The North Pole layout for a Deep Narrow

Photorealistic evening photograph of a two-story colonial house on a deep narrow, 42 ft of street frontage with a 55 ft front setback, photographed from the sidewalk at the front lot line looking straight up the long walk toward the house, showing the full depth of the yard, 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. Two thirds of the way up the walk, not down by the sidewalk and not parked against the porch. Go bigger than you would on a normal lot. At 55 ft back, a 6 ft piece disappears. 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, a few feet behind the centerpiece so the two do not line up flat when you look up the yard. 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 approach 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 sides of the walk for the last 36 ft up to the door. You do not need to light the whole 55 ft. Starting the run partway up pulls the eye toward the house instead of stopping it at the sidewalk. 5. Roofline and porch: 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. Gutter line and porch. Use the biggest bulb you are willing to buy. At this distance small twinkle lights turn into a faint smudge. 6. The halfway moment: 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.