{"id":1745,"date":"2008-11-15T07:28:31","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T11:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2008-11-13T10:18:45","modified_gmt":"2008-11-13T14:18:45","slug":"victorian-gothic-decorating-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=1745","title":{"rendered":"Victorian Gothic Decorating Ideas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/mantel-142x150.jpg\" alt=\"Mantel\" title=\"Mantel\" width=\"142\" height=\"150\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>The MyHomeIdeas site has a nice little <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myhomeideas.com\/myhome\/photos\/0,30587,1847855_1841874,00.html\">feature<\/a> on &#8220;Halloween&#8221; decorating ideas featuring a refined Victorian-ish theme.  They provide information on retail sources for most of the items used in the decor, plus instructions for making some yourself.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m particularly taken with the dried-flower wreath hanging above the mantel.  (Using apothecary jars to hold big hairy spiders and rubber snakes is an inspired touch, too.)  Most of the display items aren&#8217;t perishable, so you could keep this look year-round.<\/p>\n<p>Also check out their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myhomeideas.com\/myhome\/package\/0,31218,1847856,00.html\">Thanksgiving<\/a> section for a few suggestions on &#8220;harvest&#8221;-themed decorating.  In my experience, pumpkins are a little less threatening than vultures if you&#8217;ve got relatives coming for the holidays.<\/p>\n<p><I>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/thesteampunkhome.blogspot.com\/\">The Steampunk Home<\/a>)<\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The MyHomeIdeas site has a nice little feature on &#8220;Halloween&#8221; decorating ideas featuring a refined Victorian-ish theme. They provide information on retail sources for most of the items used in the decor, plus instructions for making some yourself. I&#8217;m particularly taken with the dried-flower wreath hanging above the mantel. (Using apothecary jars to hold big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-things"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1773,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}