Haunted House Vibes: Easy DIY Halloween Decorations for Every Room

You already know what that means — Halloween is just around the corner! It’s time to make your house a haunted retreat where even ghosts would feel at home. You can easily create the atmosphere of a haunted house in each area of your home with a little imagination and a few do-it-yourself tasks.

Living Room: Spooky Wall Art

The living room serves as the hub of the house and is where family members and visitors congregate. We advise making your own eerie wall art to give it a haunted-house feel.

Materials:

old canvases or frames

A dark color

a bristle

White or luminescent paint

Black paint should be applied to the frames or canvases. Once dry, draw spooky pictures like skulls, ghosts, or spider webs with the white or glow-in-the-dark paint. To create a chilly environment, hang these works of art on your walls.

Kitchen: Mason Jar Mummies

Another location that is easily scared is the kitchen. A quick and enjoyable DIY project to add a Halloween flair to your kitchen is making Mason Jar Mummies.

Materials:

The Mason jar

strips of white cloth or medical gauze

squinty eyes

Glue

Gauze should be used to cover the Mason jars, leaving room for the googly eyes. Your mummy will be ready once the eyes are attached to the jar with glue. These jars can be used as candle holders, utensil holders, or simply as a beautiful object on the kitchen counter.

Bedroom: Ghostly Curtains

Use eerie drapes in the bedroom to heighten the haunted-house ambiance.

Materials:

sheer white curtains

Black fabric paint or feeling

From the black felt, cut out spectral forms that you can adhere on the sheer white curtains. If you don’t have felt, you can paint the ghostly shapes instead using black fabric paint. The shadows the spectral figures cast will be unsettling, especially when the lights are down.

Bathroom: Bloody Handprints

Give your bathroom a terrifying touch with DIY bloody handprints.

Materials:

Red acrylic paint

Clear plastic wrap

Dip your hand in the red paint and press it against the plastic wrap. Let it dry and then stick the plastic wrap on the bathroom mirror or the shower glass. This spooky touch is sure to give anyone a fright!

With these easy DIY Halloween decorations, you can quickly transform your home into a haunted house. So, get your creative hat on and start crafting. Remember, the key to a successful Halloween decoration is in the details. Happy haunting!

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Hang Haunted House Scene Setters

One of the ways to transform your home into a haunted house is to hang a scene setter on your walls. Since it covers such a big area, it always has a huge impact on how the room looks.To do this right, cover as much of the wall as possible with plastic or paper scenes that will make your house look completed different, especially under low light. It is a bit of a time-consuming task to set up. But I think the end result is worth it. This haunted mansion scene setter* (in the picture above) is one of my favorites for creating a haunted house. Once it’s up, the room really looks like it has ripped wallpaper and run down paneling!

Add Lots Of Candles

I recommend getting the ones that have a timer and/or remote control so that you don’t have to spend a bunch of time turning them all on and off.