There are so many ways to decorate for Halloween, and one important thing to remember is to maintain a balance between spooky & neutral halloween decor. Use these tips to flawlessly tie together pumpkins, skeletons, and your neutral home aesthetic.
1. A Color Palate beyond Bright Orange
Halloween orange does not have to define your spooky decor. Firstly, use colors that compliment the rest of your home and use your accent colors within your seasonal decorations. Creams, rich plums, and moss greens can all be used to exude those spooky season vibes. It’s fall, which means your space should already be embracing the seasonal transitions. If you haven’t started this yet, check out my post “Seasonal Decor for Fall” to help you get started. Pull the same colors you use for your fall aesthetic into your Halloween color palate.
2. Pumpkins, Skeletons, and Spiders
Skeletons, stacked pumpkins, and a touch of cobwebs carefully displayed at visually impactful points in your home can make a huge difference. Incorporate muted Halloween colors throughout the space to display the holiday spirit and maintain elegance. Throwing in some spiders, crows, and spooky skulls on your shelves or coffee table, will really help show off the Halloween spirit.
3. Create a Spooky Dining Room
Halloween brings out the most adorable decorative glassware so naturally, setting a table with it is a must. A few black wine glasses, dark colored napkin, or skeleton wrapped champagne flutes will have your guests screaming. Add some skull whiskey glasses to the table or create an entire dark glass presentation on a skeleton bar cart.
4. Simply use Black
Generally, being a design minded human, bright halloween colors are scary and jarring in our neutral based palates. The best solution, is to simply use black. Black textured throws, velvet pillows, black candles and even dark furniture pieces can incorporate the Halloween spirit. Black is such a powerful statement color that matches almost everything, and looks simply elegant.
5. Keep the Orange Outside
Finally, if you want to maintain a neutral interior, bring the Halloween fun to your front door! There are so many unique and fun ways to decorate outside plus, you don’t have to worry about interior colors clashing. It’s the perfect way to bring the Halloween spirit to the neighborhood and be included in the community decorating contest 😉
I hope these tips for incorporating spooky & neutral Halloween decor help you to make a beautiful haunted h0me you absolutely love!
