The Halloween Home

From Kourtney Kardashian to Reese Witherspoon, every celebrity worth their salt will be sharing pictures of their Halloween decorated homes this 31 October. But it’s not just A-listers from over the pond who’ll be festooning their porches with elaborately styled pumpkins, as us Brits will spend around £320 million on Halloween this year. We’ll be carving gruesome faces in our pumpkins and transforming ourselves into witches, vampires and zombies, but the biggest trend yet is to ditch trick or treating in favour of parties at home. So if you’ll be welcoming all manner of ghosts and ghouls into your home this Halloween, here’s how to get it looking spook-tacular!

1) The fearsome welcome. Halloween is all about making things a little scary. But what you don’t want to do is to horrify your guests with your lack of organisation and space. Any additional decoration will only serve to make a small space appear even smaller, so before you even think about hanging a fearsome bat garland in your hallway, tidy away anything you don’t need into Storage Boxes and put them out of sight. Ensure there’s enough room for guests’ coats with an easy to install Hanging Rail that will fit in nicely under the stairs and make sure the only cobwebs in sight are the fake kind!

2) Get decorating. With everything looking tidy, you can get on with the fun job of transforming your home for Halloween. Utilise your existing décor, adding in additional pieces, and this needn’t be hugely expensive or time consuming. If you’re working the monochrome trend in your home right now, then lucky you, as this will work brilliantly for Halloween. Use Kourtney K for inspiration by painting pumpkins black with on trend metallic spots, or white with ghoulish faces. In fact, this idea will work with pretty much any colour scheme you have in your home. Who says you can’t have pink pumpkins?!

3) DIY doorways. Of course, the place that really needs a spooky makeover is your doorway- the first hint to what lies inside! Get creative with a DIY wreath, using a foam or wire wreath as a base. On a foam wreath, natural elements like spiky leaves and blackened twigs looks really effective, you just keep on layering it up into a truly gruesome welcome. On a wire wreath, try using orange or black netting to wrap around the wire, adding skulls, skeletons and spiders as you go. Black feather, old Christmas baubles painted in Halloween colours- pretty much anything goes!

4) Set up some games. Halloween is based on ancient Celtic traditions, and a lot of the things we do at Halloween today like bobbing for apples come from age old rituals. Make use of your favourite Urbaboxx products to make some games to keep everyone entertained. Like every other day, the ultra-versatile Grid Mesh Panel comes into its own. Print out a big picture of a witch to go onto your mesh panel for pin the broomstick on the witch. Or, one of our storage boxes with the lid off will be great for your apple bobbing game (bonus, you can use it after for storing your Halloween supplies).

5) Fiendish food. No Halloween party would be complete without some fiendishly good food. Grab another Urbaboxx favourite, the Chrome Wire Shelf Trolley and give it a Halloween makeover with some black netting, then fill it with Halloween party delights. We’re thinking homemade blood red candy apples just ready to bite into, tall glasses of bubbling green witch’s brew (tasting suspiciously like lemonade tinted green!) and severed fingers (also known as hot dot sausages). With your trolley laden with goodies, you’re ready to make your entrance and have a ghoulishly good time!

Image credit Photo by Alora Griffiths on Unsplash