With surface space running low, Roland Bergeron uses the area under tables for holiday decorations Wednesday in his Auburn home. Beneath this table, he installed one of the many nativity crèches. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Each item in Roland Bergeron’s Christmas-decorated home evokes memories of events and people from his past. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Roland Bergeron stands Wednesday in his decorated dining room in Auburn. Every surface is adorned with Christmas memorabilia, which he sets up with help from his niece and nephew. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Roland Bergeron has collected the annual Carnaval de Québec Bonhomme mascot ornament every year, which he displays around his Auburn home. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

The stairs leading to the top floor of Roland Bergeron’s Auburn home Wednesday are designated as the Santa stairs. Most areas of Bergeron’s Christmas-decorated home follow a specific theme. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

One table in the dining room of Roland Bergeron’s home in Auburn, seen Wednesday, holds a village of Christmas buildings. “People started giving me Christmas decorations, and it just caught on,” Bergeron said. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

One table in the dining room of Roland Bergeron’s home in Auburn, seen Wednesday, holds a village of Christmas buildings. “People started giving me Christmas decorations, and it just caught on,” Bergeron said. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Roland Bergeron stands Wednesday in his Auburn home next to a wall-mounted Christmas jukebox, a bargain found by a family member at Marden’s Surplus and Salvage. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

Homemade ornaments crafted by Roland Bergeron’s nieces and nephews hold places of honor in his Christmas displays. Though his nieces and nephews now have grandchildren of their own, their childhoods are preserved in this cherished tradition. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal

The designated snow babies room in Roland Bergeron’s Auburn home is filled with porcelain figurines, seen Wednesday, modeled after German marzipan figurines. The figurines, once sold locally at the former Gooseberry Barn on Minot Avenue in Auburn, were gifted to Bergeron by friends and family over many years. Andree Kehn/Sun Journal