Thread: Turning the kitchen into a bar fit for Halloween

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My party is tomorrow, and being the type of person that thrives on the adrenaline of waiting until the last minute, I need some help with my kitchen. The look we've been going for in general is abandoned haunted house. My house is kind of creepy looking to begin with, so we're just intensifying the look.

We've "boarded" up the windows of the exterior, inside I've been cobwebbing the heck out of everything and we're draping all of the furniture in white sheets to make it match theme. The house is crawling in spiders (mostly fake) and we've been replacing our chandelier lights with the flickers lights for some ambiance.

As for the kitchen, I thought I'd take sort of a different path. It's a good sized kitchen with a long bar running through the middle. In past Birthday parties we've successfully transformed the kitchen into a candy shop for a Willy Wonka party...we're repurposing all of our old candy jars for apothecary type jars. I thought about making new labels for all of our liquor bottles (so people don't know what they're getting) and mixing them in with the apothecary jars. I'll probably hit the kitchen with cobwebs too (I'm cheap!), but otherwise I'm kind of stuck. Should I make it look like an actual bar, or maybe an experimental lab? Anyone have any ideas to point me in the right direction? Is it stupid to change themes for one room?

I love the mostly fake spiders comment. lol

I don't thnik it's different to mix up the theme. But I think an abandoned bar would be cool. You could have a mouse "eating" a plate of leftovers (bread sandwich?) How crazy do you want it to get? You could have a bra over the back of a chair, pictures askew. Poker chips and cards on the floor and table. All the good stuff that goes with a wild night. lol

Here's a thought about the liquor bottles. Leave some of them in their original containers but spray them with matte varnish to age them. Wrap twine around some of the necks. Use watered down brown acrylic paint to age the labels. I think bar condiments (olives, etc) would look awsome in your jars.

Enjoy your party!

You should look at GIANTmicrobes, they have plush toys of maggots, perfect to put on your table and around the house to add a creepy effect. They also have Black Death and Flesh eating disease. They are creepy but still cute in case children are there.

A mad scientist's lab is the easiest creepy bar to do since labware takes well to being barware, in fact it makes it a lot easier to make bigger batches of mixed drinks so instead of '3 shots mixer to one shot booze' you take a 1000ml beaker and do 750ml mixer 250ml booze

Unfortunately it's probably too late for you to order real labware off the internet but Walgreens has plastic test tubes and beakers full of candy liquid and jelly body parts.