WORK & MONEY

Flipover your planters and voilà: They’re pedestals for your pumpkins. Natural white pumpkins (or spray-painted ones) give off a ghostlike aura.

CABINET OF CURIOSITIES

This graphic gallery is especially dramatic on a dark door; if you have a light-colored one, cover it with matte black tinfoil first (Rosco matte black cinefoil, $33, amazon.com). Use painter’s tape to adhere mismatched (and lightweight) black, white, and metallic frames in a haphazard array.Then fill them in with party-store oddities: masks, antlers, frog skeletons—the weirder, the better.