This tree is beautiful, yes you can see through it once it was put up and all the limbs were pulled apart and repositioned but you can see through live trees can't you?  I have owned and used faux trees for many many years this is def the best one so far especially for the price I paid.  Once decorated it was even more beautiful.  I had never purchase a spruce before but just love this.  Only drawback is that you still have to plug all three sections up inside the tree so I had to move some of the limbs around so you couldn't see all of that but it is just gorgeous!!