The Small-Space Solution for an Airstream Christmas Tree

It’s Christmastime in the Airstream!

And we’re still celebrating and keeping the Christmas spirit alive, even if it means getting creative about a Christmas tree!

We’ve been staying in RV parks, and there are some serious rigs out here. Some of these RVs look like tour buses! But not our Airstream.

One of the things I love about Airstreams is that they use every square inch of space. Unfortunately that means that while some people could fit full-sized Christmas trees in their spaces, we have zero room!

“Just get one of those baby trees, Jess! The ones that sit on a tabletop,” you might say.

But I’m not lying when I say that there just is no room.

The two flat surfaces where this could work are our kitchen counter (but then we couldn’t, like, eat meals,) or our dinette. Which is where we do everything!

It’s where I work, where the kids do school, and where we eat our meals. I wasn’t down for having a 2ft. centerpiece for the next month, something we’d constantly have to move on and off the table or counter.

Then I got to thinking…

We have a blank wall in our Airstream, thanks to a TV I tore out about as soon as we got our hands on it. We didn’t need three televisions in the vehicle we were using to adventure and explore the U.S. in! We wanted to be looking outside the windows, not at a screen.

I wondered if I could use this two-dimensional surface to create a tree that felt 3D!