Halloween Outdoor Decor Ideas

Do you love Halloween? Are you looking for ideas to decorate your porch or yard or patio for Halloween? Well, I got you, and this post is for you. These Halloween outdoor decor ideas will transform your outdoor living spaces into a haunted wonderland.

Halloween is a holiday that opens the imagination and allows for playful, spooky fun. It does not have to be expensive or complicated, but rather let your imagination run wild and embrace your inner child. Pretty decor can easily become ghastly with a couple of spooktacular touches.

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Welcome to Styled 2 Ways – the Halloween Outdoor Edition

Thank you for being here today, and I’m excited to share with you a new monthly series starting today. Styled 2 Ways is a collaboration between my blog, Master”pieces” of my Life and a new blog on the scene From the Bay to the Beach created by Susan. Susan is an old friend of mine and recently started her blog, sharing life style posts about decor, travel, and more. Susan splits her time between the San Fransisco Bay Area and the San Diego beaches.

For the Styled 2 Ways series, we will each share our point of view for a particular styling, project or concept. Although we both like many of the same things we both have unique styles of our own, and we want to share how the same idea can be expressed in different ways. Both ways are equally as fantastic, showing how unique takes on the same idea can expand our own personal style.

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When you are done here, please hop over and visit Susan here {how-to-style-a-spooky-seaside-doorway}. If you are here visiting from Susan’s place, welcome, I am so happy you are here. Leave me a comment down below; I would love to get to know you. Come on in, have a seat and enjoy!

Halloween Outdoor Decor Ideas

All these Halloween outdoor decor ideas are classic and timeless. You can be inspired by all of them or a small detail of one particular thing. Use these ideas as inspiration, but always decorate to what is true to your style and decor aesthetic. Although Halloween allows for some wiggle room to play and maybe express some uniquely outrageous vignettes, which we would otherwise not get behind.

Wreath

A front door wreath is a key decor piece to welcome guests and express the season. It does not have to be complicated or expensive. Here some glittered bats are added to a grapevine wreath form and voila! you have a Halloween wreath. It’s simple, and easy and has all the Halloween vibes needed.

Here I just added a skull with a black bird to our everyday wreath. Easy, peasy and when halloween was over I simply removed the skull.

For more ambitious Halloween wreath goals you can create your own. You can find the full tutorial here {halloween decor on the church pew} for the wreath pictured below. Beyond your front door, you can hang your spooky wreaths on windows, outdoor walls, porches and more.

Lighting

Lighting is always a great way to create a mood and set ambiance. Lanterns, jack-o-lanterns, string lights and more can create creepy vibes outside, creating fabulous Halloween curb appeal by night.

By simply changing your existing outside lights with Halloween bulbs you can create a fun atmosphere. Mr. M likes to add orange and purple light bulbs to our outdoor lights by the front door. It casts a festive mood in the simplest of ways.

Graveyard

Graveyards have the “creepy” stereotype on most days, making them a perfect foil for Halloween. There are so many pieces you can add to create your own graveyard. Skeletons, tombstones, fence pieces, black birds and more create a fantastic graveyard vignette.

On a total side note, this is a few years ago before we remodeled the front yard. This was the only time of year I enjoyed this area of the yard since it was the perfect canvas for the Halloween graveyard. But you don’t require a large area to create your own graveyard, as Mr. M built this mini plot below during the front yard remodel.

Skeletons

Beyond the graveyard, you can use skeletons and skulls to decorate around your patio and porches. A witches’ cauldron is the perfect vessel to stick all those bony pieces.

If you don’t own a full size skeleton, I highly recommend one if you’re a Halloween person. We’ve owned ours for almost twenty years and it’s still in fabulous shape. I have used it in so many ways around the house, inside and out.

Spiders

Spiders are another quintessential halloween decor. These oversized creatures always add creepy vibes, whether on the porch, hanging on windows or even on the roof.

Adding stretchy spiderwebs to the garden orbs on the cast iron urns creates spider eggs for the spider mamas to sit on. I know, gross! lol. It is Halloween after all.

Dead Plants

Invariably by the time Halloween rolls around, my mums and fall flowers have bit the dust. Instead of throwing them out or composting them, I give them one last dance as Halloween decor. It’s a great organic Halloween boost.

Witches

Witches are another iconic Halloween character. I don’t necessarily have witches hanging out on the porch, but witch broom sticks, shoes and a parking sign promote all the witchy vibes. You know they are hanging around doing their witchcraft thing.

More

This is not a comprehensive list of Halloween outdoor decor ideas. There are so many other muses like ghosts & spirits, or bats & vampires, or snakes, rodents and other vermin. Let your imagination run wild and have fun with it.

Closing Thoughts

I hope this inspires you to create some Halloween spookiness in the outdoor spaces of your home. You can make the Halloween decor, whimsical, or scary or creepy, depending on your preference. Always make it yours.

What do you like to use for outdoor Halloween decor? What was your favorite here? I would love to know; please drop me a note below. The Halloween bins will be coming down from the attic soon, and I will have new Halloween content coming your way. I have so many ideas, I don’t think I will have enough time. Lol.

The most important aspect is that you have fun and inject some Halloween happiness for your family, guests and neighbors. I always appreciate to see what everyone on my street does. Some folks have their tried and true decorations, which they use year after year. Then there’s those like us who change it up a bit year after year.

Thanks for joining me.

Shop for Halloween Outdoor Decor

• Full Size Skeleton
• Halloween Wreath – Bat Themed
• Halloween Wreath – Skeleton Themed
• Assorted Halloween Bone Decor
• Set of Black Birds
• Wooden Jack-o-Lantern
• Copper Metal Jack-o-lantern
• Set Halloween Tombstones
• Groundbreaker Graveyard Skelton
• Witches Broom

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