🕯️ Goth Glam: How to Haunt Your Home in Style

This October, don’t decorate—bewitch.

At Maison Vogue, we believe Halloween can (and should) be fabulous. Forget the cliché plastic skulls and dollar-store cobwebs. Goth Glam is all about high style meets haunted mystique—a little darkness, a lot of decadence, and just enough edge to keep it thrilling.

Imagine this: candlelight flickers off a smoky-glass chandelier, velvet drapes rustle in the evening breeze, and a sculptural bust stares knowingly from across the room. It's not a haunted house—it's a haunted fashion editorial.

Let’s design a space that whispers ghost stories in silk.

🖤 1. Build Your Shadowy Foundation

Your color palette is your spell book—and black isn’t the only magic here.

Paint, paper, and palette suggestions:

• Charcoal, oxblood, deep plum, and midnight navy are the new chic neutrals.

• Go matte for brooding elegance, or high gloss for a lacquered, almost liquid effect.

• For walls, consider textured wallpaper in black-on-black damask or moody florals with metallic detail.

• Ground the space with smoked oak flooring, or layer on an oversized Persian rug in wine or onyx.

🖤 Maison Mood: Think 18th-century Paris salon meets modern New York loft—with a touch of moonlight and mischief.

✨ 2. Layer Textures Like a Dark Aristocrat

Goth glam is indulgent. We want rich, sensual textures—if it doesn’t make you want to touch it, it’s not enough.

Texture guide for a haunted-luxe look:

• Velvet upholstery in deep hues: merlot, emerald, raven

• Sheer black lace or tulle layered under heavy drapery

• Brushed metals like antique brass and blackened gold

• Glossy ceramics, aged mirrors, raw stone, and marble for moody surface contrast

• Don’t forget fur or shearling throws for tactile drama on accent chairs

🪞 Maison Tip: Place an aged gold mirror behind a table lamp with a pleated black shade—the way it throws light will feel straight out of a gothic novel.

🕸️ 3. Curate a Cabinet of Curiosities (With Style)

Forget the Halloween aisle—this is about strangeness, beautifully styled.

Curation ideas:

• A glass cloche covering a dried rose or mossy orb

• A bookshelf styled with antique books, stone busts, and shadowy florals

• Taper candles in sculptural holders clustered on trays or consoles

• Black crystal spheres, tarot decks, and obsidian trinket bowls

🕯️ Maison Drama Moment: Drape a console in sheer black fabric and top it with a tray of vintage perfume bottles, a stack of dusty novels, and a brass raven sculpture. Elegant. Eerie. Everything.

🌒 4. Create Cinematic Lighting (and Let the Shadows Dance)

Lighting is your co-star in this haunted production. Skip overhead brightness and build from the ground up.

Layer lighting like this:

• Wall sconces in matte brass or black iron—think ornate, with gothic undertones

• Table lamps with pleated or smoked glass shades in charcoal, bone, or ink

• Candlelight everywhere—tapers, pillars, even candelabras if you dare

• Add a Maison Vogue sculptural lamp to a bookshelf or bar cart for unexpected glow

🔥 Pro Tip: Try backlighting a sheer curtain or placing a lantern behind a mirror—the play of shadow adds irresistible mystery.

🦇 5. Set the Mood with Finishing Touches

Goth glam is in the details. It’s the whisper of silk, the scent of oud, the glint of antique gold in a candlelit room.

Styling suggestions:

• Art: Oversized oil portraits, abstract moody canvases, or gothic line art in gilded frames

• Floral moments: Black callas, blood-red roses, dark eucalyptus, dried hydrangeas

• Scent styling: Burn incense, amber candles, or use diffusers with smoky vetiver, leather, or clove notes

• Glassware: Smoke-hued tumblers or jet-black stemware for your absinthe or blood-orange spritz

💄 Maison Touch: Add one surrealist piece that feels out of place—a face-shaped vase, a marble hand tray, or a disjointed statue head. Design is always better with a little tension.

Final Séance Thought:

True Goth Glam isn’t about fake blood or gags—it’s about atmosphere. It’s design that flirts with danger, seduces with texture, and lights itself from the inside out.
It’s theatrical, textural, hypnotic—and unapologetically you.

So summon your inner dark muse. Pour the wine. Light the candle. Pull the velvet curtain.
And haunt your home in a way no one will ever forget.