Thread: Zombie theme living room ideas

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I live in an apartment and am having an apartment party this year in a new city. Each room has a different theme and I am having difficulty thinking up ideas for the living room. I want it to have a zombie theme to it, and also want it to have a rundown feel to it. I was wondering if anyone had any ideas for me to consider.
Thanks

Sounds like fun!

Some ideas....

Of course it depends on how much you want to spend on decor, but you can check thrift stores for supplies of fabric to create make-shift "chair covers" and rugged them up with rips and stains. Then drape tea-stained cheesecloth, netting and or tea-stained/torn muslin on the sofas and chairs, and drape some across doorways too.

Also, check the thrift stores and yard sales for old candle holders and mis-matched, vintage dishes. Be sure to burn your candles ahead of time, so that they don't look brand new for the party. Make old-looking signs, such as: CONDEMED, WARNING/KEEP OUT, and DANGER, on fake boards to hang across windows and doors that won't be used during the party. Look for some fake rats to hide in out of the way places on the floor, and up on shelves. Scorch some parchment paper and use it to print your menu, make coasters, placemats, invitations, and old letters/envelopes that have been ripped open, and crinkled from being read many times over the years. Borrow or find at thrift stores, old-looking clothes, hats, gloves, shoes, etc. to display casually strewn around in appropriate places, such as on a bed where guests might leave their coats. Look for old-fashioned-looking pictures frames, and insert vintage-looking black/white or sepia photos/prints. Play creepy organ music in the background. Use old teacups and saucers instead of coffee mugs.

Replace or revise any pictures on the walls with old-looking prints, sprinkled with some dust, stop dusting now, so that everything will be nice and dusty by the party. Make sure that the pictures on the walls are slightly titled. Find an old clock (or make a recording of one) that will chime appropriately. Look for lace doilys to put on end tables and on the arms and backs of chairs.

Stuff some "bodies" dressed with old torn, dirty clothes to look like zombies, and place them strategically.

Great Ideas lilwitch

Place emergency supplies and empty drinks/ food wrappers around the room

Place empty bottles of medication,and bloody bandages around

Turn the tv on static or play an emergency broadcast message (without the sound)on your tv

Place maps with emergency routes mapped out

Place half packed suitcases by the door

Board up windows from the inside with long pieces of carboard or place painters plastic on the windows

Fill trash bags with crumpled newspaper and place near the door (who is going to take out their trash when zombies are outside) or place piles of newspapers/ crumpled papers on the floor (who is going to recycle/ clean?)

Create fake newspapers or flyers talking about a Zombie outbreak and place on coffe table.

Create memorials/ an alter for undead family members.... place candles, small mementos and pictures together

Place religious books/ crosses ect. on the coffee table

Or place hunting/ gun magazines of the coffee table

Place weapons around room

Place body parts and bones around the room

Great ideas. Love the one with the boarded up windows on the inside of the room. To really push the idea of being attacked by zombies, why don't you have some hands and fingers grabbing the boards from outside so it looks like you are under seige. You could also have a background soundtrack of zombies moaning. Play it just loud enough to hear but not loud enough to actually drive you crazy. :-)

Oooh! Some more great ideas! I especially love the fake zombie newspapers, and the zombie hands grabbing through the boarded-up windows!

Lilwitch, I love the ideas you posted, especially the boarded up window one. Any suggestions of where to find some wood scraps? I'd rather have distressed looking wood than a brand new 2x4 from the store.

propmistress, I am totally digging the abandoned and distressed feel that your decoration ideas would give my apartment. I am definitely going to use them!

I saw a tutorial on HauntProjects.com that taught you how to make your walls look like the stucco had fallen off. Basically, you took the wood grain contact paper and black poster board. Cut the paper into strips and lay it down on the poster board and add in little details such as nail holes in the wood, vertical strips for the edges of the studs, etc.

From Hi-rezdesigns.com:

Play this one on a main tv set:
http://hi-rezdesigns.com/online_stor...&products_id=2
(It's the cheapest one and will add so much to the realism.)

And if you wanna get real fancy, build like a window, and put an LCD tv behind it to create a window and have the TV play these:
http://hi-rezdesigns.com/online_stor...&products_id=3
And:
http://hi-rezdesigns.com/online_stor...&products_id=4

and heres other things:
http://hi-rezdesigns.com/online_stor...keyword=zombie

Originally Posted by Gorey Vidal

I saw a tutorial on HauntProjects.com that taught you how to make your walls look like the stucco had fallen off. Basically, you took the wood grain contact paper and black poster board. Cut the paper into strips and lay it down on the poster board and add in little details such as nail holes in the wood, vertical strips for the edges of the studs, etc.

Great suggestion! I think this would actually look really awesome and it fits into my budget.