Can I keep these Xmas lights up all year round or are they too festive?

[XmasCrackers]

This year, our tree is in our kitchen/dining room rather than our living room. I bought these lights to help make the living room feel more Xmassy but I love them and don't want to have to take them down.

Question is, are they too festive for me to keep up?

Thanks :)

There is no law about lights. We have multicoloured ones up our dark staircase. Use them all year round.

I’d think you were one of those people who starts Christmas in August and bangs on about it all year. Definitely in the ‘avoid like the damn plague’ camp I’m afraid!

I am approximately 82% grinch though! :o

I have fairy lights around my sitting room window all year round!

I have "Xmas" lights up all year round. Around mirrors and kind of draped/pinned under the kitchen cupboards to light up the counter tops. Looks lovely with all the main lighting off in there and just the soft glow of twinkly lights.

All you need is a rebranding - they are fairy lights, not Christmas lights.

Exactly. Those are fairy lights and they are part of your decorating style.

Lights are fine year round. (If you are a teenager) but why are they so haphazard? In the bloody middle of the window.

If you like them there, keep them there. I have some over the mantelpiece. I think they've been there three years now.

Last year I bought a winter tree with warm fairy lights. I leave it up until the clocks go forward and put it back up again when they go back. It's not a Christmas Tree it's one of those snow branch trees and I like the light from it. Do whatever makes you feel more at home. No one else has to live in your space (except family obvs) so if makes you feel better in the winter months go for it.

Lights are fine year round. (If you are a teenager) but why are they so haphazard? In the bloody middle of the window.

Eh, because they're window lights?

Keep the fairy lights! You love them. That's enough.

They are clearly too short then 😂

They're very pretty. I'd personally take them down in January then put up again Valentine's Day and keep them - they'll shake off their Christmas tones by then and feel lovely and fresh.

Keep them. Anything that brings you joy and isn’t hurting anyone else is worth having imo. I have fairy lights over the mantelpiece all year. I love them and they make me happy. They’re going nowhere.

Yes , you may.
Arrogant of me to give permission?
Because it's up to you to decide how you want your house decorated?

Well, that's your answer, then.

Ps look at Command strips for lights - they're really good for neatly hanging lights and won t cause damage. I agree they could be a bit neater.

They are clearly too short then 😂

They go from the top of the window to the bottom and then sit on the windowsill. What are you looking at 😂

There is a string that runs across the top of the lights and then some rubber suction things that stick on to the window. I could try to make sure the suction cups are as straight as possible.

Decision made... they're staying up ☺️ thanks all!

We have some fairy lights up all year. Nothing to do with Christmas at all.

I have two sets of fairy lights up all year. Three if you count the ones in the garden.

I've got a bunch of white coloured twigs with white lights on in a corner of my sitting room. I forgot they were there when I took my decorations down. About 4 Christmases ago

My home, my rules. And my fairy lights

Yours look nice,OP

Many people have fairy light in the sitting room year round. I’d arrange those differently, where currently the whole window is lit up, so they looked less like Christmas lights or a shop window display.