So, you think you know how to decorate your house for Halloween? Ha! Don’t make me laugh…
If you want to beat your neighbor and be the best decorator this year for Halloween, KEEP ON READING!
You have to be well-prepared to organize a great Halloween party, and since we know ourselves and we know we leave everything for the last minute, we brought this post on Halloween decorations to give you some ideas that might help you out!
To begin with and get the terrifying decoration, pumpkins, spiderwebs, blood, candles, and skull are a must, as well as terrifying accessories. But as Jack the Ripper said: “Let’s do this piece by piece.”
Outdoor decorations
The garden
If you have a garden or a patio in your house, that’s where you can get your best ideas, since it’s the first thing that scares people going through it, making them wonder what they might find further on. The most common thing to do is to create a cemetery with gravestones, some few corpses sticking out of the lawn, carved pumpkins, ghosts, warning signs, etc.
If you water the lawn correctly, you might be lucky enough to see some couple of zombies with which to record Michael Jackson’s Thriller video, and if not, wait until midnight for some of your guests to get in the mood, and they surely will.
The facade
As a second step, the front of your house is very important, especially the door and the windows. For the door, we recommend this post that shares 25 ideas to decorate the door of your house for Halloween.
But if you’re not in the mood for crafts, we leave here a quick alternative you can find in our shop.
On the other hand, you can take advantage to create Halloween decoration in the windows by putting shadows with a black cardboard over a white background to exploit the internal light. You can create weapons, cats, hanging heads, anything you want! In this post they show you how to do it.
Another great idea is to play with the lighting, not just by placing a light source in another element of decoration, like targeting the garden lights towards the dead man hanging in the tree or filling the jack-o-lanterns with light, but also playing with the interior lights, placing colored light bulbs, like blue or red.
Indoor decorations
Perfect! Now you have them very scared, it’s the moment to not let them down. Now that they’re defense is down and they think it couldn’t be any worse, they are wrong, because we’ll give you great ideas for a horrifying Halloween house decoration.
To make decorating easy for you and, why not, even save you some money, focus on the places where your guests will be, leaving some rooms with less decorations. For this, we recommend the following zones.
The bathroom: not suited for frightful (or scrupulous) people!
This place, like it or not, is one that most everybody comes to, so it’s important that your decoration be as scary as it gets.
Fill the tub with some water and pour some water and fake blood in it, stain the wall, and if you want you can place a head inside or stain the curtains.
In the bathroom mirror you can place bloodied hand marks, be them yours or some “place and remove” ones, if you don’t want to overstain it.
Make the hand soap “somewhat gross” by sticking in some human remains like the ones we show in the image, simulating body parts like ears, fingers or eyes.
The dining room
This room is one of the most important ones, because it’s where you’ll be most of the time during the party, which is why the decoration must be terrifying, but without being excessive so your guests feel uncomfortable while they’re in there.
Cover it up with cobwebs and place small spiders all around the corners. Cover the furniture with white blankets to give them the illusion that the house is haunted, and protect them from staining from other things. Finish it off by placing some pumpkins and skulls over the shelves.
Complete the decoration with dead, decorated twigs with a terror theme, like spiders, pumpkins, cobwebs… The kids in your house can give you a hand as well so it becomes a fun activity for the whole family. Candles and chandeliers are a must as well, so that the lights are dimmer and fits the holiday, or cover up some lamp in orange or black.
For the dining room, the tableware is imperative, from the tablecloth, the black napkins or the glasses you use, even the centerpieces. Here, we propose some elements that might be of help.
Tablecloths
To eat your guests, you wouldn’t want to do it just anywhere! Manners come first.
Glasses and cups
You can’t not have a container in which to drink the blood elixir or alcoholic brews that will make more than one person want to crawl out of your house.
Pumpkins
Show off your artistic skills and learn to carve pumpkins in original and fun shapes.
But if you can’t or are simply lazy about it, you can always get some decorative pumpkins.
Chandeliers
Are you scared of candles in fear your house might get burned? No problem, we propose this safe, terrifying candle handles.
Skulls
With skulls, everyone’ll appreciate the interior beauty of which everybody speaks and few even notice. Well, so decorate with them, let everyone see the inner beauty of the departed.
The corridor
As a final point, you can’t miss out on the hallway, through which your guests will have to cross to get anywhere else in the house. In it, the basics are hanging cobwebs. Also, decorative elements in the walls, like gloomy photos, bugs, etc.
With all of this, you’ll set your house for a perfect, big Halloween celebration, where the fun and fear are certain, and even if some guest doubts it is, they can always become part of next year’s decoration themselves.