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As the title suggests i am after so ideas for a colour theme for my Christmas tree. I want to break the habit of buying random decorations and just by ones that suit each other.
I live in a old farm house if that helps. Oh and k am surrounded by boys :-)
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We have gold and red on our tree. I also like the look of purple and silver, if you arent into the traditional colours :)
What about gold and silver?
I've seen some gorgeous trees that have that colour theme and you can get different looking decorations that are those colours and that go well together.
:( I like random decorations best of all.
I hate the Christmas trees that look like they have been put together by a stylist and much prefer the 'kids went crazy and threw everything they could find at the tree' look.
I change colour schemes each year, if I put a tree up. One year it was blue and gold, another silver and glass, another red and silver. I generally try to make it look like a stylist has put it together ;) I can get very antsy about making it look perfect, which is silly really. I also try to avoid red and green.
We have a big beautiful black Xmas tree. Our decorations for it & the house are always black, silver & white for us. Sometimes I add a colour, but rarely :)
We have a retro theme for our tree most of the time. We have a lot of the inlaws old decorations from when try owned a shop over 30 years ago. Really good quality stuff.
I tried to do a colour theme one year but my dd cracked it because she wanted her fav things up. Now I just make it look festive with as many retro things a I can!
We have two trees. Our big tree is blue and silver only; Absolutely no exceptions, including the gifts wrapped underneath - Santa gets VERY strict instructions ;-)
I am however aware that the kids love all sorts of bright, tacky stuff (which is what Christmas trees are all about) so the girls have a smaller tree that goes in their toy room and that has every colour imaginable. Santa gets a request in their wish letters that he leaves some presents under each tree.
Have you considered heritage stye? Eg old fashion German decorations):
Thanks for the suggestions guys.
Onyx I have tried the Random and it just isn't doing it for me unfortunately so i'm going to try for the more stylish this year. LuLu I like your idea of the 2 trees, might do that.
Chrispe will have to do some research into heritage, and look into what the German Decorations consist of.
I love the sound of the black tree (although that would be buying a whole new tree also) but it sounds beautiful.
I change colour schemes each year. Last year was blue purple and silver. This year maybe blue and green.
My tree is black and I have pink and silver decorations.
i kinda like the messy mixed decos - reminds me of Christmases growing up. i look at the color matched ones, and, i dunno, they feel too styled and just not as "family friendly"
i have "nice" decos though - glass, or ceramic, hand-painted etc. a lot from bradford exchange with Thomas Kinkade artwork on them. i guess the TK ones would probably fit an idea of more 'heritage' - santas and snowmen with village scenes painted on them. absolutely gorgeous
http://s213.photobucket.com/albums/c...ldSantas34.jpg
hopefully this link works - i haven't posted from photobucket before - this is one of the TK santas i mentioned
i also have snowmen, reindeers, santa boots, bells - all gorgeous stuff!
Pic worked, thanks BG, beautiful decoration.....I think I would have to return to work early in order to pay for them all :p
I think my problem is I'm too far away from town and I can't really source decent decorations, might try and get a look at Myer this year.
Like the sound of black with pink and silver, might add a slight feminine touch to my very male household. Don't know if they would appreciate it though.
I ahve done pink and silver and pale blue and silver on a big traditional tree and they look great! I am thinking red and blue this year but we too end up a bit hodge podge with kinder decos inbetween - so really we have a main colour theme with other bits :rofl: Might not be what you want!! Will see if I can find a photo!
Pic worked, thanks BG, beautiful decoration.....I think I would have to return to work early in order to pay for them all :p
I think my problem is I'm too far away from town and I can't really source decent decorations, might try and get a look at Myer this year.
Like the sound of black with pink and silver, might add a slight feminine touch to my very male household. Don't know if they would appreciate it though.
Work out what you want a look on eBay. Or remind me why we're online on fb. I am fan of a Christmas store on there that ha ideas as well as sales of course! Might be a way to get what you want.
Red & gold decorations here. And the wrapping paper on the presents has to have mostly red or gold or preferably both.
we do random but at night I kinda smooth it out a bit.
if you want color schemes- how about your boys fav colors for the 1st year?
Ours is hot pink and silver, although I don't even put it up every year! I guess seen as though bubba is due in jan I'm going to have to make more of an effort next year, might stock up on the after Xmas sales this year and go all out next year!
I will admit we bought them when we were DINKs, and had not long sold my house after I moved in with him. We'd found out about our fertility issues ad decided we could either dwell on the infertility and withdraw a try and ignore Christmas seeing its so kidlet focused, or we could embrace the magic and go with the idea of "if you build it they will come". Was still another three users before we had our own kidlet to share Christmas with, but we embraced it and continue to turn our house into a Christmas wonderland every year. For us as much as for her an her cousins:
We also do a Celery Xmas tree
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...4&l=7c2169a4d0
This was our tree in 2008. We don't always use the Poinsettias in the tree every year, sometimes they are used as other decorations :)
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?f...7&l=f0154f3dc5
TAKE TWO!! :) Thanks BG!! XX
I hope the links work. x
links not visible Sunny - you need to share the public link at the bottom of the page rather than the address in the address bar. with the way the new fb photos pop up in front of fb, instead of changing page, it doesnt' automatically show up - you need to hit F5 for it to refresh into a proper window. the link is down the bottom of the page, underneath the photo and comments
Just did an edit of PP, hope it works :)
Thanks again BG! I just hope it worked! :))
yup, worked that time!
We have two trees. My 6' designer-looking golden tree, with graduated baubles in four different sizes (large on the bottom to small at the top), clear fairy lights and 24 small golden stars (one for each day in December before Christmas) and a big gold star for each Sunday in Advent, each star has its own decoration and place on the tree. The golden angel goes on after the Church service on Christmas Eve.
DS has a small 2' tree with bright colours and multi-coloured fairy lights. He decorates it himself and has even made some of the decorations (including the angel for the top of the tree). He will have it in his bedroom this year and he is thrilled. Last year it was the only tree we had up and I did miss my tree, much as Liebling loved the craziness of his.