8 Things Your Home Needs for Halloween
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Get ready to spook up your decor with these 8 key things every home needs for Halloween. Whether it’s pumpkins, ghosts, a cute garland or creepy table decor, all of these products will satisfy your Halloween needs without being tacky or outrageously expensive. While we can’t all have that 12 foot tall skeleton from Home Depot (my landlord said no) and we don’t all have yards to decorate for trick-or-treaters, you can still deck the inside of your home out and channel your inner witch. I have also saved all the Etsy products in one place in my favorites folder here if you want an easy to access list. Check out my compiled list of Halloween decorations below, no tricks just treats.
1. Squad Gourds
As the podcast My Favorite Murder says “squad gourds”. We have all bought a pumpkin to carve at the start of fall and then within a couple weeks it is rotted and we have to throw it out before Halloween even hits, let alone Thanksgiving (yes, we love a decor item that crosses multiple holidays). The solution is to buy some non-perishable pumpkins in the form of wood, fabric, metal etc. Stack them next to doors, in a bowl on a table, or beside your fireplace.
2. Spooky Spiders, Skeletons, and Skulls
Nothing livens up a place like skeletons and nothing makes you dance like a spider on your arm, which makes these two items the perfect spook-or (spooky decor, a term which I just coined) for that Halloween party you are throwing. That spider pot holder has so many uses! Put a classic fall plant like Chrysanthemum in it, a pumpkin, or even a bowl of candy.
3. Eerie Art
Honestly, spooky art is welcome all year round in my opinion because that is just my energy but having art you can switch out based on the time of year keeps your home fresh and fun. Use vintage frames from your local thrift store and buy some of that cheap spider webbing and stretch it across your frames for extra flair.
4. Booooooooooooo
While I totally believe in ghosts, in my mind they are nowhere near as cute as all these decor items. So if you want to go more charming and less scary, light a candle and let these large eyes warm your heart. Also, I feel like a Halloween doormat is essential for any place that has trick-or-treaters and this “boo” one is simple and cute.
5. Celestial Flourish
I love the moon and am fascinated by its power and shapes. While the moon cannot be claimed by Halloween exclusively, it definitely has a lot of spooky associations (werewolves and magic). That being said, some of these items would look amazing out year round if you are a moon lover like I am.
6. Ghostly Garland
One of the easiest places to decorate for Halloween is on your mantle. You are finally getting to use that fireplace after months of hot weather which means it is going to be a centerpiece again. Drape spider webs and a fun garland across the top and throw a cauldron in the middle. Don’t have a fireplace? You can drape garland across the corners of your frames on your gallery wall, around your headboard, or across curtain rods.
7. Horror-ticulture
Of course I had to add some options for our myriad of plants. There are so many fun things you can tuck in to the leaves (eyeballs, spiders, a skeleton hand reaching out, a tombstone) and a lot of options for fun planters (pumpkins and skulls). Don’t forget about our green friends, they want to have fun too.
8. Table Accessories
Whether its an entry way table that you need some creepy candy jars sitting at, your console table which would be perfect with a spooky lamp, or your dining room table that awaits a skull bouquet to sit on top, accessories are spooky girl’s best friend.
