Years gone by, we use to hook up the team ( tractor) to the bobsleigh ( hay wagon) and make our yearly travel back to the neighbors lot to cut a scotch pine ( with his permission, of coarse). Now mind u, our family had a little farm house. The dining room was maybe 12 x 12 where the tree would go. We'll, the spruce trees were nice size in 8 years and would fit the room quite nicely. Eventually, those trees got to be 30' high. We would top them down about 10', and bring them back to the house. Everyone knows that christmas trees settle their branches, right. We'll, a scotch pine really settles, DEVOURING most of the room. They end up looking more like a bush rather than a tree, but the smell of pine,was great. Moral, have a big enough room.