Christmas trees colour schemes? s/o

This year we have three trees.

Our main tree is collected ornaments and it is colorful. We collet ornaments from every trip we go on so it has those, ornaments my kids made, ones that were gifted to us. It's a hodgepodge, literally. I do use silver + red mercury glass balls to help give it some cohesion.

Our main bedroom tree this year has cream velvet ornaments on it along with silver mercury glass ornament. So cream and silver.

Our dining room tree has all painted ceramic ornaments that we have painted as a holiday activity for the past 15 years or so.

My Christmas tree is live - and I like a lot of light wood and natural colored ornaments - also wood and old fashioned ornaments in light pinks and greens. Kind of ‘Scandinavian Modern’ in my mind.

We used to have our main tree as the collection of all of our memories. Every year DH and I would get an ornament that signified something of that year or some place we traveled (ornaments make the best travel souvenirs).

Once we had kids, they also got an ornament to commemorate something from that year.

I also used to put up a small tree that was decorated with crystal ornaments I bought when we lived overseas.

Then our wonderful cat, who never bothered the Christmas tree, passed away.

Our tree hasn't been the same since.

The cats (plural) we have now wreak havoc with our tree. We now put a stopwatch on it to see how long it takes them to climb it after we get it upright.

The chubby cat likes to climb at least halfway up and try to take a nap. Of course, it isn't easy when her chonkiness makes the branches bend.

The other cats take turns making a running leap into the tree to see who can land the highest. Bonus points if they can knock Bella off her branch.

Needless to say, the feline antics of the last several years have kept our special ornaments in their boxes and plastic ones on the tree.

As for a color scheme, it depends on what color plastic ornaments I pull out and what the destroyed ones are replaced by.

Couple that chaos with the dog we had that would help herself to any candy canes placed low enough for her to reach and you realize there isn't such a thing as a Silent Night in the CraftedbyS household.

I didn’t say you were.

I just hate it when people immediately jump to “my tree is full of memories,” etc. and assume matching trees aren’t.

You can do both.

We have a 10+ ft faux tree and it is full, full, full of meaningful ornaments. I use a thin red ribbon to hang each one to provide cohesiveness. I really need to purge some but it is so hard.

We used to switch out colors each year as well, but found pretty quickly that we were picking the same colors year after year. We started because his aunt picked a color theme each year and did her wrapping to match and we wanted to honor her. 

I have three trees One 9 foot pre-lit one that is our main tree. It sits in the front window. Then I have two pencil trees - one flocked, one not. The unflocked one goes on the landing at the mid point of our stairs going upstairs. The other sits in the family room beside the tv we watch everything on.

Main tree used to be that eclectic mix that looked like we threw ornaments at it. Then I had the box of teal/silver ornaments that I used in bowls/jars/in the mantle garland in the family room because that is the colour scheme in there. Main tree room was a collection of hand me down furniture. When we finally decorated that room with proper furniture and had it painted, it also became a bit of teal & grey. So I took all those teal ornaments and they became the decor for the main tree. This year I scrounged every teal/blue/silver ornament I could find and made those clusters - and from the front of the tree it looks like the clusters wrap around. From the window side, there are a few clusters hanging LOL.

The landing tree holds my Rae Dunn & Disney ornaments. I collect the blown glass ornaments from Disney that are the shape of the Mickey head, but look like a Christmas ornament. And I have an 18" carved Jim Shore Mickey that sits beside that tree.

The flocked/tv tree holds my Hallmark Father Christmas series. These used to go on the main tree, but now there are so many they need their own tree. I've told this story before - but the series is in memory of my Dad. He was the original Father Christmas in this family, started calling randomly any time of year to tell you how many days until Christmas there were. So when he passed in 2005, I thought a Hallmark series would be a great way to honour his memory every year. As luck would have it (it was meant to be) the Father Christmas series started in 2004. I found the first one on eBay. So now I have one for his last Christmas with us and one for every year he has been gone. The current year I buy now and hang on Christmas Eve.

For about the last 12 years or so, I have had a white tree. 7 1/2 foot with multicolored lights with white cords. I add 2 sets that I wind up the middle of the tree to light up the inside. All my ornaments are round, solid color, ball ornaments. Mostly pastels. It really looks pretty. But, being white and Texas heat, they yellow after a couple of years.

This year it needed replacing. I felt like switching it up and getting a green one. Multicolored light, more added to the inside. Same solid colored, round ornaments. I put on about 150 ornaments. This year I am adding many single strands of old fashioned, boxed tinsel. I haven’t finished it yet. But am looking forward to the nostalgia of the silver tinsel.

I used to collect Hallmark series ornaments and used those for many years. But they now sit in a couple boxes in the basement.

Many years ago I switched to red and white as a basic theme, with touches of silver. That is the focus of pretty much all of the Christmas decor for the house. It goes well - an accent color in the year-round decor is a cranberry red color. The main tree is 9’ tall and is visible from the outside through the very big living room windows. The lights are all white except for a couple places on the front porch where they are red.

I do have several penguin ornaments that are mostly black and white and those I buy because my husband loved penguins, as do I, so they are in his memory. I’ve also gotten several cardinal ornaments, and the red color is perfect. We used to buy at least a couple new ornaments every year, and I’ve continued to do that.

Ha, ha! We don't use our fireplace. I've tried two sets of gas logs and never got any heat out of either set. There is no natural gas here and it turns out neither of us really like a fireplace. I gave up and wished I'd never put a fireplace in. The TV sits in front of the fireplace.

We are in NC.  It gets cold enough a few weeks a year, it's been cold this week and a lot of people have gas logs.  They just didn't work for us and even if they had, I can't really justify keeping a propane tank for the little we would use them.

When my kids were little, my tree was full of hand made decorations that I absolutely loved. But now I am loving being able to have a "grown up" tree and choose my colour scheme.

The last two years I have used a mint and white tree, with mint, turquoise, silver, and pink baubles, and plain white lights.

The previous few years I had a normal coloured tree and made a rainbow, using bright coloured baubles, starting with red at the bottom, up to pink, purple, blue, green, gold at the top, and brightly coloured lights.

I also match my wrapping paper to the colour scheme of my tree.

We have 1 main tree.

It has Hallmark ornaments, ornaments from Target, WalMart, CVS, Walgreens, shops, etc.

Handmade too.

It is eclectic and we all love it!