Now before we call it quits or say "that's good enough," we of course need to add more detail. These are 50+ year old spirit infested holiday decorations after all, and they need to be portrayed as such. Simple fake greenery will not cut it, or push the story along.
So we made some changes.
First off, we took the white Christmas lights off the garland that hangs on the border of the garage door. Those lights simply wouldn't go with the time period - and end up polluting the organic nature of the haunt.
After that was completed, we started to "age" the garland. Instead of applying rust or mold to the prop (like we would a man-made object) we applied two different brown paints to make the garland look like it had partially died due to lack of water. It was essential that the greenery looked as if it was between life and death as it was literally traveling between planes of existence by reappearing from the great ethereal realm every Halloween night.
Starting with a dark, chocolate brown spray paint...
And ending with a lighter brown, almost beige that has a red hue to it.
That second color was chosen based on a real dead pine branch I picked at a tree in my yard.
In the end, I think we were able to successfully bring these holiday relics back from the dead.
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