Unlike Christmas, Halloween is a perfect holiday to express your creativity and creepiness as a family. Decorating your home, both interior and exterior is probably the best way to enjoy this scary holiday. Unfortunately, Halloween decorations can be challenging, especially if you don’t know what you should do. Proper decorations will necessitate several trips to the local store as you maximize what you have. Below are a few ideas for successful home decoration as you prepare for Halloween.
Start with the Outside
The best place to begin Halloween decorations is the exteriors. For homeowners with a lawn and front porch, there are several creepy options for making them Halloween ready. These external areas should set the tone for other parts of the house. If you make them spooky enough, your neighbors and visitors will be curious to find out how the interior looks like. That said, below are some simple and affordable ideas to make your outside creepy;
- Fill the lawn and front porch with old, crunchy leaves. For this to be successful, avoid raking your backyard some days before Halloween.
- Place some old pair of boots as if they are emerging from a pile of leaves or unsightly dirt. This should make it look like there is a dead body on the lawn.
- Plant tombstones haphazardly on the ground. Keep in mind that Halloween involves old items that seem to be falling apart.
- If there are trees in the lawn, cover the branches with spider webs. You can further this by sticking crawling creatures, a stuffed owl, or a raven on a hanging branch.
- Make the most from a scary scarecrow as well. Build a special and creepy Halloween scarecrow by using cornhusk and blood-like paint.
- Litter the lawn with some skulls. It becomes better if visitors accidentally stumble on them. You can also have skeletons hanging from specific points in the yard.
- A sack of dead flowers, some pumpkins, stuffed rats on the floor, and spider webs can help set the tone in your front porch.
Alongside the front porch and lawn, you should also work on the front door and external parts of the window. They will act as the mouth and eyes of your Halloween homes’ soul. As such, some ghoulish, creepy touches, such as a spooky doormat, fake blood, bat-covered wreath, and an old mannequin, will make the house look haunted.
Decorate the Inside
Your home’s external part should introduce and prepare your guest for the surprises awaiting them inside the house. You should make your furniture, walls, and bedroom Halloween-ready. For this, you can use several small yet effective tricks to make your living room, kitchen, and bedroom look creepy and abandoned.
For the furniture, cover them with some white, old looking sheets that will make your home appear as if it hasn’t been used for ages. Cover the tables with tattered black clothes, drape the bookshelves with spider webs, and strategically place some skulls. Your decorations on the wall should aid set the scene of a haunted house. To achieve maximum effect, cover your walls with paper or plastic Halloween scenes. While this can be a consuming task, it brings forth a significant spooky factor.
For the bedroom, you can add spookiness in various ways. Even if you recently purchased a new mattress and other bedroom essentials, you can still achieve a haunted-room appearance in several ways. From strategically placed spider webs, old and rugged bedsheets, creepy clothes, a lot of low-lit candles, and animated Halloween props are just but a few decoration items to consider.
Another creative addition to your interior is specimen jars. For instance, you can drop some green dye in a jar full of water to achieve a gross green hue. Position the jar in a prominent part under some dim light. You can also use unidentifiable items, such as decades-old child’s toy, pine cones, fake eyeballs, and more.
You should then focus on the lighting. Lights will help set the ambiance of your home. As such, make good use of them, ensuring that they keep the house fairly dim. An extra bright room won’t provide convincing imagery for mystery. For this, you can light blood-dripping candles, replace bright bulbs with dim bulbs, light some orange paper lanterns, and use curved pumpkin for lighting.
Get Creative this Halloween
When the Halloween season approaches, most people think of Halloween costumes for their kids only. However, you should extend your celebrations this coming Halloween by being extra creative. The above ideas add to the common costumes, ensuring that every corner of your house looks unique and haunted this festive season. The trick to ensuring these decorations are creative is placing them in areas where people least expect.
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