FATHER Christmas might be hard at work in the North Pole, but if you peer through the window of one west Hull house, you would be forgiven for thinking he was wandering around inside.
Darren Edmondson, 43, has used more than the usual lights and trinkets to decorate his Sibelius Road home.
An avid movie fan, he has hooked up the projector from his home cinema to play festive videos on his front windows – from the Coca-Cola advert to a DVD that makes it look like Santa Claus is creeping around the room.
He said: "Most people stop for the window, I think, but the decorations are quite all right."
Moving from Bransholme 13 years ago, he was shocked by the different atmosphere at Christmas time.
He said: "When we moved here, we noticed no one decorated their house, but in Bransholme everyone did it.
"This is a very quiet area, my next-door neighbour loves it though, she goes to bingo on a Sunday and when she comes back, she stands staring at it."
The all-guns-blazing display looks expensive and Mr Edmondson estimates that if he bought the decorations from shops, he would be looking at a receipt of up to £3,000.
Luckily though, he is a dab hand at DIY and makes a lot of the decorations himself.
He said: "I spend quite a while making stuff because I want it to look nice during the day as well as night.
"We have a porch, so I made the columns into candy canes and then I've got 5ft candy canes attached to the wall that I made myself."
This approach of making the decorations gives Mr Edmondson a flexibility from year to year. He already has plans for next December's display.
He said: "There is this thing called Lightorama, which you plug your lights into and attach to a computer to play your music, it makes your lights flash in time to the tune. I don't know how to get hold of one in the UK but I'll figure it out in the next year."
As much as he loves decorations, they are a time commitment Mr Edmondson can't always stretch to.
He said: "I don't really decorate for Halloween. If we could, we would, but it's the time. Christmas is the best time of the year."
