Christmas decorations

It's the dark days before Christmas, when the weather seems to be foggy and grey every day, and the sun refuses to rise before 9 and leaves before 5 (so much for a 9 to 5 mentality!). When it's cold and dark outside, we have to make it warm and bright inside. Which is exactly where Christmas decorations come in.
(Some people seem to be confused about the 'dark outside - bright inside' thing and put up massive, blinking, colourful light contraptions in their gardens or on their roofs. Although I do appreciate sharing your brightness with the rest of the world, one can go too far in this, very quickly.)
As we used to live in a very small home, with two very energetic cats, we'd never really had the possibility of buy a real Christmas tree. We had a small artificial one that was slowly getting over-loaded with the extra decorations I kept either buying or making every year. But since we now have a real big house to call our own, we could get a real big tree to go with it.
With Christmas trees it's the same as with furniture and electric appliances: they get bigger between the store and your house. We had this same experience this year: it didn't look too big, we even debated maybe putting it on a small table, but when we got home it somehow was taller than I am, and barely squeezed into the space we had allotted it.
Apart from the tree itself, we also bought lots of ornaments, including lights, stars, 'ice pegs' and the normal round ones. All in either shiny or matte silver. Also, we'd received some bird ornaments from Sinterklaas, so these went in as well.
The result, I must say, is one of the most sophisticated 'first trees' I've ever seen. With friends putting up decorations in every colour of the rainbow, or sticking flashy pink ornaments in a white Christmas tree, we're somehow very mature (except for the cute robin ornaments with little red bow-ties, of course). Should I be worried? Are we getting old before our time?
To be honest, I really like this 'classic' Christmas tree. Call me old-fashioned, but I think it looks good, it brightens up the house, without being too flashy or 'out there'. It makes me happy and warm inside, and that is what we're doing these things for.
We've put up some other small, things, like a ribbon to hang our Christmas cards on, and a Christmas star plant, and I'm considering buying a wreath for the door, but that's about it. The rest of the warmth and brightness we'll provide ourselves.