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[NickNack]

@stevieb   So pretty!

[NickNack]

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@Reever wrote:

I find it cold and sterile. Looks like Alberti's sense of "style".  Trees need multi colored lights to convery warmth and nostalgia.

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@Reever   You say that as if it's a fact.  It's only your opinion.  I happen to disagree with you.  I think the tree is beautiful, and I also like Alberti and his style.  My tree has white lights and ornaments of many colors, but I also like multi-colored lights.

Everything doesn't have to be one way only to be correct.

[stevieb]

@NickNack @Reever  I have to admit, about the light thing, I don't care for multi-color lights.  I do like clear or white and like some solid colors, but not the muliti-colors. I do think they're nostalgic, but Christmas is nostalgic enough and past a point nostalgia is over-rated... 

[spiderw]

In my opinion this area needs warmth.  I would have curtains or drapes on the windows to start and redo the decorations on the tree.  I would prefer a color on the walls.  

[Reever]

@stevieb  Ive been decorating with multi colored lights for over 50 years.  Christmas should harken us back to when we were children and innocent.  Multi colored lights create a sense of comfort that was present in the 1940s and 50s that no longer exists today. I relunctantly upgraded mine to LEDS in the 2000s but harken for the vintage GE  light bulbs popular in the 1950s.  

[stevieb]

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@Reever wrote:

@stevieb  Ive been decorating with multi colored lights for over 50 years.  Christmas should harken us back to when we were children and innocent.  Multi colored lights create a sense of comfort that was present in the 1940s and 50s that no longer exists today. I relunctantly upgraded mine to LEDS in the 2000s but harken for the vintage GE  light bulbs popular in the 1950s.  

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@Reever  It's good that you enjoy them. Christmas, of course, means different things to different people. As noted, I don't care for multicolored lights. I like some solid colors and clear or white.  I do agree that Christmases past probably felt more warm and safe, but, for me anyway, that's less about the lights than other factors. My mother likes both clear and multicolor lights but the last time she had a full size tree, she opted for multicolor for the same reasons you cite. She even still has strings of the old huge colored bulbs that she and my father used to place outside when they were young. Each to their own. Wishing you a Merry Christmas.

[rms1954]

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@GingerPeach wrote:

I love the elegance. 

My Christmas wish is that people could appreciate something for what it is instead of only through the lens of their own taste. 

I remember seeing a mention of candy canes somewhere in the thread, but I don't see any. I see candle and icicle ornaments, but no candy canes. 

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I don't see any candy canes either

[Spurt]

@stevieb 

Im a vintage Christmas decorator myself, but do like this color scheme as an option as a more "up scale" look! But I agree the rest of the year I would like to see more color in this room and light colored furniture is not very practical....

I have downsized the last couple years...The 7.5 tree just got to be too much work for the short Christmas decorating season even though I always start decorating in early November

[Lucky Charm]

I like it!  

Very elegant.

Red looks garish in my home.