Thread: Haunted Doll's House?

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There was a thread about incorporating Halloween into Christmas decor, and then a thread about Halloween Ceramic Villages.

I was wondering if anyone here has done a doll's house with a haunted theme.

Did it get very expensive? Did you use found objects or store-bought? If you used store bought, how did you creepify the items? Has doing props on a micro scale taken too much time away from the yard/house props?

Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

I considered doing something like that recently but I just don't have the spare money to start a new project. I think it would be fun to make one, and I am still considering it. Michael's sells an unfinished Victorian house that would look good, and I have seen some cheap minature funiture at the dollar store. Maybe that is something I will look into next year.


I wonder if those little houses ever go on sale?

There was once a man who had a haunted diorama that people paid admission to enjoy. It featured small scenes duplicationg famous horror movie sets and took up very minimal floor space(he had vet little space anyway)
It looked like it may have been two long display cases with veiwing from all sides as you would walk around them.
It was in the east coast somewhere?
Haunted houses go to the huge monster displays trying to impress the customers (and some are impressed) but if you really want to scare someone go smaller and unexpected, in my opinion.
A normal sized rubber lizard skittering across a piano keyboard would scare alot more people than an impossibly huge (unbelieveable) Monster looking down at you.
For the cost of that one huge monster you could fill a whole house full of the smaller creatures.
You wouldn't have to rent a big truck to move stuff around either.
Bigger is not always better.

My daughter has a plastic victorian doll house that I keep trying to talk her in to letting me "Adams up". No luck so far.

DB

Imagine what creations in furniture, and housing the Victorian era would have come up with if they had had plastic!
"HHHHMM?"

Originally Posted by Gym Whourlfeld

Imagine what creations in furniture, and housing the Victorian era would have come up with if they had had plastic!
"HHHHMM?"

Well, celluloid was introduced in 1863. They just didn't know what it was really supposed ot be used for!

Yes, and the early Bakalite was some of the most durable "plastic" ever made!
It took awhile to figure the stuff out. Henry Ford's 1932? plastic steering wheels didn't last in the sun at all, then during WW2 the soybean plastic license plates tempted barnyard animals beyond licking, they ate the plates right off cars left parked too close to them! (And that is about all I know about plastic)