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Halloween home decor doesn’t have to mean sacrificing your sophisticated design credentials to get into the spirit of the scary season. It is possible to get into the macabre mood without sacrificing your more refined design sensibilities. Yes, there are no cheesy plastic skeletons or inflatable spiders here.
Need some ideas? Here are some of our favorite stylish but spooky Halloween home decorating ideas to get you started.
Opt for Smaller Jack-O-Lanterns
Extremes in size are always stylish. Instead of dragging 300 pounds of pumpkin out at the end of the season, go for groupings of petite, hand-sized jack-o-lanterns instead. These cuter – but still rather spooky – pumpkins can be used inside and out and as many of the smaller pumpkins you’ll find in stores vary in color from the standard orange, a large part of the actual decorating may already be done for you!
Speaking of decorating, the pumpkins seen above were decorated using melted crayons, so if you’ve been meaning to declutter all those broken ones your kids have lying around, this is a great way to do it!
Keep Things Monochromatic
It’s not necessary to color your house in bright orange just because it’s autumn and Halloween is approaching. Rather than using standard pumpkins, decorate with white pumpkins, gourds, and mums. These still have a very gothic air, but add spooky sophistication.
In fact, you don’t even need to add black into your sophisticated Halloween decor mix if you don’t want to. All white Halloween decor adds a rather Victorian, Miss Haversham vibe that can be very effective.
Go for Glamorous Faces
Instead of the standard strange and scary face pattern, try carving simple geometric patterns with circles or squares into larger pumpkins for an unconventional – and rather glamorous – Halloween home decorating twist.
Paint Don’t Pierce
Skip stabbing your pumpkins this year – and all the little ouchies doing so usually causes – and paint them instead. You can get every bit as creative and it will add some simple spooky style with a lot less mess and pain involved.
Go Dark, But Not Black
With flowers that is. There are some gorgeous fall blooms that are darker in hue. Great choices include Heuchera – also known as coral bells – Celosia, Hellbore and of course darker chrysanthemums like the ones seen above.
Use Creepy Cutouts
One excellent way to add a creepy Halloween vibe to your home that’s a little more subtle is to make use of easy window clings instead.
Add Some Scares to Your Cooking
Leave your family – and your guests – feeling a little uneasy about just what you might be cooking up in the kitchen by adding a few of these suspicious looking decorative plates to the walls.
They are very easy to create – just black and white med school style images printed of from the Internet and then affixed to plain plates – but they will creep people out in a nice, subtle way.
You can also add to the sense of doom and gloom in your kitchen by spraying some inexpensive vases or mason jars with matte black or white paint and then displaying them prominently on a shelf or even just scattered around your space.
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