Here are our favorite gingerbread house decorating ideas to help you make your gingerbread house — whether store-bought or homemade — a little extra this year. First, plan your setting.

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Gingerbread village: Build multiple houses and arrange them into a festive village scene. The reusable gingerbread house is created by the Rocky Mount-based The Candy Cottage. 3.