Like any other home, Tracy and Jessica Bieber’s home in New Rochelle is filled with bookshelves, suncatchers, coffee pod holders, and more…but there’s one thing that sets it apart from what you’ll find in other homes. There is one. It’s that they all have shapes. Something like a coffin.
“Decorating our home is not just for Halloween,” said Tracy, co-owner of JBT Coffins to Die For. “This is all year round. We just love the spooky and horror (and) fall season.”
For couples, Halloween is such a part of their lives that their wedding anniversary has become a holiday in itself. As for their spooky small business, its journey all started when Jessica was looking for a new jewelry box to match her gothic aesthetic.
“I was like, ‘Can you make this for me?'” she said. “I knew how handy he was with wood and tools.”
Thus, the couple’s experiment, JBT Coffins to Die For, was born. A couple who love the horror and Halloween seasons use their store to share their passion year-round, but in a practical way.
“We continued with the idea of finding other interior items that would actually be suitable for the kitchen, home, and living room,” Jessica said. “It just kind of branched out there.”
Although they specialize in coffins, Tracy can work her magic in her improvised workshop in the basement while attempting to make almost any of your horrifying fantasies a reality.
“If someone asks me, ‘Can you make this into a pumpkin shape? Or can you make that one in the shape of a ghost?’ I say, ‘I’ll see what I can do,'” he said. Ta.
The couple also creates a variety of products with custom colors for different holidays. In doing so, the customer can again use the product all year round. For example, a product could be painted red for Valentine’s Day or black and white as an homage to Jack Skellington from Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Whether it’s coffins, ghosts, pumpkins or other Halloween-themed items, the couple say their customers from Westchester all the way to England really die for their spooky creations.
“They see our stuff and they’re like, ‘Oh, I’m going to tell my friends about this,'” Tracy said. “So we’ve come a long way.”
