I grew up with colorful lights, I like the different colors of the bulbs, it looks more festive,
especially when at night with all the lights off in your living room, and just the tree is lit, and you see how pretty your room looks, that holds a special place in my heart of yesteryear with your mom and dad and siblings.
Although white lights are supposed to represent the purity of Christmas, the birth of Jesus.
They just look so boring to me. However, it's a difference of opinion on how you were raised,
it doesn't really matter, just as long as you recognize the meaning of the holiday, is what's really important.
Love both but both have certain areas they shine better. Icicle lights are best with traditional white. But if you wraps trees/bushes, either could work but oftentimes color looks best on that.
Standard Christmas tree I like having lights that alternate between color and all white. You can get special bulbs for it or double wrap and alternate which light string you use each night.
If you have a lot of ornaments with fabrics/white/angelic type stuff then white lights go better. Pretty much everything else is better with color lights.
People might say I'm a little boring but I prefer the plain lights.
In recent years I've invested In the blueish white lights for a more icicle effect.
I like the multicoloured ones just in other people's home. Mostly because well I have a whole theme going on. My living room is navy white and grey.
My Christmas tree is also white!
White is not traditional in my opinion. Colored lights have been on trees and everything else since the beginning. White, well, they're white. Colored lights are beautiful and make you want to just keep starring at them. I can't take my eyes off the colored ones.
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I love both really, but usually stick to warm white lights when dressing up the outside of the house. Modern LED Christmas lights don't have great colours compared to the old fashioned incandescent lights. I have a small collection of vintage Christmas lights that have such beautiful colours.
White isn't traditional. Growing up, white lights weren't even a thing. For decades, especially in the 80's and 90's, colourful lights were common. White didn't become a thing till the early 2000s. I remember when they first came out. My parents got a set and we did an entire white theme.
I still prefer the colourful ones that bring back memories of childhood Christmas in the late 80's and 90's.
I like traditional, white lights, but that's because most of my themes I use for my tree and house are simple. For example, this year I'm doing a pink and silver theme, so white lights would compliment it more than flashy, multicolor lights.
I only like multicolor lights on other peoples trees as weird as that sounds, lol
Coloured.
I've noticed it becoming increasingly common for people to have the white kind indoors all year round though, just as a permanent decorative light source. I think doing that with coloured lights would be a bit tacky and not easy to live with for very long.
all lights are beautiful, but i prefer the colourful lights much more. i just find them more aesthetically pleasing because there's more colours and they look beautiful together. heck, putting white lights on a bare tree with nothing else on it looks boring, but putting colourful lights on a bare tree makes it stand out.
I have the LED kinds that I use an app on my phone to change them to whatever color I am in the mood for, any color in the spectrum or various themes.
It is nice to have options. Usually I do colored though, the colors just change daily.
They call it traditional, but it's just sales spin, they were pretty much unheard of until the 90s, so to me they're the opposite of traditional. They just look cheap.
I prefer color, my SO prefers white, so we have lights on the tree that can either be white or color. Some days they're white, other days they're color.
I prefer the decorations outside to be white (main squares, town's decorations included) but the tree that we have at home always needs to have colorful lights... It's kind of a tradition for us.
Traditional warm white. Brings warmth to my heart.
Couple that with a cold weather...
(Speaking of which, where the fck is the cold weather? it's late here already)
My room has lights as well, so I prefer the white ones. Someday I would love to add more lights in my future backyard on a tree. I love lights too 💖
u over here... the traditional is colorful Christmas lights, not the white ones
I prefer lights off though... lmao
I like the white lights, but oh what the hell, the world needs some color. Lol
The best are those effect ligjts that change color. From winter white to Zxmas tree green to Santa's red.
Colorful ones seem more cheery to me... they remind me of being a kid (Our tree always had the colorful lights when I was growing up). They're still my favorite.
Coloured lights are the traditionals, whites only became the norm about 30 or 40 years ago.
We don't celebrate Christmas here but for me it depends on what impression i do want to make. Lights of a single color—any single color, but particularly white, create a more elegant, formal look 😊
White because they are brighter. Christmas tree bubbles are colorful and shiny like reflections of white light in decorations.
I have stealth Christmas decorations they are all black lights !!
I like both but white/yellow better... there’s just something classic and magical about them
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