A seemingly innocent question about Christmas trees recently sparked a debate within our team. As someone who moved to London not long after finishing university, and comes home for the holidays, I've never actually bought a tree but it's something I have strong opinions on.

The tree that started the whole debate is the . At £55, the half tree design is allegedly to keep baubles out of reach of curious children and mischievous pets. It has had 25% knocked off the price since this article was first written and is now £41.25.

Personally I'm of the belief that your cat will just climb the tree if that's what it wants to do. I'm yet to meet a cat who can't hop up three feet but with an average rating of 4.6 out of 5 from across 274 reviews maybe I'm in the minority of not liking this

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It's credited with being a good option if you're short on space and if you've got lots of large presents, such as bikes, that you actually want under the tree rather than next to it then I can almost understand the appeal. I just think it looks more like a year round houseplant someone decided to stick baubles on.

It makes sense to be more space conscious but I think it really depends on the room. Some trees instead of moving the lower branches only have the front part. This means you can press it up against a wall if you're short on space.

I won't lie, they still look a little bit unorthodox but they didn't start a debate in a teamwide meeting so they can't be that bad. I think the Christmas Tree World, 5ft artificial unlit woodland pine half tree is perfectly acceptable and could be a good start tree when you've not got a full bauble collection.

I think if you're going to opt for a half tree that something like this is the better way to go as most of the time Christmas trees are located near walls. It would make it tricky if you're having help decorating the tree and were hoping to pull a Monica Geller and spin the tree around to hide the messier side but I'd say I'm a fan of this type.

I actually only own three Christmas baubles which probably isn't enough to warrant a six foot Christmas tree. If I weren't going home for the holidays to marvel and judge all of my family members trees then I'd probably buy something like .

At it would work nicely on top of some drawers or on a table and the pine cones fill it up enough that my measly three baubles would border on overkill rather than making it the saddest Christmas tree I've ever seen. At it seems reasonable.

There's a chance I have too many opinions on Christmas trees, it's something I didn't realise I cared so much about until I embarked on this article and discovered there really was a bad offering. I don't have a cat though so I'm really not the intended audience.

What do you think of the unique space saving options? Would you get a parasol tree? Let us know in the comments and I'll be sure to derail future meetings with stories of how people are Team Parasol Tree.