I work in a home decor store in the US and some people go crazy with both indoor and outdoor decorations. I’m talking garland down the stair well, porch signs, lights, door signs, figurines, kitchen decorations, yard decorations, all that jazz. Some people here even do big decorations just for the seasons. Fall/autumn is a huge market for decorating here.
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Christmas, yes. Easter, much, much, much less but some people still do a little.
Then some families with kids does one traditional fastelavn (costume party mostly for kids in February, also associated with a pastry popular around that time) decoration, and that’s basically it. I like to make a little “fall plate”, even though we have no traditional fall holidays associated with decorations, but that’s just me.
Christmas! Of course!
A Christmas tree naturally, I am growing one in the garden, I think I may chop it early as it has been growing since last year and has increased in size a good bit,
Though no other decorations mind you, though I do enjoy seeing the lights all over the houses, they decorate the statues in villages and in towns
I don’t celebrate Halloween so I skip that one
Christmas, yes. Lots of decorations then, even a line of lights outside. Some people do a lot more, making their homes like a light show outside and a winter wonderland inside. For Halloween it is becoming more popular to decorate, though it is still low key for the vast majority that do. Very little for Easter. So overall, not as much decorations for these various occasions.
For christmas yes, we invented much of the decoration like the modern Christmas tree, Advent calendar and Advent wreath.
For Easter we often see Easter eggs and other decoration in the public parks for the children to search.
Some people do to various degrees. There are a few people who absolutely go crazy about Christmas or Halloween or Easter to a lesser degree, probably because of the influence of American movies. But more understated decoration is more common.
Pretty much only for christmas and mostly indoors but yes we do. Outside decor is usually just some lights on the porch or on trees in the yard. We don’t do halloween here so we don’t have a reason for decor in fall.
Wouldn’t mind if we went a bit over the top for christmas. The way you do it looks comfy and nice based on movies.
Only for Christmas and only then it very much depends on the person, some go crazy and some don’t decorate at all. In my opinion the decorations go well with a snowy landscape that we tend to get ever less, without the snow it just looks sad.
Christmas, obviously: to varying degrees. In my town in Belgium with quite a lot of immigrants from the USA, you can spot their houses compared to the neighbours.
Easter, no.
Halloween: people who are open to knocks on the door for Trick or Treating kids (a new thing over the past few years) will put out a few decorations or lights: houses with nothing you don’t disturb.
Yeah we do, but it’s to a slightly lesser degree than the U.S.
I put out a wreath on the hall door and some lights on trees in the garden and maybe a few other bits and pieces.
At Halloween I’ll usually put out some pumpkins and a few spooky items on the porch.
UK here – for Christmas and perhaps Halloween (which used to be more commonly called ‘Gay Fawkes’ after the guy who failed in the plot to blow up Parliament hundreds of years ago) quite a few people will decorate inside and perhaps outside, and in minority communities they will also put up decorations and/or significant objects or symbols for key festivals for their culture/religion (e.g. Chinese New Year, Diwali, Eid).
We’re not so big on decorating our houses at other times of the year – some people may display something around Easter (either religious, although public displays of this outside a house is fairly rare, or egg/bunny related), but most do not.
During World Cup Football (soccer) championships some houses will also have the national flag in their windows or hung outside. In terms of the rest of the year we tend to consider people flying/displaying the English flag to be the sort of people that support the National Front.
Mostly for Christmas! Some shops have probably started to sell already (or on Friday when it’s September).
Some people keep their lights out all winter to get some light during the dark season.
There is some decorations for Easter, summer and autumn. Only Easter inside the house though.