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Witch's Brew · Corner Lot

Witch's Brew layout for a Corner Lot

A cauldron going hard, hats hanging in the air and green light coming up out of the ground. It is a scene rather than a scatter of props, so it wants a yard with one spot you can build everything around.

your corner lot, 60′ × 75′ 8 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. 8 of 12 marked positions are filled. Filled: the star; sidekick, left; sidekick, right; path and perimeter lights; the corner moment; roofline and porch; side yard scene; under the porch roof. Left empty: 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

Witch's Brew fills 6 of this shape's 12 marked spots for free, and all of them once every budget is unlocked.

One of the pieces here is rated by its maker for covered use only, and this shape has a spot under a roof to put it, which is why it can be in the plan at all.

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
$239.15 $10.85 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 54 in. Witch Cauldron on a Tripod (opens in a new tab) Amazon
The star. It stands chest high, so give it sky behind it rather than a hedge. A tripod silhouetted against the house reads from the sidewalk; the same tripod in front of a shrub disappears. The green eyes in the pot are a detail and not a light source, so put a stake in the grass angled up through the legs and let that do the lighting. The legs spread wider than the pot, so keep it a good foot off any path edge.
4' 6" H 1 $31.99
B Pre-Lit Witch Hat Garden Stakes, 3 pack (opens in a new tab) Amazon 3 pieces
Sidekick, left. These stake into the ground rather than hang. Space them unevenly along one side of the walk and use whatever slope you have, so no two sit at the same height. Three hats evenly spaced on level ground stop being a coven and start being runway markers.
1' 11" H 1 $54.99
C 12 in. Solar Jack-o-Lanterns, 2 pack (opens in a new tab) Amazon 2 pieces
Sidekick, right. Right of the walk, mirroring the left one. Same distance out, same height.
1' H 1 $17.21
D Green Solar Path Stakes, 10 pack (opens in a new tab) Amazon 10 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' 3" H 2 $51.98
F Orange 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. Over the walk, and dress it with bare twisted branches down both legs rather than anything bought: this theme is a clearing in a wood, not a party. Then hang from the crown, because that is what the arch is for. A lighted hat suspended over the path at head height does what a hat on a stake in the grass cannot, which is float. Tie it by the point so it hangs nose down and can turn in the wind. Keep everything above 6 ft 6 in. and keep the middle of the opening clear. Green light from the far side, aimed back at the road through the arch, so people approaching see the branches in silhouette against it.
7' 4" H 1 $31
the plug situation

2 things need an outlet, about 2.2 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 $40.95 of hardware, on top of the $239.15 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 Witch's Brew 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 witch's brew theme. A cauldron going hard, hats hanging in the air and green light coming up out of the ground. It is a scene rather than a scatter of props, so it wants a yard with one spot you can build everything around. Decorations, in position: 1. The star: a black iron tripod standing chest high with a cauldron hanging under it, green eyes glinting inside the pot and cobweb caught across the legs, 4.5 ft tall. It stands chest high, so give it sky behind it rather than a hedge. A tripod silhouetted against the house reads from the sidewalk; the same tripod in front of a shrub disappears. The green eyes in the pot are a detail and not a light source, so put a stake in the grass angled up through the legs and let that do the lighting. The legs spread wider than the pot, so keep it a good foot off any path edge. 2. Sidekick, left: three pointed black witch hats on stakes at knee height, each lit from inside with warm white, 1.9 ft tall. These stake into the ground rather than hang. Space them unevenly along one side of the walk and use whatever slope you have, so no two sit at the same height. Three hats evenly spaced on level ground stop being a coven and start being runway markers. 3. Sidekick, right: two carved pumpkins glowing orange from inside on short stakes, one either side of a step, 1 ft tall. Right of the walk, mirroring the left one. Same distance out, same height. 4. Path and perimeter lights: 2 of them, a line of short stakes throwing sickly green light up the edges of a path, the color of something radioactive rather than something growing, 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 small orange bulbs following a roofline, warm and slightly sickly rather than festive, 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. Over the walk, and dress it with bare twisted branches down both legs rather than anything bought: this theme is a clearing in a wood, not a party. Then hang from the crown, because that is what the arch is for. A lighted hat suspended over the path at head height does what a hat on a stake in the grass cannot, which is float. Tie it by the point so it hangs nose down and can turn in the wind. Keep everything above 6 ft 6 in. and keep the middle of the opening clear. Green light from the far side, aimed back at the road through the arch, so people approaching see the branches in silhouette against 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: #5B3A7A, #3FA34D, #1C1A22, #D6A419. 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.

the free ones keep coming

New plans go up through the season

The Do it yourself version above is free and complete, and every theme that goes up gets one, drawn for all ten yard shapes. That is 10 free plans per theme, and the list grows through the season.

One email when there is something new. Nothing else, ever.