20 Cozy Winter Decorating Ideas
How do we decorate after Christmas? Discover 20 enchanting ideas for winter decorating! From cozy blankets to festive wreaths, create a warm, cozy, and inviting atmosphere with these simple yet stylish seasonal touches.
Let’s talk winter decorating ideas! The winter season is a great time to sweep away all our Christmas decor and strip down our homes, adding soft, cozy, and warm embellishments. Here are 20 easy ideas to create coziness in your home this winter!
I’m one of those rare people who love winter. I love snow! And almost everything that goes along with cold weather. Winter is a time to make our homes cozy, warm, stripped-down, and welcoming. Here are a few things I do to make my home a sanctuary from the cold while adding lots of decor beauty to Tanglewood!
Create A Winter Vignette
The first thing I usually do when I change my seasonal decor is to create a vignette. For winter, I like to use whites with warm neutrals. I love to use Mercury glass or burnished bronze because these metals are so reflective and add a bit of sparkle to even the darkest winter day!
Bleached wood or blond-toned items look beautiful in the winter.
Add A Cozy Throw
Every sofa in my house and a few chairs are accompanied by a throw in the winter. Soft, textural, and cozy. I think adding a throw to a sofa or favorite chair is one of the best ways to decorate for winter because a throw invites you to snuggle in!
The throw in the image below was my latest project. I knit it with large needles. So easy and a great way to keep my hands busy while watching tv.
Make sure to see 6 Ways To Style Decorative Throws.
Strip Down Your Decor
For me, winter is a time to strip down my decor and keep it simple. Spring, summer, and fall, as well as Christmas, are times for embellishing. But in the winter, my house takes a breather from all the extra decorations! This is one of my favorite winter decorating ideas!
I think this type of winter decorating is good for our homes and good for our souls!
Easy Winter Ideas For Styling A Coffee Table will help you create simple winter decor vignettes.
Harness The Beauty And Ambiance Of Candles
Don’t forget to use candles this winter. And lanterns too.
Candlelight has such a pretty glow and will make any room extra cozy and romantic. The lantern below creates such beautiful patterns on the wall!
I’ve been using battery-operated candles for years. In the past, I’ve been notorious for forgetting to blow out candles! When we were out, we often had to turn back home to see if I had blown out a candle! Not anymore!
Most of my candles have timers, so I don’t have to switch them off and on every time I want to use them. They are a bit more expensive, but this is a look that is worth the investment! And they last for years!
Light up your winter nights with candles!
Add Cozy Pillows
One exception to all minimal embellishments in the winter is pillows! I can’t get enough of them. This year I kept my pillows primarily white with lots of texture!
I mixed old favorites with new ones. My pom pom pillow reminds me of snow. I’m seeing lots and lots of pom poms used in pillows this winter, as well as texture and faux fur!
If you use pillows that are close in color, texture will help them stand out from one another. Texture works to keep our decor interesting, especially if it is neutral.
Be Pro Pinecone
One decor element that I use from fall until spring is pinecones. They are perfect for decorating in the winter. I especially like pinecones with a little faux snow! So don’t put them away with the rest of your Christmas decorations! Use them liberally.
I like to put small pinecones in bowls and tuck them in vignettes or other arrangements. Pinecones are a signature StoneGable look in the winter.
Add Something Green To Your Winter Home
Don’t forget to add green plants or other organics in the winter to give life to your home!
I added a little faux fern in a white pot in the vignette below. It’s amazing what a bit of green can do for a vignette and a room!
Every January, I also plant herbs in little pots and keep them on my kitchen counter across from the windows. They thrive there and give me lots of cuttings for recipes as well as a touchstone of something growing and alive until the early spring flowers begin to bloom in our garden!
Make sure you check out The Ultimate Guide To Grow Herbs Indoors. Adding little pots of herbs to a windowsill or a kitchen counter will make you smile every time you see them.
More Winter Decorating Ideas
Here are some other tips for decorating in the winter months…
- add plants to your bedroom
- use white flowers around your home
- fill a bowl with pomegranates for your table
- use several stoneware crocks to decorate a shelf
- prop birch logs in a corner
- add a mirror to a room to reflect light
- layer white or neutral bedding
- add a sheepskin as a throw to a chair or sofa
- add a furry pillow as an accent
- put down a big throw rug on hardwood floors or layer rugs
- put a lantern by your front door
- hang white drapes on your windows
- diffuse wonderful aromas that evoke warmth and winter coziness
Winter is the perfect time to let the simple style and beauty of the rooms in your home shine. Adding just the right touch of winter decor and lots of white!
Pick a few decor elements and get busy creating a beautiful winter home!
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Happy winter decorating!
Hello Yvonne,
I love all of these winter ideas! I will be moving into a new home in the spring, and I really love the sofa that has your white pom pom pillow on it. The upholstery material is just what i want. Do you know the name of the material, and where you purchased the sofa?
Thank you, Happy New Year!
Hi Gayla, the sofa is from Pottery Barn. MAKE SURE if you buy the comfort sofa like mine you get it with the down! I got a sofa with only the fill and it did not hold up. However, the foam with the down is perfect. I got a performance fabric in ivory. Hope this helps.
May I ask where you got the white woven look bowl that the pine cones are in?
Hi Darlene, this is such a versatile bowl! It’s really a bread bowl but it is great to decorate with too! Here it is:https://rstyle.me/+75-5MvaDl08Tcrf6599Ecw
Love your winter ideas. I’ve taken down the Christmas wreath from my front door. Looking for a replacement suggestion. My front door is bare. Thanks.
Oh yes! See this post for 3 pretty winter wreaths that are easy to make:https://www.stonegableblog.com/three-easy-winter-wreaths-front-door/
I’m in love with your white pom pom pillow. Do you mind telling me where you got it?
Hi Teresa, I found them years ago at HomeGoods.
Hi Yvonne, I would love to know where the lantern by your fire place is from.
Thank you
Hi Nancy, I found it locally. Sorry, I have no source.
Have a goofy question: I love my lighted birch trees in the sunroom for Christmas. Love them so much and the fund light they provide, I don’t want to take them down. Any suggestions
Why not keep them up through the winter if you love them.
I always enjoy your blog. Your ideas are always beautiful and classy! Could you possibly share the pattern for the knitted throw you made? It is lovely and I need to keep my hands busy ( with something besides munching ?)
Thank you!
So cozy! Can you share the pattern for the throw you knitted?
No pattern Maureen. Just knitted it.
I love the beautiful throw you knitted! Thank you for the wonderful winter suggestions.
You are so welcome, Christine.
Love your throw! Can you tell me what yarn you used and what size needles you used? I’d like to try this.
Hi Nancy, I used circular needles. I don’t knit much anymore, so I just kept knitting doubling the chunky yarn and voila! I no longer have the needles.
Yvonne, I loved reading your cozy winter decor ideas! Thanks for always sharing with us! I especially love throws, cushions and flameless candles this time of year! Oh! Yes! And I love pinecones, too. I am going to use your recipe to make a few more bleached pinecones as they are so pretty! Everyone who sees them comments on how pretty they are.
I love those bleached pinecones too! For anyone reading the comments see how to bleach pinecones here:https://www.stonegableblog.com/bleached-pinecones/
I’ve been following you for so many years and always love pretty much all!
Can you share any details of knitted blanket? Needle size, yarn, how many stitches casted on? It’s elegant and simple all at the same time!
Have a great day!
Hi Chris, I wish I would have paid more attention to the details. I made them with thick circular needles and chunky yarn that I doubled. I just knitted. Sorry, I don’t have any more detail.