Our Top 5 tips for cosy corners

Nooks, corners, crevices. What is it about those small places that make us feel so cosy? Sure, they’re highly intimate and very personal. But they’re also places to set your imagination free or dive headfirst into a thrilling read.

What’s great about the smaller spaces of your home is that they’re very DIY-able places. And who doesn’t love a fantastic interior design project to get stuck into? Especially if there’s plenty of simple changes that go a long way.

MARRY, PATTERN AND PAINT

Pattern and paint are definitely your friends when crafting a cosy corner and reading nook.

Here, we’ve gone for our swooningly deep Wooded Dell paint with Acanthus fabric.  For a simple, modern country feel, this is a pattern and paint pairing made in heaven!

SHOP ALL PAINT

LAMPSHADES TO LIGHT UP A ROOM

Lighting really is everything when it comes to creating ambience. It’ll make your pattern sing, especially if you opt for one of these beautiful lampshades.

Avoiding main lights and illuminating your cosy corner helps to make you feel like you have the place just to yourself. Make sure to choose a lovely, warm bulb, too. Cup of tea, anyone?

SHOP POOKY LIGHTING

A FEATURE WALL

Perfect for anyone new to the beguiling world of wallpaper! Ease yourself in by creating a simple feature wall of your favourite pattern.

Feature walls are great for dividing up spaces as well as uniting them. We recommend ordering some samples and playing with pattern in your home.

Pictured: Woodland Weeds, J.H. Dearle, 1905

SHOP ALL WALLPAPER

LET A LITTLE NATURE IN

A little (and inexpensive!) trick that can make all the difference when creating cosy nooks. Try gathering and lacing together some sturdy leaves that have dropped to the forest floor. Or, gather some dried reeds to for a unique take on the hanging bouquet.

Seeing nature in our comes lifts the spirits. Make sure, as you’re roaming around in nature, you leave no trace. Where possible, always choose old growth, dead or fallen foliage.

Pictured: The Firm’s White Paint

GRAB A BOOK.. AND A TEA!

These last two may well be the most important of all. We definitely won’t try to tell you which tea to take – we’re sure you’ve got your favourite anyway. But, book-wise, we’ve got one or two we’d like to recommend…

The Salt Path, Raynor Winn

When catastrophe strikes and they’ve nowhere else to go, Ray and her husband Moth walk the Southwest Coast Path. Living wild and on a shoestring budget, this is a book about coming to terms with loss whilst realising nature’s power to heal.

Entangled, Mervin Sheldrake

Discover the fantastic world of fungi! Read up on how the latest science is revealing our forests to be interconnected, communicative and communal.

Walden Pond, Henry David Thoreau

A classic. One man’s odyssey to live outside of civilisation and in harmony with nature.

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