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Home / Make Your Spaces Extra Cozy For the Cold

posted on October 24, 2015

How do I say this without making an overused Game of Thrones reference — it’s getting cold outside. Dammit, that’s a Christmas song. Fuck it. It’s fall, and with fall comes a drop in temperatures and a rise in layers you must wear to not freeze to death. The breezy whites of summer no longer draw you in as much, it gets dark much earlier, and windows are closed more often than they’re open.

If you are a normal human being who is affected by their surroundings when working, this is a time of adaptation. Blankets come out. Coats, sweaters, gloves. Thicker curtains, possibly. Warmer, darker colors to create an illusion of snuggliness.

For this week’s edition of Lix Wishes She Could Redecorate, I’m bringing you a little bit of inspiration to make your office, or the space where you work, actually appealing to be in in these colder months. A place that makes you want to pull up your feet on an armchair, keep a warm coffee cup nearby and actually work with your laptop on your knees, if you’re not feeling the desk thing. I hope you find a little bit of coziness you can incorporate into your workspace — or bedroom, or home — here to make the most of these colder months in the most pleasant way possible.

Home / Make Your Spaces Extra Cozy For the Cold

armchair nook (Morgan Trinker via A Beautiful Mess) · studio (INT2architecture via Homify) · mudroom · children’s room

Get the look with: Halston armchair · basket weave cushion · herringbone cushion · winter leaves & berries · knit throw · slippers

I realize there’s a children’s room and a mudroom in there, but they’re the perfect freaking nooks. No windows to freeze against, and still the vibe of a windowseat. Also, let’s be real, I want that slide.

And that armchair.

And I destroyed a pair of slippers like that a while back and have found nothing like them since.

I do have a Minted voucher, and I’ve been eying that pillow they have — it’s seasonal without being weird, and I like it a lot. I was going to use the voucher on planners, but I’m designing my own now (take the survey! Yeah, big news. Or it could be small news. I don’t know yet!). I’m so tempted to look for an armchair, but I can’t afford it and I’m not sure I even have room for it. I just love working like that. Like at Starbucks. For now, I’m getting myself a coffee machine. That’s plenty.

Disclosure: Post written in collaboration with Homify. Contains affiliate links.

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  • Holly Hollyson

    Ha ha!! That made me laugh – winter is coming, baby it’s cold outside, the weather outside is frightful.. clichéd but 100% true!

    • Lix Hewett

      Ha, I didn’t even think of the third! I thought of Let It Snow but forgot about that line.

  • Lisa

    Cozy blankets are the best. It’s just cooling off here but I know it will be cold before we know it.

    • Lix Hewett

      I had to pull out the space heater the day! Sad but true. Today was so cold and raining all day. I love rain, but not when having clean clothes to wear relies on dry weather! Boo. It’s always nice to curl up in bed with the cat, though.

  • Sara Strauss

    That armchair is like my dream chair! I would sit in it and never leave!! Maybe just to get more books and snacks!
    ~Sara

    • Lix Hewett

      That’s pretty much what I do with armchairs at Starbucks. I basically just get up to get napkins to blow my nose or to wash my hands because I’m a neat freak. /tmi, maybe?

  • Jen Hsieh

    It’s all about cozy armchairs, throws, and pillows. That’s really all you need because WINTER IS COMING. I keep making that reference like a butthole and I’ve STILL never seen Game of Thrones. It’s on my list but I’m just putting it off until I can truly dedicate a good solid couple of months to it, haha.

    JennifHsieh

    • Lix Hewett

      I approve of people making references to things they’ve never seen! I’ve only seen the first season of the show — I wasn’t going to because it is SO NOT MY BAG (historical fantasy? meh. People dying all the time? no! Everyone is an asshole? But why?!) but then I was sick with the flu one week and I mainlined it. I enjoyed it despite all the slashing (with swords, I mean. There was a horse decapitation too, I am scarred) and read all the wikipedia entries to traumatize myself further, and then never watched it again. Great choices.

  • Jessica

    That mustard chair! *drools*. I also wish I could redecorate EVERYTHING, but unfortunately have room-mates and its pointless since they just mess everything up and ruin shit. Sigh.

    • Lix Hewett

      ESSENTIALLY. Like, I have parents instead of roommates but it feels silly because the only room they don’t smoke in is mine, and the kitchen has issues and is greasy, and anyway I want to move out (to another country probably) not too far down the line (though it seems like a longer-term goal now than it did last year) and I can’t fit any more shit in my room. So whatever I bought would be temporary. I COULD use some new blankets and linens though. And I did just get that coffee machine. That’s staying in my room. The other thing I got from Amazon, an oven, I consider a gift to my mom. /ramble

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