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Brad Schmidt: Hi, I’m Brad Schmidt with Balsam Hill and I want to talk about the Vermont White Spruce tree. It’s this beautiful 9-foot tree, but what’s really special about it is the silver and gold collection, and the techniques and things I did to make it pretty.

The one main feature that I love, of course, is the beautiful ribbon, that is this gorgeous champagne silver lamé with edged with diamantes. I double layered it for an extra bling, so it really gives that really rich feeling. Then I did a fishtail cut here and I did double fishtail cuts, so you’re getting double layer. I’m taking the same ribbon and double layering it, which makes it really special.

In addition, we’re doing a special roll, which is the croissant roll, which looks really fabulous, almost like an ornament, so beautiful with all the enhancements of the ornaments. One of the real special things is here, is this gorgeous new magnolia, with a gilded finish, with silver and gold and champagne finish. It’s beautiful, we have a wonderful pick that goes with it, with the magnolia leaves with another finish on top of it. All these beautiful berries, ornaments, and these beautiful angels to give the complete, beautiful look.

Brad Schmidt: We have the beautiful farmhouse collection from Balsam Hill, which really is a nice color palette on this beautiful natural pine. What it is is it’s got the slate blue, we’ve got the beautiful olive greens and the beautiful burgundies, the great red burgundy poinsettia which is so pretty. Then you get a nice mixture of components, like these great little three bells here which are really great and special, kind of give that effect from the farmhouse, and the different textures of the heavy glass on the ornaments and the finial tops. What’s really nice are these skis, which are really special. We call them tree smackers. They finish off the tree, they give it that personality, which is perfect for this year for Balsam Hill 2018

Brad Shmidt: For the Brilliant Bordeaux, more of a medium to heavy look, you definitely want to add more clusters of jewels, more finials, and the whole trick about the whole thing is that you need to put your ornaments inside the tree. As you can see here, I have this one red ornament, very special, and we call these an onion shape. That’s tucked way back so as your eye goes through the tree, you see all of the different ornaments, not just on the surface but you’re getting depth. In addition, I’ve added more of these fantastic crystals, which we love. They have these beautiful, acrylic crystals with these gorgeous pearls. And again, naturally draping them, where you have an empty branch and if you feel like you want to just bend that branch up a little bit, you can.

What we’ve done is we’ve added five sets of the finials, two full sets of the ornaments, and about, I would say, four to five sets of each size of the glass drops. In addition, I clustered the glass drops, the little ones, and also what’s really nice is I added, since it’s an all-around tree, I’ve got ornaments inside, in the back, and it reflects mirrors if you have a mirror behind your tree. The large ones can be at the top and I also have that wonderful star in which I embellished with a beautiful crystal jewel, just for fun.

Brad Schmidt: I have a monochromatic look here using the essentials from Balsam Hill, which we brought in a little bit of the French country, but it just all ties in really well and gives it that clean, crisp look. I clustered some ornaments together, but especially at the top where it makes it really unique and clean and modern, where it fits any home especially the young, modern home. It’s a great look, clean and crisp all the way around.