Christmas Lights - colored or white?

DEFINATELY colored. I don't find white is Christmas at all...and actually when people decorate their house in all white we dont even stop to look when we're out lights looking with the boys, it's just so blah.

Just wanted to add that I also hate blue.....I think blue looks so wrong on a christmas tree. A little blue here and there but not when people decorate all in blue and silver, yuckies!!  haha.

I LOVE color! Lots and lots of color!   I also don't like the pink or white trees. Or when people decorate with all red lights, or all green lights, etc. I think you get my drift....I like color! LOL

Colored lights here, too. I like white lights, if they're twinkling under a blanket of snow. But the colored lights look so nice, too, under snow, and they give me a holiday feeling. So many people today put white candles in their windows...as a sign of welcome, I guess. And that's fine. But for Christmas, I love my colored lights.

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Originally Posted by Winchester 

Colored lights here, too. I like white lights, if they're twinkling under a blanket of snow. But the colored lights look so nice, too, under snow, and they give me a holiday feeling. So many people today put white candles in their windows...as a sign of welcome, I guess. And that's fine. But for Christmas, I love my colored lights.

Maybe that's what it is here, too. People in my area decorate with white lights YEAR round....parties, Easter, Valentines Day, etc and some people just leave some outside 24/7. At our community center we have 2 artifical trees in the back and we leave the white lights on them all the time. So I don't see white lights as festive...it's just an everyday thing.

I have white ones on my tree

I'm all about the colored lights!  White is pretty too, but too "tasteful" for my taste!   I'm all about bright, bright color!  And yes, that IS a hot pink glitter star on top of my Christmas tree.

I prefer colored myself, just adds more "pizazz!" in my opinion, although all white is classy.

I like both of them equally. We have an artificial tree with the lights already attached to the branches, and those are white. Then in the front windows we put coloured lights. I outside we have a mix of white and coloured light decorations. Why pick one when you can have both 

I don't decorate an indoor tree anymore but when I did...

it was colored lights all the way.

I loved sitting quietly at night, watching all those beautiful colors.

But I have to say that white lights are beautiful too...

they remind me of sparkling stars. 

I prefer colored; but I use both in different places.  I like my tree to have more of a "family" look.  With lots of different ornaments and colors.  I do like a tree done in white lights; it can be so elegant!  Esp if you stick to a simple color scheme for your decorations.  My Mom used to put up a 2nd tree with white lights and mostly white or gold ornaments, a gold garland...and red poinsettia flowers! The red of the flowers just popped so beautifully against the other colors. 

For outside the house I've always loved the big colored lights.  Someday I hope my DH will let me do the outside of our house up.  Right now we just have a LED tree on the porch.  It's pretty though! 

In my kitchen/dining area I have a greenery garland (not shiny) twisted with white lights that goes around most of the room.  It's very pretty!  I also have some big, iridescent, white lights that go around the living room.  I can't wait till next year. I'm going to put a little tree up in DD's room on her dresser!  We will see if she has a favorite color before I get decorating it though. 

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Originally Posted by Momto3boys 

DEFINATELY colored. I don't find white is Christmas at all...and actually when people decorate their house in all white we dont even stop to look when we're out lights looking with the boys, it's just so blah.

That's how it always was for me growing up. We would go through the sub divisions by our house and look a tthe lights, but the white lights were always so boring and generic that they never interested me. Also, people tend to do boring displays, like having one random tree in their yard covered, or just have whites lights around their garage door because they are too lazy to cover their eaves like everyone else, which makes it even worse.

Another point on which we agree. When I see blue, it's just a darker version of white lights since the blue lights don't put off as much light. The only time I enjoy blue lights is if it's outdoors and the owners have a nativity scene up, because I think the blue lights say "Christmas starlight" very well. Oh, and the nativity scene itself still has to be in color, or it's all wrong.

When I think of a family with white Christmas tree lights, I think of a family who has a separate living room for "special occasions" with a plastic runner going through it that you're supposed to walk on and all the couches have a plastic dust jacket. I also imagine a house with pristine white carpets and no messes, like toys, lying around. Basically, a house with no signs that a family actually lives there. I'm mostly drawing these conclusions from one of my friends growing up. His mom was an absolute neat freak who had all the things I listed. Christmas was basically a white explosion because she thought colored lights were messy or disorganized or something and she didn't want her house looking less than perfect (in her eyes) for any amount of time.

We have white lights on our tree simply because the tree came with lights installed. I do prefer colored lights for decorating, I'm just too lazy to change all the bulbs. I do think the white lights look nice too, especially on theme trees. 

Outside lights have to be colored, but for the tree, alternate between white and colored every year.  This year is colored.

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Originally Posted by Momto3boys 

DEFINATELY colored. I don't find white is Christmas at all...and actually when people decorate their house in all white we dont even stop to look when we're out lights looking with the boys, it's just so blah.

 

Just wanted to add that I also hate blue.....I think blue looks so wrong on a christmas tree. A little blue here and there but not when people decorate all in blue and silver, yuckies!!  haha.

 

I LOVE color! Lots and lots of color!   I also don't like the pink or white trees. Or when people decorate with all red lights, or all green lights, etc. I think you get my drift....I like color! LOL

I feel the same way, the more colour the better! Unfortunately DH is opposite and is decorating our house with white lights, but I get to decorate our tree colourful!

White. Warm white if in a cozy tree indoors (or decorating a stable, barn etc), but cold white (nearly blue) if outside or in an 'extra fancy' indoor tree. I find the multi-colored ones tacky.. 

*eta* Not sure about how things were originally done in other countries, but here people used to put real candles to the xmas tree, my mom's lights are even candle shaped, so that's probably why I've been brainwashed to like the white lights better. 

i like just white lights. as a kid growing up in Germany we had real candles on the tree every year. they were white, about 4 in long and fit into these holders that had a clip on the bottom and you just clipped it on. we never once had the tree catch fire

I think coloured looks more festive.  You frequently see all white mini lights in trees, bushes, shrubs all year round at some places. I guess they think it gives extra ambiance to their business.  Wheras coloured lights are usually only seen around Christmas, so they are more special IMHO.

Blue all the way. I like multi colors.

It depends on the thing.

My tree is silver this year with white lights and pink and turquoise balls and a turquoise star

Parents tree is green of course, but white lights, silver balls and red balls very nice

As far as outside decorations, I prefer multi colored....

But my all time favorite Christmas light color is blue. This one year, and i haven't found it since- walmart had a purplish turquoise color. it was wonderful

Alcoves in the house- Silver tinsel garland, multi color lights & white glitter snowflakes

The entrance to my kitchen: (And honestly if I had enough of the blue I would have done it all in blue......

View of tree with more lights

I like a colorful tree at my house.    Our beautiful tree has multi-colored LED lights.  I have red, green and silver ornaments in various shapes & sizes from an ornament set, and some single keepsake ornaments and others I bought here and there.  It makes me happy to see a beautiful, colorful Christmas tree in the dark days of winter.

That said, my mother in law also has a beautiful tree and decorates hers every year with clear lights and red/gold ornaments.  Hers is a very classy tree and I appreciate its beauty, but for my home muli lights feel more like "me."  If I lived in a house with separate living and family rooms or a formal dining room I might do a color theme tree with clear lights in the "company" room and then the colorful tree in the family area.