The Top 5 Ingredients for a Cosy Hygge Home

When it comes to achieving a cosy, or ‘hygge’, home, it can be hard to know where to start. Or, if you don’t have the cash to redecorate, it might not seem worth trying. But a home doesn’t need to have flawless décor to be hygge! A homely, cosy ambience can be created with just a few simple touches, that are often cheap (or, better, free) or already to hand. Here are our top five ingredients for creating the hygge home of your dreams.

1. Fireplace

Now, we don’t all have a fireplace, but if you do, make the most of it. Stack it with logs, make the surround as homely and comforting as you can, and, most importantly, light it. No fireplace? Make up for it with plenty of mood lighting. Which brings us to…

2. Lighting

Hygge is rarely achieved with stark overhead lighting. What a hygge home needs is mood lighting, and plenty of it. Think warm yellow bulbs in simple table lamps and thick pillar candles. 

3. Texture

Hygge homes tend to have plenty of different textures on offer. Ideal textures might be a wooden floor and woollen blankets, but as long as the mix is touchable and warm, many combinations will do. Have them contrast and complement each other throughout. 

4. Wood

Hygge favours nature, and what’s more natural than wood? Wooden floors, wooden furniture, wooden ornaments – they’ll all add to the feeling of hygge in your new, cosy home.

5. Warmth

We don’t mean set your thermostat to a certain temperature. Instead, provide the feeling of warmth, as well as the opportunity to stay warm, with plenty of cushions and blankets. A sofa without blankets is a naked sofa.