What began as a small family Christmas project has grown into one of Logan’s brightest annual traditions, with more than 40,000 lights, a dozen boats, and inflatables set to light up one Logan Village home.
Along Pioneer Drive, Beck Brown is busy putting her home in the Christmas spirit.
Every year, she transforms her property into a Christmas wonderland.
And she doesn’t just use your stock-standard fairy lights – Ms Brown has become known around town for her iconic boats and inflatables.
For organiser Beck Brown, the display has become about far more than decorations.
“It really is just more than the lights,” she said.
“It’s fun. It’s community. It’s that whole Christmas spirit”
This year’s setup includes 15 boats and 42 inflatables scattered across her lawn, with a snow machine and a bubble machine that pumps out bubbles filled with candy-cane scented smoke.
There’s also a crowd favourite: a sneaky crocodile, hidden in a new spot each night.
“I move him somewhere different every night,” Ms Brown said.
“Kids would come down just to find the crocodile. They’d be out looking at other lights, but they’d have to drop in just to tell me they’d found him.”
Her husband joins the festivities in an inflatable reindeer costume, bouncing around with visiting kids.
The display draws crowds from across Logan.
“Last year it looked like a festival some nights,” she said.
“I had to call in family members just to have a few extra people on the gates – handing out candy canes, keeping an eye on everyone, making sure it’s safe.”
The setup process is a marathon of its own.
“We’ve had three weekends in the pouring rain, out there all weekend still setting up,” she said.
“We only come inside when the lightning and thunder get too close.”
But the work continues, she said, because the impact is enormous.
“I make the effort every year to make it bigger and better purely because of how happy it makes everyone.”
At the heart of the display sits Nanna’s Christmas Tree, a large tree gifted by Ms Brown’s mother.
This year, she has purchased 1700 baubles so children can write their name and hang it on the tree.
“It’s really nice,” she said.
“Last year we had a family come in whose mum had just passed away. They came after we’d closed but I saw them at the gate and let them in. She decorated a bauble for her mum.”
She said something special happened every year, whether it was a family granting a loved one’s final wish, or a family who had never been able to look at Christmas lights before.
While the Browns’ display is large enough to rival commercial attractions, Ms Brown said families don’t need deep pockets to create something magical.
“You can make it look extraordinary on a budget,” she said.
“I hot-glued lights to every brick of my house – it took a long time, but you can do that for under $100.”
Ms Brown said the joy her display brings to the community makes every rainy weekend and cable tie worthwhile.
“It is purely about bringing joy to everybody else,” she said.
“It makes us happy to see everybody so happy when they walk through the gates.”
The Christmas walkthrough at 44-48 Pioneer Drive, Logan Village began last Friday, with visitors now welcome every Friday to Sunday, 7–9pm.
A special sensory night – quiet, calm and with no flashing lights – will run on Thursday 11 December from 6–9pm, before nightly walkthroughs commence from December 12 through to Christmas Eve.
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