Skele-tonnes of Ideas for Decorating Outside Your Home This Halloween

Halloween is lurking just around the corner, so it’s time to start planning the perfect eerie look for your home’s exterior this year. We have plenty of ideas to get the (eye) ball rolling! From choosing a theme to focusing on individual areas to decorate, read on to get some inspiration for transforming outside your home this spooky season.

Outdoor Halloween Decorating Ideas

What better way to greet visitors this Halloween than by creating a terrifying exterior to your home. Whether you choose to focus on decorating a specific area or going all out with a theme, we’ve loads of ideas below to get you inspired.

Halloween Decorating Themes

If you find it easier to decorate by focusing on a theme, then we have a few ideas to completely transform your garden this Halloween. Read on below… if you dare!

Freaky Funhouse

Quit clowning around this Halloween and create a truly terrifying exterior by transforming your home into a freaky funhouse! There’s nothing more terrifying than a killer clown, so start creating the freaky funhouse feel by gathering as many creepy clowns as you can find and pop them in your porch and front windows. Whether they are standing or floating, you’ll be sure to frighten your visitors. Colourful decorations and flashing, multicoloured lights will also add to the funhouse theme.

Ghoulish Graveyard

Create a ghoulish graveyard in your front garden to give visitors a scare when walking through it. Headstones are the perfect way to set the scene. A scattering of ghosts, grim reapers, and an array of skulls will enhance the feel of a creepy cemetery. Add features like spooky lighting, cobwebs, and light up decorations to complete the haunting atmosphere.

Pumpkin Palace

Greet your guests with the ultimate autumnal/Halloween decorating theme of pumpkins! Whether your pumpkins are real or fake, they'll create the perfect seasonal look for your home. If you're opting for a display of real pumpkins, get creative by carving out fun faces or imagery in the pumpkins, some people even choose to spray paint them different colours! Place them around your doorstep or in front of your porch to greet your visitors. Complete the project by popping a candle inside to light them up. If you're opting for fake pumpkins, you can arrange them the same way but ensure they're suitable for outdoor use first. If possible, try opt for light up ones to create the illusion of real pumpkins.

Zombieland

Transform your home's exterior into a terrifying land of zombies this Halloween! Similar to the ghoulish graveyard theme, a good starting point for creating a zombieland is by using headstones and a scattering of skulls. Give the ultimate scare by using plastic hands staked into the ground to create the illusion of zombies climbing out of their graves. Fake blood, bloody handprints, and caution tape will also add to the creepy zombie look. Finish it off by displaying zombies and skeletons around your garden (if suitable for outdoor use) or hanging at your front door, in the porch or in a window.

Outdoor Areas to Decorate this Halloween

If you prefer to focus on decorating a smaller outdoor area, then read on below for some scarily good ideas.

Front Door, Porch & Doorstep

Decorating your front door area is much easier to do than you think! There's plenty of options to choose from when it comes to Halloween decorations. Wreaths, signs and banners are perfect for hanging on your door. Light up decorations and string lights will illuminate your door area, showing off your decor. Hanging decorations are a great addition too, especially if you have limited floor space. If you don't need to worry about limited space, then collections of pumpkins, skulls, witches, and ghosts are the perfect way to complete the ultimate Halloween look and feel at your front door.

Balcony

If you're living in an apartment and don't have a garden to decorate, then dressing up your balcony is the perfect alternative! Wrap string lights and festive garlands around the railings, hang decor from the surface above your balcony, and add standing decorations in different sizes and at varying levels to really get in the Halloween spirit. You can even pop festive banners, signs, or window stickers on your balcony doors to complete the look.

Windows

You're not the only one who can wear a costume this Halloween! Dress up your windows with festive banners, stickers, cobwebs, and spooky signage to get things started. Add in some decorations along the windowsill, like pumpkins, ghosts, witches, or skulls and skeletons to elevate the look. Complete your decorating with a floating decoration to give your visitors a peek at who might be lurking inside your haunted house!

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