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Xmas decorations.....What colour scheme are you having ??

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Nutcracker · 21/11/2004 14:38

Am in a quandry about this.

We used to have gold with the odd bit off other colours thrown in until last year when i changed it too blue and silver, which looked pretty crappy as i had to much silver and not enough blue.

Anyway now we have moved and our living room is now basically a baileys and cream colour, so what colour do i do the tree ??

I still have all the gold dedorations and the silver too, would gold and silver go ??? Or should i do gold and Ivory ????
Must say i haven't seen many ivory decorations though.

Help

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carla · 21/11/2004 18:06

XXX btw!

lavender2 · 21/11/2004 18:44

goory our tree has all coloured baubles, robins and home-made decs...we put fairy lights in the kitchen and over the walk between the dining and living room....we go for the holly in a big way kind of alan Titchmarsh meets Lawrence Llewellyn Bowen....all over the fireplace (by goodness does it hurt when you're dusting around)...and we pop candles here and thither...paper chains in ds and dd's room (it's a gory house but homely I think).

Gobbledigook · 21/11/2004 19:05

The usual just red and gold on mine. It's an enormous tree and it just has white lights and red and gold baubles (some are those pears and apples that are sort of 'glittery' but not iykwim?

Boys have a few little wooden ones they put on too - soldiers, father christmases etc.

When we move house they'll have their own lounge/playroom and then they'll have their own tree that they can decorate as gory as they like

codswallop · 21/11/2004 19:08

Nut i wouldnt have imagined youa s a a xmas colour coordinated person! - i woudl have imagined it all child " centred" ( for that read kids nursery stuff all over the place)

I must have you all wrong!

GRMUM · 21/11/2004 19:09

Another vulgar one here - every year I buy one or two new ones if I see something I really like, loads of stuff the kids have made over the years and no colour scheme whatsoever. I love our tree!

Tanzie · 21/11/2004 19:56

Colour scheme? We just put everything on, all colours - red, green, gold, silver, blue...lots of multi coloured paperchains too. Why do I have to be tasteful at Christmas?

But my balls are lovely - big painted ones from Poland.

CountessDracula · 21/11/2004 20:04

SNORT, PMSL etc @ colour co-ordinated xmas!

You are winding us up surely? Weddings maybe, but xmas?

paolosgirl · 21/11/2004 20:07

Colour scheme?? I wish! DH is colour blind, and has bought some beauties over the years, the kids home-made lovelies go up, and I buy a couple of small 'tasteful' things that look lovely in the shop and rubbish when I get them home.

PicadillyCircus · 21/11/2004 20:11

We do bright, cheerful and every colour under the sun.

Maybe ine day we'll be grown up enough to have a colour scheme

Ameriscot2004 · 21/11/2004 20:11

Our colour scheme is very traditional (trying to make it sound impressive). Lots of red, green, gold - nothing dominating.

Actually, our scheme has been the same for years and years.

Linnet · 21/11/2004 23:15

Nutcracker I think Ivory sounds fantastic.

I have a tiny 2 ft tree that I got when I was in my first flat. It has one piece of Gold tinsel some red and green bows and some gold/red/green decorations that I got in past times in a sale one year. It looks nice but it's so not me, I hate gold.

This year dh has suggested we buy a bigger tree, still artificial though, which of course means that we have to get new decorations for it as the ones we have won't be enough. Thinking of doing purple and silver, I love purple it's my favourite colour and there are loads of decorations out there that colour this year.

Just need to find somewhere that sells a 4ft tree as we don't have the space for one any bigger, any ideas?

Tortington · 21/11/2004 23:27

i dislike colour schemes, i love more the effort the kids put in with the home made decs and the different baubles and ceiling decs we get for 0.29p from charity shops. bought a tree out of the friday ad this weekend but dh wont entertain putting it up til dec 15th. have got glitter and glue and made some cards for nanna's i think thats what xmas is about - its about looking round my pig sty and seing the stuff the kids have made - its memory making, ithink the best thing about being a parent is that we get the oppotunity to make good times and memories for out kids, and sitting making decorations around xmas time, wrapping prezzies - even the hunt for the cheapest decs int he charity shops all build up to the day where they get their prezzies - but they have created that build up and excitement - itworks for us anyway

nailpolish · 21/11/2004 23:31

we have every colour under the sun!

JoolsToo · 21/11/2004 23:35

always has to be traditional - red, gold and green - marvellous!

charliecat · 21/11/2004 23:35

I have accidently brought christmassy red matched (or indeed mismatched) with a ghastly pink on the other side from the pound shop for our front room ceiling, the rest will be pine cones sprayed with pretend snow and loo roll/pom pom people. Very cheap n cheerful. I know the red and pink is gonna look awful but it will make me smile everytime I look at it and know im too cheap to change them for the sake of a quid

KateandtheGirls · 22/11/2004 00:58

Colour coordinated Christmas trees do look gorgeous. But we are amassing a collection of ornaments which have a lot more meaning than any designer tree. My husband and I started exchanging ornaments every Christmas when we were first married. Now I buy the girls each an ornament every year and one for myself, and we often get one if we go away somewhere. So each ornament we hang on the tree has some meaning and memories. Plus, once my kids are grown and have their own Christmas trees I will give them their own collection of ornaments that they have collected over the years.

WonderCod · 01/12/2006 15:50

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kickassangel · 01/12/2006 16:35

lounge - red, white & silver
hallway, black & pink (used in school until we break up)
dining room, red, gold & green
stirway - gradually adding all the bits that dd make each year

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nutcracker · 01/12/2006 16:38

I had forgotten that I even started this thread last year.

This year I am having gold and copper as my mum had all my old blue and silver stuff off me and so brought me a lovely pack of decorations yesterday.

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nutcracker · 01/12/2006 16:39

Oh and we have a little tree on the landing for all the tacky stuff lol.

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zippitippitoes · 01/12/2006 16:41

this is a farking oancient thread

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nutcracker · 01/12/2006 16:42

God yeah it is, thought it was last years but it's the year before.

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noddyholder · 01/12/2006 16:49

Same every year red green and gold Lots of holly and candles

2shoes · 01/12/2006 17:26

you mean you are surposed to have a color scheme?

paulaplumpbottom · 01/12/2006 17:54

Red and gold in the main hall, silver and pastels in the parlour, and a tree with toylike decorations in the conservatory. Pink and white decorations in my dd's room.