Create a Spooky Front Porch

Halloween is only 15 days away, which leaves you just enough time to transform your everyday porch into a haunted masterpiece. How do you do it? Follow these steps. 

1. Get inspired. Melissa over at The Inspired Room posted photos of a few spooky front porches in her neighborhood. (In my opinion, the spider on the roof takes the cake.) You can also find a few great ideas here. Click on the link that says "Enter Gallery" for photos of Halloween decorations. 

2. Invest in a few essentials. Hay bales, corn stalks, and pumpkins are Halloween classics. Carefully arranged on your front porch, they may be all you need to create an eye-catching display. Visit a local pumpkin patch to find them inexpensively or purchase fake ones for use year after year. 

3. Put on your thinking cap. Now it's time to get creative. Make ghosts out of old white sheets, hang up rolls of yellow caution tape, replace light bulbs with spookier black lights, or paint boards to look like tombstones. Your options are endless.

And just because I adore them, here are a few Etsy Halloween decorations I'm eyeing: 

Handprinted Letterpress Poster from Roll and Tumble Press ($20); Halloween Faces Garland from Paper Acorn ($12); and Spider Wall Decals from Verdigris Dye ($10). 

Trick or treat,
The Home Know-It-All

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Great photos. It is really great to see someone get into occasions like Halloween. Although it has passed, this gave me some ideas for the upcoming Holidays and of course, for next year's Halloween.