Showing posts with label Halloween decor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Halloween decor. Show all posts

Monday, October 23, 2023

Halloween Home Decor 2023!

 As is probably already well known if you have followed me for any amount of time now, I LOVE Halloween! Every year I can't wait for fall and the spooky decor to come out. Every year is a little different from the last and new pieces are added to old favorites. So here is this year's home decor overview. The full tour is located on my channel, where I mistakenly jumped ahead a year and called it 2024 (oooopppsss!!!!).


So come along with me to explore my decor and get some ideas for your own!

As I have been doing for the last several years now, I make use of the dying plants in the flowerbeds by adding some tombstones and a skeleton into the garden before I trim everything back entirely for the winter.


I stayed simple in the rest of the kitchen only adding a few touches like this sign and pumpkin on a candle holder so the kitchen would also stay functional.
In the dining room I tried to go for a theme of a Witch setting up to hold a buffet. I used tarnished good silver pieces and added some haunting touches to accomplish this. 


This year Michael's had so many new pieces but I was especially drawn to this Edgar Allen Poe piece of art. You may remember in past years I had done a Raven theme in the dining room. This year, I decided to move this into the living room.
Upstairs in the bathroom, I used my adorable skeleton bathing in a cauldron on a tray along side my modern version of potion bottles (retinol serums).
Another new find this year was this amazing masked bust from Home Goods (TJMaxx). I think she will be perfect at Carnivale as well.
For more details and a full tour visit my channel and watch the tour. How did you decorate this year to haunt your home? What new pieces did you find? Make sure to hit subscribe to be alerted of new posts and comment below.






Monday, October 17, 2022

Halloween Home Decor 2022

 Oh how I love Halloween! and all of fall for that matter... but there is something about the chills and scares that let you be a child again at Halloween!

With everything dying back in the flowerbeds now, it seemed like the perfect backdrop to throw in some spooky tombstones and recreate a graveyard theme.


At the top of the landing coming in the back door, it seemed like the perfect spot to park my "stick shift" and hang my coat for chilly evenings out.
Further into the kitchen, I stayed with a more whimsical Mackenzie Child theme adding a jar of Halloween candy on the island and using Paget Brewster inspired jars in the display. 
Above my dining room window, I hung a welcome sign over bat sheers and a creepy cloth valance. 

For a place setting I used pumpkin plates on a plastic plate charger with plastic party wear utensils and a Mackenzie Childs napkin. 
Down the center of the table, I used a green tint sheer runner bunched up over a black runner with skulls, crows and pumpkins. I added some battery candles and twinkle lights for an eerie effect.
On the mantle, I used bottles and changing photos with usual decor covered in faux cobwebs for a spooky effect. 
In my chicken on the buffet, I stayed with the skull and crow theme filling the fruit bowl with the macabre.
This carries through to the living room but changing to the color scheme of that room with more deeper red tones. 
After a few years on hiatus, I decided to pull my spooky village pieces back out this year as well.
Coco is still finding the couch quite cozy wearing her skull bandana from the groomer amidst sull covered throw pillows. 



Dante as well had no qualms sleeping amidst skeletons. 
In the powder room, I thought it was a bit whimsical to add this skeleton bathing in her cauldron. 
Finally in the hall, for a finishing touch I added some harlequin designs into the usual Venetian display. 

For a full video tour of this year's decor click here.  Let me know in the comments: Do you decorate for Halloween? Which display is your favorite? What kind of decor do you do? Subscribe to receive notice as new posts are published.

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