How To Decorate Your Home For Winter

But if you’re looking for ideas that are less onerous, consider smaller touches such as bringing in more lamps to rooms without light and even passing places. Soft glows are even more appealing at this time of year and encourage a mellower light—if the light outside is grey and dim, you don’t want to come inside to see dazzling lights. Choose something that’s not dissimilar in intensity to outside, just several degrees warmer.

Or, simpler still, introducing a few decorative items with winter-themed motifs and colours on them is a subtle nod to the seasonal mood. Nothing too cliché of course, but shades with a warm base like creams, taupe or peat and cable-knit weaves. Cushions are an almost effortless way to achieve this.

Cushions will also help you to swiftly build comforting layers in your sitting room, snug and bedrooms. Mix and match different styles to create a plump, cosy display. Champion the softest materials—they’ll make your space even more welcoming and enjoyable to lean back into. Velvet and silken designs look inviting and feel incredible, while hints of pattern will brighten up your interior on even the darkest of evenings in winter.

Snuggle up with a good book or film under the comfort of mohair, cashmere and alpaca designs, reclining into plump, velvety cushions, and with a deep-pile rug underfoot to set the perfect conditions for a wintry evening in the comfort of your own home.

This is the time of year that there is no such thing as too many candles, after all. Try having some on candlesticks, some scented varieties in coloured vessels and a hurricane lantern or two with a pillar candle inside. The occasional decorative ornament that has a metallic glint, be it gold or bronze, will pick up on the flickering flames and radiate them around your room.

Make napkins part of everyday meals to bring textiles into as many activities as possible. Just the addition of a smooth linen napkin makes a difference. Adding a napkin ring is one more step, but such an easy one to take. Choose one in a gleaming metallic that feels well-suited to winter and then pick up that same tone and material in other winter table decorations, like gold-hued coasters or placemats with a shimmery thread running through.

At any other time of the year it might appear too much. Fill it with a white floral in a large bouquet to pare things down and to suggest snowfall. Or a bunch of pussywillow twigs whose height make them instantly centrepiece-worthy and whose fuzzy catkins are an unusual way to bring in another soft texture.

Florals aren’t the only option here. A majestic sculpture that will mesmerise and command attention, or a statuesque candelabra in the same gleaming tones, such as this gold duo by L’Objet or blend of snowy white and antiqued gold in Arteriors' candle holder are ideal. The idea is to add height and a variation in scale to draw the eye.

This is where faux flowers really come into their own, because they don’t ask for any attention or struggle with the reduced light levels and effect of central heating. If you can, try to choose varieties that would be naturally flowering outdoors so that your scheme is as true to nature as possible. Hellebores in deep burgundy and delicate snowdrops are ideal. Otherwise, faux colours of crimson and white feel particularly wintery.