Do your christmas decorations fit the colour scheme of the room they are in?!

[TheDetective]

Or is this just me?!

For the last 5 years I have had silver/white, black and a teal colour - as teal is one of the main colours in my living/dining room.

This year I am throwing it all in the mix, and I'm going with all out red and as christmassy as possible!

I've bought a load of new decorations, hanging red things, paper chains, christmas bunting etc, featuring father christmas, snowmen and other 'traditional' christmassy things.

My baby will be 13 months, and I wanted to make it really christmassy, less showy .

Will it just look daft?! How does everyone else do it?! Help! I've kept the receipts in case you tell me it's gonna look like shit!

I always have red, green and gold ie Christmassy colours. For a few years I had gold and silver but now I'm back to red.

I like having a theme but it doesn't match our home colour scheme. DH is horrified every year because he likes the decorations to look like reindeer vomit. He takes the DDs out every year and lets them choose a decoration each. They usually choose the pinkest, sparkliest decorations, which drives me mad as they stick out like a sore thumb!

This year I'm thinking of having two trees. One Monica Geller style themed tree in the living room and they can have their reindeer vomit colourful tree in the dining room.

No

it sounds lovely!!

I do match to my decor but I change my colour every year as we decorate the full house in time for Christmas. I like the sound of santa bunting though. were thinking of going more christmasy this year.

Our lounge is green and grey, but our tree is pink and purple, just because we have a young DD who loves it and Christmas is for her really.
I still try and make it look a bit tasteful.

Everything is handmade out of felt. So, no, it doesn't match our decor: white walls, peach floor tiles, dark coloured Ikea furniture. Rented house. It looks warm and welcoming and not as if the Tinsel Elf shat everywhere

The main tree is red and silver and white and goes quite well with the living room decor. The decorations predate the dcs and are too expensive/fragile to let the dcs get their hands on them I think it looks really beautiful.

The dcs' tree on the other hand is a total mishmash of decorations - homemade, inherited, chosen by dcs, lots of tinsel and the decorations Santa puts in their stockings each year secretly I love this tree best

I don't think it matters at all. What I do think is that whatever you do, you should do it with conviction :) and go all-out, which it sounds as though you are.

Christmas decorations are temporary and seasonal and for that reason they can be whatever you want them to be.

I think it teal/black etc decorations might blend in but Christmas - the jollier, the better :)

I wish it did but alas no! Dc chose new decs last year- neon pink, yellow and blue!!! My lounge has non of these colours and in generally pretty tasteful unlike our tree!

Threemyself

"I do match to my decor but I change my colour every year as we decorate the full house in time for Christmas"

Do you really decorate (ie paint) the whole house every year in time for xmas? Or did I read it wrong?

The tree decorations are a mixture of decorations I have bought over the years - none of them match - being charitable, I'd describe it as eclectic. They all have memories attached, and sentimental value, or make me smile. I only use silver tinsel and white lights - that does tie it together a bit.

My dsis has a perfect set of gold, red and silver baubles (matte, not shiny), and gold, red and silver candle holders with real candles (in gold, red and silver - had you guessed? ). I remember going there when the dses were little, and them expecting the boys to sit quietly and look at the candles, whilst we talked - and they wouldn't let the boys blow out a single candle. It was a bit stressful, and dh kept taking them outside to run off steam on the village green.

My tree and all decs match the living room - silver and duck egg blue. In the dining room I have another tree with all gold decs on it as this goes with the colour scheme in there.
I am a bit of a princess about it all matching. Next Christmas we will have a 10 month old DC so I expect it won't look so perfect

Mostly not. But I do dream of a tree that looks like A Gift From The Norwegian People.
Mainly red and beige scandi nicky naks. But I like lots of fresh foliage too. And robins. And a bit of gingham. I used to have navy tinsel to tone with a navy sofa but then I got a life.

I am quite strict - christmas colours only on tree and living room, regardless of room colour.

For me christmas colours are gold red and green.

But my dining room room is a colour that looks gorgeous with silver, so I have started to accumulate silver things for there.

But then all our homemade/kids chosen tat fits in somewhere, wouldn't dream of not including it just because of colour. although I have trained them quite well that pink and purple aren't christmas colours!

Living room is brown and green, tree is gold, red and pink. So it doesn't go at all. But it's a Christmas tree, and looks lovely, so who cares ?

Mine kind of match. I have decorations that are the same colour as my living room. However, since my DSs started bringing home handmade decorations from school it's all now mid matched

I don't think it matters really. It's a christmas tree and only needs to go with itself.

Yes but I only ever decorate my living room in colours that look good with red so my tree will always look good [Christmas Loon]

I am so using "reindeer vomit" in the inevitable row with dh that will occur when we put up the tree.

Yes my decs are red, gold and green, the living room similra colours, though the decs were not bought to match

Yes, my lounge is decorated in neutral colours and in winter the rug, cushions, curtains and any accessories are swapped from the deep teal and zingy green colour scheme to red, cream and beige, and our tree is red, beige and gold Scandi style. I like to wrap presents in coordinating colours too

DH leans towards the reindeer vomit end of the spectrum, and keeps trying to sneak in glitter and robotic Santas!

No.

My living space is grey, white, teal, wood. V contemporary.

The tree is festooned with a mishmash of decorations from years past, holidays abroad, pre school creations, grandparents handmedowns. Multicoloured and mismatched and I love it.

Nope, it's as multicoloured and uncoordinated as can be. I love it!

Yes and no, the tree is in the living room and is a riot of colour, the DCs choose something new every year, the only rule is no tinsel or garlands, hanging decs only. We don't have too many other decorations in there but mostly stick to red and gold in there and the dining room (both yellow walls). Blue/silver decorations in the kitchen, to match the crockery.

No. I like to choose decorations from places we've visited, or buy nice bits from Christmas markets or let DD choose bits and pieces. I think you'd all hate our tree. It's definitely in the reindeer vomit category.

Pre DD it was colour coordinated.

I think that decorating a tree to match the colours of a room looks a little bit tacky. Avoiding a horrible clash is one thing but I really don't like the look of actually matching.