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Multi-Colored Lights or White Lights?

11 years ago
The holiday season is here! Which do you prefer to decorate your home with, multi-colored or white lights? Cast your vote and tell us about it below!
Multi-Colored
White

Comments (126)

  • 11 years ago
    L I N D I S S I M O... MEUS PARABENS
  • 11 years ago
    Our tree has red green and white lights, all on the same strands, which I pruchased at Boscovs
  • 11 years ago
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    mogi das cruzes - são paulo - BR F E L I Z N A T A L L L L . . . PRA TODOS VOCES.
  • 11 years ago
    casa em branco arvore colorida
  • 11 years ago
    I HAVE A FAKE SMALL 3 FT. WHITE TREE WITH WHITE LIGHTS AND A LARGE BIG 7.5 FT. FAKE GREEN TREE WITH COLORED LIGHTS. SOLVES THE PRBOLEM LOL HUGS MERRY CHRISTMAS
  • 11 years ago
    Soft white lights give the illusion of fresh fallen snow. Merry Christmas!
  • PRO
    11 years ago
    Both can be great options, but it ultimately depends on the look & feel you are trying to capture. The classic white lights are timeless and you can't go wrong, on the other hand the colorful lights add an extra pop of color and holiday cheer to the exterior of your home!
  • 11 years ago
    One nice idea I've seen for outside...larger colored lights with mini white twinkle lights wound in.

    These lanterns with the tiny "fairy" lights are nice for outside...
  • 11 years ago
    ooooh, I have a lantern like that in my sunroom..... running to put lights in now;)) Thanks chloebud!!!!
  • 11 years ago
    Great, Margo!
  • 11 years ago
    I love the happy look of multicolors.
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    Cholebud - first time seeing the Falling Snow Lights. Beautiful! Will have to look for these. Thanks for sharing!
  • 11 years ago
    I have always had white lights. I like the elegant look. When my children were young, I had a second small tree in my front hall that I called the children's tree. It was 3 feet high, had one strand of colored lights and unbreakable ornaments. The kids could re-arrange to their hearts content and left the big tree alone.
  • 11 years ago
    My prelit tree can change from white to colors using a controller. Depends
    What mood I want to create. It can switch between colors also.
  • 11 years ago
    I prefer white. It gives a classy look.
  • 11 years ago
    I did white for a few years and got tired of it. Now I have colored lights both inside and out. The tree lights are the same size as the big old 1960's kind of tree lights, but they're LED's.
  • 11 years ago
    Thinking it might be fun to do something off-the-wall one year, like purple and green mixed or something. Just to shake things up. But I don't think the other people in this house would stand for it.
  • PRO
    11 years ago
    I've always liked the simplicity of white lights.
  • PRO
    11 years ago
    @The Virginia Gail Collection: Me too! If you use white lights, all the decorations stand out more.
  • 11 years ago
    I hate coloured or flashing lights. That is possibly the only thing I won't do for my kids...
  • 11 years ago
    We love the old multicolor lights. Do not like the new more pastel colors.
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    Atlas Custom Cabinets, absolutely! Everything pops more with white lights!

    I'm not fond of flashing/blinking/chasing lights, but the white twinkle lights are so subtle and kind of magical.
  • 11 years ago
    I like white but with a second color......this year blinking white with purple lights....looks great and get lots of comments from neighbors! Love it
  • 11 years ago
    This year I have clear lights and for me it depends on what theme I am going for. This year I did a red bird theme and natural and glass ornaments. A lot of the trees in my neighborhood were cut down and during Christmas the cardinals flock to the trees to eat the Berry's. With the trees gone don't know what to expect this year so I decorated my Christmas trees, wreath, and dinning room table center piece with the birds. I love it!!
  • 11 years ago
    Colored, old fashion, traditional... reminds me of my childhood when trees usually had multicolor lights!
  • 11 years ago
    If there were any other options but colored when I was growing up, I didn't know about it! And so, for no better reason, I need twinkly bright colored lights on my tree...to go along with the sparkle-covered pine cones and painted macaroni decorations from my kids' early years!
  • 11 years ago
    I like both & sometimes on the same tree.
  • 11 years ago
    We just got a prewired artificial tree that has LED lights that switch from colored to white. So our tree alternates between the two in a soothing cadence. We could not be more pleased.
  • 11 years ago
    Multicolored if you are blind or run a pawn shop or video arcade. White lights for everyone else.
  • 11 years ago
    I love white. But i have small children so they choose multicolor
  • 11 years ago
    white lights are so suburban looking to me. everyone's decorations always end up looking the same as everyone else's. when i was young….like in my 30s… i was so afraid to diverge from status-quo. my decorating was monochromatic, and my christmas trees were always only white lights. my impression of myself was that i was sophisticated. looking back, i love my young self, but am so much happier with my 60year old person. who can happily/easily take chances and dare to be different. sort of like a revisit to my teenage self. i am creative and expressive…..and am not afraid of color.
  • 11 years ago
    Rock on eightpondfarm;)
  • 11 years ago
    As much as I love white lights, I do love looking at everyone's lights.

    Now, those GIANT inflatable santas, snowmen, etc. people have outside are another story!
  • 11 years ago
    Always WHITE! Unless those giant real lightbulbs from the 60's and 70's are used. Then and only then-colored.
  • 11 years ago
    Always multi-colored on the tree, maybe 450 or so. White candelabra in every upstairs window, all 4 sides of the house...strings of small coloured lights draped in the downstairs windows. Old Georgian home, large windows.
  • 11 years ago
    I grew up in the 70's with everyone sporting colored lights and that nightmare tinsel, needless to say I've only had all white. Traditional soft white not that new LED blue white, I don't like that either. I like a classy all white tree as it's a complete opposite of my childhood. And I live where we get a lot of snow and the white on white looks great.
  • 11 years ago
    Growing up in the 60's we had multi-color lights, my own trees always had white lights on it. I think the lights depend on the ornaments. I do a Disney tree and it has color lights, they just go. This year I thought I would purchase a multi-color tree to go with the ornaments that we collected over the years. It looked awful and the tree was returned. The ornaments I have must have white lights.
  • 11 years ago
    Prefer the white classical look. I add the color with the rest of the decor for the Christmas Tree.
  • 11 years ago
    White outside, multi-coloured inside
  • 11 years ago
    Always Love White
  • 11 years ago
    White plus any other color - if you have little ones the more colors the better!
  • 11 years ago
    White inside shows off the many ornaments. Colored outside.
  • 11 years ago
    Change
  • 11 years ago
    I do a mix of both!!!!
  • 11 years ago
    Since no one is attaching pics of multi color lights here's my contribution. Go ho ho.
  • 11 years ago
    Catherine- I will join you;)
  • 11 years ago
    White lights on Christmas trees, both colored and white outside. Don't like most of the colored LEDs - incandescents have softer colors which I like.
  • 11 years ago
    The Costco dual-colored tree is a really cool concept!
  • 11 years ago
    Here's my multi-colored tree -- prelit with white, I add tons of colored lights!
  • 11 years ago
    Woops, I never realized how hard it is to photograph a Christmas tree -- wondering if all the lights confuse my iPhone!