FREEPORT — One house in the borough is really decked out for the holidays with more than one Christmas tree per 100 square feet.

The 1,700-square-foot house at 308 High St. owned by partners Joe Weltner and Ricki Hastings has 18 trees inside and outside. It was featured for the first time this year on the Freeport Renaissance Association’s Christmas house tour, held earlier this month.

The house has 16 trees on the first and second floors, and one on the front porch. An 18th tree is on the home’s third floor, but the house tour did not go there. That tree is viewed from outside the house.

Last year, they had 14 trees displayed.

“It gets a little bit bigger every year,” said, Hastings, 34, who is a borough councilman.

They have been in the house for five years. The first year there, they only put up three trees. Before this, they lived in an apartment in Pittsburgh and could not decorate to the extent that they can now.

“It became, ‘Well, if we’re going to have three, why not 10?’” Weltner, 33, said.

Weltner said he has always liked decorating, and would help his grandmother decorate when he was a child. Every year on Dec. 26, he looks to buy decorations on discount. He also tries to get as many vintage decorations as possible from yards sales, flea markets and family members.

Additionally, they like to hold holiday parties, and they host their families for Christmas.

All of the trees are artificial, since Weltner is allergic to real pine trees. And, all of them are decorated with a theme or to match the rooms they are in.

“They all do have themes,” Weltner said.

It took them three weeks to set the house up this year, starting on Nov. 13.

Normally, they begin decorating Thanksgiving night by putting up their largest tree, and then taking a week to install the rest of the decorations. They started early this year because of the tour.

Weltner said the electric bill goes up a bit because of the decorations, but he said switching over from conventional lights to LED lights has lowered it.

The living room features four trees, including the largest one. It has LED lights, but they look like old-fashioned, large tree lights. It also features old-fashioned tinsel and ornaments from the 1940s and 1950s, which came from Weltner’s grandmother, his parents and his childhood.

“It’s my favorite tree because it’s sentimental,” Weltner said.

Another tree in the living room has a leopard print theme. One year, Welter’s cousin gave him a leopard print ornament. However, Weltner noted that ornament would not fit on the big tree, with its traditional look, so he set up a new tree.

The dining room features dozens of nutcrackers. It also features a few Christmas village figures and a red, green and gold themed tree, which matches the general color theme of the room.

The kitchen has two regular Christmas trees, and 13 ceramic trees, which can be hard to find these days. Hastings said they found many of them from yard sales, and one is from Weltner’s mother.

A small hallway leading to the first floor bathroom is decorated with several melted popcorn plastic decorations from the 1970s.

“They do not make these anymore, so you can’t buy them anywhere new,” Weltner said.

The bathroom itself contains a tree with a Tiffany blue theme.

The stairway leading to the second floor has more melted popcorn plastic decorations, meant to be reindeer, and the landing at the top of the stairs has a Victorian-inspired tree.

A sitting room with several plants, which the couple jokingly calls “the conservatory,” features a tree with a cobalt blue theme and a fiber-optic tree. The upstairs bathroom was decorated with a snowman theme, including with a snowman rug and shower curtain.

The guest bedroom has two trees, both with a magenta, lime green and light blue theme. Weltner said the look is more modern, and matches with the room’s lime green walls. This room also contains Weltner’s mother’s hand-painted, ceramic Nativity scene from 1976.

The master bedroom has three trees, set up with a black and white theme to match the bedspread.

The two men have been involved with the renaissance association for a few years — both of them are past officers — and the group had asked them in the past to participate.

“They’ve been asking us the past couple of years,” said Hastings.

Hastings said the house had more than 140 visitors during the tour. Weltner said the house, built in 1910, has had only five owners since it was built, and a few of them came on the tour.

Weltner said people seem to like the themes of the decorations, as well as some of the vintage items.

“I think people really appreciated ... the attention to detail in the rooms,” Weltner said.

Hastings said the house got a positive reaction, saying that people liked that the house still seemed “livable,” and not cramped or crowded with decorations.

Weltner said it is getting to the point where the house cannot fit many more decorations. Next year, he said he is considering decorating the back yard with full-sized, themed trees.