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?

We've got a unicorn and snowman model, and a tree that hangs on the wall, we do have fairy lights but they're a bit broken and we don't have the energy to replace them. We've got a Pegasus model to add this year!

We go all out. Santa, candy canes etc 🤣 we've no kiss yet so do it for the kids in the estate.

Planning on doing a charity night so the kids cam see the inside

I don’t do outside decorations any more
We used to have a conifer in a pot by front door and would put battery lights on it
Sadly after 5/6 years it died
There’s no power outside so would struggle with lights elsewhere

We put lights in our trees, a lot of icicle lights along the house, we have pillars which we put greenery and lights on, a wreath on the front door, reindeers and candy canes.

Nope. Wreath on the door. Lights in the window. A menorah if Hanukkah collides (we're a very mixed family).

Some houses near us go all out and there are streets where everyone decorates and we usually go see them one evening but we just have some lights that go across the front of the house. We are the only ones who really see them as we have a high fence and gates but I like seeing them when we come home.

Nope, that photo upthread reminds me why - all that light pollution. Tacky. Thankfully nobody else in our village wants that either. We want darkness.

Apart from one string of lights, no we don’t do anything.

We put a wreath on the front door. We don’t have a front garden, but if we did I’d maybe put up some soft fairy lights around a tree etc, but that’d be it. Less is more!

We had two themes, one was only white lights. We used to hang icycle lights from the roof eavedrops and put garland & white lights around the front window and garage.
Our coloured theme was multicolored lights, and garland around the door along the railing on our front porch and candy cane lights up the front steps. We had white birch trees and put red green & gold spot lights. The white was my favorite.

The last 10 years we no longer can climb on roofs and don't relish being on a tall ladder, so we only hang a lit wreath on the door and decorate inside the front window with lights and tabletop tree.
Our nieghbours have a lot of lit golden reindeer, today they added a small santa and a sleigh. Other neighbours have an enormous lit up golden moose, it hasn't appeared yet. All our front "lawns" in this neighbourhood are quite small.

An inflatable Grinch is directly across us, and next to them will soon be setting up one of those projectors that make shine snowflake pattern.

No.

We do about the same. Our NDN does even more. This year we’re adding another inflatable (Snoopy on his house. I can’t wait!).

Candle bridges in the windows.
Lots of shiny red baubles hung in a now bare tree on the front lawn for the daytime.
Coloured lights strung along the garage and porch gutters (on a timer).
Most of our neighbours do similar low-key lights so the overall effect is pretty.

I had a white snowflake projector on our previous house, in a busy city street, which looked lovely, but wouldn’t suit where we live now - too much!

No, we have a wreath on the door and lights on the inside of the windows, and the tree is in the window. So it looks lit up and festive but no-one needs to climb ladders!

No. Strings of lights would be OK (though can’t be arsed) but reindeer, Santas etc. are cringingly naff.

Have a lighted wreath and a light up star on the door as well as some fairy lights around the fences and the bush by the door. The window lights then obviously too. I actually have more outdoor decorations for Halloween.

We grew up in a v middle class area, but there was a spate of wreath thefts each year, usually drunken teens daring each other.
So my Dad hacked our alarm and connected the wreath to it so if anyone tried to steal it, the house alarm would go off.
It stopped happening after that! It was the 80s tho, alarms are probably a bit less hackable now!

No, I'm not sure whether our tree will be up this year.
It lives in the l8ft and DH had hernia surgery last week.
He has to be careful (he's definitely doing that!) not to put any strain on his stomach.
I don't have the upper body strength to haul myself up there.
Unless our DD comes back from university, they won't be going up

That's a lovely story and I'm very happy for your husband. We don't have any lights outside as we're renting and it wouldn't be worth the effort but next year in the new house we are buying it's going to. National lampoon's Christmas

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Yes! We live in a nice cul-de-sac within a working class area. Everyone lights up their front garden and we also have a committee who organise Christmas lights on the trees along the street. We arrange it on the WhatsApp group and all come out to light them together, the kids come out and the adults hand out biscuits etc.

My mother brought us up in a very affluent area where she still lives. People on her street are barely on nodding terms. The houses either don't put lights up or else they put up something so impressive it's clearly done by movie set professionals. She is absolutely horrified by this crass behaviour on my road 🤣🤣🤣

We have a few things. We hang lights on the house, have a wire sleigh and reindeer and we have a projector which projects snowflakes and candycanes onto the house.

Sime years ( not always) I drape a few battery operated lights on the bushes in my front drive and add some to the window . That is it but when I do it does cheer me up a bit when I come back home after work on a dark dreary winter evening.( I really loathe the dark winter days)

I run to a wreath and this year, for the first time, I have got some warm white lights to put on my potted conifers. Otherwise no.