Friday, October 28, 2016

Skull and Bone Halloween Decorations

Skull and Bone Halloween Decorations

Skeletons, skulls and bones are go-to decorations for Halloween decorations – but thinking outside the box with how you place, accent and incorporate them will elevate your décor game. We loved seeing how our Halloween Style Challenge participants came up with fun, creative ways to bring decorating with bones back to life!

Above, we see how Alex Evjen of AVE Styles created a distinctive stylish look by sticking to blacks, whites, greys and beiges when creating mini Halloween tableaux around her spooky chic mantel. Above, you can see how she artfully arranged this skull and bones (which she named Harry) to peek out of her throw pillow basket, highlighting the neutral tones in her design.

Skull and Bone Halloween Decorations

In the shadowy darkness of her fireplace, Alex laid white weathered bones atop her firewood creating an eerie atmosphere. Her staging and emphasis of light and dark throughout her space created a clean, modern design with fabulously spooky balance.

Skull and Bone Halloween Decorations

This stunning Halloween hearth design, created by Jamison Rantz of Rogue Engineer, displays smaller skeletons dangling over the mouth of the fireplace. Talk about a chilling Halloween scene! The coiled orange lights mimic the appearance of burning coals and highlight the bone-white forms hanging from the dark painted mantel, creating a clever and eye-catching take on decorating with skeletons.

Skull and Bone Halloween Decorations

A classic glass cloche housing a small skull ties the look together nicely. The stack of vintage books, peeling mercury glass potion vessels and glass bottles arranged across the mantel creates the feel of a spooky witche’s den, with all the materials for casting spells.

Skull and Bone Halloween Decorations

Scott Stoll of Stolloween is a master of Halloween decorations. He completely transformed the front of his house into an incredibly extensive Halloween scene. This look features an assortment of skeletal creatures — what a haunting menagerie! The mix of forms and varied sizes of his skeletons adds visual density to the fun, sinister atmosphere.

Skull and Bone Halloween Decorations

The colored spotlights he used create brooding shadows adding to the creepy atmosphere and drawing attention to the poseable skeleton rider on the back of this life size skeletal horse.

Skull and Bone Halloween Decorations

Elisha Albretsen of Pneumatic Addict dispersed bones throughout her entire spooky front door decorations. The skeleton relaxing on a swinging bench sets the tone for this haunting welcome, while individual bones propped up and mixed in with her gargoyle sitting atop a DIY column and tombstone add creepy continuity to the scene.

Skull and Bone Halloween Decorations

We loved Elisha’s creative idea to hang a cluster of skulls, a spine and skeletal hands from her front door in the place of her knocker. The group of five skulls gazing blankly out from the center of the scene gives the exterior of her home an especially imaginative and haunting feel and is a true focal point as guests approach her home. We’re sure the neighbors are a little wary of stopping by!

Skull and Bone Halloween Decorations

Talk about a centerpiece that’s sure to blow your guests away! Alexi Politis of Seeking Alexi made an amazing graveyard-themed centerpiece unlike any we’ve seen before.

The deathly hands rising from the center of the table are complemented by skulls, bones and skeletons scattered in and around the graveyard, adding depth to the scene and transforming the table into an inspired Halloween table setting that is truly one of a kind. We can’t blame these bodies for wanting to rise up from the dead and join this festive tablescape!

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Katie Compton of Helpful Homemade shows how to keep deathly decor cheerful and fun!

To take this whimsical front yard skeleton display to the next level, Katie personalized the wardrobe of each skeleton, giving them character and personality. We love her playful take on Halloween decor.

Our Halloween Harvest Style Challenge participants came up with so many unique ways to decorate with bones and skeletons. We hope their projects inspire you to create your own hauntingly stylish spaces this Halloween!

Be sure to check out The Home Depot’s entire assortment of Halloween decorations. Follow our Halloween Crafts & Ideas board on Pinterest for more ideas for your Halloween decorations.

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Decorating for Fall with Enchanting Lanterns

Decorating for Fall with Enchanting Lanterns

Decorating for Fall

Although lanterns were once objects of functional necessity, they have evolved into ornamental decor pieces that are the perfect accent to almost any design aesthetic. Sure, lanterns can be used any time of the year — but we were especially inspired by the many ways our Halloween Harvest Style Challenge partners incorporated lanterns into their seasonal designs.

Decorating for Fall with Enchanting Lanterns

Popular home decor blogger Charlotte Smith, of Ciburbanity, created a beautiful, botanical botanical mantel that adds a mixture of vibrant colors and textures to her space. Charlotte created a fun, DIY, copper pipe pennant flag, which she balanced with gorgeous metal lanterns — and the result is stunning!

Charlotte included one large lantern to anchor the display, as well as a smaller lantern grouped with pumpkins to add visual density. The copper sheen of the lanterns against the natural wood of the mantel creates continuity throughout the space, while the decorative fall accents contribute to the rustic feel of this seasonal mantel.

Decorating for Fall with Enchanting Lanterns

Ashley Lloyd of Let’s Mingle chose to decorate her fall front porch for fall with matte black lanterns surrounded by traditional harvest elements, including corn husks and hay bales. She added fall color and flair by filling her lanterns with gourds.

Decorating for Fall with Enchanting Lanterns

The darkly colored lanterns contrast beautifully against the rich fall hues of the seasonal squashes and really make the metallic corn husks pop! Ashley’s front porch design perfectly mixes traditional with modern style for this lovely autumnal look.

Decorating for Fall with Enchanting Lanterns

Evoking a modern seasonal vibe, this stunning harvest themed mantel by Haneen Matt of Haneen’s Haven centers around a beautiful arbor constructed entirely from copper piping. This metallic masterpiece acts as a picture frame for the hearth, while the two similarly hued copper lanterns placed below the arbor balance the space perfectly.

Decorating for Fall with Enchanting Lanterns

By evenly spacing her lanterns, Haneen emphasizes the symmetry of her design and establishes the fireplace and mantel as the focal point of the room.  Arranging a variety of accessories in different sizes, heights and shapes around the bases of the lanterns adds visual complexity to the overall aesthetic of the hearth.

Decorating for Fall with Enchanting Lanterns

Decorating for fall often includes spooky scenes for Halloween. To create a creepy Halloween atmosphere around her home, Elisha Albretsen of Pneumatic Addict used vintage-inspired lanterns to add a spooky touch to her front porch decorations.

Opaque lanterns are hung high on the doorframe, lending scale and height to the creepy graveyard design surrounding her doorway. Shredded fabric pieces cascading from the top of the lanterns add an eerie touch to the Halloween atmosphere Elisha has cultivated at her own front door. What a difference those little details can make!

Lanterns are the perfect endlessly customizable decor piece for every home. From switching up their finish and color with spray paint, to filling them with different objects and materials, lanterns can easily transition from one season to the next while elevating the look of almost any stylized space. Whether you use different lanterns for each of your seasonal spaces or swap out the items on display, make the most out of this versatile decoration!

Check out The Home Depot’s collection of lanterns to decorate your home, and follow our Fall Harvest board on Pinterest for more fall inspiration and ideas.

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Four Creative Takes on a Seasonal Door Hanger

Four Creative Takes on a Seasonal Door Hanger

A few of our blogger partners used their savvy DIY skills to develop a round-up of both cheery and frightful door hangers for their front porches. These are their versions of a fun seasonal door hanger project we featured in our Home Depot Do-It-Herself Workshops .

The wooden door hanger is reversible, so you can make one side for Halloween and the other for Christmas. Just flip the door hanger over once Halloween is over, and you’re ready for Christmas.

We asked some of our favorite DIY and design bloggers to create their own versions of this holiday door hanger. They had some fantastic ideas on how to decorate the hanger! Take a look. You’ll agree that their ideas for the door hanger are so creative and fun!

Fun Ideas for Our Seasonal Door Hanger

Glam Holiday Santa

Four Creative Takes on a Seasonal Door Hanger

Summer of She Leaves A Little Sparkle completed her Santa seasonal door hanger with a splash glam. Rust-Oleum Glitter spray paint and Rust-Oleum Metallic spray paint completed this look. Check out her full glitzy tutorial on her blog.

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Four Creative Takes on a Seasonal Door Hanger

Sassy Witch

Four Creative Takes on a Seasonal Door Hanger
Halloween decor simply isn’t complete without a sassy witch! Julie of Redhead Can Decorate equipped her witch his flow locks, a daring smile and eyes that glow. Check out her wicked witch tutorial on her blog!

Vintage Pumpkin Jack-O’-Lantern

Four Creative Takes on a Seasonal Door Hanger

Cami of TIDBITS blog opted for a vintage spin on the traditional jack-o’- lantern with this pumpkin pattern – how adorable! Check out her blog for the full character door hanger tutorial and to download the printable for your project.

Our Do-It-Herself (DIH) Workshops are a lot of fun. The best part is that your local Home Depot store will have a captain on site to assist if the project calls for power tools or even multiple hands. The Home Depot also holds Do-It Yourself Workshops and Kids Workshops for the little ones.

Bookmark our Home Depot Workshops page for the schedule and upcoming projects.

Follow our Do-It-Herself Workshops board on Pinterest, too!

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Modern and Traditional Mix in Versatile Dining Room Makeover

Modern and Traditional Mix in Versatile Dining Room Makeover

This dining room makeover Kevin O’Gara of Thou Swell features a mix of lovely modern and traditional elements. Kevin also very cleverly split the space into two sections: a dining area and a comfortable seating area.

Kevin shows us the details of this gorgeous and versatile dining room.

Versatile Dining Room Makeover

I couldn’t have been more excited when The Home Depot invited me to transform our dining room with several lovely pieces from the Home Decorators Collection. It’s a room that I’ve long wanted to make over, and Home Decorator’s Collection gave me the perfect opportunity to re-imagine how the layout of our dining room, and create a space that was more comfortable and inviting than before.

The Dining Room Before the Makeover

When I started out, the room had a very traditional layout, with a large dining table at the center of the room and a buffet under the window.

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Splitting the Dining Room

For the dining room makeover, we found new places for these pieces in the room in order to make space for a completely new design.

Instead of the dining table defining the center of the room, I wanted to split the space into two areas: one for dining and one for comfortable seating for such activities as enjoying a cup of coffee with the morning newspaper.

The dining area was moved towards the other end of the room, with the Aldridge Round Dining Table that allowed for the most efficient use of space.

Modern and Traditional Mix in Versatile Dining Room Makeover

Modern and Traditional Mix in Versatile Dining Room Makeover

I wanted to include comfortable seating in the dining area, so I chose the Watkins linen sofa for banquette-style seating. This also allowed me to place the Aldridge dining table closer to the wall, which also made this side of the room even cozier.

Adding New Energy

I wanted to use a mix of modern and traditional pieces in the dining room makeover to refresh the space with some new energy. While the neutral, traditional pieces have traditional proportions, the Thronton Chandelier above the table provides some chic contrast in the tableau. It’s like the jewelry in the room, with layers of Art Deco-style crystals reflecting the light around the room beautifully. And with such neutral pieces below, it was easy to accessorize with more colorful accents which coordinated with the art framing the table.

Thronton Chandelier from Home Decorators Collection

Modern and Traditional Mix in Versatile Dining Room Makeover

Opposite the banquette I hung the Lens Framed Mirror to reflect more light and further define that side of the room. I hung the mirror from the ceiling in front of the white duck curtains which line one wall in this room.

Modern and Traditional Mix in Versatile Dining Room Makeover

The room had striped curtains before, separating the opening between the kitchen and dining room, but I decided to take the curtains all the way across the wall to create a more uniform surface, and hide the strange architecture dividing the two rooms. The white curtains became a soft wall, and make the entry into the dining room from the kitchen quite nice!

Modern and Traditional Mix in Versatile Dining Room Makeover

The Seating Area

Modern and Traditional Mix in Versatile Dining Room Makeover

The seating area was defined by the blue Moroccan rug. The Marie arm chair also grounded the tableau with a traditional shape, while I brought some more contemporary elements in the accent pieces like the lamp and the eclectic embroidered pouf.

Modern and Traditional Mix in Versatile Dining Room Makeover

Modern and Traditional Mix in Versatile Dining Room Makeover

I chose the Aldridge accent table as a large side table, so that it could hold small plates for breakfast or drinks. It’s the same style as the dining table, but the square shape makes it a little different to keep it from matching too much.

The Window Treatments

Modern and Traditional Mix in Versatile Dining Room Makeover

Probably the most impactful change in this area of the room was adding the custom-cut blinds. The bamboo shades instantly elevated the window, accentuating the ceiling height and balancing out the long, horizontal shape of the window. Since curtains cover a whole wall in this room, I didn’t want to use curtains again on this window, and I love how the blinds changed the room.

A Classic Look

Modern and Traditional Mix in Versatile Dining Room Makeover

Modern and Traditional Mix in Versatile Dining Room Makeover

The foundation of the room was rooted in the traditional pieces from Home Decorators Collection. The proportions and classic neutral finishes on the wood and upholstery provided a great canvas for accessorizing with more contemporary silhouettes, like the mirror, chandelier, and graphic Moroccan rug.

While I wanted to refresh the room’s palette, I also am so excited with how much more versatile the space is now, since it can double-task with two seating areas. With this dining room makeover, it feels like the room has finally reached its full potential, and has become so much more inviting in the process!

Browse The Home Depot’s Home Decorators Collection, where you can complete your room decor with value and style. You’ll find furnitureblinds and window treatments, flooring and more.

Follow our Home Decorators Collection board on Pinterest for more decor items and inspiration.

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Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Halloween and Harvest Botanical Bounty Decor

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Halloween and Harvest Botanical Bounty Decor

It’s no secret that flora has taken over modern décor. Beautiful spaces are increasingly accented with textural succulents for an injection of freshness that pulls the whole look together. Our Halloween and Harvest Style Challenge participants show us all how to take advantage of seasonal bounty to tie a design together, and reflect the time of year!

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Charlotte of Ciburbanity has perfected the botanical harvest look in her fall mantel decorations. With a mixture of lush green succulents, mums and pumpkins, her fall mantle is a seasonal garden in itself. Her large glass cloche overflows with metallic pumpkins and fall-colored gourds and is a modern spin on the traditional harvest cornucopia. Using faux pumpkins as planters, Charlotte created an interesting aesthetic that enhances her horticultural harvest elements and takes only seconds to put together.

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This truly unique harvest statement arbor was created by Haneen of Haneen’s Haven. Small branches and miniature orange and white pumpkins are beautifully woven around the copper piping framework in her fall mantel decor. We’ve lost count, but see if you can find all the pumpkins hidden throughout Haneen’s stunning fall mantel design!

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Sandra Downie of The Rustic Life gave her mudroom a fall makeover and incorporated one of our favorite seasonal plants—mums! She found so many ways to bring the outdoors into her design by including life-sized corn stalks, pumpkins and hay bales – a true bounty of traditional fall elements.

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Sandra filled her DIY planter boxes with a mix of mums and ornamental cabbage. The dark green and bright orange colors add depth to her beautiful fall color palette. She also included this fun jack-o-lantern inspired planter to display her festive orange mums!

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Mums, succulents and kale, oh my! Sarah Stewart of Life on Virginia Street brought some great natural elements together, creating a lovely Thanksgiving tablescape. Warm autumnal tones with a hint of fresh green set the scene for a welcoming harvest theme — perfect for a meal surrounded by loved ones.

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Who said you have to use live plants to decorate your home? Jamison Rantz of Rogue Engineer created a spooky Halloween mantel  without even making a trip to the store! A few branches from his yard and some faux maple leaves caught throughout this spiderweb were the perfect spooky accents for his Halloween design.

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Spooky meets chic with this beautiful centerpiece. Who knew jack-o-lanterns (originally sold as lawn markers) could be so versatile? Shonee Smith of Hawthorne and Main isn’t afraid to have a healthy mix of the living and the dead in her festive Halloween tablescape with its contrasting skulls and jack-o-lanterns and classic floral design. Adding a natural touch to classic Halloween decorations is the perfect way to elevate your style this fall!

Katie Compton of Helpful Homemade created these clever bouquets using plastic eyeballs as the center of each colorful mum in her whimsical Halloween decorations. This macabre arrangement will not only entertain the kids, but is a fun way to share your darker side.

This fall season, don’t be afraid to bring the richness of the outdoors inside! From succulents to branches and everything in between, natural elements are the perfect compliment to any holiday design.

Browse our Fall and Harvest Department for everything you need to celebrate the season. Follow our Fall Harvest board on Pinterest for more fall decorating ideas.

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DIY Closet Organizer

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This versatile DIY closet organizer can help structure your stuff inside of a normal closet or provide extra storage space outside of it.

This project by Ben Uyeda of Homemade Modern could also serve as a dressing station or valet. Follow Ben’s step-by-step tutorial to build this DIY closet organizer for your home.

DIY Closet Organizer

Materials

Tools

Download a PDF schematic of this project here.


Step 1: Pick the plywood

I had the nice Home Depot associates rip a 4 ft. by 8 ft. sheet of plywood into three strips. Not only does this save me the time from doing it myself on my table saw, it also makes it easier to fit the wood in my car.


Step 2:  Cut the plywood to length

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I cut the plywood into the lengths shown in the drawing. I used my circular saw but this could also be done with a compound miter saw


Step 3: Cut the 2 x 4s to length

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I used my circular saw to cut the 2x4s


Step 4: Screw the plywood together

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I screwed the biggest piece of plywood to a piece of 2 x 4 and then screwed the second biggest piece of plywood to that same piece of 2 x 4.

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Step 5: Screw on the shelves

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I screwed the plywood shelves in place using pieces of 2 x 4 as supports.

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Step 6: Sand down the edges

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I used my orbital sander and a sanding sponge to round over the rough plywood edges.


Step 7: Screw on the mirror

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The mirror that I bought from The Home Depot came with hardware that I screwed to the plywood.


Step 8: Add clothes hanging bar

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I used a scrap piece of wood and some duct tape to help hold a piece of ¾ in. pipe with flanges on each end in place while I screwed it to the plywood and wall. I used a 3-foot long pipe, but longer or shorter pipes would also work.

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Step 9: Add hooks

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I add some large coat hooks and small eye hooks.


Step 10: Add optional shelf

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I had some scrap plywood and 2 x 4 left over so I made an additional shelf that fit underneath the bar.

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Ben Uyeda is a designer, lecturer, and entrepreneur focusing on the field of affordable and sustainable design. See his designs and DIY projects on his blog, HomeMade Modern.

For more outdoor inspiration, check out our DIY Projects on the blog. You can also follow ourEasy DIY Projects board on Pinterest to discover even more ideas.

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