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Spiders, Spiders, Spiders · Wide Shallow, No Porch

Spiders, Spiders, Spiders layout for a Wide Shallow, No Porch

One enormous spider and then a great many smaller ones, with webbing strung between everything that will hold it. The cheapest Halloween theme to scale up, because webbing costs almost nothing and covers an entire yard.

your wide shallow, no porch, 75′ × 28′ 6 of 9 spots filled
To-scale site plan for a Wide Shallow, No PorchA to-scale overhead site plan of a wide shallow, no porch, 75 feet of street frontage by 48 feet deep, with the house set back 18 feet from the front sidewalk. The street runs along the top of the drawing. 6 of 9 marked positions are filled. Filled: the star; sidekick, left; sidekick, right; walk and bed edge lights; roofline; past the driveway. Left empty: deeper, off to one side; along the eaves; the front door. STREETDRIVEHOUSE75'Amax 10'Bmax 7'Cmax 7'DEFHmax 7'TWmax 6.7'

Drawn to scale. Everything is measured in feet from the front sidewalk, and your front door is 80″ tall if you need something to check against.

this theme on this shape

Spiders, Spiders, Spiders fills 6 of this shape's 9 marked spots for free, and all of them once every budget is unlocked.

This shape has nowhere under a roof, so anything the maker rates for covered use only is left out rather than placed somewhere it would not survive the season.

The one nice thing version comes in at $197.94 against a $500 ceiling on this shape, which leaves real room for a second run of lights or a better centrepiece.

first, the deal with your yard

Read this before you buy anything

A wide flat facade is a billboard, and a bare one looks very bare. You have plenty of frontage but almost no depth, which means layering front to back is off the table and you build side to side instead. Without a porch there is no natural frame around the door, so the entry disappears unless you build one. The other quiet problem is the driveway. It usually takes up a third of your frontage and it is the first thing headlights hit.

Who's looking, and from where

  • Straight on from the street, the whole facade at once
  • From the driveway, walking toward the door
  • The long oblique down the block, where the roofline is all you see

The classic mistake

Lining everything up in one flat row parallel to the house. It turns your yard into a store display. Stagger the depths even a few feet.

Check this one thing

If your walk comes off the driveway, keep the flanking pieces out of the backing path. Every year somebody reverses over a light-up reindeer.

same yard, four budgets

Pick your number

Every version below was worked out against the map up there, and nothing gets a spot unless it physically fits. Footprint and height both. The Do it yourself version is free and complete, so you can go do that today. The other three are the paid guide.

Every price below was checked on or after 27 September 2026, and each item carries its own date. Holiday pricing moves weekly.

Do it yourself Free

stays under $250
$190.95 $59.05 to spare

One weekend, a sheet of plywood and some string lights. Costs almost nothing and still stops traffic.

The Do it yourself plan: every piece, its spot on the drawing, how big it is, how many and what it costs.
Spot What to get How big How many Cost
A Giant PVC Spider Build it
The star. Centered on the front door, 8 ft out. Without a porch to anchor to, this piece is the only thing telling people where the entrance is.
3' 6" H 1 $34
B 50 in. Lighted Spiders, pair (opens in a new tab) Amazon 2 pieces
Sidekick, left. Left of the door, 10 to 12 ft out from the centerpiece. Push these further apart than feels right. A wide facade eats the gap.
1' 3" H 1 $25.99
C Hairy Spiders, 6 pack, 30 in. to 12 in. (opens in a new tab) Amazon 6 pieces
Sidekick, right. Do not put these on the lawn. The legs bend, so they belong on things people pass within a foot of: the rail, the step edge, the mailbox, the door frame, the underside of the porch light. Three sizes in the box, so graduate them, biggest nearest the door and smallest furthest out, as though they came from somewhere. Never space them evenly and never in a line. Two together and one apart reads as infestation; six at equal intervals reads as bunting. They are flocked fabric on wire, so they will take a shower and will not take six weeks of rain. Bring them in after Halloween or write them off as a $16 annual.
n/a H 1 $19.99
D Purple Solar Path Stakes, 10 pack (opens in a new tab) Amazon 10 pieces
Walk and bed edge lights. Along the short connector from the driveway to the door, then following the front bed. The walk is stubby here, so borrow the bed line to make the run long enough to matter.
1' 3" H 1 $27.99
E Orange Incandescent Mini Lights, 300 count (opens in a new tab) Amazon 300 pieces
Roofline. The full run, gutter line and both gable rakes. This is the single biggest thing you can do to a wide flat house, and it is the one people skip because it means getting the ladder out.
2" H 2 $51.98
F Bare Arch, Dressed Build it
Past the driveway. Straddle the walk with it so people go through the web rather than look at it. Stretch the webbing thin and anchor it at a few points across the opening, pulling it out into strands rather than draping it as a sheet: a sheet of web reads as a bedsheet, and thin strands catch the light and move. Leave the middle of the opening genuinely clear at head height, because people will walk through this in the dark in costume. Buy an extra pack of web for it; one pack does the arch or the shrubs, not both. Put a spider on it, high on one shoulder rather than centered.
7' 4" H 1 $31
the plug situation

2 things need an outlet, about 2.2 amps all together. That all fits on one 15 amp circuit, you are fine. Outdoor GFCI outlets only, and leave a drip loop in the cord at every plug so rain runs off instead of in.

You will also need

The cord is the part everybody forgets, and stores run out of them at the peak of every season. Outdoor rated only, and plugged into a GFCI outlet.

About $40.95 of hardware, on top of the $190.95 of decorations. Buy it once and it comes back out every year.

Image prompt for this exact list
Photorealistic evening photograph of a single-story brick ranch house on a wide shallow, no porch, 75 ft of street frontage with a 18 ft front setback, photographed from the street directly in front of the house, far enough back that the entire wide facade and the driveway are both in frame, camera height 5.5 ft. The yard is decorated in a spiders, spiders, spiders theme. One enormous spider and then a great many smaller ones, with webbing strung between everything that will hold it. The cheapest Halloween theme to scale up, because webbing costs almost nothing and covers an entire yard. Decorations, in position: 1. The star: a huge black spider crouched on the lawn with eight bent legs spanning six feet, a fat glossy body and two red glowing eyes, 3.5 ft tall. Centered on the front door, 8 ft out. Without a porch to anchor to, this piece is the only thing telling people where the entrance is. 2. Sidekick, left: two big hairy spiders, one green and one purple, legs lit along their length and red eyes, posed mid stride across the grass, 1.3 ft tall. Left of the door, 10 to 12 ft out from the centerpiece. Push these further apart than feels right. A wide facade eats the gap. 3. Sidekick, right: six black hairy spiders at three sizes with red eyes, legs bent to grip a rail and a step, the biggest as wide as a dinner plate. Do not put these on the lawn. The legs bend, so they belong on things people pass within a foot of: the rail, the step edge, the mailbox, the door frame, the underside of the porch light. Three sizes in the box, so graduate them, biggest nearest the door and smallest furthest out, as though they came from somewhere. Never space them evenly and never in a line. Two together and one apart reads as infestation; six at equal intervals reads as bunting. They are flocked fabric on wire, so they will take a shower and will not take six weeks of rain. Bring them in after Halloween or write them off as a $16 annual. 4. Walk and bed edge lights: a line of short stakes throwing cold purple light up the edges of a walkway, no cords between them, 1.3 ft tall. Along the short connector from the driveway to the door, then following the front bed. The walk is stubby here, so borrow the bed line to make the run long enough to matter. 5. Roofline: 2 of them, a dense run of small orange bulbs following a roofline, warm and slightly sickly rather than festive, 0.2 ft tall. The full run, gutter line and both gable rakes. This is the single biggest thing you can do to a wide flat house, and it is the one people skip because it means getting the ladder out. 6. Past the driveway: a metal garden arch over a front path at night, dressed down both sides so it reads as a gap in something rather than as a frame, people walking through it, 7.3 ft tall. Straddle the walk with it so people go through the web rather than look at it. Stretch the webbing thin and anchor it at a few points across the opening, pulling it out into strands rather than draping it as a sheet: a sheet of web reads as a bedsheet, and thin strands catch the light and move. Leave the middle of the opening genuinely clear at head height, because people will walk through this in the dark in costume. Buy an extra pack of web for it; one pack does the arch or the shrubs, not both. Put a spider on it, high on one shoulder rather than centered. Shot at dusk with the sky still faintly blue, every lit decoration switched on and brighter than anything else in the frame, warm light spilling onto the lawn. Palette: #1C1A22, #6B2D5B, #E8E4DC, #B03030. Nothing floats; every piece sits on the ground at the stated distance. Scale reference: the front door is 80 inches tall.

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The other two prompts

Each budget above has its own prompt for the finished yard, because each one is a different list of things. These two do not change between budgets: one for the empty yard so you have a before picture, and the negative prompt that stops every image model on earth from burying your lawn in snow you did not ask for.

the free ones keep coming

New plans go up through the season

The Do it yourself version above is free and complete, and every theme that goes up gets one, drawn for all ten yard shapes. That is 10 free plans per theme, and the list grows through the season.

One email when there is something new. Nothing else, ever.