Classing up the place

Our laundry room is super tiny, with two giant washing machines (thanks Craigslist!), and the only way we could get them to fit was to rip the ugly brown-olive cabinetry out of the wall.  Turns out that the cabinet was built in before the house was ever painted (and honestly the paint job in the rest of the room is bad so it goes well together), so now there's a big unpainted section on the wall.  It... it looks like a dungeon.

We decided to just go with it.  I hung a little red lamp that has cage-like black bars, and a few of my grandpa's old rusted bear traps.  Various torture devices, candles, scientific glassware (gifted to me, not stolen from lab!), and laundry items line the shelves.  A giant 2-person saw leans against the wall.  Velvet curtains hang at the back, the color of drying blood.  A long horizontal mirror placed at head-height reflects the horror and futile desperation in your own eyes back at you as you begin the arduous task of folding laundry.

So then I whipped out the Halloween decorations to see what might fit.

True Blood and a fuse box... sure, it could work.

Someone gave me this magazine, and I broke a picture frame around the same time, so as a joke I put them together to accent the "bloody horror" bathroom decor at the old house for Halloween.

I dunno, maybe it would actually work if I put matting around the magazine. 
What do you think... a muted gold to subtly contrast with the blood?  Or a dark maroon matching the curtains, to highlight the blood and really make the pale skin pop?

... Yeah, someday I'll actually paint the room.  But it's more fun to have a torture chamber.  Obviously, this is not the blog to come to for fashion or decor advice.