{"id":385,"date":"2015-06-30T12:30:10","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T12:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/?p=385"},"modified":"2015-07-15T12:41:55","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T12:41:55","slug":"cabaret-de-lenfer-halloween-party-the-walls-of-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/manningkrull.com\/manningmakesstuff\/cabaret-de-lenfer-halloween-party-the-walls-of-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Cabaret de L\u2019Enfer Halloween party — cave walls in Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For my Cabaret de L’Enfer<\/a>-themed Halloween party in 2012, I wanted to totally transform my apartment; a goal I have with the decor of each of my Halloween parties is to make it feel like you’re not in a modern apartment in Brooklyn, but somewhere else entirely; somewhere scary! This was the first time I completely<\/i> covered all the walls of my living room and dining room; I wanted to turn them into the cave-like walls of the real Cabaret de L’Enfer.
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\nMy first step was to cover the walls in brown wrapping paper, aka craft paper. I bought a dozen or so rolls at the dollar store and hung them with thumbtacks. An unexpected challenge was that the paper really doesn’t want to lay flat after it’s unrolled; it wants to roll itself back up! So I had to also attach the paper at the bottom, and I taped the pieces together down the sides. It never laid completely flat, but the look I was going for was sort of warped and irregular anyway, so this worked out fine. <\/p>\n

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(As usual, the day time pics are nice and clear, but lack atmosphere, and the night time pics are terrible ’cause it’s so dark! You really have to see this stuff for yourself.)<\/p>\n

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