My DM has always been a bit of a Christmas snob, and I have to admit my tastes are very similar. My DF is always threatening to get a giant blow up Father Christmas or snowman for the balcony to replace the tasteful warm white lights and bedecked box ball trees 
. My DM and her next door neighbours coordinate their outside decorations every year.
DP likes coloured lights (almost a LTB issue), but I let him have one string of them along a doorway inside the house where no one will see them. I do white lights weaving through the shutters at the front, and same lights on the tree.
The rest of the decorations I make myself, it was DP and I's first Christmas together last year with baby DD and we didn't have much money to spend, so while people may think my orange slices studded with cloves, cinnamon sticks and gingerbread decorations look a bit poncey they actually cost about a tenner to decorate the whole tree and matching holly and ivy wreath on the front door. I get thick red velvet and gold ribbons instead of tinsel, which I loathe (it's the texture, just so wrong) and now understand my mothers hatred of it. I used to get very annoyed she wouldn't let us have tinsel on the tree as a child because everyone else had it and she relented once but we all accepted it looked a bit shit with her other decorations. I know once DD is a bit older the tat will be flowing into the house thick and fast, so I'm making the most of doing it my way before DD has a say.
I vividly remember the look of horror on my mums face when my DB chose a giant glittery penguin as his decoration one year. DM and I spent so much time trying to move it to the back of the tree so it couldn't be seen, DB moves it back, we still do this now even though we are in our twenties! We can laugh at our own snobbiness, and that's what this thread was supposed to be about right?
I do usually treat myself to a fancy Christmas candle, last year was diptyque but this year I quite fancy Bella Freud's 'starry starry nights' candle.