My hallway is about 34 inches wide, and the first year I decorated it for Halloween I hung a giant cobweb across the whole thing at head height. My boyfriend walked into it carrying laundry,…
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My entryway is about three feet wide, and last October I put a full-size skeleton next to the door because it looked great in my head. Then I spent two weeks turning sideways to get…
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The first time I painted my window for Halloween, I used regular acrylic paint because it was the only black paint I owned. It looked great for about a week. Then I spent a full…
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My first homemade Halloween wreath was a $6 foam ring, a bag of fake spiders, and a hot glue gun I didn’t know how to use. By the third day the spiders were sliding off…
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My first Halloween in this building, I spent a whole Saturday decorating my door. Wreath, lights, a very proud paper ghost. Then I sat inside with a bowl of full-size candy bars and got exactly…
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Two Halloweens ago I taped a paper ghost to my apartment door with regular Scotch tape, and by 7pm it had peeled off, slid down the door, and was lying face-down on the mat like…
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I used to think fall decorating meant buying a pumpkin, sticking it on the counter, and calling it a season. Then I moved into a 480-square-foot one-bedroom with beige walls I wasn’t allowed to paint,…
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I used to think multi-functional furniture was mostly a marketing gimmick, the kind of thing that looks clever in a product photo and turns out to be annoying in real life. Then I moved into…
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For the first year in my apartment, my living room technically had a couch, a rug, and a TV, and it still felt like a waiting room. Nothing about it made me want to actually…
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When I first moved into my studio, I spent an entire weekend pushing my bed, couch, and desk into different corners like I was solving a puzzle with no solution. The problem wasn’t that the…
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