Towering over the show, the 30- year-old Norwegian Sitka Spruce, will be dressed in a selection of festive decorations and is being illuminated with stunning lighting provided by Philips.
Over 12 runs of 20metre cable will be used to illuminate the tree, which will be powered by a series of low wattage, energy efficient Living Colors Philips LED lights.
The 8-foot-tall balsam fir chosen as Grand Champion has been supplied by Elveden Estate, near Newcastle and is the largest indoor Christmas fir Tree that you will see anywhere indoors in the UK this year.
The giant Tree was transported to London’s Earls Court on a flatbed truck, and installed on a 5m2 steel tree stand where it rested for 24 hours to get its perfect shape back, taking just 24 hours, to put the tree in place for the five day show.
After its life as the largest indoor Christmas tree, the wood will be cut and donated to young London based furniture designers and recycling enterprises by Stewart Walton at the Bexhill and Hastings Wood Recycling Project, and Fabien Cappello to be used in furniture making. Any leftover product will be chipped and recycled by Elveden in the estate.
Guess the number of Philips Living Colour lights on our tree to WIN!
In celebration of the UK’s largest indoor Christmas Tree and the first ever Ideal Home Show at Christmas, we are offering the opportunity for visitors to WIN an exclusive ‘Light Over’ a lighting makeover for a room of your choosing courtesy of Philips, as well as tickets to the Ideal Home Show at Christmas and a chance to come down and turn on the lights with the show’s celebrity ambassadors Gino D’Acampo, Suzi Perry, Olly Smith, Gizzi Erskine and Laurence Llewelyn Bowen. To be in with a chance to win just guess how many Philips Living Colour lights are on our tree. The ‘Light Over’ includes a selection of table and floor standing fittings from Philips Living Colors and Living Ambiance ranges to create the perfect ambiance in your home by offering both useful white light and decorative mood lighting. Also part of the £1,500 package is a selection of LED energy-saving bulbs, which offer a high-quality, green alternative, and an assortment of Lumiware accessories, a stunning range of LED based accessories for the home such as a wine cooler and vase. To achieve the look a lighting expert from the Philips Consumer Lighting team will be on hand to provide advice and ideas.
One lucky winner who guesses the correct number of lights expected to be used on the tree, will be in with a chance to win.
To be in with a chance to win, all you have to do is log on to the www.idealhomeshowchristmas.co.uk website and enter your prediction into our online form. You will then be placed into a draw of finalists who all guessed the correct number. The overall winner will be drawn at random, and all runners up who guessed the correct number of Philips lights will also win tickets to attend this year’s show.
So log on now to be in with a chance of winning www.idealhomeshowchristmas.co.uk
Shoppers who want to stock up on festive goodies there will be over 400 exhibitors offering the latest home improvements, interiors, furnishing, and with more Gadgets, shopping and gifts for all the family.
The Ideal Home Show at Christmas will be running from the 16th – 20th November 2011, at London’s Earls Court. Open daily from 10am-6pm, Late Night Thursdays open until 9pm. Tickets can be either booked online or by calling the Ticket Hotline on 0844 209 7330, or for further information about the show visit the website http://www.idealhomeshowatchristmas.co.uk/.
The Ideal Home Show’ is supporting the Ideal Homes For Heroes appeal supporting ABF The Soldiers’ Charity – see www.idealhomeshow.co.uk/ideal-homes-for-heroes/ for details.
Source: Stuart Higgins Communications on behalf of the Ideal Home Show 2011.
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