Christmas tree lights: white or multi-coloured?

[GloGirl]

Which ones look best on a tree?

Before anyone asks I've posted this in AIBU because I want a fierce and vigorous debate to help me make my mind up

Warm white! What is wrong with LEDs?!

Another child of the seventies here. It must be due to that.

Warm white here, but I think that multicoloured are now back in the fold of good taste. I've seen some lovely trees with multicoloured lights recently, and I'd get some myself if it weren't for my hideous carpet.

I like multicoloured lights* on indoor trees and white lights on outdoor trees.

It irks me that the rest of the world doesn't obey me in this matter.

*must not include those awful 'ambulance blue' lights.

I certainly don't buy the white lights = 'dead classy' line either.

I like warm white. Husband likes coloured, and tinsel, lots of tinsel. So we compromise - coloured lights, no tinsel!

Warm white inside for the tree, icy white outside. I have so many multi coloured glass decorations that I think multi coloured lights too would be a bit much. However we had coloured lights when I was a little girl in the 80s, and it did look pretty...

Agree that blue flashing lights are heinous, as are multiple Santas (pet hate).

Multi, plus bright white, plus warm white.

ALL THE LIGHTS! Apart from blue. Blue has no place on a Christmas tree.

White, along with an exquisitely classy colour scheme and tasteful decorations.

However, I'm pregnant with our first child (YAY!), so I can see this only lasting another couple of years before its crazy lights and rainbow coloured tinsel and random decorations, as when I was a child. :D I'm also looking forward to this. I've already made concessions to the husband, we have a ratty IKEA mouse taped to the top of the tree...

One of the NSDC broke the multi coloured flashy ones as he just cant help changing the sequence to the one which makes you feel as if you are about to go insane..
Himself replaced said lights with simple red and pure white static ones. I was horrified at his choice. However, they do look so classy, I feel as if we are now in John Lewis window display. Perhaps the flashing bears, Santa stop here and shite tinsel might have to go to be replaced by beads, real holly and woodland winter stuff.

Warm white.
But DH and the children think multi-coloured, so we have a set of each on the tree.
No tinsel! Ever.

I prefer multicoloured as they remind me of childhood xmases. I remember how the bulbs used to get hot and have a certain smell!

Now we use white as DH hates multicoloured lights (he bought 500white LEDs for tree so no space to sneak on a string of multicoloured!)

We have warm white lights, cold white lights, red and multicoloured lights on our tree. And each is on a different twinkly setting.
We are so classy!

White not LED

White. Anything else looks tacky to me.

Warm white for everything but the DCs trees (they have teeny weeny ones in their rooms). They chose their own lights, decorations and tinsel, and have their own box to pile all their gaudy shite into at the end of every christmas (they have the decor style of drunk magpies). Our outside lights are very simple warm white ones, too. I don't know why but cold white/blue ones just make our house look cold and sad.

This year we wanted to get warm white for once. Got home, looked in the bag and realised that we didn't buy them after all so not sure where they went.

So we had to put some multi- coloured ones on that we already had as we couldn't be bothered to go back.

They look nice though. I had blue lights for many years and I loved them as well. We also have those big multi- coloured light bulb lights around the house which I love and are never going to come down.

I can never decide, so I have a real tree in one room which is tastefully decorated with white lights, and a fake on in another room which has coloured lights. I love both.

At least I will have this weekend when I eventually get round to putting them up.

Both. And lots of them!

depends on the style of your tree, in my living room I have a traditional tree, all old fashioned wooden ornaments and candy canes so have multi coloured. In my kitchen I have a tree with silver, red and snowflake iridescent ornaments so have snowflake white lights on that one.

Multi-coloured! Preferably with petal shaped covers on them

White are too 90s and blue make your eyes go funny

warm white 'proper' bulbs (not LED) on trees and fireplace.

Blue in my opinion is a bit too alternative and cold looking.

I am old.

I have never heard of warm white lights..!

We also have a black tinsel tree with red and orange baubles and blue light in the hallway. It is not at all tasteful but good fun. DH bought it for a penny one Christmas Eve so it's become a tradition to decorate it in the most tacky way.

Friend of a friend put a photo of her decorations on Facebook the other day. It shows a 'patio area' strung with blue lights and a wooden bench and next to the wooden bench is a wooden rack with several empty vodka bottles of different colours tipped on their side and stuck in the rack, filled with led battery lights. Looks like evil Santa's grotto.