These holiday enthusiasts elaborately decorate their yards for Halloween, then quickly turn around and deck their homes with lots and lots of lights for Christmas.
Steven Foster with Halloween decorations at his mom’s house on Topaz Street in Redwood City, Calif., on Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023. Foster, of Belmont, decorates his childhood home every year. In every neighborhood, there are the houses whose owners really have fun decorating for Halloween, erecting towering skeletons, giant faux spiderwebs or inflatable scary clowns.
Elizabeth Berry Polash and her daughter Harley, 3, with Halloween decorations at their home on Riesling Circle in Livermore, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 10, 2023. Her and her husband Lane have been decorating their house for the past three years. a street known in the Tri-Valley area for its Christmas season lights displays. In fact, Riesling Circle is included in the annual Livermore WIne Trolley Lights of Livermore Holiday Tour.
For Halloween, the couple and their friend, Sean Willis, of Pixel Creative Designs in San Jose, use projection mapping to create a light-and-sound show that features pumpkins appearing on their roofline, “coming to life, to sing songs and tell jokes,” Berry-Polash said. Foster is a fan of both Disney’s “Haunted Mansion” ride and Tim Burton’s 1993 fantasy, “The Nightmare Before Christmas.” So, the theme of his display is Haunted House meets Halloween Town, with a giant Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King, presiding over all the ghoulishness.
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