Thread: Help With Yard Haunt Idea

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Ok, so I am getting things ready to go for my yard display, after all it is already august! LOL I did however come upon a problem. My theme this year is Haunted. You know, typical graveyard, pvc graveyard fencing, but I finally figured out the problem in my display....MY GIANT UNSCARY HOUSE! I plan on boarding up the windows, adding creepy cloth/spanish moss and colored uplights to make the house itself look haunted. ONE PROBLEM, THE GIANT WHITE GARAGE DOOR!! I don't know what to do with the thing, I thought about making it into a crypt/vaults. I would make 12 individual panels like a mosulieum. But this would be costly and time consuming....any other ideas?

I also thought about having a Image Projector of a ghost flying around on the garage door....Only problem is they look kinda dumb! I wonder if one could be modified to cast a more spooky image?

Look in my pictures at the bottom. I have turned my garage into a funeral parlor kind of room and a dungeon...both were very easy. Or, place a dead body in a car in the garage, cover it with webbing and the car with a nice layer of dust....place a small light on the dead body!

Yeah,there are a lot of us with the garage door problem.
I found that if I lit the REST of the house with colored/accent lighting and left the garage dark,it tended to not stand out so much.
But, I also have a streetlight almost directly across from the garage......
Its one of those things you say ,"ok,this year I am covering up the garage door",and plan nothing else new.
Theater type "flats" might work ,they can be painted and stored flat,but realize your car is stuck outside for the duration.
I have also thought of just painting a scene on the door ,so that it is still useable.Scenesetters might also work if they were cut and somehow firmly attached as the door moved up and down.
Whatever your decision, Post some pics for the rest of us,please.
Good Luck
BTW...my garage door project is still in the "Someday" phase...

Ahhhhhhh
Very good question. and one that I had proposed on paper
on a list
somewhere , here ( shuffling papers, moving crumbs, brushing eraser dust....)
yes....here somewhere....
there. No. I did not have an answer to this question.
Hopefully someone will post something really cool that I can do, won't cost a fortune ( I am soooo over budget already) LOL!

Sorry I have no answer either. Or my answer is similar to Wyatt's: distract,distract,distract. My yard is to the left of my garage and that's where ALL the lighting is.

I usually make my husband keep the garage doors closed as well, so it doesn't ruin it further... Sorry to be of no help!

Here is a thought. Either buy some of the mosquito netting and put over it with the door up or use black sheets. Just lift the door and put the stuff up like you are hanging curtains. Weight it down on the inside if that works in case it's windy. Then the car and stuff can stay inside and nobody can see in. That or cut out cardboard trees, paint them and use velcro to attach them to the garage door. Do the same with colored paper to make a night scene to go over the trees like a witch flying her broom by the moon. Then you can put pumpkins in the front of the trees or moss hanging off the tree branches, owls in the tree, anything you want to make it look 3 dementional. All pretty cheap to accomplish

Oh come on people.

It's a WHITE garage door.

LIGHT IT UP! Turn it whatever color you need with lights. Better yet, get a cheap projector, a scary scene and instant horror on the perfect projection screen.

Is it possible to cover each square with a marble print contact paper and still go with the theme of each space being a crypt/vault? I would add name plates and flowers...maybe with stick on velcro. A fake hand prying out of one of the vaults would look great too along with cobwebs and spiders! Hang bats all above as well.
My door is an old wooden one that would look cool like this but I already cover my garage with arched crypt walls for my FCG.

Same issue here. I covered the door with a Scene Setter. It's hung from a long piece of 1" X 1" wood which is hanging from wire hooks attached under the eaves. If you can't find a long enough piece of wood, use a length of 1" ID PVC pipe to join two pieces.

HalloweenGallery.com - Halloween 2007/2007-1b

I say paint it with the invisible black light paint. You know, it's invisible until it's hit with black light. You could put all kinds of grafitti (sp?) on it like the graveyard has been vandalized.

Okay, I'm only half kidding. Most people would not be able to bring themselves to paint their garage door (I, on the other hand, would).

Sorry, I have no other suggestions than what has already been mentioned.