Decorating your home according to the seasons is a fun and festive practice. However, there are some seasons you can get away with a coat of refreshed paint and for others you need some serious hardcore planning. The spooky season is unfortunately the latter. Don’t you want that when kids stroll down your street with their trick o treat bags, they stand in awe at the sight of your decor? If yes, then we’ve got you. ‘Clark’s Garage Door and Gate Repair’ is here with a small but succinct guide for how you can transform your garage this Halloween season. Read on for some spooky decoration ideas!

Choose A Fun Yet Haunting Theme

The first step is to decide a direction for your decorations. Do you want to take the gloomy, graveyard look or go for a more spooky laboratory vibe? A haunted mansion could work just as well. A general mix of all the above will work wonders too. 

DIY Ideas

Just because you want to participate in a fun societal trend does not mean you should break your bank in half for it. You don’t need a team of professionals and film-set props. Just a spark of creativity will do. You can DIY some decor by cutting out tombstones from cardboard and painting them grey. Some hanging ghosts can be made from fishing wire and white paper or white plastic bags. Stick some black circles on it to make the eyes and bam – you have yourself a homemade ghost. Try to stick towards a more animated spooky house rather than a realistic one if you have kids, you don’t want a hyperrealistic spider figurine giving your child arachnophobia for the rest of their lives. 

Spine-Chilling Entrance

Create a bone-chilling environment from the start. You can drape some old shredded curtains on your garage door or add some sound effects such as a creaking door or haunting piano tuns to make it more creepy.

Add Some Creepy Lighting

The perfect lighting will sell the decor. Don’t opt for bright lights. Use flickering old ones. Candles and candelabras are the best. Try to experiment with different lighting angles and try to create eerie shadows. Do not leave any candles or fires unguarded. Just because you want to have fun does not mean you should turn your garage into a fire hazard.

Freaky Decorations

There are a wide variety of decorations that you can use to decorate your garage including but not limited to fake skeletons and zombie masks. You can prop them up in different corners of the garage or hang them from the ceiling as well. If you really want to spice up the scare – make cobwebs and layer them with small plastic spiders.

A Haunted Mirror

This can be a special feature in your garage that will attract people inside. Try to purchase those mirrors which show off a distorted reflection and cover it with a layer of mod podge glue. That will give it a ghostly white vibe and everyone will want to see themselves in it or take a picture infront of it.

Fog and Mist Effect

If you have a fog machine lying around then your neighbours are in for a treat. If not that then use dry ice to fill your garage with mist and make it mysterious. But be careful not to let kids near the dry ice. 

We hope that our ideas will help you in decorating the most spooky house of all. These tips can be used when you throw theme or costume parties too. It is easy to transform your garage into a spooky wonderland if only you have the right amount of creativity and ambition to scare the pants off of some people!