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Great Ideas For Decorating Inside Your Home At Halloween

  • April 15, 2010 1:21 am
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Decorating the inside of your home for Halloween can be a lot of fun. It is a wonderful time to use your imagination and just go wild. Halloween is the best time to let loose and be creative. Start by finding a means to keep enough light to see, but dim enough to be mysterious and alluring. If you use candles make sure that they are placed in areas that are safe from causing an accidental fire. Be sure and keep them away from decorations and out of reach of the guests and children to prevent them from being knocked over.

Use fake spiders and webs to line the corners and the walls of your home. Look for the ones that are designed to look lifelike and you will enjoy these decorations much more. A combination of wall posters and plastic witches, ghouls and monsters will add to the overall Halloween theme. Add a few skeletons dangling around to reach out and grab anyone’s attention as they walk by. Sound effects add to the fun as guests are startled by the occasional scream or rattling of chains as they walk from room to room.

Go all out by not limiting yourself to decorating just one room; instead decorate all the rooms inside your home. Even the bathroom is no exception so that your entire house holds a surprise for anyone brave enough to enter. A room full of scary bats just waiting for prey will keep your guest on their toes. You can even have a few of them set up where they can swoop down on an unsuspecting visitor. Another room could be set aside for the gathering place of the living dead, while other monsters are lurking around every corner of the home.

Are you looking for something a little less dramatic? Then, how about creating a room full of happy ghost and goblins enjoying a Halloween get-together? They can be colorful and designed in different shapes and sizes to add variety to the setting. Some can be posed as if they are dancing while others can be enjoying a friendly beverage together. Add some Halloween music and special effects and the inside of your home is decorated for Halloween in a way that no one will soon forget.

Great Ideas For Decorating Inside Your Home At Halloween

Decorating Outside Your Home For Halloween (A Spooky Theme)

  • April 5, 2010 11:21 pm

For many people the best part of Halloween is being able to decorate the outside of their home. This doesn’t have to be limited to just the front yard. Decorating the backyard can create a very spooky atmosphere. You can even design a detour that will take each of your guests on a long walk that circles the backyard before leading them to the entrance. This way they get to enjoy the full benefits of your decorating efforts.

The traditional pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns make great additions when you decorate the outside of your home for Halloween. The light that these decorations give off will help your guest to see their way around and add the perfect lighting to create scary shadows that surround the other decorations. Ghost and goblins are an old favorite that can still make your guest look over their shoulder twice. Don’t be afraid to get very creative with these items. Some of the newer designs are now being made inflatable to help give them an even more lifelike appearance.

The use of a fog machine can create an illusion that can make your yard the spookiest of all. This is especially true when you litter the lawn with fake body parts and fake blood splattered all about the area. The fog just intensifies the whole spooky theme. Don’t forget about a special door bell ring that alerts you of the incoming guest with screams, howling or some other unique Halloween greeting. You can even have a host that is decked out in one of the scariest costumes around to stand outside your door to personally welcome each and every one of you Halloween guest.

Add special sound effects that will begin whenever your guest walks past a certain area. You can also use props that are programmed on a timer to go off at specific intervals. Spider webs are also a great decorating idea that will help you to create a spooky outdoor theme. Make sure that you don’t forget the customary black cat and maybe a witch or two sitting in the trees watching the guest wondering by. It’s just not Halloween without a few traditional items.

Decorating Outside Your Home For Halloween (A Spooky Theme)