Colours and theme for Christmas tree

[MsVanRein]

Anyone fancy sharing their colours and themes for Christmas decor?! Particularly your trees?

I chose mine based on rooms because I like a variety so we have very classic red and gold in the hallway - lots of holly, mistletoe and classic Santas etc.

We have a tree in the sunroom which DS decorates with our Disney decorations and lots of multicoloured felt decorations.

My main tree I have done the last few years in pale pink and white with a bit of silver. It suits our colour scheme in the room and I love all my decorations but everywhere I look this year I see pink and white/silver! Any suggestions to change it up a bit by adding another colour which I can still use my pink/white with - was considering eggshell blue but not sure!?

[MsVanRein]

I totally get it GETTING it's a massive part of the Christmassy feeling for me!

[GETTINGLIKEMYMOTHER]

We will be a very big family party this year and are all going to a huge rented place in Devon. Apparently there will be a Christmas tree, but I'm already fretting in case it's horrible/fake/not green etc. (Talk about first world worries...)
Can see Dh and me zooming out to look for another, so our own decorations will be just another thing to add to the massive list of stuff to take!
Luckily we have more decs. than needed for our own tree, which will go up early this year since I have other family coming to stay in early Dec.
And I do always put a little potted tree with lights and just something on top, outside the front door. That goes up on 1st Dec, or as soon afterwards as I can manage.

[Bobochic]

The main theme of the decorations on our tree is flowers, butterflies and birds, though there are plenty of glass balls too. It's quite colourful - lots of pink/cream/gold/silver - and is very "me". It's most definitely not a fashion statement or a repository of family nostalgia (old/broken decorations are binned and new things are bought every year).

[Oldraver]

I wouldn't say mine is purposefully 'themed'..its just ended up being traditional red/green/gold (mostly brass), with the odd coloured ones.

I've been collecting my decorations over 30 years and have never bothered with the changing of themes. I have a few Crown Derby ornaments that would be quite expensive to replace..(they didnt seem thats expensive at the time) so not sure I could be bothered with changing the colour of the tree ..

DS has a lovely fibre optic tree bought by a friend and it has some Disney and other random stuff. This year he has chosen a stick type fox

[ijustwannadance]

Winter they have some cute gingerbread men tree decs in wilko. They look like they have been sugar coated.

[GetAHaircutCarl]

winter it's a woman made of paper with our surname spelled wrongly - we use her as the fairy at the top of the tree

[winterisnigh]

isjustwanna ginger bread man is theme in our house this year, toddler has just got into story and loves it, got ginger man pjs for them both xmas eve, got GM bunting for toddler...and some lovely GM choc lollies and sets from tx max for stocking

[winterisnigh]

love the table decoration from your honey moon carl, what a lovely idea!

I wish we had enough room for multiple trees, the girls have one small tree each and a main one in living room.

But I really want a large hallway I can go mad with various trees and of course narnia theme.

[GetAHaircutCarl]

We have one with glass and silver ornaments plus cold white lights.

Another with the different ornaments we have collected over the years ( lots are very meaningful - my nana's old robin, the table decoration from my honeymoon, things the children made etc) with warm white lights.

Sometimes we do an extra outside which is just lights.

[MsVanRein]

Glums the skeleton sounds great

[ijustwannadance]

I once did a tree that was only baubles and butterflies. No tinsel or anything else other than light. Looked amazing.

I tend to stick to just 2 or 3 colours plus white. Have so many gorgeous decks i've collected over 20 years so easy to vary.

Might do gingerbread men this year.

[GlumsTheWord]

Multi-coloured bling. If it sparkles, I'm happy. Lots of handmade decorations from the DC over the years. And my favourite - a wooden day of the dead skeleton, smoking a fag!

[TheTantrumCometh]

Ours is red and white and we have a few wooden decorations scattered in there, too. We don't use tinsel, we've got red burlap ribbon. We put it up ridiculously early today as dd was upset because we didn't get to see santa arrive in town today. So the decorations are currently all chucked in two places on the tree and I'll sort it once the kids are in bed!

[littlemissneela]

We have one tree and it has pretty much the same decorations on it every year. We have the wooden ones we bought from a bargain under a pound type shop 25 years ago for our very first christmas in our first home. Sadly the fairy lights bought at the same time stopped working a few years ago which was a shame as they were coloured and had plastic flowers around the lights. Ver kitch but fab. We have some wooden discs hanging on a twine loop with a heart burnt on, which friends gave as wedding favours. We have 3 knitted dolls (two santas and a snowman) which came from the kids great-grandma, lots of baubles which are mainly silver, or glitter, mirror balls, icicles, bells, clip on birds, tinsel, fairy on the top, white or coloured lights, candy canes, crackers hidden on the branches, a bauble bought from Navy Pier in Chicago, plus loads more. In early years, the kids handmade creations used to take pride of place, but now stay in the decorations box and I just look at them when getting the decs out.

[thenewaveragebear1983]

Palomb the lemax village is basically little china houses with lights inside, we have a toy shop and a ye olde pub and various other bits. I hate it because it is pure tat really, very expensive (like £50 a house, and over £100 for things that have moving parts like the Ferris wheel!) and annoyingly it looks better the more bits you have. Plus all the children that come round like to play in the snow and leave it all over the floor. Ghastly horrible thing. As I said, dh loves it, God knows why.

[Palomb]

What's a lemax village?!

[Wolpertinger]

DH has pointed out our tree has the same theme as last year, the year before and 5 years before that.

Actually it has the same theme (and some of the decorations) as 40 years ago

Green tree, white fairy lights, Scandi straw and red stuff, Danish flags, Danish woven hearts and cones. House decorated with cut out figures of nisse (sort of like elves) - you can still buy the same cut outs my DM had as a child.

Yes it's 1950s Denmark gone mad Sadly I don't do the real candles anymore but it's what my DM had as a child and it's so Christmassy it's now the law.

[thenewaveragebear1983]

I've always done the traditional red, green, gold tree- but this year I've moved to a new house and I am thinking of doing a white and grey/silver, turquoise and a few bits of copper/rose gold in my hallway. I saw a beautiful tree decorated with feather boas instead of tinsel at a garden centre and if I can get a couple off eBay I might add them too.
Dh has no idea- he has his lemax village which he adds to each year, I can't stand the thing.....

[gettingtherequickly]

Lots of red and gold, but also I buy three Swarovski decorations each year and we all choose a new bauble each, so it's increasingly off theme as time goes by.

[Palomb]

Mines very traditional red green and gold
With coloured lights.

[allegretto]

Only space for one tree here and, like a previous poster, there are complaints if I try and theme it. Everything goes on it, including cotton wool snowmen. I like it though! I might try a more tasteful decoration in the hall this year.

[WhoKnowsWhereTheT1meG0es]

No theme here, they look nice in shop windows but not cosy and homely enough for me. Lots of multicoloured lights (I hate white ones) and lots of multi coloured baubles and other hanging decorations collected over 20 years. The DCs buy a new one each year each.

[RueDeDay]

My theme is 'glittery shit'. That way, kids homemade decorations tie in beautifully with the occasional John Lewis bauble! And the tinsel vaguely goes, somehow. Ish.