Cemetery Preparations Are Underway

2026 Aedicula Headstone Prop Completed

2026 Aedicula Headstone Prop Progress

Got the new aedicula painted yesterday and installed the permanent decorative corbels and appliques on it today. Just needs its final antiquing coat. We combined what was left of our Cape Cod Gray Behr Textured DeckOver paint with what was left over of our Quartz Stone Behr Exterior flat paint for the base color on this aedicula. It's currently a very light gray, but once the watered down exterior flat black paint is applied for the antiquing coat, it will be a darker gray and will look more like granite/marble in appearance.

2026 Prop Builds & New Additions

Our new 2026 aedicula style headstone prop built and ready to be painted. This one is going in the front yard cemetery space on Halloween. After it's painted and antiqued, the copper patina finished corbels for the side columns and the Victorian style appliques for the base's front and sides will be added permanently. We have a wide array of copper patina plaques for the top pediment and main body for this Halloween and future ones to choose from. Also to go with our 2026 "Frankenstein's Bride" theme we purchased some warm amber Edison LED bulbs to go in our garage carriage lights and found similar (although unfortunately not as warm looking in hue) rechargeable outdoor rated Edison LED bulb lanterns that have removable hanging arms. A pair will hang from the front porch and a pair will sit on our column props flanking each side of our front door. Because we did a laboratory themed vignette with Frankenstein's monster on our front porch for our 2022 Classic Horror Movie Monsters theme we are going for a different look this year.

2026 Aedicula Headstone Prop Build

Going to be adding a new aedicula style headstone prop to our haunt this year. Once again the aedicula will have various different main body center plaques that can be swapped out for various haunt themes. We like the copper patina paintjob on a faux Jacob Marley plaque we got from an Etsy shop and the goal is going to be to try to match that finish on all the other plaques and adornments that will be used on the new aedicula headstone.