Nothing beats a BBQ out in the back yard, or at beach with friends and family. Kids can run around and burn off all that yummy Xmas food and the adults can kick back with a cold beer or glass of wine and catch up with loved ones. Beautiful!

Open windows, kids running through sprinkler, cold seafood platters, bare babes playing with wrapping, sandy feet, smell of sunscreen, cold beers in arvo sun, summer fruit, beach cricket...HOT IS BEST!!!

A hot Christmas is better than a white
Christmas because you can wear less clothing around the Houzz.

Nothing says Aussie Christmas more that Santa sweating in his ridiculous red suit. Not very stylish, you'd never see that on Houzz!

Because all you need is the patio for eating, drinking and dozing off after food coma and a jump in the pool.

Hot Christmas is better & fresh air & sunshine are better for you ;)

I love to open up the Houzz too & enjoy our Christmas tradition of Ham, Prawns, Salads & Desserts, swimming in the pool & enjoying Corona with lime on a hot day!

Our home is made for summer living & though I've never had a white Christmas it is something I would also love to experience in the traditional way!

I'm trying hard to think of a reason why a hot Christmas would beat a white Christmas, but I'm not having much success. Maybe because a hot Christmas means smaller appetites, so you don't put on as much weight as you would during a white Christmas.

Christmas isn't Christmas without snow on the ground, or at least frost in the air. That said, having lived in Ottawa, I learned that white Christmases lose some of their charm the next day when you're all primed for the Boxing Day sales, only to hear the weatherman announce, "it's minus 32 with a windchill factor of minus 55 this morning."

All Christmas celebrations are hot now - the heating is turned up full blast in the North and the fan is turned up full blast in the South. The north is white with frost and snow, warm candlelight, the red of holly and mulled wine, green Christmas trees and hot food.

Mangoes, Avocados and Fresh Prawns..... say no more!!!!

The original Christmas was in a country without snow. Northern Hemisphere Christmas is lovely, but I love our Summer Christmas and eating outside.

You can't play back yard cricket after Christmas lunch in the snow - well you could but it would be quite hard (and cold)

Don't have to wear as many clothes, and no shoes !! We all sit down to full on lunch usually 24/25 the only person who would have shoes on would be my mum..not even dad

Snowflakes, skating, toboggans, hot cider, sleigh rides, a crackling fire...whimsical, magical, like stepping into a movie. Sun, beach, prawns on the bbq, chilled champagne, cricket in the street, a back yard pool...childhood memories, family......home.

In Australia, we love a hot Christmas so much that we never seem to notice or care that we are putting up winter themed decorations. Such is the joy of the sun, seafood and thongs of an Aussie Christmas and we wouldn't have it any other way. Hot beats a white Christmas every time.

Hi all - this competition has now finished but keep a look out for all the other 12 Days Of Christmas giveaways!