From My House to Yours Our garden expert, Sam Braun, takes you on a tour of her Halloween haunt. deisgn by sam braun photography Covet magazine & sam brauN Halloween?! I love Halloween… if you ask me a Halloween décor question, I’ll probably slip up and call it Valentine’s. True story, happens all the time, and yes I’d rather have a velvet covered pumpkin than a dozen roses thank you very much! Even my wedding “dress” has doubled as Halloween garb for at least a half-dozen costumes. You can’t go wrong with a black corset and a flowing, ribbon and lace covered skirt that takes you from country bride to pirate chick to creepy porcelain doll with only a few tweaks to the makeup and a couple of extra layers. After all, who gets to pull out their wedding dress after the big day and have a blast? Me! Because I love Halloween! My kids love Halloween too, quite possibly because their mum will hoard and spray paint anything to make both the inside and
outside of our nearly 100-year-old house as creepy as possible. We fell in love with our old farmhouse at first sight—it was like something from a Bette Davis horror movie. Mosquito screens hanging off the cob-webby pillars and flapping in the wind and absolutely no front step, only a swinging door that slammed off the side of our porch to a death drop. Seriously? How could you not see the Halloween potential in that baby? Years have passed and, although we totally played up the super creepy mess that first year, now a grand wooden staircase with wrought iron railings (all reclaimed to maintain a little old-creepy) is flanked by two big black gargoyles. The big wooden posts used to MacGyver the iron work are perfect for displaying seasonal neat-things like wicked little dolls and such. With a quick switch of
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