How to Decorate Your House Like a Haunted Mansion
Transform your home into a haunted mansion for a Halloween party, other costume party or as fun for trick-or-treaters. There are many options for giving your house the haunted mansion look, including replacing the light bulbs with colored options and adding spiderwebs to almost everything in your house. While faux animals, including rubber rats, work for haunted houses, you can also enlist the help of friends' or family members' pets, such as black cats, who can roam the house to frighten guests. Does this Spark an idea?
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Things You'll Need
- Faux tombstones
- Faux spiderwebs
- Faux appendages
- Colored light bulbs
- Skull candles
- Jack-o-lanterns
- Black spray foam
- Black plastic bags
- Tape
- Old tattered curtains
- Fake blood
- Old candelabras
- Long, thin candles
- Pumpkin candles
- Skeleton decorations
- Ghost decorations
- Scarecrow materials
- Fake spiders
- Old picture frames and portraits
- Horror film soundtracks
- Faux rats
- Creepy signs
- Faux bats
- Rubber masks
Instructions
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Decorate the front of your house. Use faux tombstones on your front lawn if applicable, and drape spiderweb decorations over a few or all of them. Add fake appendages to the front area of some of the tombstones and bury them halfway so it looks as if they are emerging from the tombs. Wrap faux spiderwebs around your front porch railings if applicable, as well as any deck furniture you may have. Place skull candles on any front porch tables and lit jack-o-lanterns on stairs. Replace the front porch lights with red, green or purple light bulbs.
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Black out all windows by using either black spray foam or black plastic garbage bags. If you're using the bags, attach them to the windows with clear tape. Replace curtains with tattered versions, and feel free to use fake blood to add bloody hand prints to the windows and curtains.
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Replace light bulbs on lamps and lighting fixtures with red, purple and green light bulbs. Set up candelabras featuring long, thin candles as desired around your home, as well as individual long, thin candles, and candles in the shapes of skulls and pumpkins. The older your candle holders and candelabras look, the better. Look for candles that drip down the sides for extra creepiness.
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Hang skeleton and ghost decorations in your closets and open the doors so they peek out, and make scarecrows to place around your home, using old clothing, straw, boots, gloves and either a plastic or real jack-o-lantern. Place a scarecrow on a chair in a dark side room with nothing but candles as lighting to give guests a chill as they pass by. Hang ghost decorations, such as the classic white sheet, from the ceilings of various rooms.
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Place faux spiderwebs as desired around your home, including around light fixtures, on picture frames, on stairway banisters and on chairs, tables and other furniture. Use fake spiders and faux bloody appendages around your home as desired as well, including on the spiderwebs and on tables. Replace picture frames with "scary portraits" found at either Halloween stores or thrift/consignment stores.
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Play creepy, eerie music, such as the soundtracks to horror films, throughout the home. Decorate your home with any additional props as desired, such as faux rats, creepy signage, rubber bats, scary rubber masks and anything else you find frightening.
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Tips & Warnings
Ask friends and family members to play parts in your haunted house, such as witches, mummies, vampires, zombies and other undead characters.
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