How will your tree be decorated this year?

[Burnt0utMum]

Interested to hear how everyone will be decorating their trees for Christmas. We have always gone for the traditional red, green and gold but somehow all my decorations were accidentally thrown out this year when we've been renovating and clearing things out so I'm starting from scratch. I've replaced them for now with a bunch of random colours as I just couldn't decide what to go for so looking for some inspiration before I buy any more! What colour schemes do you go for and do you always have the same or do you change it each year? We have a main tree in the living room and a pencil tree in the dining room so need to decide if they should match or go for different schemes on each.

We have a base colour like red and green or white and silver for small matching baubles and then add the interesting ones - one for each of the children, one bought for people who've died (weird tradition), dh's childhood ones.

Elf vomit... that is our look every year.

Everything from the kids handmade things, through tinsel and paper chains, and coloured lights with little lantern shaped covers.
Love Christmas. Hate "styling".

Same as always - a riot of Quality Street colours, proper multicoloured filament bulb lights, plenty of original 70s and 80s decorations and Morrissey as the fairy on top of the tree complete with pink tutu (don't ask).

We will have our plywood tree up again this year with ceramic tree decs which I or my children have decorated over the years at our local pottery painting place.

It is neat, sustainable and (crucially) really bloody easy to put up, take down and store for the 11 months we don't use it.

Our tree doesn't have a theme I just put on stuff I've collected over the years. I like it better than a theme as each time I pick something out of the box I remember where or why I bought it. I have bought these to add to my collection this year and I'm looking for a new fairy for the top of the tree.

I’ve got my grandparents baubles from the old country, made in the 1950s, and one of the few things I would save in a fire. I’ve added to them over the years but they looks so petit next to the recently bought John Lewis globes. I’m in denial about the financial mess facing us next year so just spunked £30 on three Santa's work shop style toy ornaments which will be this years addition. Just warm lights, baubles, strings of beads, and whatever wonderful crap my dc makes at nursery. No theme or colour scheme.

I do put the lights on and DD throws it all up in to the tree. No colour or ornament theme. DD and I just get an ornament if we like the look of it. All the stylised stuff is too tiresome for me. I want to enjoy the tree and its lights, not worry if x matches with y

My Xmas trees have been...
Red and gold
Silver bLue and white
Disney themed
Mismatched odd ornaments

Harry Potter theme again this year, including the floating candles

Pictures attached
Fairy lights will be white this year though

Love this😂

We have a general base of red, gold and silver and the some other random ornaments. Ex was extremely particular about colour scheme 🙄 - he wouldn't put baubles on the dcs had made if they didn't match etc. So I really enjoy chucking some stuff on there I know he'd hate.

Tree 1 - multi coloured with decorations I have collected over the years from loads of places.

Tree 2 - silver and white decorations.

Tree 3 - jewel coloured decorations like peacocks.

Tree 4 - new this year and I’m going for rustic woody type decorations.

Tree 5 - in DD’s bedroom, she has collected her own decorations. It’s quite a ‘girly’ tree.

Tree 6 - in DS’s bedroom, mostly his childhood decorations. As he is a teen he will pretend not be arsed about it.

Then there are the outside trees …………..

I may have a problem.

It collapses into a box so, if I can be arsed, I'll drag it out of the loft, lift its sorry top up and shove a pole up its arse and plug it in. Job done!

Like every other PP I have a selection of baubles slowly collected over the years. We started with a 3' tree in a pot with a tasteful selection of silver, gold and blue baubles. Then we had children and our tree now has a mix of tasteful baubles and decorations made by the kids. 15 years of painted pinecones, pom pom robins, salt dough stars, hama beads stars, origami decorations etc etc.

If you are starting from scratch and want to be fashionable get a set of vintage baubles from ebay. The colourful 60s style ones.

Our main tree is decorated red and gold. The tree in the snug is white & gold and the hallway tree is like a champagne colour.

This is the tree I've got from Etsy.

We'll be doing the austerity look, a cheap bedraggled tree with a few pine needles left on, bought on Christmas Eve. 🎅

We will then gradually snap off branches over the Festive Period, putting them on our BBQ in the middle of the room, for hopefully, a little warmth. 🥶

Which tree?

I have issues.

I always wanted a big bloody beautiful tree, and to have it up for the whole of Christmas. But my parents refused to have a tree earlier than a week before Christmas and it was always the most sorry looking tree you could imagine.

So now tree goes up first week in December without fail. I have to find a pretty tree and it's decorated with white, silver and black. It's 'must be perfect and stick to colour scheme and be ultra tasteful' and that goes in the front room. I've bought things from our travels and gradually added to the collection. Everything is really precious but has to fit the theme. Putting it up takes forever.

But...

Then I have a crazy tree, which I shove anywhere I can find space. I need to do something mad to counter my perfect tree. I theme the second one differently every year. Last year I made flowers and butterflies. The year before was neon coloured - I made cardboard stars from packaging from sainsburys. Still undecided on this year but I have a vague idea.

I'd have a tree in every room if I could. With a different theme.

No. You are welcome to come to my house and have a Christmas tree party!

I am now looking up vintage Christmas baubles on ebay...

Exactly this.

Morrissey 🤣🤣 We need a photo.

Did you buy your lights recently or are they old? Would love to get some, but always wonder if they are safe.

I've got a "base" of gold baubles, and then some sets of decorations that go with the gold, so this year will be champagne, cream and gold. Some years I add tartan, pine cones and little stags, some years I add coppery decorations instead of the tartan. So it all kind of mixes and matches, but I can rotate each year to not get bored.

My son has a playroom tree (connected to the sitting room) and that's where all the multicolour and hand made stuff goes :)

Red gold and green for the large one, purple and silver for the medium one

I’m going to decorate mine with £10 & £20 notes. They’ll be worth fuck all then.
Less expensive than buying baubles.

We have these

Top tip: If you can stretch to it, buy a couple of sets and use the bulbs from one set as spares for the other. Sounds mad but they do go out - we lose at least ten every year - and replacement bulbs are silly money, something like a tenner for four. Two sets costs a lot but we don't have to buy two or three sets of replacements every year, so it works out cheaper in the long run.

You can get the same colours/bulb shapes as LEDs now but they don't have the lovely warmth you get from filament bulbs.