Coloured Christmas tree lights

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Are they back in/never went out?

Ive noticed three different Christmas trees in well to do 🤷🏻‍♀️😂homes recently and they look really nice.
I grew up with them as an 80’s kid, but only ever have used the plain yellow/white lights

I think they're definitely coming in from the cold a bit. For a few years there, admitting you preferred coloured lights on your Christmas tree was akin to saying you quite enjoyed wearing a string vest and a kiss me quick hat. I've stuck with coloured lights. Nothing else quite hits me in the nostalgia feels in the same way.

We have both white and coloured lights. I don’t care what’s in fashion, I like the tree to be full of colourful lights, tinsel and loads of different decorations.

Another one here with Twinkly lights, my Christmas present two years ago, I love them so much and change the setting daily 😂. Coloured obviously

I went for coloured lights this year.

Two strings of 100 'garish' 😏 LEDs for £6 from Tesco, to compliment a string of candy cane lights that we already had.

I'm loving it.
Very reminiscent if the trees of my childhood but with less worry that it will combust. Christmas tree fires from dodgy fairy lights were definitely a thing in the 80's.

I have red lights they are like little berries I love them i have had them for about 20 years

Always used them, on purpose because I can f'ing stand trendy Christmas trees so try and be as anti chic as possible and let the kids enjoy it.

I do like warm white. I think coloured can be pretty too, but a lot of the LEDs are very harsh and cold. I'd like some LED lights with shades that tweak the colour a little. Especially that harsh LED blue.

Only ever ever ever use old fashioned 👀 incandescent lights with the proper colours. Best tree in the street. 🎄

I adore coloured lights. I much prefer the older, incandescent types with their soft reds, greens, oranges, turquoise and pinky purples. The RED, GREEN, BLUE, ORANGE of modern LEDs just doesn't do it for me, and the shadows they cast on the walls around the tree are too harsh. The blue is too blue.

I still use the remaining incandescent sets around the house though, and I love them.

As for what baubles go with coloured lights... Well, anything! Our baubles have slowly been collected over the past 10+ years. Nothing goes, but it's wonderful.

I just wish I had 400 incandescent lights!

They ain’t my bag but each to their own. I like a cool off-white.

Me too.

Coloured lights all the way!

I have both this year. All vintage. The old "clear" lights with the proper old fashioned gentle twinkle effect on one tree. And 2 sets of Noma Canterbury bells from the '80s on the other. Plus my gorgeous Pifco golden lanterns hanging above the window.
I can't stand led coloured lights. They look horrible.

Yes to the tinsel and 80s flashy baubles too. 🎄
All hail eBay 😂

The theme of our Christmas is always extra..

I've never had anything else.

Yes!

I have one tree with just gold decorations which has white lights. Then the main tree has a whole mish mash of decorations collected or made by the DC over the years. That one has coloured lights which suit the different coloured decorations.

I love my nostalgiac lights hate the new led ones

I have a stylised Christmas theme and it's absolutely magical. I call it cartoon. I want people to come inside my house and feel like they have stepped inside a Christmas cartoon. It's full on colours and knick-knacks and teddies and foil ceiling garlands and tinsel around door jams and picture frames. I have lots of 'heirloom' decorations from my deceased grandparents and great-grandparents houses. It's mainly tinsel and tree baubles from the 60s and 70s but I love them so much as they are literally the exact items that made me feel so full of wonder as a child.

That said, after a series of fairy light disasters three years in a row, (they died on the tree mid December each year) I've replaced a lot of them with leds. But I went out of my way to source leds with pink and light blue lights, so while they don't look as charming as fairy lights they aren't horribly harsh. One year, my fairy lights died a week before Christmas, so in desperation, I bought a set of leds in a local shop and they made my soul hurt to look at, with their horrible emergency services blue. That said, when I bought my pink containing leds, I went OTT with the amount I ordered, so now I have enough to wind around the tree multiple times and the dado rail all around my living room. Then I added lantern fairy lights to the dado rail across the wall with the tv and fireplace, so I see the beautiful shadows they cast from the couch. And I have warm white leds around the bough and mirror over my fireplace. And over the bough on the bookshelf and in the light up wicker presents and reindeer that are around my tree. I also have lantern fairy lights on my little kitchen tree.

It takes about a week to decorate my house which I enjoyed 100% when I was a sahm with no hobbies. In later years it's a bit more stressful and I start thinking about paring things back. But I love the results so much once it's done. I am wondering about the point in the future where this might all start feeling like a mad embarrassment to DS. He's not there yet, but I'm mindful of that possibility on the horizon and I don't want to do all this if he doesn't completely love it too. But I completed the livingroom yesterday after an extremely busy and sick early December and he lit up. I thought he was a bit over it already as I was doing it bit by bit and he wasn't interested, but it was the lack of completion that was getting him down, not the ott nature of it.

Love them and we have them on our (real) tree along with tinsel and mounds of mismatching baubles collected over the years. I’m personally not keen on the matching/colour themed/overly curated Christmas trees!

I love coloured lights, so much more festive than one bland colour! However i came home from work this year and dc had very thoughtfully put up the tree and decorated it as a surprise for me......with bland white lights and tasteful boring gold and silver decorations! Obviously I thanked them profusely and have left it as i found it but i made a mental note to get it done early next year in my usual festive, colourful way!

It's sounds wonderful! Much too colourful and Christmassy to be called stylised though. You're theme is OTT, but that's a good thing as far as I'm concerned.

We had (what a very young me thought was super elegant and sophisticated) warm white lights and glass baubles pre dc, then coloured lights and a variety of ‘safer’ decorations after.

Each dc chose one new tree ornament each year. Oldest dc is now 21 and the tree is a mix of things they’ve all made and chosen over the years, complete with coloured lights. I love it. So many memories and such a warm, friendly addition to our home every year.

I am not a fan of the new LED coloured lights though. The light is too harsh and the blue ones trigger my migraines, but the ones I bought last year, that have little white frosted covers, seem to mitigate that and I try to nestle the blue bulbs into branches as well, if I can, so they’re not too prominent.

I do miss the old style, gentler lights, but we gave ours up last year when we couldn’t get bulbs with the right fitting anywhere and I do feel like the LED ones are possibly a bit safer.

There seem to be a lot more coloured lights up locally this year, so I assume they must be back in fashion.

I hate the idea of Christmas trends. I decorate my house with all the crap I have! Stuff hardly ever goes in the same place two years in a row, we don't buy things to match a colour scheme or theme, everything is just 'christmas'. We have loads of lights, some are colourful, some are warm white, some are cool white. I had some all red ones but it made the house look a bit brothelly...