AIBU to want to keep fairy lights on my mantelpiece?

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I live in an Edwardian house (1907) and my living room has a bay window with the original stained glass - very pretty. It has a lovely mahogany fireplace with tiled insert and I have a real fire.

At Christmas I put fairy lights on the mantelpiece and they look so lovely I want to keep them there all year round.

I'm being unreasonable, aren't I? It's just it's going to look so bloody dull when I take all the lights down.

Please let me keep just those!

I left up white lights round the lounge mirror all year just because I could as twunt features my X had left. They looked great. I have done multi-coloured for Xmas so will go back to white lights for the rest of the year. Nigella does it........

YANBU

YANBU, I have some around my wardrobe all year. And I have a Myriad gnome house thingy that the kids no longer play with but it looks lovely with flower shaped fairy lights around it :)

We have penguin lights in our kitchen all year round, and reindeers around the hearth (chuffing huge fireplace, no actual fire ).*

It's your house, leave 'em up if you want

*disclaimer - we also had a string of Christmas cards on one of the beams in the lounge for a whole year because I couldn't be arsed forgot to take them down, so you might want to take your advice from someone else.

no don't! you will not be as excited to put them up next year = and peoplew will think you want to be a fairy princess

:) @ Cockadoodledoo

Thanks for the advice, everyone - the lights are staying! I like the bit about logs and lights in fireplaces too - I will do that in my bedroom!

You only need to see the range of lights on a string that Habitat do (some really lovely ones), to see that this is obviously a design statement in itself and not uncommon too.

Just looked on their website this is an example, but they had many more in the store

Yes, they are good enough for Nigella!!!

Fairy lights are gorgeous all year round! I'm keeping my Christmas bunting up as it looks so pretty too.

last year, i kept some up over the fireplace in the dining room.

be careful though - later on in the year i bought some bunting. it's a slippery slope.

oooh that's two of us that gone for bunting. It'll be year round Xmas trees next!

Wasn't there a thread a while back that said year-round fairylights were naff? Or was it just those lighty-up twigs? I have both and love them.

Tempted to get out the bunting now...

Glad you are keeping them. I love fairy lights too and have dragonfly ones on my bookshelf all year round.

If you use fairy lights all year round what sort of fairy lights do you use for Christmas? What lights would you say are strictly for Christmas? I would like to do the same but the OH thinks im mad lol

I've kept some fairy lights up on the mantelpiece, just until the days start getting longer again, not all year round.

And I also have some bunting up which has been there for six months.

Yabu

You are an adult not a four year old child.

If you keep them up now you will have nothing next year.

Soon it will be light and you will never switch them on.

If in went to a house with fairy lights in the living room in march I would think the owner had some kind of peter pan issues.

You did ask!

I want to keep mine too. I usually do have them in my bedroom actually and moved them to front room for Christmas.

I could cope with people thinking I have peter pan issues.

fairy lights on a christmas tree are for christmas only.

fairy lights elsewhere, especially arounf architectural features are for all-year-round.

In my shop, I keep the fairylights in the window and aroudn the top of the shelves for the winter- they come off when the nights start gettign longer.

they're pretty.

Nothing wrong with Peter Pan issues.

This must be a new thing to use fairy lights all year round. Until now have never met or heard of anyone using them other than christmas.

Nickelbabyjesus im assuming your talking about clear lights? Would any of you use multi coloured lights year round in the house on fireplaces, windows?

I am talking about clear lights.

I personally wouldn't use coloured lights - maybe ones that are a single colour.
or those that have little lanterns on.

My ones are all red.

I thought clear ones were for christmas only because the bulb shape is classed as the traditional type associated with christmas.

YANBU

I put fairy lights up at christmas and they have stayed in the hallway and the kitchen alcove. They are pretty in their own right and can be used all year in my opinion. Makes such a difference from dim or glaring bulbs all the time.