I always have loved artificial over real since it feels like a waste to cut down a tree to not even use it a full month. Every year I've had green, but I keep wanting to get a white one - maybe next year.

I grew up with a silver Christmas tree at my grandmother's house. One of those vintage aluminum ones. She would put a rotating color wheel on either side of the tree, and we would lay on the floor and watch as the tree changed color. My boyfriend is very into the traditional fresh from the forest (or tree farm) style, so that is what we have now. While it smells great, I still miss the silver tree from my childhood.

I have an aritifical white tree, but have been thinking of getting a pale pink one.
I love trees pictured here.

I love the pink one. I remember when I was very young our neighbor use to gets white frosted tree and spray it pink, as a little girl I thought that was the most amazing tree.

Another eco friendly idea, this one is pretty enough to keep out all year-
http://www.burotree.com/

That pink tree is fun! Get whatever you want for Christmas!

I've always had real trees. However, I almost bought a pink one at Big Lots last weekend, and I don't even like pink! It was just so captivating in its artificiality...

I paper/gift store in Los Angeles had a flocked powder blue tree for sale last year which I was mad about. Note to self: see if tree is still there!

If I had more than one tree, I think the first pink one would be stunning to have. After years of artificail trees, we started buying real trees several years ago. It would be very hard to go back to artificial trees now. And I really don't have room for two trees.

I always have a real tree, but I have two vintage full sized aluminum ones that I would love to get out in the dining room next year if I could figure out how to decorate them!

I've been going with the pink christmas tree too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/art_chel/4163603280/

Since I consider a Christmas tree a great big winking drag queen of a botanical arrangement covered in tinsel, glitter and shiny baubles, it seems silly to quibble over what colour or how 'artificial' it is. Unless one were to go whole hog 'natural' with fruits, unpainted wooden ornaments and kraft paper garlands on a live tree, one will always be dealing with an inherently artificial decorated object. I don't have a tree this year, but maybe next year I'll get the black glittery one from Target...

A few years ago my daughter purchased two silver trees one for her bedroom the other for my living room.
They're decorated in candy color ball ornaments I made myself several years ago.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7447686@N05/4193461198/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7447686@N05/4193461204/in/photostream/

Lovely in a sofia-coppola-does-marie-antoinette but not my style. I prefer real and potted.

I have two Christmas personalities. One is very simple, natural and real (real tree, white lights) and one is very kitchy (silver tree and really bright/garish colors).

Wow. That pink tree reminds me of that horrible Lady Gaga Rolling Stone cover. *shudder*

Our main Christmas tree is metallic chartreuse green tinsel (it came pre-lit with green lights as well). We also have a mini silver tinsel one (for all of the Hello Kitty decorations), a mini red metallic one (that also doubles as a Valentine's Day tree), and a iridescent white one for the bathroom. We like a lot of variety :)

What makes the first pink tree is the ornaments. It's like the way I can see a house that is totally not my style but something about it works because it's just so...put together. I would love a pink tree but I don't think I could get the ornaments right.

"Christmas Trees of Color"

Is that the new PC term? Can't we still call them "Pink Trees" or "White Trees"?
Is it legal for trees of different colors get married in all 50 states?
Are the green trees making efforts to get along w/ trees who choose to become other colors? (Or is that they way they're born?)
Are the pink and white trees angry that only green trees are ever in the White House?

;-)

i find pink trees Hideous with a capital H. Can't hold myself back on this one.

LOL at the headline.

My parents got me one of the oldschool aluminum with changing lights trees and I LOVE it. A lot of people make fun of it but I think it's awesome.

We do a real tree at home and a 1.5ft silver tree in the bathroom. This year I will be decorating a 1.5ft black tree on my desk at work with multi-colored mini ornaments and lights from Target.

I just bought a white tree for my living room and I have a black wicker one in our bedroom.

I have two words....Pepto Bismol. Yuck!

just a word of warning for those who buy white trees. I had one that I loved. After about five years, it turned a most distressing shade of yellow. Pee yellow. I had to throw it out. My fake tree is the traditional green now.

mmmmm... I'm uncomfortable with the title of this post. Referencing the term "people of color" for a post about fake christmas trees seems kinda inconsiderate. And I'm starting to feel like the folks at Apartment Therapy are not really thinking about what they say before saying it. (I'm referencing the 'Knitta, Please' post way back in 2006.)

I wish you would have said Colorful Christmas Trees or Candy Colored Christmas Trees or Christmas Tree Rainbow instead. I just feel like people of color have enough junk to deal with and making fun of the most accepted, and I'm assuming most comfortable, term for people who lack white-privilege is in poor taste.

Cummon, I expect more from you guys, AT.

And, BepSF, I think your 'joke' is in equally poor taste.

When I was growing up, we had an old vacuum cleaner that had a reverse setting on it, which my family only used once a year for flocking a real Christmas tree white.

My dad would sometimes flock them as favors for friends, as well. We really didn't feel like it was Christmas until that happened.

Now that my folks are older, my folks have an artificial tree, but my mom's last couple of them have been flocked; her current one is sort of lightly flocked so that it looks a bit more like a real snowfall, with ice on it, as well. I love it.

Mark and I have a small fake one in an urn that we got from the new Michael's on 97th and Columbus near us, and it was pre-lighted which kind of helps. We just couldn't justify a real one this year, since they're pretty expensive.

I love that first pink tree! And I don't even like pink, but it makes me happy. I love those ornaments too. They look like soap bubbles!

I mean I don't like pink, but *that tree* makes me happy.

Some great joke.

There is no reason to, and no defense of, actively demeaning people of color. I read Apartment Therapy almost daily, participate actively, and generally hold it in high esteem, despite the lack of visible diversity on its writing staff. But from the cluelessly enthused 'Knitta, Please' profiles in '06, '08 and '09 to this post, there are strains of insensitivity, ignorance or worse that are a turn-off. An apology is in order.

Bepsf,
I follow your posts often and I generally admire your thinking and your writing. You come across as both tart and smart, as the situation requires. I'm really sorry to see you stoop to low humor.

I have a real tree at home, and a glorious pink tree on my desk at work:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ashy6/4159712086/

and I made a pink and silver ornament wreath to go along with it:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ashy6/4164348185/

YAYYY for trees *of color* haha

Oh, yay for casual racism. Thanks AT!

great post, maybe a little more thougt into the title. this borrowing from others culture thing is getting tired.