Halloween is the right time of the year to unleash your “horror” creativity. Here's how to decorate your home in a frighteningly fun way!
Steps
Method 1 of 2: Decorate the Outside of the House
Step 1. Decorate the garden
If your home has it, it will be the first thing others will notice, so intrigue passers-by:
- Cover the ground with rustling autumn leaves. Do not rake the garden for several days to leave those spills.
- Grab an old pair of boots and pop it out of a pile of leaves or dirt, as if it belonged to a corpse!
- Insert graves into the ground. Their arrangement does not have to be perfect: Halloween does not require anything of the kind, in fact, you will have to communicate a sense of decadence.
- If you have trees, cover them with fake cobwebs. Bonus points if you can also add a stuffed (but real-looking) owl or crow on a low branch.
- Don't underestimate the power of a scary scarecrow. You can buy it or make it yourself and paint it red to simulate blood.
- Throw skulls on the ground - some guests may accidentally trip over them.
- Pop a skeleton out of the ground.
- Park the car outside the garden and cover the windows to make them look broken and dull. Insert a mannequin inside it, as if it were a trapped person, with your hands against the window.
Step 2. Decorate the front of the house:
will have to scare your guests, or victims!
- Add fake cobwebs, which could cause guests' clothes to get caught.
- Put on a fake black cat.
- Also put stuffed mice on the ground.
- Don't forget to add a bucket full of dried white flowers.
- Arrange tree branches on the ground.
- Add some pumpkin carved, painted black or silver, or decorated with glitter.
- Hang a ghost by the door. Make it with an old sheet and a ball to make the head.
- If you have an old rocking chair, cover it with fake cobwebs and put it in a place where it will squeak.
Step 3. Decorate the front door and windows, eyes and soul mouth of your home
Monstrous details will make the house look haunted:
- Insert a spooky carpet, depicting the image of a spider web or a ghost.
- Hang a bat-covered wreath on the front door.
- Splash some fake blood on the front door, but it will need to be easy to remove.
- If you want to surprise everyone, cover the windows with light wood panels. This will make the house look abandoned, and therefore scary.
- Take an old mannequin and cover it with a black or red formal dress. Put it in front of a window that everyone will see, perhaps on the second floor or in the attic. Insert a flashlight under the mannequin to create a spooky effect.
Method 2 of 2: Decorate the Interior of Your Home
Step 1. Here's how to make it look abandoned and creepy; in a nutshell, ready for Halloween:
- Cover the sofas and chairs with old white sheets, which you may not have used in years and which have holes in them.
- Cover the tables with torn black tablecloths. Take an old black sheet and cut it.
- Wrap the shelves with cobwebs. If you have books with the perfect atmosphere for this party, like those by Edgar Allan Poe, put them in plain sight in the bookcase or on a nightstand.
- Strategically place a few skulls on the furniture.
Step 2. Dim the lights
If your home is too bright, you won't be giving enough room for mystery. Here's how to create the perfect lighting, or lack thereof, for Halloween.
- Glue some plastic bats near the lamps, but don't put them too close to the light bulb.
- Light some white candles and decorate them with fake blood drops. Place white candles on a towel or paper towel and light a red candle, letting its wax fall on them.
- Light some orange paper lanterns and place them throughout the house.
- Carve the pumpkins by creating scary faces and insert candles inside them.
- Light small white candles throughout the house. Attach fake bugs to it.
- If your lamps are very bright, replace the bulbs.
Step 3. Halloween doesn't make sense without pumpkins, so use them to decorate, but don't overdo it:
- Buy some orange balloons and paint some scary faces on them. Leave them on the floor or hang them from the ceiling.
- Get pumpkins and paint them black or silver or cover them with glitter. Arrange them in the corners of the house.
- Open a pumpkin and use it to hold the potpourri.
- If you've made a pumpkin dish, serve it in bowls made from small pumpkins.
Step 4. Get some large glass jars, fill them with water and pour in a few drops of green dye
Arrange them in the kitchen under some lights or elsewhere in the house to put them in plain sight. Among the other items that you can insert:
- Old and identifiable items, such as an old doll's arm, a 10-year-old toy or a trinket you have had since time immemorial.
- Some dried flowers or pine cones.
- A small skull or fake eyeballs.
Step 5. Don't leave out the walls for an even more haunted house:
- Cover some of the paintings with white cloths for an abandoned house look.
- Draw eyes on the mirrors.
- Cover the paintings with fake blood, but make sure they are protected by a glass that you can wash.
- Hang cobwebs all over the walls. You can make them with cotton or old gauze to wrap cheeses or buy them.
Step 6. Scary surprises:
- Place an old bird cage on the floor and leave it open. Also place some fake mice on the ground.
- Take some broken trees from the garden and place them in flower pots.
- Create a bouquet with some pretty white roses and then cover it with some fake black ants, spiders and caterpillars.
- Make black bat-shaped wreaths. Use colored construction paper to make them.
Advice
- If you have a black cat, then you already have a decorative element!
- They cannot lack music and dark sounds.
