Christmas trees...what colour?

We used to have two-a traditional green tree dressed in gold in the sitting room, and a white one dressed in a lime green, pink and turquoise in the dining room. We only have room for the white one since downsizing, but I really would like a green tree again with the snowy looking branches. Black Friday sales???

I have a nice skinny black artificial tree up in the loft. It came from our previous house where there wasn't much tree space.
I always had artificial until DH came on the scene and insisted on a real tree.

With a bit of furniture shifting we can have a tree in the corner of the living room here, so it'll probably be a real one again, but fairly small.
Decorations have been collected over the years with DD so no real colour scheme.

A new criteria for our planned new house search next year is space for the Christmas tree!!!

There's no substitute for a real one. Sadly we had to give up on real ones when we moved here. Not really feasible in a 4th floor flat.
We do have an artificial one but its depressing.

Tree has to be green but it is a very realistic artificial one.
I have red beads rather than tinsle (hate the stuff) and white lights. Baubles are an eclectic mix collected over the years including some from my childhood.
This year I've bought a polar bear shaped one.

I have a green fibre optic about 2 feet tall that was my mother's and a skinny black one

KateK the best time to buy is in the January sales. That's when we bought ours, about 10 yrs ago.

Why bother having a tree shaped object if it is so very far removed from anything natural?

We've just bought a new green artificial tree. The choice is huge. I rather fancied a frosted tree, but DH put his foot down.?

We've had ours about 30 years. It's green. I keep saying I'll get a new one but I've become quite attached to the old thing. I have lots of things on it that are of senimental value. It's an old fashioned tree my DGD has always loved it.

We bought a very realistic artificial one in the sales from JL. I don't really like it but we had to be pragmatic about it. We have high ceilings and battling an 8' tree was not on anymore. A small one just looks silly.

The baubles are a strange mix accumulated over the years. I might try doing an artistically designed tree in only one or two colours but then one of the children will complain that something is missing and everything goes back on.

We do have one of those paper trees on the desk in the hall which is very stylish (!!) with glass and silver baubles.

Ours is over 30 years old too. A green one we bought it in Woolies in Ryde. Lately been thinking it has seen better days so should we get a new one but this one has so many memories attached. Would never have a real tree in the house, they look beautiful but oh the mess, and the waste!

Last year because we have a small living room and a whole heap of family come for dinner we bought a white pop up tree, its fun and so simple it came perfectly decorated with silver baubles, white lights and I add some of my precious gold ornaments I've collected over the years and my gold fairy its tall and quite slim so fitted in a corner perfectly. After Christmas you simple pop it down into its box and put it back in the loft.
I've always loved a real tree but its no longer practical and they take up much too much space in our little house.

Green and real ?!
It will be small and stand in the bay window on a deep window sill. We no longer have a big one on the floor since a previous fog (male) took one look at it and clearly thought "Indoor plumbing"!! ???

Fog???
DOG ?!

We always have a real tree. The smell of pine in the living room over Christmas is integral to the season. We are lucky, the best place for the tree is directly in front of the French windows which makes getting the tree in and out of the house is easy and there is very little needle-shed in the house either.

However we do also have a tree in the bay window at the front of our house. That is artificial because it is awkward to get a real tree in and out of the relevant room and we used to end up with needles everywhere.

As for decorations. They are the same every year because some date back to my mother's childhood and mine, plus others we have been given or had made for us over the years. Obviously some do break and are replaced but tradition governs our Christmas.

Think it's down to personal choice and circumstances, we would all love a Downton Abbey real tree etc but not practical for most of us. We have a new dog this year and she is still mischievous so we are putting branches on the ceiling and decorating them. A safer option.

Green and real for us too. In fact we have just been out to buy it. This year we decided to try one growing in a pot. We've not had much luck with them before.
New house has lovely deep bay windows in the front, with a lowish sill, so that where we will put it.
Decorations are white lights, strings of silver stars and all the baubles etc. gathered over the years. Many with fond memories attached.

I'm more excited about being able to decorate the traditional wooden porch at the front door.

We have a real tree as our main tree and an artificial one in the dining room. For an artificial tree, I like it to be properly artificial, not a lookalike real tree. Hence we currently have a pre-lit pop-up white tinsel tree for the dining room. It takes all of two minutes to install.

Has to be a real one for us too. And it is covered (and I mean COVERED) in decorations, gawdy, no doubt, to the more stylish, but every ornament has a meaning, and we always decorate it together, as a family, with everybody elbowing for space, and my youngest gets held up to put the angel on top.
After decorating it (which happens around the 13th, depending on how the weekend falls) we all sit down with hot drinks and admire our creation.

It is a chaotic mix of colour and often lop sided - and none of us would have it any other way.

Dh bought one of those fibreoptic changing light trees a few years ago when I was too ill to go and get one. Ots naff but he loves it. I hope it dies every time it comes out- wish me luck with it!!! The I can get a nice white one.
I also have a table top sized ceramic tree that I painted in a ceramics class years ago. It has a bulb underneath and the light shines through the little bead holes- very cute. I also have another table top gold wire tree. I might try and add to them this year with a wooden one for the hall table.

We have a black tree which looks good with white lights and silver and white decorations. However, last year DH fell for a pop up ready decorated tree. I'm not keen on having t but it's easy and I'm really not fussed about Christmas decorations anyway.

Always have had a huge real tree but now decided not to pay approx £65 pa!! With the help of my grandkids we found a large fallen bare branch in the woods- Ive sprayed it allover with gold glitter spray.on the 12th it will go in a large plant pot held in with pebbles&expanding spray foam filler.then decorated with years&years worth of traditional ornaments and soft lights.....✨?

We are in the market for another tree this year - ours has just about given up the ghost. It will have to be green as DH will not countenance any other colour. He bought a fibre optic one some years ago and it was so horrible I couldn't wait to see the back of it. I would like a white one, tastefully decorated with baubles of one or two colours, but in reality it will be all the usual suspects, plus some that GS is painting for me and a couple of boxes that DD bought me last week as Homebase were having a sale! I can dream! In among all the ancient horrors we do have a few particularly nice ones, and, as someone has said, you kind of get attached to the old ones!

Green. Although I have got a lovely shiny pink one that I always stand on son's bedroom windowsill. Strangely, he never has objected.