And so One Two Tree wasborn.