Spookify

You know, you all are quite fantastical with all of your 'cheer up' suggestions from my previous post this week.  I've always appreciated how the blogosphere is filled with helpful people such as yourselves and one way I get in a good mood is by reading your blogs.  Thank you for your suggestions and kind words, as always.  The weather finally cooperated this weekend and we visited a pumpkin patch to get in the mood for fall.

Speaking of fall, I haven't seen a house this suited for Halloween as this Victorian house in my neighborhood.  This would be the type of home that the neighborhood kids would dare each other to ring the doorbell while Trick Or Treating.  The exterior is crawling with ivy and the foyer is so easy to spookify - you could drape some fake cobwebs in it and call it a day.  The interior is in really great condition, particularly for a house built in 1905, but I could really imagine plenty of scary movies taking place inside.  A flickering candle creating shadows on the wood paneling, punctuated by the creaks and groans of an old house.  What do y'all think, could you live in a house like this?









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  1. It is a spooky house but so beautiful! I love victorian styled houses!

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  2. Call me Lurch, I could live there easily--and enjoy freaking out the kids. :)

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  3. OMG is that a stuffed peacock in the house?!

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  4. Loved the title of this post! I nodded my head and thought "yep, I think I could live here" - that was until I saw those dolls on top of the mantle in the living room. I need a moment to seriously freak out here.

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  5. You can almost see the chandeliers swinging back and forth and with matching velvet sofa seats. It's a house I can imagine where I can find a book of spells and glass jars with herbs hidden in a wine cellar at the basement. It's a nice house, I could spend a weekend there but definitely not alone.

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  6. it's beautiful. but I can see how it might be spooky, too.

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  7. Its very spooky. And quite bizarrely decorated too, like whoever did it had some kind of split personality disorder.

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  8. This looks like that house from the Mary Kate and Ashley Halloween movie. Did you ever see that?

    I'm in love with the floors on the inside!

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  9. The house is a tad spooky but the gorgeous details inside and out make up for it, so I could definitely see myself living in it. As long it is not haunted of course ;)

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  10. From the outside, I couldn't imagine how it could be spooky . . . then I "stepped" inside. Eek!

    Supposedly, we have a big ol' haunted house in one of the famed historic districts downtown. They say, at night, you can never see lights on inside. Never. Even when the family is home, it's always shrouded in black. :S

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  11. The house is quite lovely, but you're right....very haunted feel to it. Hmmmm....

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  12. It's a bit too...#12 Grimmauld Place to me, but in a good way! I just don't think I could live there. Though I do love it from the outside. Talk about curb appeal!

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  13. wow, the porch is gorgeous! i love how pristine it is in what looks like it's almost original state; all the wood work, the floors, moldings. very pretty.

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  14. I'm with Erin. Gorgeous from the outside, dark and heavy within. But, so very fun to walk past, especially at night and wonder about who lives inside.

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  15. I prefer my homes to be tiny so that I know exactly where everything is and I can hear every noise. I can be a bit paranoid.

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  16. I feel like that's the house Boo Radley lived in. Mysterious and a little scary but very misunderstood. :)

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  17. I love a good Victorian and you are right- super spooky (inside and out!)

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  18. I could move right into pic number 2 - wonderful floor and wall color! :-)

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  19. Not the kind of place I'd choose to live in...
    LUXESSED

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  20. Oh my! That last picture? CRAY!

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  21. That's a cool house -- but i don't know if I would be brave enough to ring the doorbell on Halloween night!

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  22. Yes, but really only if the inside was changed. A lot. The outside is very pretty but I can see how on Halloween it could be one of those houses where you dare each other to go and ring the bell.

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  23. OK, there is something totally creepy about that house. Do they put up a lot of decorations for Halloween?

    *Erin

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  24. I am NUTS about black and white checkered tile floors!! I could really dig this house, but the peacock tail would need to go as I'm not so into stuffed (real) animals.

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  25. Not with the peacock on the wall, no.

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