Driving around, we’re starting to see lots of houses covered in Christmas decorations. It ranges from a wreath on the door or piece of tinsel around the letterbox to houses and/or yards covered in decorations.
Decorated houses near home
It is interesting to note how differently our neighbours decorate the outside of their homes. for Christmas
One of our favourite houses (they do it the same every year) uses lights – they have little white lights dangling off the verandah like a waterfall, Santa, sleigh and reindeer made from lights on the roof and various candy cane lights scattered around the roof and walls of the house.
The people behind us also use lights – they have coloured lights through their trees and a lot of white lights over their fence and rose arbour.
Then there is a house near us where they have pretty much filled their front yard with plastic Christmas items. Some have lights draped over them and others have lights within them so you can see all the decorations at night or day.
There are so many options available!
Christmas light drives
In a week or so, we will take an evening drive to view houses and their Christmas decorations. There are a few suburbs renowned for this, but there is an increasing number of houses throughout the city doing the decorations so we just drive around rather than fight crowds to view the famous ones! Either way, the kids and I love seeing them. Do you make an effort to visit decorated houses?
In the past, we haven’t done a lot of outside decorations as we were hidden behind big fences. But we got a new fence during the year along the side so we may string some lights through our fruit trees, as well as decorate a tree out there (which we always do for ourselves.)
It’s an interesting thought – is decorating your house on the outside for you and your family, or for people passing? It is certainly part of the Christmas spirit, and a lot of fun!
We have never decorated the outside of our house – though Mum wants to do something this year… My kids love driving past all the “Christmas Houses”, and they get excited every time we pass one.
Some of the houses I see must be done for other people – so many of the decorations are on the roof so people inside the house can’t possibly see or enjoy the decorations.
We do it for us (our kids anyway) and passers-by – we have lights in the trees along the footpath so we can see them from inside the house and people can see them from the street.
We hang tinsel along our fence and a wreath on the door – everything else is inside and mostly on the tree.