Spooky Portrait Gallery
Give your home the feel of a haunted Victorian manor by transforming your family photo gallery into a collection of eerie, ancestral portraits. This project relies on thrifted frames, free vintage printables, and a few clever weathering techniques to create a sophisticated yet deeply unsettling wall display.
Search online for copyright-free vintage portraits from the 1800s. Print them in black and white or sepia tones. To make them spooky, you can use a red marker to give them glowing eyes, draw subtle skeletal features over their faces with a pencil, or use photo editing software to blend them with ghoulish figures. Place the prints inside thrifted, mismatched black or gold frames. Hang them in a tight cluster on your wall, and drape faux spiderwebs and plastic spiders over the frames to complete the long-abandoned, haunted house aesthetic.