Tasteful Or Tacky? Your Christmas Style?

[Barmaid]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-6430199/Etiquette-expert-William-Hanson-reveals-Christmas-decorations-make-look-common.html

This article made me laugh and sigh in equal measure.

I like to think we are reasonably tasteful, a real tree, holly and ivy over the hearth and single colour lighting. That's if I can be bothered to do anything.

My parents have a mish mash of a tree with decorations we made when we were children. It'll be gaudy but SO sentimental.

However, Mr BM does possess an LED lit reindeer which he bought when his daughter was little. If that makes an appearance on my roof, it'll be more than baubles he'll be missing!!!!!!!

So what's your style? (It doesnt matter, I just thought that this was a fun thread).

[emmie]

wreathes on the door always remind me of funerals, the bow looks tacky i must say. I don't do Christmas as such as i am on my own, but if i go to my brothers which i won't be this year, they go all out, lots of house lights, Christmas tree with all the baubles. Their next door neighbours do the same so no one minds, i think they look festive and nice on cold wintry days.

[emmie]

If i am on my own this year, i will at least toast mine and Minty's birthday on 25th December..

[Mamyalynne]

I have a collection of Christmas bits and bobs amassed over the years, rarely do all of them make an appearance.

Do keep to white lights now and am making a new door garland as we speak.

[spathiphyllum]

white lights over colour 100%, wreath over bow 100% but i mean.. everyone does chrimbo their way don't they! Beauty is in the eye of the bee holder :)

[Baldric]

Tasteful of course, but then what else would you expect?

[rowanwitch]

Dave liked coloured lights, so I gave in, nothing at all this year artificial tree sunday before Christmas, theme varies. Last year red and white gingham ribbon, white baubles and poinsettias. Year before glass birds and gold ribbon... have lots of beautiful German hand made glass tree decorations. All birds except for one cat.

[sandyRoe]

The new neighbours across the street have a Santa scaling a rope ladder attached to an upstairs window, his sleigh, and a cloud of blue lights.
Each to their own.

[mallyh]

icicle led lights outside bungalow guttering and we now have a fibre optic tree and lots of xmas ornaments x

[Barmaid]

There are some people in a nearby village who deck their house out with thousands of lights and christmas scenes. Must drive the neighbours insane. But....... it does raise a lot of money for charity.

My step daughter loves Christmas, I am thinking of hanging a pair of red wellies from under the chimney.

Her dad wants a vodka and red bull and a plate of kitkats as his "santa snack"..........

[rowanwitch]

When I was growing up with no daddy Santa seemed to share mums taste for gin.

[AuntLydia]

Tinsel is banned in our house as are the ghastly paper chains my OH's mum used to hang from corner to corner in the room. We celebrate Yule so most things are brought into the house from outside. Holly, foraged cones and bits of twigs, I dry orange slices and make decorations with them wrapped around cinnamon sticks. My guilty pleasure is fairy lights , of all colours but never flashing on off ones. We have a fake tree as I cannot warrant killing a tree just to decorate the house. Nothing gets put up until at least 15th December.

[Prudie]

Thanks to my bourgeois snobby mother I do lean towards tasteful. Always a real tree, green red and gold colour themes, absolutely no tacky tinsel anywhere nor inflatable snowmen outside. Presents after lunch too. Nothing goes up until at least 17th Dec - that's when I can be bothered at all.

[Eleena]

Hi Barmaid,
the last few Christmases I've decorated with my granddaughter in mind and I've added each year something new. This year I have a grey artificial 6ft tree with pearl/ white and silver baubles. A silver nutcracker, a traditional musical carousel and animated ice skating and snow angel scenes. Tacky? I don't know, but I love them.

[rowanwitch]

I usually do something for the Solstice, can't burn a log but will light the evening with candles and cook something special.

[ChillDoubt]

My Xmas style would best be described as ‘minimal’ i.e. a one foot tall ornamental tree from Poundland, a festive themed tealight holder and card from my sister, all of which will be removed on Boxing Day.

[Bazile]

//f i am on my own this year, i will at least toast mine and Minty's birthday on 25th December..//

Your b'day is on the 25th ?
Not fair is it ?

[maggiebee]

Bit tacky I must admit when the children were young as I had to display all their home/school made decorations. A bit more tasteful in recent years. Not sure if I'll bother this year as I'm going away for Christmas. On the other hand it might be back to tacky with the grandchildren.

[woofgang]

well according to him tacky by a whisker but you know what? He can bog off! I switch between coloured and white lights as the mood takes. My tree is a fake because of the dogs and the pine needles but I have got a group of seedling pines in proper terracotta pots which sit on a bench by the front door and I drape tiny lights around them. My tree always has a fairy on the top, I made her myself. No wreath on the front door as the wind makes it crash against the door. Some of my tree decorations are as old or older than I am which I guess is posh?

[FrillyPancake]

A flocked (fake snow) covered 7 ft tree with purple and pink bobble, and some silver tinsel, a few ornaments dotted around too, looks really cosy once done.

[Eleena]

White fairy lights here also.