Halloween 2026 · The séance table
The House Has Company
Olive velvet, candlelight, palmistry, old books, curious specimens, and one blue-lit apparition at the center of the table.
Inside the room
We wanted haunted. We did not want haunted-house aisle.
The room begins with olive velvet and warm wood, then gets stranger by degrees: palmistry plates, silver filigree, amber glass, old books, specimen blocks, black apothecary bottles, moss, candlelight, and small objects that look as though they arrived with histories of their own.
At the center, Madame Leota materializes in electric blue. The globe was built from three surprisingly ordinary components, but once the lights go low she becomes the room's entire point of gravity. The rest of the table is arranged to reward a second look rather than explain itself all at once.
The centerpiece is less an arrangement than an apparition.
Candlelight turns the collected details into something considerably stranger.
And then she appears.
The design language
Moody, not muddy.
Olive, tobacco brown, black, silver, bone, and one impossible blue keep the room dark without flattening it. Candlelight provides the warmth; Leota supplies the interruption.
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The pieces
behind the room.
The full Halloween source list is live now, including close alternatives where the original piece could not be sourced. Madame Leota has her own three-piece DIY list.
The table
Petal-edge chargers, layered plates, olive velvet, glassware, lighting, and sourceable details from the finished room.
Madame Leota
The three core components used to build the glowing centerpiece.
The atmosphere
Candlelight, moss, books, curiosities, and small objects that make the room feel collected instead of themed.
Close alternatives
When an exact vintage or one-off object is unavailable, the list points to the closest usable substitute.
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