There are five terrace houses on my side of the road and three big ones opposite . We have small tiny front gardens but they are all planted up, look cared for. The one on the far end has currently just got gravel as the garden is being redone. It's bare.
The house first on the corner is a big family and they always do masses of LED mis matched multicoloured lights at Christmas. Next door to them have similar tastes but now their kids are gone it's toned down a smidge . Neither look great but it's diluted by the pretty decorations everyone one else does on our road and the opposite ones. It's all tiny white twinkly lights in the trees and nicely decorated/ lit porches.
Got home tonight to find my other next door neighbours have installed a giant inflatable snowman out front with nets of bright white lights flashing on and off. The plastic monstrosity takes the entire patch. So that's three on my row that look really brash, with me in the middle.
I don't need any lights now because both sides have lit up mine. But I'm fucked off because my row currently looks like a Channel 4 US Christmas film circa 2005. Whatever I put up is going to look unnoticed between frosty on one side and dystopian Blackpool on the other.