Skele-tonnes of Ideas for Decorating Outside Your Home This Halloween
Halloween is lurking just around the corner, so it’s time to start planning the perfect eerie look for your home’s exterior this year. We have plenty of ideas to get the (eye) ball rolling! From choosing a theme to focusing on individual areas to decorate, read on to get some inspiration for transforming the outside of your home this spooky season.
Outdoor Halloween Decorating Ideas
What better way to greet visitors this Halloween than by creating a terrifying exterior to your home? Whether you choose to focus on decorating a specific area or going all out with a theme, we’ve loads of ideas below to get you inspired.
Halloween Decorating Themes
If you find it easier to decorate by focusing on a theme, then we have a few ideas to completely transform your garden this Halloween. Read on below… if you dare!
Freaky Funhouse
Quit clowning around this Halloween and create a truly terrifying exterior by transforming your home into a freaky funhouse! There’s nothing more terrifying than a killer clown, so start creating the freaky funhouse feel by gathering as many creepy clowns as you can find and pop them in your porch and front windows. Whether they are standing or floating, you’ll be sure to frighten your visitors. Spooky decorations and flashing, multicoloured Halloween lights will also add to the funhouse theme.
Ghoulish Graveyard
Create a ghoulish graveyard in your front garden to give visitors a scare when walking through it. To start, headstones are the perfect way to set the scene. Then, hang a few ghoulish animated decorations—glow-eyed skeletons, laughing grim reapers, and twitching scarecrows should do the trick. Add features like spooky lighting, cobwebs, and light up decorations to complete the haunting atmosphere.
Pumpkin Palace
GGreet your guests with the ultimate festive decorating theme of Halloween pumpkins! Whether your pumpkins are real or fake, they'll create the perfect seasonal look for your home. If you're opting for a display of real pumpkins, get creative by carving out fun faces or imagery in the pumpkins; some people even choose to spray paint them different colours!
Place them around your doorstep or in front of your porch to greet your visitors. Complete the project by popping a candle inside to light them up. If you're opting for fake pumpkins, you can arrange them the same way, but ensure they're suitable for outdoor use first. If possible, try to opt for light-up ones to create the illusion of real pumpkins.
Witches Dwelling
Turn your garden into a spellbinding Witch’s Cottage by mixing in delightfully creepy touches to your usual garden ornaments—plant witches’ hands in borders, tuck potion books and jars near the doorstep, and prop a pair of witch’s boots beside a broom for a dash of humour. Add creepy fake window decorations to suggest someone’s casting spells inside, then finish with hanging and standing witches swaying in the breeze. A few flickering lights will complete the look and make your home the coven’s ultimate gathering spot.
Outdoor Areas to Decorate this Halloween
If you prefer to focus on decorating a smaller outdoor area, then read on below for some scarily good ideas.
Front Door, Porch & Doorstep
Decorating your front door area is much easier than you think! There are plenty of options to choose from when it comes to spooky front porches and Halloween decoration essentials that make the job simple. First, autumn wreaths, signs and banners are perfect for hanging on your door, which can be easily done with a few command strips. Light up decorations and solar string lights will illuminate your door area, showing off your decor.
Hanging decorations is a great addition too, especially if you have limited floor space. If you don't need to worry about limited space, then classic Halloween decorations like pumpkins, skulls, witches, and ghosts are the perfect way to complete the ultimate Halloween look and feel at your front door.
Balcony
If you're living in an apartment and don't have a garden to decorate, then dressing up your balcony is the perfect alternative! Wrap Halloween lights and festive garlands around the railings, hang decor from the surface above your balcony, and add standing decorations in different sizes and at varying levels to really get in the Halloween spirit. You can even pop festive banners, signs, or window stickers on your balcony doors to complete the look.
Windows
You're not the only one who can wear a costume this Halloween! Dress up your windows with spooky fabric, stickers, cobwebs, and signage to get things started. Then, add in some decorations along the windowsill, like pumpkins, ghosts, witches, or skulls and skeletons to elevate the look. Complete your decorating with an animated floating decoration to give your visitors a peek at who might be lurking inside your haunted house!
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