DIY Haunted House Décor 🎃🏚️

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DIY Haunted House Décor 🎃🏚️

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Creating your own haunted house décor is the perfect way to set a spooky, spine-chilling scene. From crafting creepy window silhouettes to designing haunted lights and eerie fog effects, DIY haunted house projects let you transform your space into a frightful masterpiece. Whether you're planning a full-on haunted room or a few chilling accents around the house, you can craft ghoulish decorations that are fun to make and uniquely yours. Get ready to unleash your creativity and embrace the thrills of Halloween with these easy and affordable haunted house décor ideas!

Supplies

  1. Styrofoam sheet
  2. Sunboard
  3. Acrylic colour
  4. 12V LED
  5. Plastic mini showerhead
  6. 10mm Soft-pipe
  7. 12W Submersible Water Pump
  8. Water Tray
  9. White Polybag
  10. Branches
  11. Craft Glue
  12. 3D Pen
  13. Sketch Pen
  14. Utility Knife
  15. String
  16. Grass diorama powder
  17. Fake spider

Shape Making

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  1. Cutting the frontal face of the structure.
  2. The styrofoam board is marked a U-shape and being cut using an utility knife.

Structure Layout

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  1. On another styrofoam board we start to lay our structure.
  2. Side and back walls are positioned and glued using craft glues.

Getting Into Shape

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  1. A hole was made on the back wall.
  2. A LED strip of roughly 1 feet is inserted through the hole.
  3. The LED strip is then fixed on the side walls using tapes.
  4. Then the front panel is fixed using glue.
  5. A piece of styrofoam is then attached to create the ceiling.

Set the Showerhead

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  1. A hole is carved on the ceiling for the shower-head.
  2. The shower-head is then fixed using glue and extended using an L-joint.

The House Making

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  1. A small house is built on the top.
  2. All the sides were made with styrofoam panels.
  3. The house was then supported using support beams from below.

Giving the Textures

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  1. With help of a soldering iron, the walls are given brick textures.

Roof Reforms

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  1. The roof is shaded with tiles. These tiles are made using small pieces of sunboard.

Introducing Branches

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  1. Small branches were introduced in the corners.

Cutting the Base

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  1. An incision was made in the center of the base.
  2. This cut was made so that the water from the shower can fall directly to the base where the water gets stored.

Applying Plaster of Paris

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  1. To make the structure sturdy and to hide the styrofoam, a layer of POP is brushed.
  2. The POP was then left too dry.

Making the Lollipop Ghosts

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  1. Here we took a white plastic bag and cut it into small pieces.
  2. Took styrofoam beads and pinched the bead within the center of the plastic sheet and then tied the head using a string.
  3. Kept some added string attached to it to hang it later.

Colour It Up

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  1. Using compressor gun we coloured the structure.
  2. Gray was used as the base, and was highlighted using black.
  3. Brown was also used in between the two stories.
  4. Ceiling was coloured using yellow ochre.

Making Spider Net

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  1. Using a 3d Pen on glass, the spider's net was drawn.
  2. The structure was then taken out and was ready to be used.

Jack-o'-lanter Making

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  1. Using POP a small sphere was shaped.
  2. Using the carving tools, the pumpkin's textures were drawn.
  3. The eyes and noses were made and the peduncles were also sculpted and left to harden.
  4. Then the pieces were coloured.

Assembling All the Elements

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  1. Styrofoam dusts were coloured and dusted on the ground.
  2. The pumpkins were placed on both side.
  3. Lollipop ghosts were hanged on the branches.
  4. Grass diorama powder were pasted using hot-glue on the edges of the building.
  5. A fake spider was glued on the front of the house.
  6. The spider's net was glued on the front.

Fountain Setup

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  1. For the fountain the water tray was placed, the water tray was surrounded with sand.
  2. A submersible pump was introduced and a water pipe was attached.
  3. The top structure was introduced on the base and the pipe was fitted with the pump from behind.
  4. The tray is filled with water and the pump gets submerged.
  5. Powering the lights and water pump brings the project to life.

The Final

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Creating your own haunted house décor adds a personal, eerie touch to Halloween festivities! These DIY projects allow you to customize each detail to perfectly suit your vision, whether it's adding shadows in the window, casting haunted lights, or creating an ominous fog. The beauty of DIY haunted house décor is that it’s affordable, adaptable, and tons of fun, making it a must-try for Halloween enthusiasts of all ages. Enjoy the process, and watch as your space transforms into a spooky sensation!