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A California family morphed their entire home into a full-blown Harry Potter spectacle ahead of this year’s Halloween.
The Jacobsons live on Sunnymount Avenue in Sunnyvale and have been decorating their home for the past six years.
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The home has been fully transformed into a Harry Potter world and the family took nearly one year to redesign the whole display in order to improve it from last year.
“Our kids, when they were younger, really wanted to do fancy Halloween decorations, but I spent my whole career working with young children, so it was important to me that whatever we did not be scary or too gory,” Lindsay Jacobson, one of the homeowners, told KRON 4.
“We really start planning in November and December because, over the summer, when we have more time, we will actually be building the stuff for next year. In September, we are purely in the assembly and getting ready to go out phase,” Jacobson’s husband, Quinn, also said.
Many of Harry Potter’s iconic set pieces are on full display such as a Quidditch hoop, Platform 9 3/4 and Hagrid’s Hut. A blue car tangled in tree branches is also shown, recreating the popular crash-landing scene from “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.”
Hogsmeade Village is also part of the display, featuring nine different shops with magical, animated movements.
“We love how much the community comes together, how many families come, how many people of all ages like families with little babies… there’s a couple in the neighborhood that’s in their late 80s and their caretaker drives them over,” the couple said to CBS.
The family’s display can be seen for free every day until Halloween from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., with the best viewing conditions just after sunset.
