Nutcrackers layout for a Sloped or Terraced

Photorealistic evening photograph of a two-story house set above a terraced front yard with stone retaining walls house on a sloped or terraced, 55 ft of street frontage with a 30 ft front setback, photographed from the public sidewalk at the bottom of the slope looking up the terraced front yard and its steps toward the house above, camera height 5.5 ft. The yard is decorated in a nutcrackers theme. Guards, not decorations. Red and gold, standing to attention, and the whole thing works on symmetry, which makes it the one theme where lining things up is correct rather than a mistake. 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. Top terrace, beside the walk. Being uphill already adds apparent height, so you can go a size smaller than you would on flat ground and still have it tower over the sidewalk. 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. 2. Sidekick, left: a three foot nutcracker soldier in red and gold tinsel over a metal frame, lit warm from within, standing to attention, 3.2 ft tall. One nutcracker at this tier, and place it like a sentry rather than like half of a missing pair: hard against one side of the door or the top of the steps, square on to the street, not floating out on the lawn where the empty side becomes obvious. A second one is the best fifty-six dollars you can add to this theme later, because symmetry is what it runs on. 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. Top terrace, right of the steps, levelled the same way. 4. The step lights: 2 of them, 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 steps all the way up, then along the top of each retaining wall. Lighting the wall edges is what makes the tiers visible after dark, and it also stops guests from walking off one. 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. Gutter line and porch. Remember the house already sits above eye level, so the roofline is further up than the ladder you used last year. 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: #B02E2E, #E8B14A, #1F3A5F, #F2EDD8. Nothing floats; every piece sits on the ground at the stated distance. Scale reference: the front door is 80 inches tall.