Create the Ultimate Haunted House With These Decorations and Ideas

Halloween is a beloved holiday for many, and decorating your home for the occasion is a fun new adventure every year. This year, why not transform your home into a haunted house? Halloween decorations can get pricey, but there are plenty of affordable options that will help scare your kids and bring on the spooky feelings. Check out our list of favorite Halloween haunted house ideas and get your creep on!

Super Budget Halloween Decor

If you don’t want to break the budget this year and still have Halloween party decorations that bring a big visual impact to the table, we’ve got some ideas for you. Start your Halloween haunted house with your basic fake spider webs. At about two dollars a bag, you can stretch your dollars and your spider webs to cover large areas or many small areas of your home. To complete the effect, we suggest grabbing a bag of Halloween spider props to sprinkle about your webs. Another affordable yet eye-catching haunted house decoration idea is inflatable pumpkins. Our parents used plastic pumpkin bags that could be filled with leaves, but inflatables are definitely a more popular choice today.

Witches Brew Room

The bathroom is often neglected when people decorate their homes for Halloween. We say the bathroom is a perfect place to create your “witches brew room.” Think little witch’s bottles for “potions” or hand soap and lotion, mini cauldrons to hold your toiletries, more spider webs, and a witch's broom. You could also add extra witchy haunted house decorations like a stuffed black cat and some witch’s ingredients like bunches of dried herbs. To seal the deal, don’t forget to hang a witch’s hat!

Frightening Taxidermy

Was there ever a time in your childhood when a mounted deer or bear head scared the bejeezus out of you? Try taking a terrifying werewolf mask, or other scary Halloween mask, and making it into a mount for your wall decor. To pull off this DIY Halloween haunted house idea, you’ll need something to stuff the stuff the mask with like wadded-up newspaper and some creepy fake eyes if your mask has eye holes. Cut a shapely piece of cardboard to frame the mask and help secure it to your wall. 

Pumpkin Lights

Remember the orange pumpkin-shaped buckets that we all used to collect our candy with as kids when trick-or-treating? Well, they are still readily available today and they can be used in a much different way as haunted house decorations. Simply remove the handle and pop your pumpkin bucket over any light that hangs from the wall or the ceiling and use some string and the handle holes to secure it in place. You may need to remove your light covering to make it fit better. When you turn on your light, you’ll have a lovely glowing orange pumpkin for your DIY haunted house! This decor looks great inside or outside your home.

Candles & Skulls

When we think of a classic and picturesque haunted house, the decoration ideas that often come to mind are candles and skulls. While these are perfect for any home with a study, you can easily add candles and fake skulls to any table or shelf in your house. Use plain white, black, red, or orange candles, or pair them with vintage-style candle holders to raise the spook factor. We’re also a fan of bleeding candles that drip blood-red wax as they burn. Don’t have a lot of table and shelf space? Try the popular floating candles that can be hung from your ceilings. Mini plastic skulls are also affordable haunted house decorations that are fun to place around.

Window Silhouettes

Looking to catch the eyes of people passing by and give them the chills? Make DIY haunted house window silhouettes from cardboard. Paint them black to deepen the effect. Silhouettes of witches, ghosts, bats, zombies, and whatever else you come up with are sure to get some attention from trick-or-treaters. If you’re not much of an artist, simply buy Halloween window clings that you can reuse year after year. 

Scarecrow Porch Guest

This DIY haunted house decoration idea can really scare the pants off kids of almost any age! The scarecrow will sit on your porch for the days and weeks before Halloween so everyone in your neighborhood can note its appearance. Then if you choose, on Halloween night you can replace your scarecrow with a person dressed in the same clothes, gloves, boots, and Halloween mask who can pop up and scare unsuspecting trick-or-treaters. The key is to simply choose a Halloween mask and clothes or a full-body scary Halloween costume that will fit your real person substitute. Stuff it with anything like paper, other clothes, or straw. 

We hope these Halloween haunted house decoration ideas have gotten you excited to create a spooky home atmosphere! If you want more decor ideas, hop on over to the Ultimate Party Super Store’s huge collection of Halloween costumes, tableware, and accessories now. Get free shipping within the U.S. on orders of $59 or more or pick up from our party store in Hendersonville, TN.