Seasonal & Holidays

Long Island Family Wins On ABC's 'The Great Christmas Light Fight'

The home appeared on the Christmas lights show on Monday. Here is how you can watch the episode.

A St. James home appeared on ABC's "The Great Christmas Light Fight."
A St. James home appeared on ABC's "The Great Christmas Light Fight." (Michael DeSantis/Patch)

ST. JAMES, NY — A St. James home was featured on ABC's "The Great Christmas Light Fight" on Monday. And better yet — they won!

Chris Stier creates an elaborate Christmas village at his home each year, according to the episode, which can be watched on ABC's website if they sign in with their television provider information or on Hulu.

The Stier's home spells out "Kringle" with lights on the roof and features a "Dickens' Village" of children's playhouses themed to movies. A lot of do-it-yourself work goes into the displays each year, Stier and his wife, Ashley Miller, said.

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"We absolutely just love Christmas," Stier said on the show. He added that he and his daughter, Serenity, have been decorating together for years.

"Your whole house looks like candy," Taniya Nayak, the show's judge, told the family.

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The family won $50,000, Nayak told them when she announced them as the episode's champions.

"You guys took the Christmas Dickens' Village and you super-sized it in a way only Chris Kringle could do," Nayak said. "You can feel the love and all of the creativity in every piece of the display you guys put together, and I really mean that sincerely."

Stier said the win was "awesome."

"The teamwork and everything that we put into this, it's amazing," Stier said. "It's an absolute dream. I'm literally shaking right now."

Nayak presented the family with a Light Fight trophy, which lights up.

The Long Island family went up against the Stallings family of Palmetto, Florida; the Woodams family of Bainbridge, Georgia; and the Nubar-Boyce family of Orlando, Florida, according to ABC.

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