Thread: Would this be a good idea for an entrance?

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For the past two years I have had the same castle facade entrance that only covers half my garage and to be honest doesn't look to good. This year I was thinking about building almost like an old shack looking thing with broken windows, and lanterns. This would cover a little more than half the garage and the parts of the garage hat was showing I would put camo netting and other various types of netting to cover it completely.
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I was going to take a few peices of 4 by 8 plywood, then screw old boards slightly overlapping each other to get that old house effect.

The way I picture it turning out on opening nights seems great to me.

Then of course sound effects and lights. I am thinking about making this year a swamp kind of theme. Please any ideas or feedback or how to make it would be great.

I did something similar but as an exit for my haunted maze.
If you can find some old window frames... cut some plexi-glass to fit. With plexi could even cut it to simulate broken glass. Cheap exterior lighting fixture, could be: dimmed, flickering, or even a yellow bug light bulb. Hot glue Spanish moss for that swampy feel. A long narrow pallet simulates a dock leading to the front door. Various swamp sound effects- frogs, bugs, etc. coming from nearby to set the tone. If you have a metal fishing boat place it next to the dock & tie it off.

Nice, thats the shape I was thinking of but more old looking and more detailed. Thanks

That sounds great! Way better that the castle thing. Love the idea.

I built an apothecary facade that fits over my garage. It's 16 ft wide and about 20 feet tall. We put together a witches apothecary in the garage so people can walk up and look through the windows and see all the potions and icky things in jars.

Whoa that is amazing!

That sounds really cool, but why only cover half of the garage? Is that so you can still park in the garage? This is a shack that I came up with for 2009. Something like it could very easily be converted into a facade that was up against a garage or house to give some dimensional panache.



And this was something I used as an inspiration from skull and bone.

Originally Posted by yardhauntjunkie

That sounds really cool, but why only cover half of the garage? Is that so you can still park in the garage? This is a shack that I came up with for 2009. Something like it could very easily be converted into a facade that was up against a garage or house to give some dimensional panache.



And this was something I used as an inspiration from skull and bone.

WOW! That is so close to what I was thinking of!! Could you tell me what supplies you used and how you built it. That would be GREAT! I'm just thinking how close that is to what I was thinking of...wow. haha. And if there are any other pictures could you send it to me?

Originally Posted by Frightmarehomehaunt

WOW! That is so close to what I was thinking of!! Could you tell me what supplies you used and how you built it. That would be GREAT! I'm just thinking how close that is to what I was thinking of...wow. haha. And if there are any other pictures could you send it to me?

Well I made mine out of pallet wood. But you definitely could achieve something like this using plywood you mentioned. You would just have to "age" the wood using some sort of faux painting technique. I basically made it in sections for storage and because I reused the pallet wood. But, if you were buying the stuff at the hardware store it really would just be a frame with the overlapping wood you mentioned on the outside.

Here is a shot of 2 of the sections. One with just the frame and the other with the pallet wood attached. With the thin plywood you could easily overlap the boards.


Then this is the sections apart so you can get an idea of how they fit together.


Then this is them fit together.


Then this is a shot of the deck added on to see it is a similar idea as the other sections. and the porch roof before I found the tin sections.


How big do you think you are going to make yours?

wow the old scary shack at night...especially with some lanterns. very scary and creepy...great idea!