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 think I might agree yami avoid massive clashes but too matchy matchy seems a bit soulless... I'm in my second year of a felt / gingham / Nordic / rustic-ish theme but I do feel the need for a new tree, ours is looking rather shabby but I keep thinking I should really wait till they go 50% off AFTER Christmas and have a new one for next year.

The kids have a teeny tree each in their room that they can decorate with all their random school craft decorations, salt dough decs from years past etc, keeps them happy and the main tree looking not tooooooo reindeer vomitous!

I like the idea of a tree in DC' s room. Our tree wasn't coordinated with the decor. The tree itself used to be colour coordinated. I'd forgotten about the salt dough decs we made a few weeks ago...

Robinsparkles - I so love your description of reindeer vomit! I'm with you on that one.

My decorations don't match, but they do tone. So my living room is mostly beiges, browns with a bit of burgundy. My Christmas decs are mostly red and gold these days.

Some may say boring, but a) I like the traditional look (that's proper Victorian tradition, not the 1970s naff look) and b) I like my house to look nice all year round, why would I change this at Christmas!?!

Personally, I think you make an interesting tree by having interesting things on it, but that doesn't mean it has to be clashing colours - you can have interesting items on a tree that doesn't look like reindeer vomit too .

Facebook, I agree my children each have a small tree in their rooms, which they can bling out to their hearts content (and indeed does look like reindeer vomit), but as I don't have to look at it, I don't care

Last year after snapping.and barking at ds over making sure that the tree stayed gold and silver, I hated the bloody thing when I sat and thought about it. I remember being allowed to have fun with our tree as children, not get told off over wanting to put knitted santa in

This year I resolved to get a grip, I let ds loose in shop with no input from me. There are coloured lights, baubles in every colour of the rainbow and a whole heap of tinsel (which I never allowed)

It is pure reindeer vomit and.to be honest I can't wait!

I don't like matching.

I let dd choose our decorations, and I let the DC decorate the tree themselves - I just put the lights on and make sure they don't pull the tree over. And put decorations on the higher branches that they can't reach.

Dd2 was 18 months last year, and I loved looking at the low branches that she'd decorated .

This year we won't have our own tree as we are staying with family. I doubt the DC will even be allowed to hang anything on the tree under direction, let alone do it all themselves, as MIL has a scheme and knows where each decoration should go. Bit of a shame IMO, but there you go. I much prefer looking at a slightly eccentrically decorated tree that my DC are bursting with pride about, than a perfect, "show" tree that they aren't allowed to touch.

My tree in the kitchen is red and white Nordic style, which does match in with the decor. Tree in the hall is all the decorations I've collected from different countries,ones relatives have bought me, the baby's 1st Christmas ones, stuff the dc have made etc. I have a huge big bag of baubles all the same, so when these are hung up it sort of pulls the look together even though there are lots of individual decorations. Iykwim

The main colours are red and gold, but every year we all choose a bauble each to buy and add to the tree (and the swarovski Xmas set), I don't know how people afford to change the colour scheme every year. Although perhaps not buying the swarovski set would help

Definate reindeer vomit. We have every colour if the rainbow on it along with lots of the childrens handmadee decorations. I love it, although I do rearrange it once the kids are in bed so that it doesnt fall over with all the decorations hanging on the same three branches lol.

cutteduppumpkin I have changed my entire decs including lights for less than half the cost of that set . I'm going to hazard a guess that you are not 'a The Range' kind of girl? Tatt comes cheap!

Kind of, as in the decorations in my sitting room are mostly white, clear glass, crystal, pearl, silver, gold, so would go with anything really.

But I have other decorations on the tree too, things that the dc have made etc.

The kitchen is more red "traditional" Christmassy mixed with scandi style.

The dc have an led tree in their bedroom with all the ornaments FC and others have given them each year.

nope
I'm firmly in the reindeer vomit camp
IMO tastefulness has no place at Christmas - it's all about abundance and excess and glitter

not at all!

Ours is best described as family eclectic, it matches nothing except us as a family Love it.

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my dining room is white, with rustic dark furniture- this room has the red/white nordic decs(only time of year when theres colour in there)

my living room is pale olive and we have natural,white,snow theme in there.

Ours is going to be blue, white and silver this year but I'm hoping to build up a collection of baubles and one year do a rainbow tree :)

we have two. The Green with retro glass decs (saved from parents who thought they were old fashioned) which is Naice and what is known as the Gay Disco Tree. White with the most lurid sparkly tat fired over it. Dh used to hate it. He proudly bought new decs from paperchase this year-the very tacky glass ones. What ever the kids like. No time to go all Kirsty.