Christmas Tree Forest layout for a Narrow Shallow with Porch

Photorealistic evening photograph of a one-and-a-half story craftsman bungalow house on a narrow shallow with porch, 40 ft of street frontage with a 15 ft front setback, photographed from the public sidewalk straight up the front walk, so the covered porch and the full width of the small front yard fill the frame, camera height 5.5 ft. The yard is decorated in a christmas tree forest theme. One idea, repeated. Trees at four or five different heights scattered at different depths, so the yard reads as a small wood rather than as a row of decorations. The easiest theme to get right and the easiest one to line up like fence posts by mistake. Decorations, in position: 1. The star: three lit cone-shaped trees of different heights standing in a loose group on a dark lawn, each wound with a spiral of small warm lights, 4 ft tall. Build at least three and put them at different distances from the sidewalk, tallest furthest back, with one set slightly apart from the other two. The spacing is what makes this read as a wood rather than as three cones somebody bought. 2. Sidekick, left: a squat black lantern with thick glass sides and a flickering candle flame inside, sitting on the ground beside a step, 0.9 ft tall. Tight to the left edge of the walk, about a foot off the concrete. You do not have the room to spread these out, so keep the pair close and let them frame the steps. 3. Sidekick, right: 2 of them, a low run of white wooden pickets pushed into the lawn, knee height, suggesting an edge rather than closing anything in, 1.5 ft tall. Right of the walk, matching the left. Watch the driveway edge, it is closer than you think. 4. Path and porch edge lights: a line of short stake lights glowing softly along the edge of a walkway, no cords running between them, 1.3 ft tall. Both sides of the short walk, then carry the line along the front of the porch. On a yard this size the lighting is doing most of the work. 5. Porch and roofline: 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. Outline the porch roof first, then the main roofline above it. Two stacked lines of light is the entire trick on a shallow yard. 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: #2F6E52, #1E4535, #E8B14A, #F2EDD8. Nothing floats; every piece sits on the ground at the stated distance. Scale reference: the front door is 80 inches tall.