The creepiest month of the year is finally here! If for you the month of October is all about pumpkin spiced latte, black cats, and vampire movies (just like for us), itu2019s time to dress up your Flatco apartment in suitable decoration for the occasion. We’ll show you where to start.
No, this article doesnu2019t start with us excusing you from vacuuming for weeks. While the spider webs are very stylish, we prefer to go with in-store party supplies – and we do this with a clear conscience because we know that a beautiful, newly built, modern apartment, like Flatcou2019s apartments, can be easily cleaned in seconds. But let’s go ahead with our topic today, so the let the decorating begin!
Ghosts, vampires, witches, and their mates
Visit your nearest craft, DIY, or home decor store and pack up your shopping cart with all kinds of (extra)terrestrial things! One can never have enough skulls: they can next to candles, on the bookshelf, and even in the bathroom, in the soap dish, but make sure you buy balloons as well! Minimalist, black, pumpkin-faced, orange – you decide, surely you will find all kinds of stuff in the shops. There is also a wide selection of paper garlands: huge spiders, striped-sock witch legs, swinging bats are all waiting for you to take them home and display them in your living room. Once you have finished with decoration shopping make sure you pop into the corner vegetable shop and choose a few tiny decorative pumpkins – they will look amazing in the middle of the table, matched with a couple of candles. (By the way, there is no such thing as u201ctoo many candlesu201d!) Last but not least, donu2019t you forget the big Halloween pumpkin: take it home, carve it out, and display it in the best place possible u2013 and thatu2019s how you crown your apartmentu2019s holiday outfit.
Limitless choices and options can easily lead you to buy everything that is in front of you, so we recommend that before you go shopping, make a plan which room you will decorate and what you will need and then stick to your list!
DIY ideas
If you donu2019t want to spend a small fortune on supplies, look around your home for options! From the bottom of the cabinets, from the corner of the terrace, you can collect countless little things that you can turn into amazing decorations with just a little bit of crafting! We’ve put together a few ideas for you to make for which you need just a few things:
- Do you want to have the iconic hill from the u201cNightmare before Christmasu201d on which Jack is standing? Well, cut up the pizza boxes that are pilled up in the corner of the kitchen (take the dirty parts down to the trash can), glue them together creating a large board, draw and cut out the hillside from it. From the leftover cardboard pieces make a half-moon, a couple of bats, ghosts, and some giant spiders. Paint the cut-out shapes black with standard spray paint (preferably do not do this inside in the apartment and use old newspapers under the shapes) when you are done you can glue them to the balcony glass or even to the bathroom door with a removable double-sided adhesive.
- Collect empty bottles, glass jars (if you don’t have enough, ask your neighbor). Paint the narrow-necked bottles black with the spray paint and then label them with spooky names such as snake venom extract, werewolf-grass infusion, frog fat u2013 whatever spooky names come to your mind. When you’re done, they can decorate the kitchen counter! On the glass jars wrap some gauze, bandage from the first aid box, and draw spooky eyes and mouth on them. Put a candle in each of them, then line them up on the balcony u2013 and your mummy army is ready!
- Carefully cover your wall art, paintings, and decorations with prints, posters from your favorite horror movies. Your boss will surely allow you to print a couple of colorful A3 pictures in the name of the Halloween spirit!
- Dig out the Christmas lights. Attach some paper towels to the bulbs with white tape, and with black pen easily draw some eyes and mouth on them, and here they are the glowing ghosts!
Let your inner child roam freely: Halloween is for everyone, dare to enjoy it!