The North Pole layout for a Circular Driveway

Photorealistic evening photograph of a two-story traditional with a columned entry house on a circular driveway, 90 ft of street frontage with a 45 ft front setback, photographed from the street at the mouth of the circular driveway, looking across the loop and its center island toward the front of the house, camera height 5.5 ft. The yard is decorated in a the north pole theme. Signposts, candy stripes, toy soldiers and a little workshop situation. This one is a whole place rather than a single motif, so it loves a yard with room to spread out and more than one thing to look at. Decorations, in position: 1. The island: a tall red-and-white barber-striped post with four white wooden arrows pointing in different directions, each hand-lettered, topped with a warmly lit white globe, 7 ft tall. Dead center of the island. This is the best spot on any lot shape, because it is the only place a decoration gets looked at from all the way around. Give it a base or a stake plan that survives being walked past on every side. 2. Sidekick, left: a cluster of oversized red-and-white spiral peppermint candy discs on stakes at staggered heights, angled toward the street, 3 ft tall. In the bed between the sidewalk and the house, left of the door. These frame the entry and not the island, so measure from the door and ignore the loop. 3. Sidekick, right: a row of glowing red and white striped candy canes staked along a path at knee height, 1.8 ft tall. Split the four canes into two pairs, one either side of the walk, leaning slightly outward. 4. The loop lights: 2 of them, a run of short red-and-white candy cane stakes glowing along both edges of a walkway at even spacing, 1.3 ft tall. The outer edge of the front arc only, from one entrance around to the other. Set them back 2 ft from the sidewalk. Anything closer gets clipped by a tire the first time somebody swings wide. 5. Roofline and porch: 2 of them, a dense run of tiny warm white bulbs following a roofline, close enough together to look like a continuous line of light, 0.2 ft tall. Full gutter line plus the porch columns. The loop pulls people closer to the house than a normal walk does, so the porch detail actually gets seen here. 6. The outside curve: a metal garden arch over a front path at night, dressed down both sides so it reads as a gap in something rather than as a frame, people walking through it, 7.3 ft tall. Wrap both legs in candy stripe, barber pole fashion. Red tape or weatherproof ribbon spiralled up bare metal costs a couple of dollars and reads better from the road than anything moulded. This theme is a whole place rather than a motif, and a place needs a way in: put the arch at the sidewalk end of the walk rather than up near the house, so people pass through it on the way in and everything else in the yard is inside. A sign on the crown if you have one, and nothing else on it. This one works just as well mirrored to the other side of the walk, so if a tree, a slope or the way you come and go says the far side is better, swap it and swap its partner with it. What matters is that it is beside the path and not standing in it. Shot at dusk with the sky still faintly blue, every lit decoration switched on and brighter than anything else in the frame, warm light spilling onto the lawn. Palette: #C8102E, #FFFFFF, #F0A44A, #8FB8D8. Nothing floats; every piece sits on the ground at the stated distance. Scale reference: the front door is 80 inches tall.