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Let's see your Christmas trees! *No quoting pics please*

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  • Registered Users Posts: 216 ✭✭Andrew93


    Update here’s the other grotto we have in the house 🎅🏻🎄




  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc




  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 23,145 ✭✭✭✭beertons


    Tree up. Took our time with it. Go team.




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,827 ✭✭✭Jude13


    Work in progress in our house.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 855 ✭✭✭polydactyl


    Sideways post? Second tree up now and inside decorations done. Only outside to go!



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,827 ✭✭✭Jude13


    One of the other posters said that if you take a screenshot of your pic and post it they it will be the correct orientation. Worked a treat.



  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,322 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    Well, all done in time for tonight!




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,322 ✭✭✭✭leahyl


    A few more!




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,896 ✭✭✭Cork Lass


    Amazing Leahyl. Especially love your fireplace.



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  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,531 ✭✭✭✭Leg End Reject


    Oh wow, leahyl! That all looks like a professional job.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,573 ✭✭✭tscul32


    That looks so clean and neat



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Beautiful Leahyl 😊



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,971 ✭✭✭SarahLil


    Beautiful trees everyone



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,992 ✭✭✭DavyD_83


    The tree is up!!! :D

    Post edited by DavyD_83 on


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,424 ✭✭✭Aisling(",)


    First Christmas in our first home meant we needed our first Christmas tree.

    It could do with more lights but that's an upgrade for next year.

    We've a few other window lights and festive bits on the wall but we weren't able to go too mad. The collection will build over the years.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,681 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Aisling, I think your lights are beyond perfect. Gorgeous tree in fact, well done! Happy first christmas together, what a special time for you!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,009 ✭✭✭gidget




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,681 ✭✭✭✭Deja Boo


    Love it gidget! :)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,194 ✭✭✭Corruptedmorals


    Unfortunately last year's tree topper the pudding is deep in hiding. So a penguin is on stand-in duty. Multi lights always come out blue pff. Eventually this room will be totally Christmas-afied but we are just on Christmas #2 😁



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 381 ✭✭Santan


    Not my home but in my restaurant, hope it still counts



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,204 ✭✭✭jos28


    Ah sure I may as well join in




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,810 ✭✭✭Calibos


    Don't know why I don't just repost last years or the year befores or all the way back to 2010's Christmas Decorations photo's because very little changed. 🤣

    [EDIT] Actually, one thing changed!! After 10 years I finally had the Eureka moment about how to make our lives much easier decorating that 10ft Living-room tree without teetering on a step-ladder up and down, move ladder, up and down, move ladder round and round the tree for an hour. LOL. The Trick?? Do the Living-room Tree before the Dining-Room Tree. Put the bottom two sections (Rather than the whole 4 section tree) in the Tree base in the middle of the room with the 4 feet on Floor sliders as normal. Put the Top two sections of the Living-room Tree into the Tree Base belonging to the Dining-room Tree set up on the floor beside the bottom two sections. Now the Bottom two and the Top two sections of the Tree are effectively like 5ft trees that we can decorate by simply walking round and round the tree with the lights and handfuls of decorations. When done a family member gets up on a step-ladder only once to provide a guiding hand....as I use my superior upper body strength to lift the now easily decorated top two sections of the tree out of the Dining-room tree base and up onto the Bottom two sections. Now mated together we just Slide the Completed 10ft Tree onto the corner of the room. Dining-Room Tree base is now free again to start on the Dining-room Tree. Another new trick this year was we labelled the last light in each of the two 600 LED Light Strings so we can find the last light when it comes to unwinding the lights and taking it all down in January. ie. One was labelled 'First On/Last Off' and the other was labelled 'Last on/First Off'. This will help greatly as there is some overlap of the two sets and if you start unwinding the wrong set first you end up with a morass of light-strings interwoven together, which usually just get dumped in a bag with a note from our January selves to our future selves the following November which reads something like, 'A Big F U 2021 Calibos from your good friend 2020 Calibos!!' LOL.

    Actually, the Stairs and Landing Garland ended up being very quick and easy this year too and will also be easier to take down in January. The 1000 Light set we usually used on it got broken last year and I couldn't find a direct replacement this year so ended up buying two 600 light sets. So 200 more lights but importantly two of us were able to simultaneously hang the lights on the garland in two sections. One of us did the stairs section with one set and the other did the landing section with the other set and never the twain did meet...and no messy overlaps etc

    Living Room 10ft Tree & Fireplace Garlands

    Dining Room 7ft Tree and Fireplace Garlands

    Hall Mini Side Table Tree and Hall, Stairs and Landing Garlands


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  • Moderators, Business & Finance Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 24,974 Mod ✭✭✭✭Loughc


    Damn Calibos. That is some good work!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Wow 😍😍😍😍😍



  • Registered Users Posts: 274 ✭✭Mutleyboo


    My 7ft tree with 1500 white leds and about 150 coloured fairy lights...




  • Registered Users Posts: 595 ✭✭✭dubstepper


    There is a house near me with a kind of sun room visible from the road. Behold...




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,067 ✭✭✭✭Tom Mann Centuria


    Wasn't going to bother showing my tree this year, as it's the same every year! Anyhoo, here she is:


    Oh well, give me an easy life and a peaceful death.



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,757 ✭✭✭meercat


    This years



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,262 ✭✭✭✭Autosport


    Beautiful 😍



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,809 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    2021



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭BK5


    Just a thought, but as well as this thread for showing your trees can we also do a thread where we show other parts of the house decorated and the outside as well? 🎄



  • Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators Posts: 27,642 Mod ✭✭✭✭Posy


    All decorations, both indoor and outdoor, welcome in this forum. 🙂



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,827 ✭✭✭Jude13


    I love popcorns coloured lights, sadly not allowed in our house...weird thing to say as a grown man



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  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,476 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Love the 'quality street' look as we call it, i.e. multicoloured lights, however the Mrs refuses to have any of it & insists on white LED's on both trees.

    We don't have tinsel either, but that doesn't really bother me TBH.

    One year though I'd love to go all out & just have outrageous colour mash ups on all of our trees... like walt disney barfed all over them!! 🤣

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,827 ✭✭✭Jude13


    Your house mirrors mine.

    I am toying with a second tree on the landing for the small elf so I can decorate it with coloured lights.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,476 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    We have 4 in total, 2 downstairs & 2 small ones upstairs in each of the kids bedrooms. To be fair the 2 kids ones take no time to put up & take down & they love having them. The 2 downstairs ones are a days work to put up.

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    We are the same, main tree in the sitting room that OH gets to decorate, tree in playroom that kids get to decorate.Then smaller ones in the hall and one on the lading that are pre-made up as such with lights on them and just add a few decorations (pretty much whatever is left over from main trees)



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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,827 ✭✭✭Jude13


    Tis but a dream to have space for that many trees! And ditto for storage.



  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Fun you should mention storage. The Christmas decorations all go into one of the eves in the attic. When we moved in (5 years ago) there filled about 3/4 of one of them, when putting them away earlier this year is it was pretty much full. I reckon we'll be into eves 2 next year!!



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,827 ✭✭✭Jude13


    Sadly we have no attic as our place has a flat roof. Perfect for landing a sleigh.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,476 ✭✭✭✭DvB


    Yep, we filled one of our eaves storage spaces with Christmas decor too... called a stop to buying any more now on foot of that as the space is pretty big and to fill it was a feat in itself.

    "I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year" - Charles Dickens




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Or a large light up Santa sleigh and reindeers!!!



  • Registered Users Posts: 595 ✭✭✭dubstepper


    My wife & I have this argument. I like the retro multi coloured lights of my youth. She maintains that warm white looks much better. Not the ultra white though. There is clearly some style guide around it all that I am unaware of....



  • Registered Users Posts: 1,020 ✭✭✭BK5


    We've talked about this before here, my wife is the same, every new set of lights must be checked that they are warm white. Bright white or ice white do not make the cut 😊



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 30,809 ✭✭✭✭freshpopcorn


    We also have a slim tree in the hall with clear lights, silver, white and blue baubles.(Pic doesn't do it justice). Our living room is a mixture of colours and coloured lights.(It doesn't have tinsel tough.




  • Registered Users Posts: 6,865 ✭✭✭TRS30


    Love the light up reindeer.

    Ps. Is that the ghost of Christmas future in the mirror 🤣



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,827 ✭✭✭Jude13


    Well spotted.


    Lovely tree. The reindeer is gazing at the tree topper.



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