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Haunted Ikea Stråla Woods

Halloween· Halloween Decor

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I’m not at all into “crafty-cutesy” Fall/Halloween decorations. I try to keep it to a minimum. But on the other hand I have kids who love Halloween. I have to find a happy medium.

My favorite thing to use for Halloween decorations are spiders. It’s not too morbid and still scary enough!

With Halloween approaching I had the idea to repurpose an old white Ikea Stråla Christmas light that I had in the attic. It had turned yellow and didn’t look so pretty anymore.

Ikea Stråla white forest light
Ikea Stråla white forest light

So I came up with the idea to turn it into haunted woods. I first wanted to cut a ton of eyes into the trees and back them with yellow transparent paper to make the eyes glow but it was so hard to cut out tiny eyes in this really thick paper that I quickly realized ghosts would be a much better option.

Ikea Stråla Haunted Woods Hack by cuckoo4design

I drew the shapes of the ghosts on the pine trees and cut them out with scissors and an X-ACTO knife. I also have a house peeking from behind a pine tree. Then I taped the ghosts and anything else that I wanted to keep white and spray painted it black.

Ikea Stråla with ghost
Ikea Stråla spray painted black

Voila… now we have a black haunted pine tree forrest.

Ikea Stråla Black Haunted Forest

I will keep it on top of my fridge during Halloween season because it stands out against my white cabinets.

Ikea Strala Halloween haunted woods light hack
Ikea Strala Halloween light hack

The kids thought it was the BEST. That’s all that matters.

Talk to you soon fellow webbers und guten Tag.

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  1. Wendy says

    September 18, 2012 at 10:08 pm

    What a great idea! That is absolutely adorable. Thank you so much for sharing your creativity.

    • Julia Konya says

      September 18, 2012 at 10:57 pm

      Thank you!

  2. Anonymous says

    September 24, 2012 at 1:07 pm

    Love this! Can you make me one 2? 😉

  3. Julia Konya says

    September 24, 2012 at 1:08 pm

    Haha thanks!

  4. iva yaneva says

    November 9, 2012 at 3:54 pm

    This is simply brilliant!!

    • Julia Konya says

      February 17, 2013 at 11:30 am

      Thanks Iva

  5. Tamham says

    February 16, 2013 at 8:35 am

    That looks really good! That should be on one of those Ikea Hack sites!

    • Julia Konya says

      February 17, 2013 at 11:30 am

      It is 😉

  6. Anonymous says

    November 4, 2013 at 1:12 am

    Brilliant!!!! Love it!

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