The countdown to Halloween is on, and today I’m opening our doors and inviting you in to see how we decorate for the holiday!
If you are like me, and you love getting a peek in other people’s homes, then you are in luck, because there are 14 other talented and stylish bloggers who are also sharing their Halloween Home Tours today! You’ll find links to each of those at the bottom of this post!
But before you hop over to any of the other tours, let me show you around my place!
Not a lot of decorations on our front porch this year, but there are a couple of ghosts staked into the ground along the side of our front steps to set the mood. And I love the way the orange shades of the sunset reflect in our frosted glass front doors in the early evening – it creates quite the Halloween-y glow.
I had originally planned to make a couple of Halloween wreaths, but decided to just leave up the peacock feather wreaths that I hung earlier in the fall. During the day, they are vibrant shades of blue and teal, but at night they appear nearly black and look quite appropriate for Halloween.
As soon as you enter the through the front doors, you’ll find our entry table. While shopping at Ikea this week for my One Room Challenge space, I found this fun cobweb light set. I love the way it looks stretched across the modern painting above the entry table.
I’ll be sharing the tutorial for these fun Jack O’Lanterns next week, so be sure to come back for that! {You can even sign up for emails at the top of the sidebar on the right to make sure you never miss a post!} UPDATE: Peek-a-Book Jack O’Lantern Tutorial AND see how I turned these pumpkins around to create Thanksgiving decor!
The entry way is open to our living room. For the fall, I swapped out our pillows to oranges and yellows, and added some other pops of these colors throughout the space. Since these colors are also fitting for Halloween, the living room decor hasn’t changed since my Fall Home Tour. I’ll show you a few pictures of the living room, but encourage you to take the full Fall Home Tour if you want to see more!
Around the corner from the entry, you come to the kitchen, passing the powder room along the way. In the past, I have never decorated this powder room for the holidays, but this year I just couldn’t resist.
My mom made me that tissue box holder years ago when plastic canvas was the crafting rage – but it still fits perfectly with my decor! And the cobwebs and spider on the mirror are window clings that I purchased at Target this year. You’ll see more of these clings as the tour continues.
As soon as you enter the kitchen, you see a pennant banner hanging in front of the the stacked stone of our kitchen fireplace.
The pennants of this banner are made from chalkboard fabric. I simply wrote on them with a bistro chalk marker, and hung the pennants with some orange twine. My mom made these reusable chalkboard pennants for me, and I’ll be sharing the simple tutorial later on! [UPDATE: Chalkboard Pennant Banner Tutorial]
On the kitchen table, I grouped three cobweb placemats together to create a table runner.
By displaying these bottles in front of a framed piece of Halloween scrapbook paper, they have much more presence!
It turns out that beige carpeted stairs don’t make a very interesting photograph, but you get the idea. Beckett got so excited when he saw this!
These Mason Jar Jack O’Lanterns that I made last year are one of my all time favorite projects, and I think they look perfect sitting on the mantle in front of that orange accent wall!
And they are their absolute best when they are lit up and glowing from the inside!
If you enjoy home tours, then you may want to take our Fall Home Tour {where you will also find links to tour the fall homes of more than 35 other bloggers}! And if you’d like to see what our home looks like when it’s not dressed up the holidays, you can also take our regular home tour, which includes all of the bedrooms.
Looking for even more seasonal inspiration?! You might be interested in these fall and Halloween projects:
