So tell me, are you having a pink, blue, green, or red Christmas?
Are you going to coordinate your holiday
decor colors with your everyday home colors?
Is it hard to break out of the traditional green and red
or are you trying something fresh and new?
No, I’m not really going to have a very pink Christmas.
Although it is a very pretty idea!
Let’s discuss!
I’m curious what colors you are all decorating with this year!
pink Christmas inspiration: Country Living
I actually have a mix right now but I’ve been toying with the idea of switching the colors around. Red and green is nice but I’ve been thinking of a plan in blue/silver/white, pink/green, or one of those brightly multi-colored ones you see in magazines. A friend is giving me a white Christmas tree this year so the possibilities feel endless.
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Melissa,
We will be decorating with red and green in the livingroom, but I have a white on cream and blue bedroom, where I w ill be decorating with those colors. It’s fun to have two different palettes (sp?).
I’m sooo excited for Christmas!
Hey, if you need a good laugh today, come on over and click on the video on tody’s post. It’s worth a chuckle or two.
Have a grat day!
Elizabeth
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I purchased a purple tree for my teen’s room. She is in high school and their colors are purple and gold. So I bought a purple tree and gold ornaments to hang on it. An easy theme tree for her to show her school spirit. I can’t wait to put it up.
Oh, that’s a fun idea!
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I’m decorating the living room and dining room in brown, bronze, gold, and cream. It hopefully (fingers crossed) will be elegant and beautiful. The family room will be in reds, gold, and whatever else the kids want to add. This year we are doing two trees, so I told my girls the family room tree is theirs to decorate. The living room tree is mine, so I can have everything matching. I’m very anxious to get started. I’ve got a lot of ideas stored in my head…can’t wait to get everything out. Plus, December is my month for my bunco
group, so I want the house to look extra good!
Rachel@Simply Rachel
Funny you should ask… after a little soul searching and a blog post or two, I’ve decided to ditch “traditional” colors and go with bright turquoise, hot pink, lime green, red, purple- fun and bright! Except maybe in mantown, my poor husband needs something for him.
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Since we’ve moved into a new house, all of my ‘old’ Christmas things will seem new this year. I don’t think I’ll need to buy anything new. Can’t wait to get everything down Thanksgiving weekend!
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Hmm, not really into red so much simply because it doesn’t really go with the rest of my home. There’s a whole lot of blue and silver and white going on around here, plus a bit of color thrown in for the kids. I try to group similar colors and things together-just because it seems to look better. I love the pink picture though, that would great in my girls’ room!
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Love your blog and the love the inspiration! This is my first year as a married woman with our own house, so needless to say our colors will be whatever we have, mostly green, red and silver! I am very excited to start our collection and have holiday spirit!
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I do the red and silver thing in my house, but I always enjoy seeing how other people use less classic Christmas colors like purple, pink, and blue!
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Love this–I’m dreaming of a white fur christmas. and neutrals.
and in the family room lots of reds and robin’s egg blue and yellowy mossy green. And in the playroom bright vivid colors.
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I use different colors in different rooms, In my family room where the family tree resides I use red, lime green, pink and black and white. I have a signature black and white striped wrapping paper that I love. In my kitchen/dining I use lime/pink/red. In my living room where I like it to have a hushed, silent night look I use soft creams,sage and golds. I like people feel as if they want to whisper when they see that room but in the family room and kitchen I like the atmosphere to be of happiness and celebration!!
I’m verrrrrry traditional….but I think this year I’m going to throw a little lime green in the mix. Just a little. I’m also doing a tree just for the babies (oldest is 2 1/2 this year) with colored lights (I usually just do white). I think she is going to LOVE it this year!
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This year we will spend our first Christmas in our new home! I am excited to maybe put up a couple of trees. The colors I will be using are gold,bronze and green mixed with a little WHITE sparkle!
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We have Christmas ‘Colours’, every year my daughter and I come up with a colour scheme for everything decorations, wrapping, flowers etc. This year it’s Red, Green, Gold and my 6 year old’s influence ‘a little touch of purple’. I can’t wait
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My daughter has pronounced that we will be having a “Prince of Persia” Christmas. The colors are shimmering blue-greens and we’ll have a peacock perched atop our tree! Looking forward to some creative decorating this year.
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My colours (colors for you in the US!) vary from room to room.
Hall is traditional, with large tree and lots of kids decorations on the tree, along with some traditional Santas by the door. We also have our “Christmas Pyramid” advent candle there too.
Living room has neutral carpet and curtains, with brown leather sofas and brick fireplace, so tree is decorated in natural shades – cream, brown, gold with white lights and lots of cream candles.
Dining room – just been redecorated with cream and black curtains, so planning a huge bowl of black baubles in the centre of the table.
Kitchen/family room – planning something perhaps modern and a bit funky for here! Watch this space (or my blog!!!)
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I always seem to need to change things up every year. I will continue my red and french blue color palette though. I have been buying lots of fun things on ebay to decorate with; keys, glass knobs, and stencils. I’m going to use some burlap and just this morning am cutting up some toile yardage that I have. I’ve started decorating upstairs because I need to be finished early. I just can’t stand to mess up the Fallness that’s downstairs until after Thanksgiving.
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Wow, great topic! I read all the comments and have lots to think about. I may make some inexpensive changes this year. I tend to go more for theme trees than specific colours. We use about seven trees, some big some small and each has a bit of a theme going. The basement trees are lodge/outdoors themed; our bedroom is white and glass, sort of romantic, but I might add blue this year; the family room is the family tree with a mix of colours with lots of red and all the kids’ and collected ornaments; and my current favourite is the cowboy-themed tree in our living room. I posted last years cowboy tree recently while looking for suggestions to improve it. I found some rusty star ornaments to add to it but no luck with the suggested burlap ribbon, I may just have to tear some strips.
I remember, as a little girl going to pick up our tree and seeing a pink flocked tree. My dad refused and I cried all the way home devastated. I do a pink tree for my little gitrl but I do several trees.
Cheri
I don’t have a specific color, but I do have a specific theme…the holidays at my house are all about BLING! : ) Lots of sparkles everywhere!!!
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I’m pretty traditional – so red and green, but I mostly love the ornaments we each had as children and have gotten together over the years so there’s not much of a color scheme there! Last year on clearance I got lots of things for garlands and wreaths (those ball ornament ones, I’m making one soon!) and it was mostly red and gold, except for the garland!
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My inspiration for Christmas (we’re just starting our tradition, this is our second Christmas ^_^) is the Grand Californian at Disneyland. I want a homey, cabin-y, craftsman kind of feel with mostly blue, silver, then hints of red and green. Trying to do a cabin type decor with mostly blue & silver/white isn’t exactly easy though…
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I try to use the same colors year. This way I can add to my collection of holiday decorations until one day I have enough to make my entire home feel festive.
This is the second year I will be creating a children’s tree. It is a fake tree (I can barely keep one watered) and we decorate it with things the children have made, character ornaments and other cheerful, unbreakable things. This tree will be in our downsairs family room (the same space where my hubby built the bar). We plan to entertain down there alot this year and it will be very festive!
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It’s somewhat coordinated with the house, but I find gold to be a classic neutral Christmas color. I pair gold, brown, and a dark teal. (I do throw in some dark red accents–just not on the tree.) I love the way gold makes everything have a very warm glow.
Haha! Your blog post title reminds me of the Pink Panther Christmas video that I just bought my son…I think it’s called the same thing, or something very similar! Anyways, I will be decorating with the traditional green & red with a bit of silver and gold mixed in too. I just can’t seem to get away from what’s traditional…and I don’t want to! I can appreciate people breaking free and trying out other fun colors to spruce up their holidays, but I just love that old Christmasy red & green in my own home.
-Grace
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Hi Melissa,
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas – with lots of natural colours and textures – snowy whites, green cedar boughs, woodsy pinecones, silvery stars and just a tiny bit of red in birds and berries.
Looking forward to tomorrow.
Lorrie
I’m a traditional girl… dk red, dk green & white. White lights only. Tree decor is mostly white with a splash of red. I prefer silver over gold. My social worker (for adoption) turned me on to your blog. Thanks for all of your fun ideas!
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Personally, I would love to have a very simple decor for my Christmas this year. I grew up in a home where the trimmings were dept. store like ( which I loved) and my hubs enjoyed the modgepodge of tinsel (not so much my fave). So, when we began our own family I reluctantly gave in to the colored BULBS…yes I said BULBS.. and the tinsel. But, I am secretly dreaming of a simple green tree with just twinkling white lights, candle-like lights on my windowsills and simple gift wrap. Can you help this simple-minded Momma make her “Christmas Dream come true?
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i have SO missed reading your blog. bad bad girl!
anyways, i have no clue. i think the one in here, the living room, will be more of red wood beaded garland, white lights, and a conglomerate of ornaments. a cooking one for the kitchen? we’ll see!!! so glad to be back here and look around!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oooh, can’t wait to see what you have in store for tomorrow!
We decorate in blues – navy blue, baby blue, silver…. and I’ve always love it. BUT… if I could, I’d do something diff every year… I love the bronze looks…. the whimsical looks….
In order to try something new out and still be responsible
… I’m throwing my daughter a Nutcracker Suite-inspired birthday party in the colors of red, bright green and pink. Can’t wait!
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I decorate in golds and crimson colors. I would love to go cream and pink – I might pick one room to start with this year. My boys also collect Santa clauses – So their play room is full of all kinds of Santa Clause. It is so much fun watching them decorate and put them were they want too. Thank you for all the great post – I love reading your blog. Carmen Goddard c64g@yahoo.com
Down here in Australia we have hot summer Christmas’s.
I bought a cheapie tree and spray painted it navy (dark) blue.
I did a few white bursts here and there.
All my decorations are blue and white, with touches of silver.
(I buy a new one each year. )
and lots of white lights, tiny ones.
I have a bottle green and blue checked length of taffeta that I use as a tree skirt. I have some actual pine cones I scatter around the base.
I wrap in natural brown paper with blue and white bows and trims.
Everything sparkles as the fan or aircon blows back and forth in the heat of the season.
Jane
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It just so happens that a pretty green is the main accent color in my living room already. So I’ll probably end up incorporating that into my holiday decor this year, though I doubt I’ll stick with the traditional red and green. I haven’t thought much about how I want to decorate this year, but I should get on that since Hubby’s given me permission to start decorating the weekend before Thanksgiving…which is this weekend. Yikes!
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We’re staying traditional (reds, greens, gold, silver, etc)….but in our master bedroom I’m going with a darker icy silver color and the rich taupe…I hope this works !
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i’m having a green christmas. but not your normal pine tree green. i’ve got a mint green foil tree and a peacock feather wreath.
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I’m doing a bit of “all of the above”.
I’m decorating the dining room in a rustic “Lone Star Christmas” theme. No tree in there. All of my Texas ornaments are going on garland.
The playroom is for my daughter and I’m decorating it in an all ballet pink “I’m dreaming of a PINK Christmas” theme. I have a white 3-4′ Christmas tree that’s going in there with all pink ornaments and a pink tree skirt. I’m hoping to find a couple of cheap pink feather boas to intertwine with white garland to put up on the 2 windows.
The living room is going to be my favorite. I’m decorating it in a “Very Glamorous Christmas” theme. The colors are lime green and rich red. We’ve always had hand-me-down ornaments that really weren’t my style. I donated those babies to Goodwill today. This year Mama gets the tree she wants!
My annual keepsake ornaments are going on an ornament tree that I found online so I can display those and continue to add to that collection but it won’t muss my Glam tree.
I also found a stocking stand (since I don’t have a mantle this year) to display our handmade monogrammed stockings.
I CANNOT wait to get back from my SIL’s so I can get started on decorating!!
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I’d love my house to look like any one of those pictures but to be honest it’s every colour which I’ve collected over the years! There’s a bit of green and red in there of course but a whole lot of other colours too.
My sister and I buy each other a decoration or two each year as part of our Christmas present and we have built them up over a few years, there’s lots of individual decorations about but each of them mean something to me. Sometimes my Mum ties decorations round the napkins at Christmas dinner and everyone takes theirs away with them.
I’m going to do a blog post every day in December about Christmas past, present and future – quite a challenge for me! And I’ll post some of my decorations and the stories and memories I have with them there.
Jade
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I have been using pink for 11 years now! Just put up red velvet drapes in my livingroom as I have it in Victorian decor using many antiques. My dilemma is, I don’t know how to mix the existing pink garlands and wreath with the red (almost maroon) of the drapes! Help! I spent alot of money on the pink stuff and just can’t pitch it yet. Love pink. Any advise?????