Santa's Workshop layout for a Wide Shallow, No Porch

Photorealistic evening photograph of a single-story brick ranch house on a wide shallow, no porch, 75 ft of street frontage with a 18 ft front setback, photographed from the street directly in front of the house, far enough back that the entire wide facade and the driveway are both in frame, camera height 5.5 ft. The yard is decorated in a santa's workshop theme. Busy rather than grand. Elves mid-job, a sack of parcels put down on the grass and a workshop with the lights on, so the yard looks like somewhere work is happening rather than somewhere things were arranged. Decorations, in position: 1. The star: a cluster of oversized red-and-white spiral peppermint candy discs on stakes at staggered heights, angled toward the street, 3 ft tall. Centered on the front door, 8 ft out. Without a porch to anchor to, this piece is the only thing telling people where the entrance is. 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. Left of the door, 10 to 12 ft out from the centerpiece. Push these further apart than feels right. A wide facade eats the gap. 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 door, mirroring the left. Keep it clear of where a car door swings open. 4. Walk and bed 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. Along the short connector from the driveway to the door, then following the front bed. The walk is stubby here, so borrow the bed line to make the run long enough to matter. 5. Roofline: 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. The full run, gutter line and both gable rakes. This is the single biggest thing you can do to a wide flat house, and it is the one people skip because it means getting the ladder out. 6. Past the driveway: 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. This is the workshop door, so it wants to look used rather than dressed. Garland down both legs, a working light over the crown rather than a decorative one, and then one thing that says the job is still going on: a length of ribbon trailing off it, a sack leaning against a leg, two or three parcels stacked underneath. The trick in this theme is that everything looks put down rather than arranged, and a perfectly finished arch undoes that everywhere else. Site it beside whatever the workshop piece is rather than out at the road. 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: #C0392B, #2F6E52, #E8B14A, #F2EDD8. Nothing floats; every piece sits on the ground at the stated distance. Scale reference: the front door is 80 inches tall.