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

It's just as well we all get to choose. A tree with a curated colour pallete would give me all the sads.

I think warm white looks best. White can be a bit harsh.

If you've got multi coloured decs i think coloured lights could work too.

I don't like blue lights, they seem too cold!

I have my tree up already with multicoloured decs and warm white lights. I was quite fond of it till I saw my Granny's tree with her multicolored lights and vintage decorations. It was the most beautiful tree I'd ever seen.

We don't have enough bulbs on out tree, only 200 so I think I need to replace the set anyway, I was just debating whether to get white or multicoloured next year.

My Mum's Christmas lights are multi-coloured AND flash in time to pinky plonk cheesy Christmas music. I fucking love it!!
Might nick it for next year.

White (although I like the decorations to be multi-coloured), and not flashing.

GloGirl how tall is your tree? We've only got 40 lights on ours (5' tall) and although there are slight gaps here and there, I can't imagine how we'd fit 200 on and still have room for decorations!

me too MitzyLeFrouf

We found some multicoloured lights with little shades a few years back. Straight out of the 70s. Lovely, they were.

Op I love both, it depends very much on the colour and style of your decks. I am doing red and gold this year, so coloured wouldnt look good.

But I so love colours, next year if tree is more mismatched then will probably have coloured, its white this yea.r

LED - what have they done to us, shocking.

Really really missing tinsel on my tree though.

have it round the base but not the same.

We had multicoloured last year and I wasn't fond. Back to white this year if I ever get the tree up, but the decorations are a proper hodge-podge of colours so it evens out nicely.

Our good tree (big, real, beautiful) has bright white LED lights 500 of the fuckers and the trashy tree in the kids room has multicoloured lights.

I saw some vintage glass decorations in a Hadith shop today and was so tempted to get a few, but between cats and children they'd not last five minutes let alone a fortnight.

Maybe in a few years.

Charity shop. Fuck knows what brand of glue my phone is on today!

Warm white lights here but they're LED ones so I will now hang my head in shame tbh I didn't know you could get proper lights any more!

Only warm white in our house

I remember a German guest at my parents' house who was shocked and horrified by our coloured lights. She maintained that nothing but white would do!

I had a white Christmas tree (as close to the one we had as children in the 70s) and couldn't get coloured lights on a white cable. In the end we had to buy two sets, white and multi-coloured, and take all the bulbs out of one set and put them in the other. Took DH me ages to do Was worth it though, they did look great. Had lots of multicoloured baubles too, no need for a colour scheme...

Lots of twinkling warm white bulb lights (LED are not twinkly enough!), I would say our tree is neither poncey or trashy, it is cosy/classic with lots of red, white and silver decorations and handmade/collected things.

I did love the multi-coloured mini lantern ones when I was a kid though

Colour-coded tasteful red-and-gold or blue-and-silver tree = white lights.
Riotous multi-coloured fun tree = coloured lights. I have spoken.

I have two Christmas trees, one with white lights and one with multi coloured.

Multi-coloured lights, with a huge variety of ornaments - vintage ornaments, family heirlooms, many decorations made by the children since they were small, with new and unusual ornaments from a variety of sources added every year. Our tree is beautiful, cheerful, eclectic, and personally meaningful. I firmly believe that people who think white lights and restrained generic decorations are "classy" and "tasteful" are boring - and sadly mistaken!

My DC are 12 and 14. For the last 13 years our Christmas tree decor theme has been "ever increasing amounts of lopsided lurid home made tat, as curated by a small Donatella Versace and Elton John and then given a final roll around in some glitter". This year I begged to go a bit more subdued and have just come home to a tree decorated by the DC after they broke up from school earlier, in various shades of grey, sparkle and glass (white lights).

Dd just said "I absolutely love it. Why didn't we do this year's ago" .

Oh coloured all the way. I used to have the warm white kind which I do like, but I just love the coloured ones - so Christmassy!

I have white lights with glass, white and silver decorations. I prefer that to multi coloured lights but each to their own.