Budget Display Village Layout Tips

By David King


Christmas display village makes the season magical and memorable. For kids around the home, this is an awe inspiring exhibition. For the entire family, you have a center for all activities during the season. The challenge is usually the cost of creating the presentation. This is why experts have developed budget Christmas display village layout tips to save you money without reducing the flare of the season.

The base should not be too fancy. There are expensive options that make it appear like it is covered in snow. Styrofoam mold is used to give the area an appearance of reality. However, a clean canvas will do the trick without costing you a fortune. Even a white table cloth can work. No one is looking to see an elaborately designed exhibition. As long as it is white, it will be a perfect choice.

Avoid working with a flat platform. Villages are usually hilly or feature an uneven terrain. With different levels, you have more room for creativity as well as innovating with colors and shadows to give the feeling of reality. You only need to place objects like boxes below the canvas. Some of these boxes can be what the houses and images on your village were packed in. Such raising gives you a third dimension that is magical.

A Christmas train can be expensive. Replace it by improvising using other trains already available in the market. All you need for your presentation is a moving train that is spewing smoke. Other than go for the specific Christmas one, buy other types of trains that will still serve the purpose. You can get them from the market at a throw away price.

Illuminate the entire presentation with white LED string. There is the temptation to buy the cords with a thousand colors. This will only be expensive yet you can achieve the multiple color effect using other tricks like coloring the houses, trees and other items that are displayed. Shadows are also a way of achieving the colorful effect.

There is magic when you add a water feature. Buying a real water fall will only push your budget up. Use ordinary pipes that are cut into half and laid with a white paper. Enhance their watery appearance using light. A single water feature is enough instead of create a complex set of streams that make the display crowded. Jesus was not born in a swamp.

Embrace recycling and being innovative in your decoration. There are items you decorated with last year that could still be useful. This is one of the ways of cutting down on cost while gradually improving on the quality of your display. Other than buy new items every year, you will add on to what you have already acquired. You need to be good at preservation.

Minimalist decoration is an excellent tactic you can use to create a magnificent display. Do not seek to add a lot of items because it will be a crowded place. This will also make it difficult for your lighting to be effective. Be modest yet creative with the items that are displayed and the results will be magical.




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