How I made the columns

First I made a "box" out of 1"x 3" wood and doorskin (thin plywood) materials. Then I glued 2" think styrofoam on to the box.



Then I shaped it using a grated wood-shaving tool that I got fom the hardware store. the handle was made of plastic with a metal grate-costing about a couple of bucks.



Then I took a hot knife to it to make the cracks. I then took some black paint and painted teh cracks first then I painted the the face of the columns with a base coat of solid color. I then used a spray "stone" texture (that yu can get at the hardware store nowadays) over he base coat.

So, here is my house at Halloween. The columns I had made from plywood and styrofoam. Originally I had panied them gray qith stone texture but when we moved to the new house, the color didn't match. So, I found some leftover paint in the garage and painted it. (There are also 5 "mini-pillars" connected by styrofoam chains that aren't in the picture-I post more/better pictures later.)

I like the turret on the house-it gives a "castle-like" quality. The pumkins are the cheap hollow styrofoam ones that you get from the craft stores and if you notice, those are the bat stanchions from the 'Haunted Mansion'. I sculpted and made them myslef (with the help of a frind who made the mold and castings-Thanks, Chad!)

Just wait until you see my home office....

Welcome, foolish mortals...

...to the Haunted Mansion-Northside!

(perhaps I should explain)

In the mid 90's, Walt Disney Feature Animation had an annex building located by the Burbank airport to house the artists that they didn't have room for in "the Hat building" (just of the 134 freeway in Burbank). The hat building was called "Southside and the other one by the airport was called "Northside". If you've seen my house at Halloween and my home office, I think you'd say that my home qualifies as a "northside" annex to the Haunted Mansion at Disneyland. With that said, please scroll to the next post and no flash photography, pleeeease.