How does everyone decorate the front of their house for the holidays?

what do you like,that is all that matters,Use your imagination

Funny! I just put up some of the lights today! In my neighborhood the first night to turn on lights is Thanksgiving night. I will not be home (but the pet sitter for the cats, canary and dragon will be), and everything is on timers. I use a combination of store bought, homemade and purchased at craft fairs. I set it up different every year.

Most of the lights I put up are on the inside of the house. I usually wrap the mailbox with red ribbon. This year I want to make a porch decoration using a tomato cage and garland (or I might just use real pine tree branches) and decorate my mini-tree with lights and picks.

Out front I hang a beautiful fresh wreath with a big red bow above our door and position a white spotlight to shine on it at night. I place smaller wreaths around the coach lights on either side of our garage. On the lawn are two white deer in different positions with green and red spotlights on them. It creates a bucolic and peaceful Christmas scene.

I cover the top of an old trunk with pine boughs. Then I add sprigs of red berries, home spun ribbon and candles inside mason jars (with sand to add weight.) I also add old wooden snow shoes or skates, what ever I have.

My house is surrounded by trees so that you can barely see the house. So, on the outside I found that projector lights are the most effective for my situation.

I’ve done so many things through the years, but we have not had anything beyond a wreath outside for a few years. This year I am planning to do three tomato cage figures: a lighted angel, a gingerbread woman, and a lighted tree. I also plan to make a snowman out of white trash bags. And I ordered my husband one of those little projectors that sit in the yard, shining Christmas slides on your house. We are old but we always take a drive looking at Christmas lights on houses. Sometimes many drives! Thanks for the question. 😇

I’m the diy on my block, with a brick home I place wreaths ( all the same size) on all the windows with all matching red glittery bows and matching ribbon to hang upwards on the windows and heavy greenery on the ledges of the windows with the same matching bows and all white lights. I crossbucked skis with a shag and hung that on one side of the very large picture windows in the front of the home and the other has a set of vintage snow shoes crossbucked with greenery and bow and I spray painted the ski the match my shutters. Then two pedestals urns with fake Christmas trees lighted on each side of the home. The porch that’s small stoop like, I add greenery swag around the door with the same matching red glittery bows and boxed toparie tree topped with a bow and the full glass door has red glittery wreath made from a sticks and grape vines with a red bird in a nest. Then under the boxed in maple tree in the yard, I took my old flyer sled painted it in a cranberry red with black runners added a pair of my old white ice skates fuller with greens and picks then added red plaid cuff to the skate boot and a big long glittery bow to the sled and propped that up and right next to the sled is another urn filled with many types of pine tree greenery found in near by woods with center gilittery spiked sticks.

I wasn't asking for ideas, I was really curious how everyone decorated their own homes.

There are as many ways to decorate for the holidays as there are people. Personally, I like the "less is more" approach vs decorating every last inch of my property. But, to each his own, so whatever you like should work for you. Just be prepared --- if you go all out you should expect cars to drive by to enjoy the fruits of your labor!

Sue, I love it when people ask a question like this. It opens up conversation and gives lots of ideas. I start on my tomato cage angel tomorrow. And we don’t like how the projector snowflakes look on our one-storey house, so I’ll be experimenting with aiming the projector toward our tree. I love Christmas. 😇

Decorating for Christmas is always so much joy and fun! Usually me and my family do this together because it's such a good family thing to do. We normally add christmas lights on the trees that we have in our yard, we put Christmas figurines like Santa or deers on our porch, put lights around the house on our windows to create that great Christmas vibe. There is so much you can do, you just have be creative and let your imagination flow