Spooky Decorating Tips for your Halloween Décor

It’s everyone’s favorite holiday. It’s Halloween! Halloween is a well-loved time of the year for various reasons. Some enjoy the costumes, some enjoy watching spooky movies, and other enjoy decorating their spaces.

Holiday decorating can get a bad reputation. You never know what exactly that means? Is it a cute and adorable Halloween home with little ghosts that say BOO? Or is it a creepy and sinister space that will make you expecting to see a real live spirit?

Well if you are wanting the latter, here are some easy ways you can create a spooky home for Halloween.

Candlesticks

A pair of candlesticks can go a long way in a Halloween themed design. Whether it has you thinking of Professor Plum in the Library of Clue, or a spooky séance space, it is a great ghostly add. Go for a pair of antique candlesticks. Look for brass or silver, and the more ornate, the better. To top off the spooky vibe, make sure your tapered candles are melting and dripping to perfection, to get that tiny detail of a haunted house.

Swap out your Pictures

In the spirit of the spooky season, swap out your pictures for something a little more sinister. Go for black and white old time portraits, oil paintings, or apothecary and botanical styled prints. Take it up a notch by swapping out your picture frames as well for something either more ornate, such as a gilded frame, or go for a distressed weathered look with a rustic wood frame.

Break Out the Antiques

There is something just a little bit eerie about vintage furniture and antique items. Perhaps it is their age. In any case, Halloween is a great time to break out the antique silverware and old china. You can use them for dining, and have yourself a haunted meal, or just keep them on your buffet for a bit of table top decor.

Add Faux Cobwebs

Nothing is as easy as spook-ifying your home décor than adding some faux cobwebs to your space. Add them to picture frames, the corners of bookcases and wall shelves, candlesticks, and other bits of décor to create a creepy and perfect Halloween look. It is so easy to do and will make a huge impact to creating a spooky feel.

Create a Creepy Curio Display

Another ways vintage and antique finds can be used to create a Halloween aesthetic is through a curated tabletop of curiosities. Vintage pieces tend to be weird and unique so why not take advantage of that fact? Find the weirdest knick knacks, such as trinket boxes, old keys, silverware, old books, etc. Then, use them in creating a table of oddities. Display skeleton keys in glass vases and highlight silverware in cloches. Add height and variation by stacking old books, playing with candlesticks or glass vases.

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With these easy decorating tips you will have the classiest haunted house on the street!