Tasteful outdoor Christmas decorations?

[Sadhoot]

Is there such a thing? This is my first time decorating an outside, having lived in flats for most of my life.

I'm not a big fan of inflatable Santas scaling the walls and stuff like that. Plenty of those on my street anyway. I like traditional and understated. Internally I will be making natural decorations/wreaths etc from the enormous fir tree in the garden. It needs a trim anyway and this feels like the perfect opportunity.

I would very much appreciate any suggestions/advice

white solar powered lights maybe?

Ours are tacky and I don’t like them really but the kids do so I put up with them. Once they are older I also want to tone it down a lot. The only lights I like outside at the moment are the Christmas hanging baskets with just a few white lights on the mini trees and a few white lights on the door wreath.

I might have promises dd the reindeer she's wanted for 15 years as a bribe .

We've gone for all white external lights this year. White outdoor 'blossom' tree, projected white snowflake lights over the front of the house, a white reindeer and this year I'm looking for white solar light strings to put in our trees in a small field at the front of the house (2 rows of 5 apple trees).

DH likes to wrap strings of plain outdoor lights around the trunk of the silver birch (and a long a couple of branches), and another set around the outside of the yew tree. It’s understated but effective. We like it.

I want to hang battery powered tea lights in coloured glass jars from trees in the back garden this year as well.

BiddyPop

That sounds lovely! Sadly I do not have a tree, but I might be tempted to buy some potted ones and put lights on that. How much is a potted tree? 😬

Do you have warm or cool white lights?

Warm white, definitely, not flashing. I like coloured ones too, but I know that lots of people think they are a bit down market.

We have cool white for silver birch, and red for yew.

I like warm white for indoors though, and would have got warm white for outdoors if there had been an option

Warm static lights.

Sprig1

The Christmas tree lights can switch between white and colour, it's nice to switch it up throughout the month.

It's just the outside I can't deal with

Not blue, I think there’s an emergency
I’ve just ordered warm white icicle lights, I have a wreath that I’ve used for about 5 years which was from The White Company. I used to have one of the Santa, stop here signs too but think it had it and got binned last year.

I’d happily have it like Danny De Vito’s house in deck the halls!!