Kitchen & DiningNo. 1646 · The 2026 edition
Halloween Decorating Ideas, Table Settings and Movies
Transform your home into a spooky feast for the eyes with these enchanting Halloween decor and table setting ideas.
Our own summary of the original — the full post and photos live at betweennapsontheporch.net.
This collection offers inspiration for Halloween decorating and dining, including porch and staircase adornments, pumpkin topiaries, carving templates, DIY lantern crafts, and themed table settings to create a cohesive and festive atmosphere.
About this
A Metamorphosis Monday roundup post from Between Naps on the Porch that gathers the blog's earlier Halloween decorating, tablescaping and craft ideas in one place. It highlights Pottery Barn porch inspiration, mice on the staircase, pumpkin topiaries, pumpkin-carving templates, a candlelit lantern craft, and Halloween tablescapes with decorated chair backs and a spider web tablecloth. Alongside the ideas it lists the rules for the Before-and-After link party, and commenters add extra Halloween movies and decorating tips.
The plan
- Decide on a Halloween theme and pull together decorating, table setting and food ideas from the blog's Halloween category.
- If joining Metamorphosis Monday, link up the permalink to your MM post, not your general blog address.
- To get your permalink, click your post name, then copy and paste the address that shows up in the address bar into the url box for InLinkz.
- Include a link in your MM post back to the party so other participants can receive visits from your readers.
- Only link up Before and After posts that are home, gardening, crafting, painting, sewing, cooking or DIY related.
- Do not link up if you are doing so to promote a website or product.
- Do not link up a post that was just linked the previous week, since many readers will have already seen it.
- Do not type in ALL CAPS, because it spreads the links out too far.
Decoration ideas
- Pottery Barn porch from a few years back with an orange front door and a black feather wreath
- Paint the front door orange just for the month of October
- Add faux mice climbing the front staircase each year (easy and smile-inducing)
- Create pumpkin topiaries on the porch by stacking pumpkins
- Repeat the porch pumpkin topiaries using different colored pumpkins
- Use heirloom pumpkins for stacking, since they are the type that worked
- Display crows around the porch and use white pumpkins
- Make a candlelit lantern for Halloween with a bat silhouette
- Decorate chair backs for a Halloween tablescape, such as black roses on the chairs
- Use a spider web tablecloth on a Halloween table setting
- Decorate an office for Halloween with a lighted witch, a ghost trick or treater, a haunted house and a flying witch on the door, all battery-operated
- Make a large black paper tree with cats on the wall for a Halloween bash
- Make a feather wreath from black feather boas (looks best against an orange door)
- Keep a Halloween canister of candy on display
Food & drink
- Cupcakes, with the recipe included in the spider web tablecloth Halloween table setting post
Activities
- Pumpkin carving with fun designs using templates
- Reenact a Home Alone scene (done in the pumpkin carving post)
- Watch Halloween movies such as The Burbs, Hocus Pocus and Practical Magic
- Host Halloween costume parties, which the author says are her favorite
- Host a sit-down dinner for 30 and design the tables (mentioned by a commenter)
More photos
Photos hosted by betweennapsontheporch.net.
