Cozy Winter Decor in Shafferland

 

            I’m always sad to take down the Christmas decorations, because you know how much I love them. I would live in perpetual Christmas décor if I could! The last few years, we’ve left up some smaller flocked trees with lights on (but without ornaments) just to help with the gray of January, but this year we decided to put all the trees away when we took down the Christmas decorations at the end of December. I questioned it for about a day because it was just so dark!

            But I have come to love the winter décor we have, and today I thought I would give you a peek into what we did! I didn’t buy anything new this year. I just used what we had and found that it filled out our little home pretty nicely! (I might keep an eye out for winter clearance sales, but if I don’t find anything I love, that’s okay too!)

            These little snowflake ornaments were just such a winter clearance sale find back in our Kokomo days, and I still love them. I put them on our coat hooks and love the little touch of winter in the foyer corner.

            I filled the tray on the dining room table with some indoor snowballs, and yes, Ryan and Lexi did have a snowball fight the other night while I baked some zucchini bread.

            You might remember that a few weeks ago on the Saturday Suggestions, I shared alink to some winter prints that were free to download. Here is how I used one of them in our house! I stuck it inside a frame we already had and ended up with brand new art…for free!

            And next to that, I put some flowers and sprigs. Just some white and sparkly silver touches to brighten up this corner!

            The only thing I put in our kitchen this year was this little piece Ryan’s mom gave me years ago. Her style was much more primitive than ours, but I love little nods to her in our house, and this is one of those nods!

            In our office/Lexi’s room, I redid a little corner to include this oil lamp that had been Allen and Nita’s, and a few more winterish flowers in a pitcher.

            In our bedroom, I added this vase with some festive gold and silver sparkly sprigs. This might be more about New Year’s than winter, but I like it. (It may also someday need more than what is there now, but this works for now.)

            I also put some green and white sprigs in the vase on my bedside table and updated our family picture to one from this past fall.

            I put a few snowballs in a bowl on the dresser and some winterish cotton and evergreen sprigs on Ryan’s side of the bed. (Tried to keep his more masculine feeling.)

            In the stairwell, I filled the cloche jar with more indoor snowballs and made this little sign on Canva. (Already had the frame.) The snowman was another of Nita’s gifts to me, I think.

            Though not particularly over-the-top in winter feel, I did redo this little vignette on our coffee table. A lantern with a candle, some green and white sprigs, and the Chronicles of Narnia series, which I intend to read this winter but confess I have not started.

            I loved how this corner by the fireplace turned out. I need to get a candle for the lantern, but everything here was something we already owned…it just never lived together in a collection before now! We had this basket and I filled it with birch branches (which I cut in half and now they feel usable…five years after buying them) and some pinecones I have had forever.

            Up on the fireplace, I kept the snowflake I bought this Christmas, added some sprigs, and this little frame (which I owned) now holds a song lyric print. My sister bought a set of 12 lyric prints at a garage sale when Ryan worked at Love INC, and we used them to decorate the office. Now I plan to switch them out monthly in our house. This felt like a good choice for January.

            I have another little snowman down here by the fireplace, and then I have a couple more corners to show you.

            One is this table, where we store all our hats, gloves, and scarves. This is another of those free prints, a thrifted vase with some sprigs, and a snowman I got years ago. I was still single when I purchased that one, I think!

            I did add a little vase to my bathroom to brighten it up, but that’s as far as I took the decorating in there.

            I love how all of it feels small and subtle – not intruding in our space, but certainly adding some winter joy to it. I’ve relied on scents (oils and baking) and our live plants to add some extra warmth and coziness to the house, and I’m sure the longer we live here, the more I’ll find ways to bring in bits of subtle cozy to carry us through the winter months!

            Do you decorate for winter? Any particular favorites at your house?