Festive Spooky Season Home Tour

We’re sharing our festive Spooky Season Home Tour today!

Earlier this Fall, I had a nasty bout of COVID and Strep.

I’m not sick often, but I can honestly say, it’s been one of the toughest things I’ve ever gone through.

As you can imagine, the days in quarantine were long and lonely at times.

So, I did what I always do when things feel stressful.

I started making lists of things I wanted to do once I started feeling better.

One of those lists was a “Things to Celebrate in October” list:

1. Decorate the house for Spooky Season.
2. Eat breakfast and dinner by candlelight.
3. Wear head-to-toe sparkles to the Spooky Soiree.
4. Stop letting your God-sized dreams scare you (and in my journal I added “they’re there for a reason”)
5. Find a way to create a little magic every day.

A Spooky Porch…

The minute I got back on my feet I got to work adding festive Spooky Season touches around the common areas of the house and on the front porch as well.

I didn’t want anything too scary.

Simply something that had a celebratory feel after making it through such a tough time. 

We don’t usually decorate the front porch for Halloween because we don’t have any trick-or-treaters.

But I was tickled pink to add a few mums, a wooden door hanger in the shape of a witch, and lots of pumpkins.

The light-up ones can be found at Lowes and they’re my favorite!

Decorating for Spooky Season in the Entry…

Just inside the front door is our tiny entry.

Even though it’s small, I like for it to be festive.

It’s one of the first places you see when you come inside the house and one of the last places you see when you leave.

This year, we decided to put little bats on the wall we found on Amazon.

I immediately started giggling while editing these photos because I thought I was putting the bats up there without any rhyme or reason.

But stepping back, it kind of looks like a map of the US, doesn’t it?

We have textured walls and we go in and out of the house a million times a day.

So, next year, I’ll probably have to move them or get stronger putty because they started falling off the wall bit by bit.

They’re cute and definitely make an impact if you don’t have textured walls though.

Festive Spooky Touches in the Dining Room…

The dining room is just off the entry and it’s another place we try to keep super simple as far as décor goes.

Especially, since our entry area is usually decorated with fun goodies for Spooky Season!

I brought the metal container home from Loblolly the last time we were there and filled with up with faux pumpkins from the craft store.

You can also find the orange fabric and the creepy cloth at the craft store.

A Spooky Living Room…

One of the quickest and most budget-friendly things you can do for a Spooky Season home tour is to create Spooky Trees.

If you’ve never made them before you basically spray paint small sticks or branches from your yard with black spray paint.

Of course, you have to make sure they’re free from pests before you paint them and bring them inside the house.

But once you get through that part of things, they add such a fun impact for very little money.

Another budget-friendly idea is to use lots of aged books, white, black, or orange pumpkins and to hang paper crows in the trees.

Given we use the living room mostly on the weekends, I wanted to keep the Spooky Season coffee table decorations super simple.

This is nothing more than a carvable pumpkin filled with cream-colored faux roses, a sparkly spider, and a stack of books on an old silver tray.

You can find the letters for the books at most craft supply stores.

Setting the Table for Spooky Season…

Setting the table for Spooky Season in the breakfast nook could not have been easier because the minute I saw these plates at Target, I fell in love!

They were very inexpensive, made from melamine, and had all the colors of Halloween in them.

The chargers were thrift store finds I spray painted black, and the crystal water glasses are ones we’ve had forever and use often.

I found the “tablecloth” at Joanns.

It’s basically just a piece of cut fabric with some creepy cloth dripped over it.

Festive fabric and creepy cloth are other really inexpensive ways to dress up your home for Spooky Season.

Plus, they’re both easy to store too!

While I was picking out the fabric, I found these cute little glitter pumpkins.

They’re nice because they can be used all over the house in little vignettes or arrangements.

And the ruffled napkins were a find from our latest trip to Mount Dora and Fall in the Field.

Spooky Trees on the Coffee Bar…

As I mentioned above, one of the quickest and most budget-friendly ways to decorate for Spooky Season is to use Spooky Trees.

The black crows and birdhouses are from Amazon.

They’re nice because they come in the same pack and you can use them in multiple places around the house from bookcases to mantels to hutches to Spooky Trees.

Given we had a lot of orange on the breakfast nook, I wanted to incorporate a pop of orange on the coffee bar too.

Don’t get me wrong, crinkle paper can get kind of messy at times but it’s also a very budget-friendly way to decorate for Spooky Season.

You can find the DIY Flower Pumpkin here if you missed it. It’s super easy to make as well.

Decorating for Spooky Season in the Kitchen…

When it comes to decorating the kitchen for spooky season, I kept it as simple as possible.

After all, the kitchen is not my domain unless I’m whipping up a batch of spice cake donuts, or pumpkin spice bars with cream cheese frosting.

This scallop basket was a gift from my Mom. She got it for me to use as a trash can, but it was just too pretty to put trash in.

So, I usually use it as a flower container. The faux flowers and the spider were also craft store finds. 

All in all, it’s been a festive month filled with hearty bowls of chili, homemade pumpkin spice lattes, and sweet treats.

And while it hasn’t been perfect, there’s been plenty of magical days to go around.

Complete with breakfast and dinner by candlelight.

Let us know how you’re making this season magical!

Until next time, I’ll see you on Instagram, Facebook and Pinterest.

Many blessings,

CoCo