Thread: Really small bathroom/hallway... strobe light or black light?

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I have a very small bathroom "area" (the sink is outside of the actual john and shower room) that also happens to sort of be my hallway from the living room to the bedroom. I don't think I'm going to decorate my bedroom just to help avoid people partying in there - and i don't have doors, I just use tapestries and curtains. SO, I'm stuck between two ideas for this small area deocr:

1) Use my blacklights and put up two very thick black curtains for the doors (one to the living room and one to the bedroom). I'd put my big 50 inch blacklight in the hallway area and my 12 inch blacklight in the bathroom itself. I'm getting a white shower curtain with bloody handprints on it, so I think that would look kind of cool. I'd probably also put up lots of glow in the dark spiderwebs, or anything else that works with the blacklight.

OR

2) Block off the area using the same thick black curtains, but also put up some caution tape that has been ripped and bloodied, and then put up my strobe light in the hallway and change the lightbulb in the bathroom to red and green (there's two bulbs). I'd still use the bloody shower curtain, I think. But then I'd put up some bloody handprints here and there, particularly on the mirror. And then I'd hang up strips of bloody gauze from the ceiling so it feels disorienting in the strobe light.

OR I could do a combination of the two - use the black lights in the bathroom, and the strobelight in the hallway.

Thoughts? I can't decide... I don't really have a theme for my party, I'm just now starting to put together some ideas.

I like the caution tape and bloody hand prints. Any way you can fit a chalk outline on the floor anywhere? (that would glow under black light)

Strobe in the hall, black light in the bathroom.

Sounds great which ever way you go.

I'd choose blacklight in the bathroom.
I wouldn't want anyone to be disoriented while using the john...could be messy.LOL!
Unfortunately strobe lights (or any flashing light) gives me a killer migraine so I never get to use them.

Also, strobes bring on seizures for people prone to them. I love them, but don't use them for this reason.

I have a small bathroom also that is used for my Halloween party. We have a three light sconce above the sink we put flicker bulbs in for lighting. Seems to always provide enough light.

Keep in mind that blacklights will reveal all the body fluids you didn't know were in there...

I have a bathroom with blacklights and a strobe in the other - people avoid the strobe light. They get tot disoriented in there.
If it's the bathroom your guests are using I would go with blacklight. I've used liquid tide on the walls to write scary messages and handprints that glow.

Originally Posted by Frankie's Girl

Keep in mind that blacklights will reveal all the body fluids you didn't know were in there...

Haha... that was exactly what I was thinking. My dog had an "accident" and that's how you are supposed to find all the spot... a black light.

Hopefully any boys who use that bathroom aren't missing the toilet.

Maybe this will help you with your bathroom decor. Most all your guest will have to find their way to the bathroom at some point in the evening, so this will give you the oppurtunity to really get their skin crawling! We filled the tub about a quarter full of water and then colored it blood red with food coloring. Threw in some plastic body parts in the tub to float around. Used red lipstick and wrote "help me" along side some bloodied handprints on the bathroom mirror. Also found a white lacy curtain, splattered red paint all over it and draped it over the wall. Did the same with an old shower curtain we had. It really was a gruesome scene that really freaked people out during their bathroom breaks! It was simple, cheap, and very effective effect! Still trying to think of some simple way to have the toliet flush blood red water! Yucky I know, but surely disturbingly memorable!

^^ did the red food colouring not stain your bathtub?? I've always been concerned with stains so have used the tablets designed for kids bathtime but they don't give a deep red colour so aren't as effective and bit pricey.