Top Halloween Decor: How To Spook It Up

I am pretty sure I didn't fall in love with Halloween until adulthood. Candy and dressing up have always been tops (like, uh, duh) but I never realized how sophisticated and appealing to all ages the excess and silliness of the holiday brings out. 

Halloween is all about more: lots of candy, lots of laughs, lots of surprises, lots of decor for your yard, home and table! The secret to impressing your neighbors in this season is excess. So this Halloween, let's all go big! 

There are tons of ideas to make or to buy - including budget friendly suggestions from scary to sublime and really, pretty, believe it our not! If you haven't started decorating yet, read on to see a few item to easily pull of a sophisticated and whimsical affair. This is the year!  

Happy haunting, and happy shopping! Check out our top picks of ideas with a round up of the best-selling decorations in our Colonial House of Flowers Halloween Shop. With these ideas to order or for inspiration you'll know just how to spook it up today. 

Corrugated Ghosts

 
Ghost Halloween Home & Garden Decorations For Fall by Colonial House of Flowers in Atlanta, Georgia
 
Add spooky scary fun to your garden or yard this Halloween with wood or metal cut outs.

Fireplace Pumpkins 

Pumpkin Decor in the Fireplace
PHOTO: TED CAVANAUGH, MARTHA STEWART 
WHITE FIREPLACE WITH ORANGE PUMPKINS HALLOWEEN HOME AND GARDEN DECOR
PHOTO CREDIT: JAY WILDE, THE WILDE PROJECT
Rainbow Pumpkins on White Mantel Home Decoration
PHOTO CREDIT: A KAILO CHIC LIFE

Adding Halloween spirit to your living room doesn't get any easier than including festive pumpkins. Whether you create a sparkling Milky Way band by drilling holes and adding battery powered lights like Martha Stewart's Drilled Galactic Pumpkins (shown above) or opt for a classic orange and white arrangement or create your own Rainbow Pumpkin Mantel with the A Kailo Chic Life DIY a mass of pumpkins is bound to be cute and spooky enough to scare or get stares around your Halloween hearth. 

Use real or faux pumpkins, like our Kentucky Field Collection Set of Five Pumpkins found in our shop and at Target.
 

SPOOKY METAL CREATURES 

Spooky Metal Halloween Table Decorations for Home and Garden

 

As far as nice Halloween decorations go, this set of 3 Halloween Spooky Metal Creatures by Kalalou is an oddly and whimsical group of monsters to add to the holiday mantel or table. They just want candy like everyone else! Illuminate with twinkle lights and add to other items to create a haunted scene. 

 

Tall Clay Jack-O-Lanterns

Orange-Clay-Jack-o-lantern 

SHOP: TALL CLAY HALLOWEEN LANTERNS SET OF 6, KALALOU

With a welcoming grin and eerie glow, our Clay Jack-O-Lantern candle holders bring a little whimsy to your Halloween home and garden decor. With a modern orange finish, the luminaries are great for tables, shelves, mantels and driveways and garden paths.

Have you started decorating for Halloween yet?

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