A letter from home
Do you sometimes feel a little bereft when you’ve taken down the Christmas decorations and packed them away for another year? For me, it’s the starkness that comes with dismantling that extra layer of decoration at a time when we most crave home comforts and visual interest. This issue is therefore dedicated to providing inspiring ways to hone your home for midwinter.
Our feature on cosy decorating is a masterclass in layering warm textures and cocooning colours to create interiors you’ll want to hunker down in (p72). Not least if taken alongside the advice in Set the Scene for Winter Suppers, which shows how to create a relaxed mood for enjoying winter entertaining (p108).
With the decorations down, this is also the perfect time to reassess how to display the pieces you love in your home. Fine Pairings (p80) reveals how to combine antiques from different periods as well as with contemporary pieces, view treasured items with fresh eyes, and judge if a new backdrop or an unexpected juxtaposition might bring a different energy to a room.
If dreaming of a more substantial transformation, our guide to designing a bathroom provides considered solutions for the way we live now, to make the most of existing as well as new spaces (p94). And turn to our shopping pages for zingy spring colour to lift the spirits (p30).
Whatever you are seeking, we hope you enjoy the issue, wherever you are curling up this month to read it.
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