Welcome friends to a new year! Does your home seem a bit bare when the holiday decor comes down? Once the fairy lights and twinkle lights are packed away with the Christmas decorations, it’s easy to notice the darker, shorter days of the cold months without natural light. As we enter a new year and the cold winter months are here, it’s the perfect time to bring in touches that add a cozy room feel. The cold months are the perfect time to snuggle under a soft blanket with a warm cup of hot chocolate or tea and enjoy magazines, a good book, or a movie. So, let’s look at my favorite ways to make your home cozy this winter now!
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Make Your Home Cozy This Winter Now!
If you follow Cloches & Lavender, you know I love using natural elements in my decor. They add warmth and different textures from fall through the winter season. This is one of my favorite ways to create a cozy winter home. It’s a good time to add faux greenery, birch logs, pheasant feathers, and evergreen branches to centerpieces on your dining table or family room buffet. It’s also such an easy way to decorate for cold weather! Simple things make it easier to style your home after the holiday decorations come down. I’ll show you how I incorporate this in our home and why decorating with nature is my go-to. Natural decorations go a long way, with little to no additional cost, and they add charm to any home style!
Create Cozy Corners for Cold Weather Comfort
Cold weather is hands down my favorite time of year. Creating a cozy space is one of my favorite things. In our home, you’ll find different textures, candles, comfy pillows, and a warm blanket in just about every corner. I keep throws on the family room couches, draped over the arms of French chairs, and even a throw blanket-draped look on a dining chair. One of the easiest ways to create a cozy room feel and a soft glow is with battery-operated candles, a must for an inviting and warm home during cold winter months.
Easiest Ways to Add Cozy Vibes to Your Winter Home
The first thing I’m sharing is my favorite ways to make a cozy space for the colder months. This is the perfect time to incorporate these elements into your winter decor to create cozy vibes. Natural decor and candles are among my favorite things to add throughout our home during the cold months. Battery-operated candles are an easy way to add soft lighting to create a warm home.
The easiest ways to create a cozy feel:
- Flat-weave rug
- Table lamps and lamp shades
- Fairy lights
- Twinkle lights
- Candles – Here are my favorite
- Throw blankets
- Comfy pillows in different textures – Here
- Sweater knit – Here
- Faux fur pillow
- White decor – Here is a best seller
- Use baskets to display birch logs and pinecones – Here
- Crates or dough bowl filled with pinecones, cinnamon sticks, pomegranate, and nuts
- Cinnamon sticks
- Pheasant feathers
- Star anise
These simple things are a great way to add texture and soft lighting during the colder months. Add these to a tray, and light candles on the coffee table in the family or living room. This is an easy way to add warmth to the cold winter months.
Cozy Winter Entryway Decor Ideas
Winter is the perfect time for small evergreen trees in baskets. The pictures show bottle brush trees with holiday decor for Christmas in an olive bucket. The first thing I did was remove the olive bucket with bottle brush trees and nutcrackers. Faux evergreens in a basket stayed. The birch battery-operated candle adds extra light to our entryway with a walnut candle ring and large wood slices. Simple things make a home cozy for winter now, right?
Budget-Friendly Natural Entryway Decor
A crate on the entryway table is filled with pine cones. These were displayed with gold bells, rusty jingle bells, pomegranates, and orange slices. I removed the bells and oranges. This is a great place to add more cinnamon sticks. This is why I enjoy decorating with natural decorations. There is little to no additional cost and they work a long time for easy decorating.
Favorite Things That Add Light to Our Cozy Space
In our family room, we are fortunate to have tons of natural light from large windows on our back wall. Having a semi-open floor plan and large windows to let in natural light. The natural light filters extra light into our dining room. The other area of our home that adds tons of natural light is our foyer with a large palladium window above our front door. So, we are fortunate during colder months.
Cindy’s Note: Add fairy lights to create soft lighting to a crate filled with evergreen branches, lamb ears, frosted eucalyptus garland, or birch logs.
Ways to Transition Your Dining Room to a Cozy Retreat
The dining room table is the same as it was for the holiday season. This is why adding natural decorations is an easy way to transition to a cozy winter home. In my Christmas home tour, you can see bottle brush trees in the basket. For Christmas decorations, I had rusty bells with a female bust. This is a great place to add natural Christmas decorations with pinecones from our tree. Star anise is a simple way to add winter touches to this garland.
Cozy Accents with Throw Blankets and Baskets
A throw blanket-draped look on a chair with a market basket and boxwood wreath adds texture. Reeses is in his favorite spot! This is the best way to add instant cozy vibes to any spot in your home. So use baskets. When you use baskets, fill them with pinecones, books, dried lavender, fabric with winter floral patterns, or a vase of fresh flowers. You can never have too many cozy throw blankets, right?
Cindy’s Note: This star anise garland takes minutes to make so be sure to Pin this for next year! It is one of my largest Pins and blog posts!
Natural Decor Touches for a Cozy Living Area
Pine cones and nuts in their shells are one of my favorite ways to add natural decor to the bookshelf in our living room. A white pitcher had a bottle brush tree for Christmas. I removed it and added pheasant feathers. This is a great place for another ornament from the tree. A thrift store sugar bowl has another ornament from our tree. The battery-operated candles with twine and star anise add soft lighting. The candles worked for the holiday season and are perfect through the colder months. Candles create a warm vibe.
Elegant Decor Ideas for a Cozy Seasonal Home
A compote filled with pinecones, pomegranate, nuts, and a crown will be a great way to have a pop of color for Valentine’s Day. It’s a good time to add pink accents for Valentine’s Day. Adding books is my favorite thing for home decor. They add different textures and can be found in rich colors. Find books at the thrift store, garage sales, and Etsy. Pink books wrapped with ivory satin ribbon and pomegranate add a pop of color to white decor accent pieces.
Seasonal Charm with a Rustic Coffee Table Centerpiece
On our coffee table, a thrift store find creates a focal point. A large wooden wine barrel has a chestnut wreath. I got good use out of this wreath I made. It’s easy and works for fall, Christmas, and winter decor. The wooden barrel with the rich colors of green moss and chestnuts is a great focal point. Small pine cones and grapevine wreaths add texture and are a great combination. A battery-operated candle adds a soft glow and cozy vibes to the center of our coffee table.
Cindy’s Note: The walnuts in their shell have been used in fall, Christmas, and winter and go a long way when decorating. So, I make good use of pinecones and walnuts when decorating. Here they are for our fall home tour.
Easiest Ways a Natural Room Feel to Your Home
Added bonus: Sharing this post on cleaning and preserving pinecones from the yard which adds no additional cost. This is a great time to Pin this for next year when the winter season is around the corner. In this blog post, you will find another of my favorite things, acorns! You will find a simple way to preserve acorns. So it’s a good time to Pin this for next year to add cozy vibes for fall. Add these natural elements to your home decor. And there’s another added bonus to adding natural elements to our homes, they are FREE! Now who doesn’t enjoy adding extra warmth to our home decor with free pieces?
Cozy Blankets: The Perfect Way for a Cozy Space in Cold Months
A great way to add a cozy home feel is to add throw blankets in different patterns and textures. It is the best way to stay extra cozy with a cup of hot chocolate and a favorite book next to a roaring fire during the cold winter season. Our home has soft neutrals of dark and light gray and mixes seamlessly with the rest of our white decor.
Warm Up Your Space with Deep Tones and Cozy Layer
If you are craving color during the cold weather, the best way to keep the warm vibes for a cozy winter home is to add a soft blanket in rich colors to the white decor. Use baskets to hold bulky sweater knit blankets. Add a warm blanket to chairs, the couch, or the foot of the bed to add extra warmth. This is a simple way to make any room feel extra cozy after the holiday decorations are put away.
Winter Comfort: Add Throw Pillows and Cozy Blankets for a Warm Home
Winter is a great time to add throw pillows in a heavier fabric or a new area rug in rich colors. These can a warm cozy home feel. Sweater knit and faux fur to your living room sofas and chairs in heavier fabrics such as sweater knit pillow covers, floral patterns, or faux fur lumbar pillows. Make sure these extra comfy pillows make your home extra cozy to relax and enjoy your favorite book or movie while snuggling under cozy blankets. The faux fur pillow I purchased years ago. I enjoy adding a faux fur pillow to our home for a cozy look for winter to our living room French chairs. These pillows are similar and are an easy way to add a pop of color for extra warmth during the colder months. This gives our home an instant cozy home feel.
Added Bonus: The throw pillows with the winter graphic image with muted rich colors. These throw pillows are an easy project and I share the best way to tea stain fabric. I use these for Christmas.
Winter Refresh: Fresh Flowers in a White Pitcher for a Cozy Winter Home
During the winter season add fresh flowers from the grocery store to a white pitcher. These will add a pop of color and freshness. Add these to a coffee table, or dining table. Light candles or use battery-operated flameless candles. These are my favorites! These add extra warmth and a soft glow to make any spot in your home feel extra cozy.
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Extra Light Good Light Goes A Long Way
Good light goes a long way when creating a warm home Think about adding layers of light to your home decor such as:
- Floor Lamps: This may be a great time to add floor lamps to your home. These are a perfect way to add a soft glow to a room that needs a little warming up and extra flair. They can add good light to dark corners and put task lighting exactly where needed. This may be the time to add floor lamps especially if there are no overhead lights. The easiest ways to add extra light to a comfy chair are floor lamps. Read magazines and a favorite book with extra cozy throw blankets. Even with overhead lights, I light a table lamp every night for an extra soft glow.
- Table Lamps: Generally for table lamps, in a living room or family room, the bottom of lamp shades should be at eye level when you are seated. This is the best way to ensure when sitting in the chair the lamp is the correct height for reading a favorite book with hot chocolate under a soft blanket.
Winter Wreaths For A Cozy Home
Cold weather is a great time to add wreaths and create a cozy space. Why? Wreaths will add warmth to winter decor. These are mostly made from natural elements that add texture and warmth to the home for a cozy feel. After the new year, I made this winter wreath. White chunky yarn is a perfect way to add warmth to a cozy winter home and works for any home style or front door!
Timeless Wreaths for a Warm Winter Home
Here are a few examples. This easy pinecone wreath is a great way to add natural elements to your home decor. This hangs in our home from fall through the cold weather. Meanwhile, I found a pretty pinecone wreath HERE at Wayfair. If you enjoy easy projects here’s an added bonus. Check my DIYs and Crafts section where you will find easy wreaths and DIYs
This Hazelnut wreath I made is an example of why I make simple neutral wreaths that can hang from fall through the winter season. These work to add a warm cozy home feel to our home’s winter decor.
Cindy’s Wreath Tip: Wreaths are a great way to create a centerpiece for a dining room table or coffee table. Add my favorite flickering battery-operated candle to the center and enjoy the warm glow.
Creating a Cozy Winter Retreat: Simple Ways to Add Extra Warmth and Style to Your Home
As we welcome the new year and embrace the cold winter months, it’s the perfect time to transform your home into a warm retreat. With a warm blanket, hot chocolate, or tea in hand, and layers of light from candles casting a warm glow, you’ll create a space that is comforting and stylish. Make good use of comfy pillows in different patterns and textures like floral patterns or cozy blankets on a chair or foot of the bed for a pop of color. It’s the simple things that bring warmth and charm. These are easy ways to make your home cozy this winter now, and it is a good time to surround yourself with comfort and style!
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