Halloween Home Tour : 7 Great Halloween Design Ideas

Transform your home with these 7 spooky décor ideas featuring crows, birdcages, and skeletons.

Halloween home tour and Halloween entryway decorating

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A Halloween home tour post from Pink Peppermint Design sharing the blogger's Halloween entryway decor and teaming up with six other bloggers for a group tour. It walks through concrete design ideas — realistic black crows, a black birdcage, homemade drippy candlesticks, a ceramic skeleton and gravestone, black roses and filler, and spider webbing over hallway paintings. The post also links out to the site's free Halloween printables and DIY ideas, and closes with the full lineup of tour blogs.

The plan

Make the entryway (and the porch) the priority decorating spot, since trick-or-treaters see it first when the door opens.

by October 31 — Have both the Halloween living room and the adjacent entryway ready by October 31st, since they are one big open space.

Get a head start on decorating, since the holiday month slips by quickly and decorating often ends up only partly done.

Shop craft stores for realistic-looking black crows, which are widely available.

Pick up an extra set of candlesticks to have on hand for next year, since several options are on sale.

before Halloween — Buy the birdcage and other decor in plenty of time for Halloween, as much of it is on sale now.

Check out the other six bloggers' homes on the Halloween Home Tour for more design inspiration.

Browse the site's free Halloween printables and Halloween DIY gallery for extra ideas.

Decoration ideas

Set a large HomeGoods tray on the entryway table to ground the Halloween decor.

Add realistic-looking black crows from the craft store; the blogger is obsessed with them and calls them perfect for any space.

Perch an extra bird on the newel post so it watches over everything and carries the spooky theme through the whole entryway.

Display a black birdcage as a Halloween accent.

Reuse favorite candlesticks each year anywhere in the Halloween decor.

Make your own drippy candles so they look spookier and used — burn and hold/twist them to force wax down the sides and onto other candles.

Add a simple ceramic skeleton and a small gravestone for a simple yet spooky finish.

Add black roses and filler to vases around the house at this time of year.

Place webbing and a couple of spiders strategically over hallway paintings for instant Halloween decor.

Activities

Host or follow a Halloween home tour with six other bloggers, ranging from sugary sweet to sophisticated and spooky.

Visit the next stop on the tour at Annie's blog, DIY Decor Mom, and the other stops: House by Hoff, Monica Wants It, Two Twenty One, Pink Peppermint Design, Decor to Adore and Follow the Yellow Brick Home.

Make drippy candles yourself by burning them and twisting them to force wax down the sides.

Explore the site's free Halloween printables such as Krispy Skreme, We've Got Our Eyes On You, Rest In Pieces, Bone Appetit and Bugs & Kisses.

Try the site's popular Halloween DIY posts including Halloween Candy Buffet, Halloween Home Decor, Mummy Treat Bowl, Pumpkin Pancakes, Halloween Dinner Party, DIY Spider Wreath, Halloween Dinner Ideas, Spiderweb Snacks, Spider Headband and Spiderweb Drink Bottles.