An indoor Lynbrook winter wonderland

For four months out of the year, the Dunns, who live on the top floor of the four-story Nathan Hale Senior Village in Lynbrook, have their apartment decorated for the holidays. But the couple doesn’t just throw up some tinsel and a single Christmas tree — they go all out, turning their cozy, one-bedroom place into a colorful, virtual winter wonderland (and a very warm one at that.)

Opening the door to let me in, Art Dunn stands over 6-feet tall — a white-bearded, smiling gentleman. When I asked him if he thought he looked like Santa Claus, he chuckled. “No, not really,” he said stroking his beard. “I used to be a redhead.”

There is red and green everywhere, as far as the eye can see. There are five twinkling Christmas trees of different sizes, a half-dozen red-bowed wreaths hanging on the walls, entire miniature villages, lighted garland, collectible plates, Waterford and Pier One ornaments, dish towels and many other porcelin knick knacks.

“We still have the ornament that we had when we first got married,” said Art, 83, pointing to a delicate, miniature glass tea pot hanging front and center from the largest of their five Christmas trees. “It’s the last one that we have from back then,” added Katie, 81, Art’s wife of 62 years. “My aunt gave it to us.”

The Dunns met in Richmond Hill, Queens when they were preteens. He was 12, and she, 10. “I loved her the first day I saw her,” Art said. Years later, he joined the Navy, and was stationed in Europe during the Korean War. Katie was still in high school. They married soon after Katie graduated, when they were 19 and 21 years old, and went on to raise six children in Hempstead, and eventually moved to a single-family house on Winthrop Street in Lynbrook 25 years ago. They’ve been at Nathan Hale for the last six years. They have 10 grandchildren.

“Oh, yeah, we decorated at the house on Winthrop, inside and out, for years,” he said. “There were lots of lights.” He said his children all decorate their homes as well. “My son has three times what I have here.”

Art said that they decorate a little at a time, starting November 1, and add a little bit more each day. They leave it all up until March 1.

The couples family will be coming by for Christmas, and they will spend the day at their son’s home.

“People should continue to decorate … enough of this ‘non-Christmas’"