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The North Pole · Corner Lot

The North Pole layout for a Corner Lot

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.

your corner lot, 60′ × 75′ 6 of 12 spots filled
To-scale site plan for a Corner LotA to-scale overhead site plan of a corner lot, 60 feet of street frontage by 75 feet deep, with the house set back 25 feet from the front sidewalk. The street runs along the top of the drawing. 6 of 12 marked positions are filled. Filled: the star; sidekick, left; sidekick, right; path and perimeter lights; roofline and porch; side yard scene. Left empty: the corner moment; under the porch roof; deeper, off to one side; along the eaves; porch posts and rail; the front door. STREETSIDE STREETDRIVEHOUSE60'ABCDEmax 3.5'FGPmax 8'HTRWmax 6.7'

Drawn to scale. Everything is measured in feet from the front sidewalk, and your front door is 80″ tall if you need something to check against.

this theme on this shape

The North Pole fills 6 of this shape's 12 marked spots for free, and 7 of them once every budget is unlocked.

With everything unlocked, one spot stays empty because everything that would go there is too tall for the cap on that spot: the corner moment.

four more stay empty because this theme has no piece written for that kind of spot: under the porch roof, along the eaves, porch posts and rail, the front door.

first, the deal with your yard

Read this before you buy anything

You have two front yards now, whether you signed up for that or not. The side gives you 40 to 70 ft of continuous frontage, way more room than a normal lot, and that makes a corner the best possible shape for a big spread-out scene. The trade-offs: anything flat and one-sided is showing its blank back to one of your streets, and wind comes at you from two directions with no neighbor in the way, so every stake and tether that came in the box gets used. The real headache is power. Your outlets are on the house and that corner might be 40 ft away.

Who's looking, and from where

  • Head on from the front sidewalk
  • Head on from the side street
  • The diagonal from the intersection, which is the one everybody actually sees

The classic mistake

Decorating the front door and leaving the whole side street bare. Half the neighborhood sees that side first.

Check this one thing

Most cities cap how tall anything can be in the little triangle by the intersection so drivers can see through it. The number is different everywhere. Look yours up before you fall in love with something 8 ft tall.

same yard, four budgets

Pick your number

Every version below was worked out against the map up there, and nothing gets a spot unless it physically fits. Footprint and height both. The Do it yourself version is free and complete, so you can go do that today. The other three are the paid guide.

Every price below was checked on or after 27 September 2026, and each item carries its own date. Holiday pricing moves weekly.

Do it yourself Free

stays under $250
$215.95 $34.05 to spare

One weekend, a sheet of plywood and some string lights. Costs almost nothing and still stops traffic.

The Do it yourself plan: every piece, its spot on the drawing, how big it is, how many and what it costs.
Spot What to get How big How many Cost
A North Pole Signpost Build it
The star. Dead center on the front walk, 8 to 10 ft back from the porch steps. Pick something with actual sides to it, not a flat cutout. One of your two streets is going to be looking at the back of this.
7' H 1 $38
B Giant Peppermint Candy Stakes Build it
Sidekick, left. Left of the walk, 5 ft out from the edge. Keep it under about 60 percent of the centerpiece height.
3' H 1 $22
C 21 in. Lighted Candy Canes, 10 pack (opens in a new tab) Amazon 10 pieces
Sidekick, right. Split the four canes into two pairs, one either side of the walk, leaning slightly outward.
1' 9" H 1 $20.99
D Candy Cane Pathway Markers, 12 pack (opens in a new tab) Amazon 12 pieces
Path and perimeter lights. Both edges of the front walk, then keep the line going along the side yard. Do not stop at the corner of the house. This run is the thing that ties your two street faces together.
1' 4" H 2 $51.98
F Warm White Incandescent Mini Lights, 300 count (opens in a new tab) Amazon 300 pieces
Roofline and porch. One continuous run along both street-facing rooflines. Skipping the side roofline is the number one corner-lot regret.
2" H 2 $51.98
G Bare Arch, Dressed Build it
Side yard scene. 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.
7' 4" H 1 $31
the plug situation

4 things need an outlet, about 2.3 amps all together. That all fits on one 15 amp circuit, you are fine. Outdoor GFCI outlets only, and leave a drip loop in the cord at every plug so rain runs off instead of in.

You will also need

The cord is the part everybody forgets, and stores run out of them at the peak of every season. Outdoor rated only, and plugged into a GFCI outlet.

About $31.96 of hardware, on top of the $215.95 of decorations. Buy it once and it comes back out every year.

still figuring these out

A couple of spots do not have a pick at this budget yet, so the plan leaves them empty for now:

  • Nothing in The North Pole fits spot E (The corner moment) at this budget yet.
Image prompt for this exact list
Photorealistic evening photograph of a two-story suburban house on a corner lot, 60 ft of street frontage with a 25 ft front setback, photographed from the street intersection at a 45 degree diagonal angle so that both the front face and the side face of the house are visible in the same frame, 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 star: 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 on the front walk, 8 to 10 ft back from the porch steps. Pick something with actual sides to it, not a flat cutout. One of your two streets is going to be looking at the back of this. 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. Left of the walk, 5 ft out from the edge. Keep it under about 60 percent of the centerpiece height. 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. Path and perimeter 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. Both edges of the front walk, then keep the line going along the side yard. Do not stop at the corner of the house. This run is the thing that ties your two street faces together. 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. One continuous run along both street-facing rooflines. Skipping the side roofline is the number one corner-lot regret. 6. Side yard scene: 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. 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.

see it first

The other two prompts

Each budget above has its own prompt for the finished yard, because each one is a different list of things. These two do not change between budgets: one for the empty yard so you have a before picture, and the negative prompt that stops every image model on earth from burying your lawn in snow you did not ask for.