How to decorate for Christmas without being tacky
Your house doesn’t have to be lit up like a, well, Christmas tree to get into the whole spirit of the festive season. Here’s our guide to decorating while maintaining a sense of decorum.
Let’s start with outside. The trend these days is to try to outdo your neighbour for over-the-top Christmas lighting and decorations. There are whole streets of houses lit up like the one on the left. But while the owners of the house on the left have to put up with crowds of gawkers, the owners of the yard pictured on the right can enjoy some wonderful (and private) evening ambience.
Passersby who saw the poor man whose ladder had toppled while he was putting up Christmas lights raced to his aid – only to find out it was really a mannequin, hung there for a prank. The woman in the middle photo stopped smiling when the police asked her to take her mannequin down after receiving dozens of complaints. And we’re not sure what the occupant of the Christmas-wrapped office thought when he saw his colleagues’ handiwork.