Building your own haunted house for Halloween is no easy task. Whether you do it in your own yard or decide to go "professional" and try your hand at a money making haunt, you have to do things right! There are several ideas on what to do at Yard Haunter.com from making entrance ways to room decor to suite the theme to lighting and fog machine use.
You need to lay out a floor plan on how you want a walk thru to go, if you plan on doing that kind of haunt. If you are doing it for a charity or city, you'll need to find out what the fire laws are because, believe me, the inspectors will be there in force. In our town, a small haunt was being set up for the town and never opened, we assume because of fire marshal problems and getting passed to open.
The easiest way to do a home haunt is to use your front or back yard, make an open air walk thru, have a grave yard, add all kinds of scary stuff to an outdoor theme. Make it short but make it scary, keeping in mind that people will be bringing thier kids along so you may want to tone down the gore.
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