Thread: Garage decorating tips

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Anyone have any good tips on how to decorate my garage with a halloween theme? The garage is the only the place in the home thats mine to do with as I please. I'm a big halloween nut and I'm often out there tinkering getting ready for next years big event. Right now though its pretty bare. I'd like to add a few things to give me some inspiration. I was thinking of just buying some old movie posters, like Dracula, and hanging them on the walls. Any other ideas?

Do you want to do a theme?
Is the garage all drywalled up?
Do you have plenty of wall sockets in there?

I say...just do what you can with what you got.

Yeah its all drywalled up and I have plenty of sockets. I wasn't looking for any particular theme. I was wondering if anyone had seen any cool decor items that would look good and scary hanging on the walls all year round.

since your going with posters of the oldies, maybe set up in front of some of the posters scarecrows with a mask on representing the characters, have some items that look like something you would find in a scene from their film on a table, maybe one table with a movie going, some tape recorders with them talking. lots of lights everywhere.

Unfortunately timing is bad right now to find Halloween items out there. 2 Halloweens ago I bought a number of different monster movie posters at the dollar store that we use to decorate. Of course, thrift stores have a wealth of things to use as well. Other than that, I'd do searches for Halloween, movies, posters, etc on ebay.
If you want to get the neighbors talking, a torture chamber theme in the garage all year round would be just the thing. Or start building props, and leave them out for viewing as you do them. Nothing like a toe-pincher or electric chair in the garage, I always say!
How about zombies/creatures crawling the walls? Make body forms, use Halloween masks and gloves and anchor the bodies to the wall as if they were crawling out to get you...
Do you like classic Halloween? Download (or buy on ebay) antique Halloween images/decorations, enlarge them onto masonite, jigsaw them out and paint them up A large classic Halloween cat decoration sounds pretty cool... I just may have to do that one myself!

Whatever you do, have fun and post pics.

that wall crawling idea sounds cool. is your haunt for free? if so you might go to a video store and tell them you are doing a free haunt for the neighborhood kids, they might donate some posters. a lot of times they throw them away, and this is good advertisement for them. the year i did my making of darrenes chiller, a graveyard theme, the video store donated a whole bunch of posters to me and i hid them all over the cemetary. they had to scavenge and find them. 1 per kid. the kids loved them and it was a good plug for the video store.

dye you some cheese cloth or camouflage netting and tack it to the walls.

add a old sofa, and toe pincher coffin for coffee table.

tv can be transformed to show scary movies at halloween.

put a fridge in there for yourself, then at halloween, throw in some body parts.

all your pitch forks, sling blade, hatchet, machete, hammers, saw blades, hang from the ceiling.

Originally Posted by lacey38655

dye you some cheese cloth or camouflage netting and tack it to the walls.

add a old sofa, and toe pincher coffin for coffee table.

tv can be transformed to show scary movies at halloween.

put a fridge in there for yourself, then at halloween, throw in some body parts.

all your pitch forks, sling blade, hatchet, machete, hammers, saw blades, hang from the ceiling.

I like that idea Lacey has. hammers and saw blades hanging.
Now that be a garage I would love to sit and relax in. awesome.