The best indoor Halloween lights – I've scoured your favorite stores for the best buys for spooky season

These Halloween lights – from traditional Jack-o-Lanterns to string lights and pumpkins – will elevate your scheme

Halloween lights, tablescape and houses
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Don't keep these indoor Halloween lights back for All Hallows' Eve – they're stylish enough to go up right now and stay up through fall, making your interior space feel cozier, warmer and in sync with the spooky season.

I've spent hours and hours researching the best indoor Halloween decorations, and these are, without doubt, the most elegant of all the lighting finds from H&G's favorite brands.

The right mix of Halloween lights can not only bring beautiful seasonal decorations into your home, but they can also work to create a wonderfully inviting and cozy atmosphere – and they're an easy way to make your home feel more unique and special for Halloween.

Style your space with plenty of pumpkin lights

Frosted pumpkin

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Looking Halloween decorating ideas that can double up as outdoor Halloween decorations), too? Decorating with pumpkins will always prove timeless for Halloween, so why not unite tradition with modern illumination and style your space with some of our favorite pumpkin lights?

Create a cozy appeal with lanterns

Lantern, pumpkin

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Similar to pumpkins, lanterns are often used for Halloween door decor, and they can also create a wonderful, homey glow when placed inside. Ideal for a window sill, or to decorate a mantel for Halloween, lanterns can be left out right through to the new year.

Adorn windows, walls and more with string lights

light-up pumpkin garland

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Pretty string lights are perfect for more subtle Halloween decor ideas and can bring twinkling light and elegant decoration to your home for the season. Ideal for enhancing an empty wall, hanging in a window, or even as part of your Halloween table decor, they are a highly versatile addition to your Halloween light collection.

Embrace more unique lights and decorations

Terrain halloween house decorations

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Halloween is all about embracing fun and creative decor that you would never normally use at any other time of year – skeletons in spring anyone?

There are so many creative lighting designs that double up as fun ornaments that you can use to decorate the inside of your home. From modern neon signs to lights that can be used for your fall decor ideas, explore some of our favorites below.

Create a special, seasonal ambience with unique light bulbs

Halloween tablescape

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And finally, if you're looking for a super easy way to transform the look, feel (and color) of your home for Halloween, then swapping out regular light bulbs for bulbs that can create colorful and unique lighting effects can establish a wonderful atmosphere.


One other way you can light the inside of your home for Halloween is with candles. Whether you explore the best candles, perfect for using all year round, or shop for new, seasonal scents, candles can create a warming glow as well as an inviting scent and can be placed all over the home to create a more cozy, inviting and relaxing ambiance.

Zara Stacey
Managing Editor

Zara is the Managing Editor at Homes & Gardens. She joined the brand in February 2022 as an Interiors Content Editor, specializing in writing content on interior color trends, decorating ideas and design inspiration. After studying English Literature at University, she worked as an Ecommerce Website Editor, Content Writer and Buying Intern at multiple independent businesses within the luxury retail and lifestyle sectors. She enjoys nothing more than discovering new trends, brands and products, whether that be in fashion, interior design or lifestyle.

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