Thread: Large spaces / walls - how do you decorate them?

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Each year I host a party in my barn and essentially I have large walls with drywall I need to decorate aka cover. One year I did that plastic brick roll stuff from Spirit, last year I did jute, and this year I'm struggling. Anyone else have a very large space to decorate? How do you do it, where do you store it?

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I always use the door covers they sell at the Dollar Tree. It clings like magic to the walls without using anything. Plus I would use some colored lighting to give the walls a splash of color. Here is an example.......



You can re-use them to cause I had some from 09 and they still stuck to the walls. I also cut some up and put them all on my kitchen cabinets. Gotta love not using tape.

I use canvas camo netting that I purchased about 12 years ago. I cover the entire living room with it. I built a wooden frame with 1"X2"s to hold it up so I wouldn't have to put holes in the walls. The stuff I bought was very wide so I cut it in half in a jagged pattern. It was originally 20' but cut in half it covers 40'. It's nice because it's grippy enough to cover with webs.

When done it all folds up into a large storage container. The frame gets disassembled and bundled up using zip ties.

I like the rock wall scene setter roll from Wal-Mart, but you could get it elsewhere. I think it was only about $6 during the Halloween season.

Another easy thing I do is to buy landscape fabric from Big Lots for $5 (Hurry! They are already putting away the garden stuff) and paint scary designs on it with spray paint. You can paint cement blocks, bricks, wood, whatever you can come up with! The effect looks as realistic as you can make it.

One other thing is scene setters in general. Some of them are very realistic and inexpensive. Try out any dollar store and you can pick up a lot of them to cover large spaces, but for not much money.

Spider webs! Cheap, quick and it makes corners and walls look really good when layered with other webs, even if it's just drywall behind them.

On the topic of spider webs, I just bought a roll of beef netting to simulate spider webs, and it looks really good. It would cover a wall nicely:

http://www.trentonmills.com/halloween_spiderwebs.htm

We decorate an old theater every Halloween and use a variety of Scene Setters. Check out one year's photos in my albums. We have used "bloody" and discolored cheesecloth on the ceiling. Right now to make a bug lair feel we took a king sized quilt batting, shot web casting all over it and tack it up.

We hit up local thrift shops, dollar stores, and yard sales and look for large pieces of cheap fabric of like curtains, bed sheets, and table cloths. Cheap large pieces of fabric. Occasionally we'll hit the motherload with a bolt of fabric for dirt cheap. With the bolts youre talking yards and yards of the stuff. Various colors, textures and even patterns hung together make for interesting visual effects. We bunch up the fabric here and there and randomly staple it here and there with no real pattern to it allowing it to drape in random ways. Rip and tear it to shreds, hit it with misting of spraypaint or even dye it beforehand. A lot of times youll find curtains or talbecloths at yardsells that are already stained and ripped up, and because of this its dirt cheap! Cheap, easy, and fast and covers large areas in no time!

you can try getting bed sheets from hotels for free and splatter blood all over them and rip holes in the sheets.

So glad you are focusing on walls, they really set the mood. Here's a section from a blog post I did last year chock full of ideas for walls. It goes on to talk about 'extreme walls' but here's the section about quick wall ideas: http://www.halloweenforum.com/blogs/...ers-scare.html

Quick Wall Draping

Camo Netting: 10' x 20' is a great size
Cheesecloth: so wispy that when you further pull it and shred a bit, it makes a room look abandoned or webby.
Creepy Cloth: This is basically black cheesecloth that's already been pulled. Also gives an abandoned look but with a more Gothic feel.
Jute Netting: AKA Dorp, Erosion cloth. Love, love, love this stuff! Not only will it fit many types of rooms (jungle, torture, spider, vampire, cellar, forest) it also has the perfect scent. Smells like the outdoors, dank basement....Halloween time.
If you have some liquid latex, you could also dip jute netting that had some of the bottom cross netting removed so it's stringy dipped into green-tinted latex. Let dry and you now have Haunt Moss!
Black Landscape Fabric: My walls are actually made of this and is the essential background color - black. If your garage walls are also painted a happy green color like my walls are 11 months a year, just throw this on the wall and instant dread. Plus it's a matte sheen and not the shiny black garbage bag sheen.
Fake Spider Webs: When you get good at pulling it, it can cover quite a bit.
Opaque Plastic Tarps: Great for slaughter rooms or, if shredded, adding an abandoned vibe.

Quick Finishing Touches

Chains: All sizes, real and fake ones
Barbed Wire: The fake kind please. heh.
Shredded Curtains
Ropes: I have 1' thick ropes and jute ropes I pulled from the jute netting
Moss/Greenery: Spanish moss, fake greenery, fake vines

Using just these items I can layer them over one another and it quickly gives the room a sense of what it's supposed to be. Here's some examples:

Spider Room: Black background (landscape fabric). Then a layer of pulled and ripped jute netting. Then layers of pulled and shredded cheesecloth. Finish with fake pulled spider webbing.

Jungle/Forest Room: Camo netting. Then a layer of pulled and ripped jute netting. Ropes, chains, barbed wire, moss.

Torture Room: Black background. Then pulled and ripped jute netting. Ropes, chains and barbed wire. Plastic tarp would also look ominous.

Vampire Room: Black background, jute netting and then creepy cloth. Ropes and spider webs.