Houses transformed by Christmas lights – in pictures

A semi-detached house is lit up with exterior Christmas lights in Melksham, Wiltshire Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Fairy lights frame a glowing house in Bath Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty Images

Publican John Coombes and his wife Pauline have transformed their country pub in Sedgley in the West Midlands, spending £3,000 in the process Photograph: NTI Media Ltd/Rex Features

A broader view of the The Summer House in Sedgley Photograph: NTI Media Ltd/Rex Features

Christmas lights give this house in Leicester a neon feel Photograph: Rui Vieira/PA

Karl Beetson from Wellingborough in Northamptonshire has been putting on an impressive display at his house for over 10 years. Each year it takes his family eight Sundays to put up the lights
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Houses owned by Stan Truelove in Canterbury, Kent. He has decorated them with more than 50,000 bulbs for the festive season every year for the past seven years, raising over £30,000 for charity Photograph: Gareth Fuller/PA