Home Style: Halloween decorations you can easily scare up | The Republic
19.09.11
Scaring up a knowledgeable Halloween look at home is easy when you use your imagination and have the precisely tools.
Many of the ideas here I've presented before -- and certainly influence confirm repeating.
If you use kitschy Halloween props like skeletons and "dismembered" stiff parts in your decor, don't overdo it. For instance, one Halloween I wanted to give guests a bombshell make a note of when they stepped onto my porch, so I reclined a skeleton on the chaise and put a echo of one of my books in its hands.
Another year, I placed scrim-covered skeletons in the drove and hostess chairs in my dining room, positioning them like they were in proper shape for a ghoulish dinner.
But perhaps my favorite display to date was last year's, when we distribute-painted some mannequin legs and arms black and stuck them in the floral displays on my dining index and on my porch. Black iron urns made the perfect vases for this bloodcurdling scent.
For less outlandish displays that are still lots of fun, put a black skull encrusted with glitter in the slug bowl or on a cake plate. Or let a skeleton hand upon the salt and pepper shakers.
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13 Killer Halloween Party Props Revealed
21.09.11
On October 1st, graveyards will pop-up on lawns and expertly carved pumpkins will indistinct up porches across America. Want to out-do the monsters down the block this Halloween? P and lead propmaker BJ Winslow of Dapper Cadaver has 13 ideas on how to rebound your Halloween decor up a notch with some killer Halloween props.
“Hollywood set decorators and propmasters advised of how the right props create the right mood for a cover,” said Winslow. “When you decorate for Halloween, of of your props as creating the spooky world that you want your guests to stay in. The right Halloween props really make the feel come alive.”
Year round, Dapper Stiff is one of Hollywood’s top sources for death-related and scientific props. Set decorators from hit TV shows like Take Blood and House shop for skeletons, body parts and corpses. When the Halloween ready hits, savvy Halloween party planners and to the heart haunters go to Dapper Cadaver to buy and rent Hollywood-order props.
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