Styling our homes for a season or a holiday, we usually think of front doors, mantels and console or coffee table decor, while other spaces and nooks are often left non-decorated properly. If you wanna feel the holiday better, style more spaces and corners to make the whole home feel like it. Shelves can be found in all the rooms and spaces, from bathrooms to bedrooms, and we often forget about them. Time to fix that! Let’s decorate shelves and shelving units for Halloween so that they filled your home with Halloween vibes.
How To Make A Halloween Shelf Display
Choose A Style And Color Scheme
To make your shelf display stylish, you will need a style and a color scheme. We usually try to stick to the same ones that we have in the room to make decor look cohesive but that’s not obligatory and you can go wild creating all that you want, for example, pulling off witchy decor in a modern space or go for retro and vintage styling. As for colors, it’s all the same and if you don’t want to stick to the palette in your room, think about popular Halloween color schemes: black and white, black and gold, total black, black, white and purple, black and red and others.
These ascending shelves are decorated with poison bottles, candles, a sign, a skull decoration and are covered with spiderweb.
Decorate your bathroom shelves with skulls, a ghost sign, some poison bottles and mini pumpkins to give the space a Halloween feel.
These cool shelves are styled witchy way, with poison bottles, candles, bats, books, brooms, signs and a copper cauldron.
Halloween shelf styling with black books, a skull artwork, black bats and a cat, some orange pumpkins and dried grasses.
This cabinet is styled for Halloween with themed black and white tableware, candycorn, mini pumpkins and skulls.
Black shelves decorated with vintage books, some art, a skull with red roses and poison bottles, a creative heart art object.
Kitchen shelves done with black skulls, black and orange pumpkins, a pumpkin tank and some art for Halloween.
Halloween shelf decor with prettyretro figurines and dolls, a scary monster paw and some mini pumpkins is a classic idea.
Get A Theme
Themes can be also a nice solution for styling shelves, and here you can remember your favorite movies, characters or some popular themes for Halloween parties like skeletons, haunted house, celestial decor or witches. Such decor may not be cohesive part of the room but may support the party or decor theme you are pulling off.
Black, white and purple Halloween shelf decor with ghosts and themed jars, skulls, bats, faux candles and purple lights.
Bookshelves styled for Halloween with pumpkins, blackbirds, poison bottles, black eucalyptus and spiderweb.
Halloween shelf decor created with black books, wooden spiderweb letter, mini pumpkins and printed ones.
Kitchen farmhouse shelving styled with skeletons, lanterns, mini pumpkins, a coffin, a skull and spiders on the walls.
Neutral Halloween decor with a pumpkin, some glass jars and cloches with skulls, a book with a rat and some bones.
This Halloween curiosity cabinet is done with a cauldron, retro figurines, lights, blackbirds, skeleton hands and faux candles.
Make Focal Points
You can choose some decorations that will be your focal points on the shelves, they can be large or jsut bold ones, and build your display around them. For instance, you can pick a couple of large skeletons and place them on shelves, and then add smaller decorations and spiderweb and bats to the shelves. Stick to the color scheme, theme or style that you’ve picked adding or removing unnecessary pieces.
This Halloween coffee station is decorated with black cheesecloth, skulls, pumpkins, a haunted house and a candle.
These rustic shelves are decorated with velvet pumpkins, mice, bats, black blooms and vintage Halloween-themed books.
A Halloween tree made of painted branches is a perfect focal point of any arrangement.
Modern Halloween shelf decor is done with artwork, a skeleton, some skulls and pumpkins and eyeballs ina cloche.
Modern Halloween shelf decor is done with skeletons, a black skull, a hand and some bats over the shelves.
These bookshelves are accented with a skeleton hand, some pumpkins, blackbirds, artwork for Halloween.
Modern Halloween shelf decor done with pastel skulls, a tombstone with a spider, some signs, witches' boots and a bunting.
Niche shelves decorated with skulls, a black branch wreath, blackbirds and a mini pumpkin plus black cheesecloth.
Kitchen shelves decorated for Halloween with printed tableware, a bead garland, pumpkins and spiders, a gname and a bunting.
Halloween shelf decor done with a star bunting, pink and white ghosts and skulls plus bats all around.
Bring In Details
Smaller pieces create a mood for real, so pay attention to details adding small cloches, pumpkins, artwork and prints and covering the shelves with spiderweb, adding spiders and bats to make the display feel more Halloween-like. Consider using faux and real candles and colored purple or orange lights to illuminate your display or evne make it a focal point in the room.
Moody shelf styling with skulls, dolls, cloche decor, vintage items and books, such decor will work not only for Halloween but all year round if the space is a Gothic one.
This lovely and chic Halloween decor features a gallery wall with book shelves integrated and with Halloween decor - cauldrons, dried blooms and vintage tableware.
This home bar is decorated for Halloween with some skeletons and skulls, letters, black and white pumpkins and spiders.
These shelves are done for Halloween with lots of items: candles, pumpkins, ghosts, vases and jars and some retro decor.
These shelves will make you feel as if it's a witch's cave, they show off dried blooms and grasses, antlers and mushrooms, vintage tableware and pumpkins.
Halloween shelf decor with prints and signs, black candles and skulls, books and grass plus some cheesecloth.
Black shelves styled for Halloween feature hands and skulls, artwork and figurines, candles and a ghost candle.
More Ideas On Creating A Halloween Shelf Display
Integrate Halloween Decor Into Existing Display
You probably already have some display and decor on these shelves, and to make your Halloween decor more cohesive, you may just add some touches to the existing pieces. For example, you might have some books and vases, and you can just add black faux blooms to the vases and put skulls and skeletons here and there for a cool look. Cover them with spiderweb and add some blackbirds, and voila, your Halloween decor is ready.
Vintage shelves decor is done with skulls, hands, jars with various stuff, blackbirds and other weird things.
Kitchen shelves featuring a haunted house, gnomes, blackbirds, owls and pumpkins plus a sign.
Niche shelves styled with bats, blackbirds, skeleton hands and branches plus spiderweb for Halloween.
Vintage shelf decor with black and white photos, cloches, a bat, poison bottles feels scary and moody.
Modern black and white shelf decor with a mini Halloween tree, black pumpkins and spiders, some art and printed plates.
Take Advantage From The Space
If it’s a kitchen, a coffee or tea station in some space or a dining room, think about creating a display with themed and printed tableware and mugs that will make most part of your decor. This will highlight the space and you won’t have to mix and match too much. Then just add some decor you like like skeletons, skulls, artwork and figurines, and voila. Your unique collection of tableware and Halloween mugs will make your display personalized and one-of-a-kind. If it’s a home bar, you can turn some alcohol bottles into poison ones. If it’s a bookshelf, pick horror stories for your display and usedark vintage books to make it wow.
Kitchen shelves displaying various tableware and with some retro Halloween decor, with jack-o-lanterns, branches and black feathers.
This kitchen buffet is styled for Halloween with black, white and orange printed tableware, branches in vases, witch decor and some skulls.
This kitchen cabinet is decorated for Halloween with ghosts, skeletons, bats, gnomes, printed tableware and a printed bunting.
This farmhouse buffet is decorated with black bats, jack-o-lantern bowls, lanterns, mini pumpkins and black faux blooms.
These kitchen shelves are done with letters and gnomes, black and orange tableware, some figurines and mugs.
Buffet decor done in black and white with themed and printed tableware, stacked mini pumpkins, skeletons and bats, some ghosts on top.
This home bar is styled with blackbirds, poison bottles, a neon sign and realistic spiderweb, and it looks perfect.
Kitchen Halloween shelves done with spiders, black and orange pumpkins, ghosts and various figurines, cheesecloth.
This cute coffee station is styled for Halloween with printed themed tea and coffeeware, with bats, pumpkins and mini trees.
Kitchen shelves are done for Halloween with a skeleton, blackbirds, some signs and a bunting plus themed tableware.