Deck out your home with stylish Halloween decorations and accessories, call some of your favorite grown-up ghosts and goblins and have a frightening, yet grown-up, good time.

This Halloween, why let kids have all the fun? Deck out your home with stylish Halloween decorations and accessories, call some of your favorite grown-up ghosts and goblins and have a frightening, yet grown-up, good time.

If you’re going for sophistication, chances are this won’t be a your average costume party. Just make sure all your guests know they don’t have to dress like superheroes. Likewise, your decorations should reflect the holiday without sacrificing style. So out with the plastic pumpkins and cardboard skeletons.

In with the sophisticated — yet scary — accessories.

“Halloween has become the second most popular holiday in terms of decorating,” said Chris Tennyson, director of visual merchandising for Bombay. “But most of the Halloween décor is geared toward kids — it’s cartoony and silly.”

Tennyson has some advice on how to incorporate Halloween accents into your overall decorating scheme to set the scene for your party.

Make A Grand Entrance

Set the tone for the evening by greeting your guests with painted yard stakes and a Halloween wreath. Display the stakes lining the sidewalk up to the front door. Once at the door, the wreath, crafted of natural corn husks and sprinkled with orange glitter will ensure an enthusiastic entrance.

Fill your foyer with Halloween atmosphere with a collection of silver jack-o’-lanterns glowing with the light of votive candles.

“These jack-o’-lanterns are an instant show-stopper when displayed in multiples in a dark room,” Tennyson said.

Greet your guests with a glass of champagne or sparkling apple cider. Pour the bubbly from a beaker to simulate something from a mad man’s experiment.

Set A Boo-tiful Buffet

Serving buffet style makes for easy entertaining. Guests can help themselves and you can spend more time mingling and less time in the kitchen. Your food can be as simple as chips with dip, a vegetable platter and an assortment of cheeses, all from the local grocery store. Remember, presentation is everything, so display your food artfully on spider web platters or embellish the area with decorative spider webs from your local craft store. If you’d like to offer guests something more substantial, consider a soup or stew served in hollowed out miniature pumpkins instead of bowls.

A spooky spider web tablecloth is the perfect backdrop for its pumpkin punch bowl. Crafted of silver-plated brass, the punch bowl comes with a serving ladle and includes four silver pumpkin-shaped cups with handles. Add a block of dry ice to your punch bowl to easily create an eerie fog effect.

Don’t Forget The Rest Of The House

You can add a touch of Halloween to every room in the house. In the powder room, swap your everyday towels for something with a holiday theme. Light a pumpkin spice scented candle to invoke the smells of the season.

Candlelight always helps set the mood for a party, and is especially appropriate at Halloween. When the candles are lit, they cast a subtle purple glow across the room.

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