16. The Creepy Portrait Gallery
Turn your covered porch or entryway wall into an outdoor gallery of the paranormal. Hang an array of ornate, baroque-style plastic frames painted in distressed gold and black. Inside the frames, place lenticular “changing” portraits that shift from elegant Victorian gentlemen and ladies into decaying ghouls and monsters as viewers walk past. Illuminate the gallery with small, battery-operated picture lights mounted above each frame. Wrap the entire wall in dense, dusty cobwebs, and place a velvet armchair nearby covered in a layer of faux dust, suggesting a parlor room that has been abandoned to the spirits for over a century.