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Have you ever had visions of living like The Addams Family? Or maybe you just want to make your family and friends wonder about you. No matter how normal your home decor is, it’s fun to have something around to make people gasp, and then (maybe) laugh. But if you put all the products I found together, you’d have a truly scary home.
Let’s start with the front door. The Los Angeles Coroner’s Office sells welcome mats with their body outline logo through the Skeletons in the Closet gift shop. You can also find this design on office supplies and clothing.
No reason to have an ordinary pull on your lights or ceiling fan, when you could reach for the Hanging Harry light pull.
More household horrors, after the jump.
Heading upstairs, the adventure continues when you see the Body Fluid Stairway Carpet. Too bad this isn’t yet available to the public.
Artist Keetra Dean Dixon designed the Blood Puddle Pillow, handy when you want to take a catnap on the floor, or your desk. Just hope that Mom doesn’t walk in and see you!
For the bed, the perfect accessory for a certain kind of movie buff would be this Godfather Horsehead Pillow. Not the kind of fan who likes National Velvet or Seabiscuit.
In the bathroom, imagine stepping into the shower and pulling the curtain closed… to reveal the knife-weilding shadow from Psycho!
The kitchen is a wonderful place to keep your weapons, um, I mean surprise your guests. The Voodoo Knife Block not only stores your knives in an easy-to-reach manner, but putting them away helps you vent your frustrations, too!
I had almost forgotten that my own kitchen has a surprise, too! I made myself some custom canisters to match the kitchen color many years ago, and put an extra label on the back of the sugar can. If anyone wants sugar in their tea, I’m glad to oblige.
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Sorta makes me wish I had a bigger house in which I could incorporate these decorator items… but I’ve a hunch the old lady wouldn’t approve.
posted by Doc on 6-19-2007 at 8:57 am
I have that knife set, cuts like a champ (and makes a great conversation piece!)
posted by SuperEmi on 6-19-2007 at 10:07 am
Don’t forget ‘Dead Fred’ (in the website link above) the pen holder. :)
posted by Tru on 6-19-2007 at 2:47 pm
imangine using the knife holder and thrusting the knifes in the guy with a twisted look on your face. that would be classic
posted by trouble on 6-19-2007 at 5:49 pm
awesome stuff…..is there more??
posted by brandee on 6-20-2007 at 10:55 pm
Waoh….gnarly! heheh.
posted by oxman on 6-22-2007 at 4:16 pm
Ha! Funny! I like the carpet but the shower curtin is creepy
posted by Hannah on 6-29-2007 at 10:29 am
ok the shower curtain would scare the $hit outta me but the carpet was awesome
posted by Sammi on 6-29-2007 at 2:38 pm
Maybe I am really twisted, but I want one of each!
posted by Steph on 6-29-2007 at 4:37 pm
i L.O.V.E. the carpet the most but i want all of them, except the pillows, they’re kinda creepy
posted by Jessie on 6-29-2007 at 4:49 pm
you need to market this stuff! I love it!
XP
posted by Imp on 6-29-2007 at 7:28 pm
That was odd
posted by Brittny on 6-29-2007 at 7:33 pm
i…WANT…the blood pillow
posted by nelmen on 6-30-2007 at 9:54 am
Woa! Awesome stuff. Lol. Love the carpet and blood pillow, but the horse head would scare me to death at night. I wish I had a place to put that carpet, lolz.
posted by Angel on 6-30-2007 at 4:32 pm
you guys are insane…
posted by Tina on 7-2-2007 at 12:26 am
i think evryfink is awesome how much r dey
posted by coolasice on 7-10-2007 at 2:03 pm
My mother bought a new labelmaker, and proceeded to label all the containers in the kitchen. We don’t have salt though, we have shakers of anthrax. And she’s been known to label packages of frozen meat with former pet’s names.
posted by maggie on 10-24-2007 at 1:46 pm
X-D! Maggie, your mother sounds AWESOME!
*runs off to buy label-maker* !
posted by Rose on 10-26-2007 at 2:15 pm
that shower curtain is creepy..
posted by Laura Smith on 10-27-2007 at 11:10 pm
Maggie, I wanna be friends with your mom.
posted by Jena on 10-30-2007 at 10:44 am
Wow, I love them all! Except, i’m not so keen on the horse head, and the we don’t have showers crutains( sigh)
posted by Bethand1 on 12-8-2007 at 1:51 pm
The body fluid carpet picture looks like a PhotoShop job to me.
posted by Kerry on 12-12-2007 at 10:44 pm
I WANT THE VODOO KNIFE BLOCK! The others are kinda creepy but this one is half creepy, half designer cool.
posted by GTT on 12-14-2007 at 10:01 am
This is really fun to look at. Maybe I’m just sick and twisted, but I would love any or all of those things in my house. But not around my baby … :-(
posted by MsManda on 12-20-2007 at 10:10 am
YAY! I have a friend in Denmark now, wonder if I can get her to investigate the carpet… :-)
posted by Anon on 12-22-2007 at 6:36 pm
These are so neat! And I too want to be Maggie’s mom’s friend – there’s a lady after my heart!
posted by Christine on 1-9-2008 at 2:45 am
You can actually buy the knife holder at thinkgeek.com. It’s called “The Ex”.
posted by Erin on 1-9-2008 at 9:42 pm
LOVE the arsenic can – I laughed out loud when I saw that one. If anyone had been around, they would have thought I had lost it. Great stuff, the shower curtain is a KILLER too!
posted by Tess Tackett on 1-14-2008 at 7:02 pm
Delightfully morbid – I want one of everything too!
posted by Melodye on 1-31-2008 at 11:34 am
umm…..where can I get these things?
I want the pillow, and the shower curtin, oh and the knife holder too.
posted by zita on 2-26-2008 at 5:16 pm
zita, click on the words highlighted in yellow, and that should take you to more information on each product.
posted by Miss Cellania on 2-26-2008 at 6:17 pm
Mr Suicide, the bathrub plug. He’s great! I need to get the light pull now…
posted by mark p on 3-12-2008 at 11:47 am
I love the voodoo knife holding block, wouldn’t mind one of those for my own kitchen. awesome
posted by Home E Em on 5-8-2008 at 2:56 pm
Hey, I have that knife block…couldn’t resist getting one. Everyone who visits loves it. :-)
posted by Tina on 8-13-2008 at 4:22 pm
I like the welcome mat. Everything is so cool… They are awesome!
posted by teak furniture on 9-4-2008 at 3:49 am
Very unusual stuff, great finds!
posted by Bryan on 9-20-2008 at 11:17 pm
Hey, great stuff! Did you make those canisters with old coffee tins? I was thinking of making some with the left over cans from my daughter’s infant formula.
posted by Shannon on 9-26-2008 at 12:39 pm
Yes, Shannon! I used leftover paint after I painted my kitchen cabinets, so they matched perfectly. Not so much, now that I’ve moved to a different house…
posted by Miss Cellania on 9-26-2008 at 2:26 pm
I love the Body Fluid Stairway Carpet it was very nice that was a Ideas for home decorating it was great…!
posted by for home decorating on 10-10-2008 at 4:13 am
Very interesting.
posted by Candace on 10-10-2008 at 6:00 pm
first off…Maggie will your mother adopt me? she sounds like a blast to live with.
i would love the welcome mat, and the shower curtain in the guest bathroom would litterally be a scream. i can’t imagine very many longtime unwanted guests. the knife set is a MUST HAVE, and the horse head pillow looks like it would make a great body pillow, gives new meaning to the stuffed toys we all claim to have outgrown. the hanging man off the ceiling light is just a little too creepy for my taste, and the carpet may look cool, but i just see allergens and mishaps while vaccuming. the canasters though are a great little idea, i may just have to try that, expecially for hallowe’en parties.
posted by Dana on 11-12-2008 at 11:27 am
Thank-You for your very clever post. It made me laugh!
posted by Linda Jackson on 11-14-2008 at 10:15 pm
Maggie’s mom sounds like my cup of tea… In my house I am the only vegetarian and often I make clucking sounds when cooking chicken, mooey sounds when serving beef… putting pets names on frozen meat…? Now that’s a step beyond! When asked what’s for dinner I say ‘critter’.
posted by Shelaughs on 11-17-2008 at 12:53 pm
What a cool ideas. Really all of them are original and give your home a different touch!!
posted by Motorcycle Fairings on 11-24-2008 at 9:26 am
LOVE it! I am a Forensic Science student so these items would be perfectly normal in my house right next to my Jack the Ripper stuff!
posted by Vanessa on 12-1-2008 at 2:40 pm
OK. I like the body fluid stairway carpet…Pretty snappy.
posted by John on 12-23-2008 at 3:58 pm
Ok- I really got a laugh out of the horse head in the bed. Is that guy related to Catherine the Great..? lol
posted by Pat@mybeddingblog on 1-14-2009 at 10:18 pm
Pat, it’s a reference to the the movie The Godfather.
posted by Miss Cellania on 1-14-2009 at 10:49 pm
I must say the blood stained carpet is my favorite. Took me a minute to get it but once I did I can see it as being pretty funny.
posted by JAZD Hotels on 2-12-2009 at 4:33 pm
What a scary home decor ideas and products… Amazing.
posted by shower curtains on 3-2-2009 at 9:27 am
Loved it all but the shower curtain. Flash back to the movie. Eeeeeeeek. I should get a hold of them I make skull and crossbone towels http://www.kathysteig.com
posted by kathy steig on 5-8-2009 at 11:26 am
These are hilarious! I came here while poking around for serious stuff but this is great. I may have to rethink my whole redecorating plans. Thank you.
posted by Tim on 5-15-2009 at 12:52 pm
I got the horsehead pillow from Kropserkel last month. You can buy it stuffed and pay more for shipping or buy it unstuffed, stuff it yourself and pay less for shipping.
posted by Patricia on 8-9-2009 at 3:39 pm
Great finds! Really gets you thinking about how to develop a unique living experience.
posted by Dan on 9-25-2009 at 7:36 pm