Custom vs Ready-Made Artificial Trees in Lebanon: Prices, Lead Times and Where Each Fits

There are two ways to put an artificial tree in a room in Lebanon. Pick one from the catalogue, in stock in Jdeideh, delivered in about four days. Or have one built around a real trunk to the height and width of your space, in fifteen to twenty-five working days. Both come out of the same workshop. They are not the same product, and the right choice depends on the room more than on the budget.

Ready-made trees: what you get

A catalogue tree is a finished piece with a moulded or fibre trunk and factory foliage, chosen by us and kept in stock. Heights run from tabletop plants of 40–60 cm to trees of 250 cm; most of the range sits between 120 and 220 cm. The trunk is plastic or fibreglass textured as bark, the foliage is fabric or moulded leaves, and the tree arrives in a plastic nursery pot that goes inside the planter of your choice.

Prices, read from the shop on 18 October 2026: small stems and tabletop plants from $7; trees from about $25 (a Ficus Lyrata 100 cm with pot); most 150–220 cm trees between $50 and $200, for example the Olive Tree Fiber 180 cm at $70, the Areca Palm 180 cm at $85 and the Jacaranda Tree 200 cm at $130. The largest catalogue palms and multi-trunk pieces reach $300. Prices are in US dollars and change with stock and sales, so the product page is the reference.

Lead time: stock pieces leave the workshop within 3 business days of the order. In Beirut, Metn and Baabda that usually means the tree is in your room about four days after you order it; further areas take a day or two more.

Custom trees: what you get

A custom tree is built around a preserved natural trunk, chosen for its shape, treated and sealed, with the artificial foliage mounted branch by branch onto it. You decide the height, the canopy width, the foliage density and, for outdoor pieces, the anti-UV grade. The bark, the taper and the branching are real wood, which is the first thing the eye reads and the reason a custom olive does not look like a shop display.

Prices, again from the shop today: custom olives on a real trunk start at $350 for a 130 × 110 cm piece (the Custom Olive Tree 130 × 110, on sale at $280 at the time of writing). Trees of 170–200 cm with a 130–150 cm canopy cost $400–600, such as the Custom Olive Tree 170 × 150 cm at $450. The largest pieces, 250–300 cm tall with a canopy of 180–200 cm and a thick trunk, run from $2,200 to $2,600. A custom olive bonsai of 100 cm is $150. Blossom, lemon, maple and bougainvillea trees on real trunks sit in the same bands, and a piece built to a size that is not in the catalogue is quoted from your dimensions.

Lead time: 15 to 25 working days of production, confirmed when you order. We send photos and a video of the finished tree before it leaves. Finished custom pieces standing in the showroom can go out much sooner.

Where a ready-made tree is the right choice

• Standard ceilings of 2.6–3 m, where a 180–220 cm tree fills a corner without touching anything.
• You need it this week. An opening, a shoot, a guest arriving.
• Several identical trees along a terrace, a corridor or a row of tables, where consistency matters more than character.
• Budget under $200 per tree.
• Species that read well in moulded form: areca and other palms, ficus, monstera, dracaena, cactus, bamboo. The trunk on these is not the point; the foliage is.

Where a custom tree is the right choice

• Olive, bonsai and blossom trees over 170 cm. On these species the trunk is the piece. A moulded olive trunk at two metres is the first thing a visitor notices, and not in a good way.
• Double-height spaces, atriums, stairwells and lobbies, where the tree needs to be 3 m or more and the canopy has to be built to the volume.
• Outdoor terraces and roofs, where the foliage grade, the base weight and the trunk finish are specified for the exposure.
• A tight fit: a canopy that must clear a beam, a pendant light or a staircase, or a trunk that must stand in a planter of a given size.
• Something to keep. A custom tree can come back to the workshop years later to be re-leafed on the same trunk.

Side by side

• Trunk: moulded plastic or fibre (ready-made) versus preserved natural wood (custom).
• Size: fixed heights to 250 cm versus any height and canopy width, built to your ceiling.
• Price: from about $25, mostly $50–200 (ready-made) versus from $350 for a real-trunk olive, $400–600 for most rooms, $2,200+ for the largest (custom).
• Time: out of the workshop in 3 business days versus 15–25 working days.
• Outdoor: selected catalogue pieces with anti-UV foliage versus every custom piece specified for its location.
• Years later: replace versus re-leaf on the same trunk.

Delivery and installation in Lebanon

Our own team delivers everywhere in Lebanon. The fee is calculated at checkout by area and by the number of pieces: a single tree to Beirut, Metn or Baabda starts at $8.80, with higher rates by distance for the rest of the country, and a planter counts as an extra piece because it takes van space. Cash on delivery is available for Lebanon only. Full details are in the shipping policy.

Installation is available for both kinds of tree. For a catalogue tree it means setting it into its planter, weighting it and shaping the canopy. For a custom tree over about 2.5 m it is part of the job: large trees travel in sections and are assembled and anchored on site.

A middle path

Many rooms get both: a custom olive as the piece people see when they walk in, and ready-made palms or ficus in the corners nobody looks at closely.

The ready-made range is in artificial trees and plants, with filters for height and species. Custom pieces, with current prices for each size, are on the custom artificial trees in Lebanon page, and a request for a tree in your own dimensions starts on the customization page.

Send the ceiling height and a photo of the corner on WhatsApp or through the contact page, and we will come back with a ready-made option and a custom option, with prices. The showroom in Jdeideh has both kinds standing side by side.