My top tip to create a welcoming, warm & cosy home…

May 7th, 2015

The cold weather has well & truly set in, the slow cooker has an almost permanent place out on the kitchen bench & I have sudden random urges to bake fruit crumble. At this time of year many of us spend more time indoors - entertaining at home, spending rainy Sundays indoors… board games, baking, reading, movies or Game of Thrones marathons ; )

There is something quite lovely about hunkering down on these days to enjoy simple pleasures. For me, it is a time when home becomes a cosy, welcoming shelter from the outside world, extra layers are added to beds & sofas, colours & textures are swapped in and out to create a feeling of warmth.

If I could offer 1 tip for adding cosy warmth to your home it would be texture, texture, texture!

The number one way to make a space feel cosy is to layer & mix different textures & materials - this is especially important in an all white, or neutral scheme that doesn’t rely on colour to bring in warmth.

Use materials like leather, wood, fur, linen, velvet, embroidered/hand stitched textiles & metallics, choose a few different types to layer for each space. You can do this over time, sometimes just 1 piece can make all the difference to a space - a plush rug, fur throw, velvet cushion, a hand stitched or crochet blanket. A raid of your linen cupboard could be fruitful, or you might want to add a few new special pieces to your home over time to build that luxe, layered, cosy texture.

Below some spaces that use texture in different ways to create a cosy warm vibe…