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My kitchen is small and very very white. White walls, white cabinets, off white counter and white appliances. It's an apartment so painting is a no go.

Last year I stuck bloody hand wall clings everywhere but I wanted to do something better this year.

Any ideas?

How is everyone doing their's?

Honestly, I don't decorate the kitchen - why too much activity in there. I worry more about keeping it clean, and few guests ever wander in there.

You could clutter some bones about on the counters, and hang homemade mobiles from the ceiling, mobiles made of feathers, sticks, bones, that sort of thing.

The best kitchen prop is probably potion bottles, and there's a ton of info on this site about ways to make them and fill them.

Just use the search in the upper right hand corner and search for potion.

My kitchen is going to be a Witch's Kitchen. I have a large wreath with a witch, garlic and some items that hangs on an open door. I also have a crashed witch that will go on the door to the garage, numerous witches that will be set around on the counters. One is a several foot tall dancing and cackling witch. I am using creepy cloth under the cabinets across the backsplash area all the way down both sides of the long galley kitchen. I have a couple of signs that will be placed around including one on a cabinet door. On my flat top stove, I will place several cauldrons in various sizes. I also have some potion bottles to display, a computer generated sign that will be placed on the dishwasher and some other witches on the fridge. I also have a couple of small brooms decorated.

I saw a photo of a flat top stove that had disgusting props placed directly on the top as if they were cooking. I may try that. I have a large rat to go in there and a crow, and of course a black cat, too.

Do you have space above your cabinets? I put decorations up there...framed pictures of different parts of the anatomy (ribcage, brain, heart, etc.) I also have some ghosts and gargoyles and creepy pumpkins. I plan on putting spider webs all over the cabinets the night of the party, but due to functionality can't do that until then. I also have lots of bat silhouettes that I plan on sticking to any place that I can find!

Unfortunately I don't have any space above my cabinets and it will be hard to set anything on the counters because of such limited counter space.

I might put some bats around though! Thanks for that idea.

Maybe some creepy cloth around... hmmm... stupid small kitchen...

I'm purposefully not decorating the kitchen this year - it's basically a hallway between the basement & living room, so there's a ton of traffic & I'll be doing some hot hors d's also, so I'd rather not have people gather there. I might even take out bulbs so it's dark and uninviting

Originally Posted by Stochey

I searched for a thread on this... I'm pretty sure I suck at searching because I couldn't find one.

My kitchen is small and very very white. White walls, white cabinets, off white counter and white appliances. It's an apartment so painting is a no go.

Last year I stuck bloody hand wall clings everywhere but I wanted to do something better this year.

Any ideas?

How is everyone doing their's?

Hallow Stochy! White everywhere? Sounds PERFECT for a ghostly look! Use lots of white cheesecloth or swags of thin, filmy fabric (WalMart and JoAnne's have a decent supply right now.) hanging from the ceiling. A few white skulls and lots of twinkling lights - say mix purple and white with some silver. You can even fill a few jars with eyeball candies, worms or gummy hands - I have seen those in Walgreens.) If total white bothers you - try some wall silhouettes - jut cut out witches hats, cats, spiders, anything spooky in black paper and attach to the walls and cabinet doors. The food is the thing anyway - so whatever you do, I am sure it will make the kitchen a fun place to hang...so to speak! BOO!

If you have a very white kitchen, blacklights might work well in there, unless you need light to prepare food, etc.

Funny thing about the kitchen, every yar I do EVERYTHING I can to keep people from congregating in there, ALL food and ALL drink on the opposite side of the house, and people still get food and drinks and then come back into the kitchen!!

Sometimes you don't have to do a lot. Here is a picture of my Kitchen. I have a couple strings of lights under the cabinets with a couple strings of skellys with them. I also have the light-up pumpkins on top. Also two decorative towels on the oven handle. The window you can't see has two ceramic pumpkins and that's about it. At night it looks real cool and sets the ambiance. Not over done, just enough to say it's Halloween in the kitchen.

It really depends on where you need to put food and drinks, but we completely fill up the kitchen every year. I have the food in there, a chocolate fountain, punchbowl of our specialty drink, lots of lab equipment and bottles of odd things here and there. We're apartment dwellers also so we use blacklight and candles where we can to create the feel of Halloween. Oh and those skeletons on the cabinet handles, body parts hanging from our pot rack, and anatomy pictures dispersed throughout the room.

Like others have said, it depends on what kind of foot traffic you have going through there too. Don't want to overdo it if you're afraid of someone knocking something over or if no one is really going to go in there.

Hope that helps!