Falloween Theme Halloween 2024

The past few years I have been doing a separate decorating theme along with my regular Halloween classic stuff.  I like to give myself more work I guess.  This year I wanted to create a look that was all the rage a few years ago called Falloween.  It mingles fall colors with Halloween icons that are more in line with those hues. It's kinda tame but if done well it's got a great ambiance to it.  Another rage all the kids were doing awhile back was buying autumn prints from thrift stores and adding some Halloween flare by painting in ghosts and bats and shit like that.  I took both of these dealios, doing it my waaaay of course, turning my dining room into a spookifed fall forest you'd want to get lost in.

I had full intentions of doing the jazzed up thrift store painting idea but apparently the supply has dried up so I improvised.

I bought this vintage fiberglass TV tray for my Fall decor a few years ago and it's 'painting sized' so I just drew up some little ghosties on white decal vinyl and attached as appropriate.  Easy peasy, and using what I already got, yep yep, I likes it.

So the Halloween icons that work in line with Falloween in my opinion are going to be the white/ black things like ghosts, skeletons, bats, spiders.  No JOLs, witches, frankensteins, bright oranges, greens, or purples.  

Here is the sideboard in full as it's the primary focal point.  I probably should have dropped that middle spider web juuuust a skoosh or raised the tray but really it's fine, it's dandy.

The brittle crumbly vintage ghost blow mold is off to the right, Hang in there buddy!  One of these sad days when I go to unpack him he's just going to be a pile of plastic shavings.

The table centerpiece came together pretty well.  It's a melamine partitioned coffin shaped serving dish filled with some bitty faux pumpkins, spiders, skeletons, and vintage plastic fall foliage.

The china cabinet and Bernie Bones, our diner guest.  He doesn't eat much.

It's a fairly understated look but believe me it's a product of quite a bit of overthinking and rummaging through multiple bins !  

The previous other themes I have done were turning the entire living room into a Tiki Voodoo Swamp Hut and last year the dining room became a Fortune Teller's Atelier so this is definitely quite tame.