How To Fix the Bare Gaps in Your Christmas Tree
Learn how to fill in the unsightly bare gaps in your Christmas tree for a more filled-out-looking tree this Christmas season.
If your Christmas tree has gaps and bare spots, this idea might help your tree look fuller and more joyful.
The Problem
Christmas trees are beautiful, and they add such a vibrant expression of the Christmas spirit to the Christmas holiday season. However, Christmas trees (both artificial and fresh-cut trees) can sometimes have large, unsightly gaps and bare spots in their branches. These bare-looking gaps leave gaping holes that expose less appealing parts of the tree, such as the wires of built-in light, the metal frame of artificial trees, or the trunk and bare branches in real trees. This can leave artificial trees looking a bit “cheap” or real trees looking a little sickly, depending on the species of fir chosen as a Christmas tree.
The Problem Solved!
How to Fix the Bare Gaps in Your Christmas Tree
Additional Artificial Pine Branches to Fix the Bare Gaps in Your Tree
Add in additional artificial pine branches
I went searching for possible solutions on Amazon.com (this post is not sponsored) and found these little artificial pine branches and sprigs (this is not an affiliate link). This was so exciting to me! I knew exactly what I was going to do to fix our bare Christmas tree problem. I ordered one set of artificial pine branches. The set of branches that I originally ordered came as a pack of 200 artificial branches. I also later found a set of 300 artificial pine branches (this link is also not an affiliate link) and purchased those, too.
Twist the added pine branches around the existing tree branches
I took these little artificial pine branches and started twisting the long wire ends around the existing branches of our tree. I twisted each around any branches that were bare or smaller branches or sprigs that were near bare areas.
Move around and position the added pine branches
I was able to move those smaller branches and sprigs around slightly and position them so that the new branches that I had just twisted onto the existing branches could help fill in the bare spots in the tree.
I kept twisting and working in more new branches in any area that needed filling in or that looked a little too much like a “fake” tree.
Note: Yes, my Christmas tree is a “fake” / artificial tree, but I hold the philosophy that just because an tree might be an artificial one, it doesn’t mean it has to look like it 😉
How I Made My Artificial Christmas Tree and the Additional Branches Look More Natural
I moved each existing branch and each newly added branch around a little until each looked more natural in its placement, the area each was in was looking or starting to look full, and the tree, as a whole, looked right to me.
I also gently bent and curled, and turned each of the existing artificial pine branches and also the newly added ones so that they each had a more natural shape to them, and looked less stiff and artificial.
The Results I Had with My Tree
Here is what the final result was. I took a picture in the evening when the tree was all lit up. The previously present gaps look so much less noticeable to me now. It looks full, and (dare I say) almost like a real tree!
Actually, from a few feet away, my tree now looks more “real” than many of the real Christmas trees that I’ve had in the past (they were all very bare, too, even though they were real trees!)
View My Tree (Before & After)
My Christmas Tree (Before & After)
I was so excited to set up our artificial Christmas tree this year on December 1st. That’s the earliest I have gotten around to it in years. But when I was in the process of assembling it, I started to remember that our tree is full of bare patches in the most unsightly areas. Namely, where you can see most of the wires from the lights (our tree is a pre-lit Christmas tree with lights built into it, so there are wires throughout the inner branches from the built-in lights).
My Christmas Tree This Year – Before and After
Our Christmas tree was looking pretty “sad” to me and if I was within 6 feet of the tree the wires were very visible and distractingly unsightly.
The Solution for our Bare Christmas Tree
So I came up with an idea to solve my problem!
A Full View of Our Tree After Fix
Here’s a full view of our tree right now.
The top half isn’t working for some reason, and I just can’t figure out why…
Oh… maybe this might be why…
It’s a good thing I love this little fuzz ball! He looks cute (because he is), but he’s a mischievous little guy! But he also gives the best kitty snuggles. So there’s that, too. <3
Update (December 1, 2025): No, the cat is NOT allowed in the tree, haha! And yes, I do shoo him out of it (carefully, gently, of course) when he does try to go on one of his little “adventures” into the Christmas tree. He doesn’t do it often, but still, safety first. I do not want the cat getting hurt, the tree tipping over and causing calamity, or any other sort of mahem ensuing. Also, I don’t want to have to replace our tree every year. That would get expensive quite quickly! Yikes, haha!
Storytime! A fun little tidbit about our two cats, Noey and Bart
Our cats, Noah (“Noey”, our floof-ball orange tabby) and Bartholomew (“Bart”, the white chonky floof, with the orange and cream “flame-point” colored tips on his ears, nose, and tail) certainly do love their adventures, and I am starting to think they have an imagination and tend to daydream, otherwise, I cannot explain why they chase “nothing” around the house, as if there is actually something there to chase… or errily stare at “nothing” on the wall and tilt their head to the side with curiousity as they gaze at…nothing… Please, oh please, let it just be that cats can have an imagination, also, and these wonderful little rascles are just daydreaming and imagining up pretend, invisiable “mice”, or “bugs”, or “birds”, or something else that a cat would ejoy daydreaming about hunting and chasing, otherwise I will not be able to sleep at night wondering what else it could be that they are “seeing” when they stare and chase “nothing”, hahah!
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