How to Embrace Hygge in Your Home This Fall
Fall is for all things cozy and comforting, which is essentially what “hygge” means. Hygge envelops your mind and body and brings you feelings of contentment and wellness. It takes a minimalistic approach while creating a warm and cozy vibe for your space. Let’s explore ways you can embrace hygge in your home this fall.
Throw Blankets and Pillows
Throw blankets and pillows are a warm and inviting way to decorate any space. Throw pillows can be as minimal or excessive as you want them to be, but hygge would encourage you to have only ones you would use. What’s great about this approach is you can make your pillows and blankets count.
While being torn between multiple options of fluffy, cozy blankets with cute fall prints, you can splurge on the one you will use and love rather than fill a basket full of cheap blankets that won’t last but look cute thrown over your couch or recliner. You don’t need ten pillows on your couch, but a few will look darling and give you the hygge effect.
Incorporate Natural Elements
Natural elements are an excellent way to embrace hygge in your home this fall. Swap out your blinds for some sheer curtains to let that gorgeous ambient light inside your home. Use natural elements to create texture on your walls rather than splurge on wall art that lasts only through a season.
Opt for neutral tones and natural wood that go with everything so you’ll never have to upgrade your color scheme to match your art or furniture. Crystals like quartz are beautiful and add a natural element to your home that can provide health benefits as well. You can also add some greenery to your home with house plants that have health benefits and create a stunning natural aesthetic in your home. When you can’t enjoy nature outside, bring it into your home.
Decorate with Candles
Candles are a fall necessity in every home. A lit candle creates the warmest, most comforting vibe you can get. Fall scents like pumpkin, vanilla or apple pie can make the aroma of your house a haven for everyone in your space.
Candles are excellent for when the weather is bad and for when the power goes out, a likely event in the early fall months when the weather changes. Candles add a touch of warmth to your aesthetic and can reduce your energy bill if you use them instead of electricity.
Display Your Favorite Books
Displaying your favorite books can evoke feelings of wellness and contentment. Surrounding yourself with your favorite things makes you happy and more relaxed. Books on your end tables or shelves can encourage quiet time to read and reflect and inspire nostalgia and good memories.
Fall weather can be chilly, making you want to stay indoors. Curling up in a cozy blanket, a good book and a cup of coffee or cocoa is the ideal way to embrace hygge. Books add a comfortable element and create an inspiring and welcoming vibe to your home.
Embracing Hygge in Your Home
Ensure you remove clutter from your space, as that doesn’t bring contentment or joy. Take pleasure in your living space by surrounding yourself with all of your favorite things. Fall is the perfect time to embrace hygge and create the space you deserve–one you are sure to love.
Cora Gold is the Editor-in-Chief of women’s lifestyle magazine, Revivalist. She has a passion for writing about ways to live a happy, healthy, and fulfilling life, especially for new moms.
