My husband Steve has been working hard on bringing up the scary factor in our front yard – this year we are going with an Insane Asylum theme, so he created a Tim Burton-esque fence. Would you believe an integral part of this fence was oatmeal?
It turns out my youngest’s favorite food makes for the perfect, rusted out texture on the pipes.
Here are two of our tall and spindly friends, Rusty and Crusty 😀
The PVC pipes were bent with the help of a heat gun, thinner pipe will, obviously, be easier to bend. The fleur de lis tops are made out of workout mat foam and then attached to the pipes. Once the pipes have been primed a mixture of sand and oatmeal go on for texture.
Once dry, Steve dappled orange craft paint on with a sea sponge. While the orange is still wet, he sprayed it with watered down brown paint to give it some dimension. The final layer was red mahogany wood stain, dripped over everything.
A few days ago I posted some details on the Insane Asylum sign on the column Steve built, it’s pretty awesome ;D BTW, 2003 is the year we got married. That’s right, we’re coming up on ten years next June!
Fake Ivy and Spanish moss were added to complete the creepy atmosphere, and some wood planks were added to our house windows. I guess we knew we had done that right when a sweet girl who lives down the block said “it looks like your house is mad at me!” .
That’s our very scary front yard ready for trick-or-treaters, or anyone who wants to know what kind of stuff we do on our spare time. This has been all Steve, though, I take no credit for any of it other than keeping him company at times and keeping him fed and hydrated while he builds it 😀
Casa de Berry 
So much work went into this – but it looks fantastic. My only question would be, I hope the oatmeal won’t disappear if it rains? 😦
LOL, we can have breakfast AND be scared at the same time 😀 The oatmeal is covered by several layers of paint so it should hold up well? I might ask Steve to give it a sealer coat, though 😀 thanks for the question, Pauline!
checked with Steve, it is sealed ;D
I simply love, love, love – did I say LOVE your decorations! Number 1 who doesn’t love a good insane asylum on Halloween (or anytime for that matter) but the detail of the fence is incredible. This is one of the best front yards yet!!
thank you so much for your kind words, I think the way our house is, we’ll keep the sign long after Halloween ;D
wow! it looks fantastic! and scary! and spooky!
happy halloween.
visiting via katherine’s corner.
thanks, and it’s not complete yet!
That is totally awesome!
thank you!!!
Love it! Just in time for Halloween. Would love if if you linked up on my blog hop http://www.w-t-fab.com/search/label/bloghop. Also let me know if you’d like to follow each other!
Thanks for the invite, I linked up and would love to follow, have a great weekend!
Wow! Big spooky thumbs up. Thank you for sharing at the Thursday Favorite Things hop xo P.S. did you enter my latest giveaway?
Thanks for hosting! Hmmm, I’ll go check out the giveaway 😀
Steve is very talented, great job! Have a wonderful Halloween! Hugs, Penny
He really is, thank you!!! Have a great Halloween, Penny 😀
So awesome! I would love this on my lawn but don’t want to put the effort in 😉 Great job!
I know what you mean, I would probably throw a few pumpkins out and maybe spray paint them, but my husband likes to go all out 😀
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