Lights lights lights!!

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We're getting outdoor lights for the first time this year!!!

Unfortunately I, ahem, am suffering from too much choice. I need help with 2 things:

1. Bright white or warm white for around the roofline (leaning towards bright, but I just don't know....!). It's probably a lifelong commitment and I do want to be sure.

2. Precisely how many light up penguins are too many...?

I prefer warm white lights, I think they look more classy. Although if you’re going down the penguin route.....

We prefer warm lights!

My preference is warm lights but whatever you decide, don't mix the two (or any other colour combination).

Light up penguins come in packs

I think warm white is a nicer, softer light and one light-up penguin is one too many.

If you feel you have got to have some sort of Antartic theme why not a scale model of Shackleton's ship 'Endurance' ice-locked on your lawn? Could be a first.

Warm white looks classy and expensive. Bright white is harsh and just looks cheaper to me.

How many penguin lights are too many? One.

Warm white, no question.

Warm white 100%

Blue lights are not nice at all.

Prefer warm

Re penguins - you have too many if they stop fitting in your yard

Warm look much more Christmassy IMO. and classier :)

Thanks!!!

I was starting to lean towards the bright lights but actually looked at them in a garden centre today but they did look waaaaay too blue. And my Christmas tree has warm white and I wouldn't want them to clash!

I definitely agree with the no mixing of light colours!!

Think I'll go with the warm. Thank you for the advice (also don't want to piss off the neighbours as they'll be the ones looking at it!!).

I think I'll leave the penguins, as they'd clash with warm. Maybe. 90% of the time I aspire to a classy, Good Housekeeping worthy, Christmas. The rest of the time...I just want All The Lights!!!!

We have warm white gutter lights, a Santa train, reindeer, candy canes, a Christmas tree at the door, an inflatable Santa and fairy lights for our cherry blossom tree.
Though the wall neighbors do similar for their grandson and all the kids just love our combined display.
All clashing gloriously, classiness be damned.
Absolutely no love for cold white or those blue lights that flash aggressively and make you wasn't to pull over to let the police car past

Warm lights
You need Santa and his reindeers in your garden🎅🎅🎅 and a couple if snowmen⛄☃⛄

I like mixing bright and warm together

Bright and warm are still classy and are best of both.

Warm lights in the front garden . Huddle of penguins in the back garden!

Warm white lights.

As for the penguins, it’s a well known fact that the correct number to have is n+1 where n=the number you currently own.

Warm lights.
House over the road had bright white flashing ones that made a very convincing impression of the emergency services.

Warm is my preference, but don't mind either, as long as they aren't blue. There's a house by my parents old house that decorate their entire front in blue lighting, it doesn't feel christmassy at all to me and I used to hate driving past. One of the few benefits to them no longer living there.

Warm white lights are incredibly pretty, but coloured lights would be fabulous!

We went to the garden centre last weekend and they had a huge display of outside lights. Most came with remote controls to turn them different colours, so you wouldn’t necessarily have to stick with the ice white if you didn’t want to. I was trying to persuade DH how amazing a family of hot pink and lime green reindeer would look on the roof but sadly, he wasn’t having any of it.

We do actually have a long thin bit of side garden that would do quite a nice Santa and reindeer display. I'm incredibly tempted by a train as well...

Sod it. I've been persuaded that shit loads of coloured lights are the way to go. Classy be damned. The colourful houses are always the ones I like looking at the most anyway.

I do like the classy warm white lights but I must admit it's the coloured ones that take me back to my childhood and make me all warm and fuzzy inside 🤗

Definitely warm lights. Much nicer.

Coloured lights also look lovely outside, much more festive/retro/nostalgic.

Sod it. I've been persuaded that shit loads of coloured lights are the way to go. Classy be damned. The colourful houses are always the ones I like looking at the most anyway

Plus, all those families that take their DC to drive or walk past houses with pretty lights on, will now want to go past your house too. You’ll be adding to the magic of Christmas, all because of the power of coloured lights.

I soooo want a lovely lit up doe and fawns but realistically can’t have them. Sigh. Maybe next year...🎄🎄🎄