Black trees are hard to find, so this one works well for me. It's tall and thin so it doesn't take up much space in the room, and packs down for easy storage. The one negative would be the lights; the wires between bulbs aren't hidden well, so they're easily visible crisscrossing the tree. Instead of linking wires directly from light to light, it would have been better to have the wires wound back to the stem of the tree and then out to each branch.