Do you deccorate the outside of your house a lot for Xmas?

[MyCheekyEagle]

How far do you go with decorating the outside of your house? More & more houses are becoming so lit ip that ours looks drab in comparison. We dont fancy getting on ladders to hang lights around the house. The drive is covered in cars so seems pointless decorating the drive. Then there's storing all the kit for 11 months of the year. Any ideaa to make the outside less drab in comparison?

No, I hate light pollution. Plus it's tacky.

Merry Christmas! May you get back all the joy you give.

Yes

I love outside lights. I have lovely short/longer hanging strands that go across one window and over the utility room window then drape around our wooden porch. They phase from warm white to a nice soft colour mix.

I also decorate my now barren smoke bush with loads of gold and silver balls. It's a faff really but it looks so pretty. I always have solar back garden festoon lights over our comfy seating/fire pit area but I might get more of the same strand ones that I have at the front as they are way nicer than I was expecting.

Inside I have warm white and coloured lights on the tree. Some soft blue snowflake lights hanging in the kitchen window and star strands hanging in the den. Some of the larger plants also have tiny warm lights threaded around them but that's year round.

I'm a total sucker for tiny lights, always have been.

I love seeing houses all lit up in Christmas films but couldn't be arsed with it myself.

Wreath on front door and on the barn doors.

Sometimes get red and white flowers for the window boxes or a planter by the front door if I'm in the garden centre and can be bothered. Won't bother this year.

No idea if this is real or a pic grabbed off the internet, but it looks absolutely lovely and properly festive without a hit of tackyxx

Yep, my Dad drilled in permanent hooks to the house so I can hook them up myself (they go round the middle of the house so I only need to climb about 2 steps! Then I drape lights all around the bushes in my front garden- I love it!

This year I am desperate to buy a family of light up reindeer…. The flat roof of our extension is visible to the road behind and I’m desperate to put a display up there!

We don't do outside decorations.

Our indoor tree only goes up a few days before Christmas.

No. And I don’t live in a house as everyone on mn assumes everyone does.

Yes just coloured lights around our porch, no ladders required (and warm lights around the inside of the two front windows).
We live on a main road so feel like we need to put in a bit of an effort, the whole village looks nice as every other house has some kind of gentle lighting on the go... though you can probably see one or two houses on the back road from space, they're a bit much 😁

When I had a big detached house o had icicle lights in the first floor, two lit up trees either Ryde of the foot and a wreath. I now like in a terrace, with a brick wall topped with iron railings to waist height. I’ve strung garland along with red bows before but last year I just had the wreath and put fairy lights in the little tree in the center. The little tree is no more so not sure what I’ll do this year - I’ll see if the garden centre we are getting the tree has any off cuts or something that I can put in the flower boxes.

Thanks.. it’s my house 😊

We have lights in the gutter (outdoor plug) and battery lights in the olive trees. It looks pretty so why not.

I put a wreath on the door. That's it.
We live in a square of houses off a cul de sac so no-one except our immediate neighbours would see anything.

White lights on a tree in the front garden and on the clematis on the house front, a holly wreath on the door, and cardboard stars with little internal lights in the windows. But this year we’ve added a side extension, and the Christmas tree will be much more visible at a floor length window, so that’s probably the most obviously festive bit.

Oh, and not illuminated, but we have a set of oversized red baubles we hang on the bare tree.

DS and DH have a dreadful set of illuminated rattan reindeer they stubbornly adore.

No. I love seeing the decorations on houses but cba doing it for ours. We're inside the house so can't see it most of the time.

We have a wreath on the front door, some star shaped hanging lights in the front windows, and some snow flake window stickers. I kind of feel compelled to make the house look a bit cheery as we live on a high foot traffic street as you have to go down it to reach the railway station so I like to think we are very slightly brightening up people’s mornings as they trudge to the station for their commute :)

We have multicoloured flashing icicle lights across the front of the house and on the fence at the front. Our front garden is only 2 foot wide and concrete so no room for an inflatable, no where to anchor it down. Otherwise I would have a small army of inflatables as well.

But we do have the tree in the bay window at the front which looks really festive from the outside.

We have a wreath on the front door, warm lights wrapped around 2 small potted conifers either side of the door and pastel coloured static lights running all along the guttering the length of the house. We have a separate garage adjacent to the house but it’s rendered and no visible means of attaching lights to it much to my disappointment and husband’s pleasure!

Candles in windows to welcome travellers home, a few light sets on bushes, wreath on door, lantern light in porch, small bush / Christmas tree with lights. That’s it!

We have twisted bay trees either side of the front door, so I do turn on the fairy lights in them if I remember. We’re far too snobby to do anything garish.

We've had new railings put up and I've just ordered a load of coloured lights to wind round them. We've been fairly low-key up until now.

Our road organised a socially-distanced synchronised switch-on in 2020 and we've done it every year since. It's got better every year to the point where the local Facebook page recommends our road for people to see Christmas lights.

The only inflatable was a six foot Father Christmas but those people moved out a few weeks ago.

I think it looks lovely (everyone's gone a bit early this year though wouldn't you say?).

We've got a wreath with lights on the front door, and we usually have lights round the fence and round the miniature tree by the front door. I like to have them, it looks welcoming in the evening when it gets dark, and especially if they are on when we come home after an evening out.

I’ve actually gone for coloured lights outside this year, they look very pretty (they aren’t harsh colours) but pinks purples and greens. I was always very much warm white only as I felt it looked classier but I think colour has definitely made a comeback and it looks just as nice.