I used to be a white lights only kinda girl because I thought it looked classier & more elegant.
As I got older, I started feeling nostalgia for the multi-colored lights of vintage trees. Plus, the kids always liked the multi-colored lights.
Multi-colored lights are fun & festive!
So, now, our living room tree & kitchen tree have white lights. The living room tree is in front of a window & can be seen from the outside.
As you walk into our house, you can see both the kitchen tree & the living room tree. In our foyer, I have 3 smaller trees w/ white lights. I also have garland w/ white lights on the stair banister going up to the bedrooms.
Our family room tree is one of those trees that can fade in & out between white & multi-colored lights in a blink-y pattern, so that's what we have it set on. The garland on the fireplace mantel in the family room is multi-colored lights.
The tree in our bedroom has white lights - it's just lights, no ornaments. The trees in in the kids' bedrooms have multi-colored lights, & they're positioned in front of their windows, so you can see them from the outside.
And we have white candles in our windows. So it's a mix!
Our Christmas flamingo family outside are pink lights. And the garland around the door is white lights. There are wreaths w/ pink poinsettias to match the pink flamingos on the shutters, & the mailbox is wrapped in garland w/ pink poinsettias. And DH has 2 spot-lights in the yard lighting our house. I'm in the market for a lighted palm tree to go outside w/ the flamingos. We don't have any Christmas inflatables, but there are 2 I really, really want: Cousin Eddie's RV & Santa in a sleigh pulled by flamingos. A bunch of kitschy, tacky FUN!! (And this is from someone who used to have the classic, elegant white-lighted deer in the front yard at Christmas.)