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Notes from the season

Journal

September

Book the house before the first frost

The best displays are designed in early fall, not the week after Thanksgiving. If you want warm white on the architecture and garland that looks like it grew there, call now. We measure once, install once, and store everything when January comes.

Design

Warm white, tartan, and one good wreath

The look we are building toward is cream, deep green, a disciplined red, and lights that glow instead of blink. One five-foot wreath on the right door does more than a dozen mismatched bows.