Comfortable room concepts: we love the concept of making a cosy off the kitchen because the house owners of this ranch home in South Carolina have achieved. Wealthy jewel shades just like the Zak+Fox purple velvet on the couch and the inexperienced of the ‘Marly’ wallcovering by Scalamandré create a heat and enveloping really feel that’s completely totally different from the sunshine ethereal kitchen. A show of classic artwork provides to the relaxed but luxurious impact.
Tim Williams
The very identify ‘cosy’ provides you a good suggestion of what this room is meant to do – present a cushty house to twist up in, ideally by a roaring hearth. In search of cosy room concepts to create your personal at residence? Do not forget that it shouldn’t be too giant (a cosy match, you would possibly say) and wall panelling and heat colors typically work finest for max cosiness and a splendidly enveloping really feel. You may also need to contemplate taking your chosen paint color on to the ceiling, too, for a very beautiful, cocooning house.
These rooms are at their finest through the autumn and winter, though we now have managed to discover a Caribbean cosy simply to show their unbelievable versatility. And should you don’t have room for a separate cosy room, why not carve out a studying nook out of your lounge, kitchen and even on a touchdown or in a big downstairs lavatory – all you want is a cushty armchair and a bookcase in any case.
A window seat inside a bay window could make the proper hidden nook. Including a curtain to tug throughout and fully enclose the house, like Rixo founder Orlagh McCloskey has achieved, makes it all of the extra inviting.
Finally, all that issues is that it’s someplace – be it a room that’s hardly ever used, the nook of an typically used one or a tiny nook – that may present a spot to sit down, breathe, and recharge.
Comfortable room concepts from the Home & Backyard archive
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Dean Hearne1/38 For those who’ve obtained a barely bigger room accessible, you would possibly like to think about a multi-functional strategy. On this Arts and Crafts home with interiors by Nicola Harding, a second staircase was eliminated to permit for a further examine that doubles as a cosy and TV room for the household. A pair of deep armchairs and an ottoman coated in ticking materials make the room really feel immediately snug, whereas partitions in ‘Submit Fashionable Mauve’ and built-in shelving in ‘Aubergine’, each by Pure & Unique, set simply the correct temper.
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Christopher Horwood2/38 This instance in an 18th-century Cotswold home by Turner Pocock is especially memorable as it’s really the nook of a (admittedly slightly sizeable) downstairs lavatory. A chair in Manuel Canovas’ ‘Frida Grenat’ from Colefax and Fowler, a classic kilim and chic built-in bookcases rework it into an enthralling library. We all know the concept of books within the downstairs lavatory is controversial, however this studying house is sort of inconceivable to withstand.
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Milo Brown3/38 Whereas this appears straight from a trendy nation home or sensible townhouse, it’s really one of many rooms created for this 12 months’s WOW!home exhibition at Design Centre. This showhouse by no means fails to offer loads of inspiration and this room was considered one of our favourites thus far. Designed by Thurstan in collaboration with Hector Finch, the cosy options partitions in a textured marble mud end, which is extremely atmospheric and evokes the great thing about the night time sky. The combination of antiques, textiles and modern items, all lit by Hector Finch, have resulted in a richly layered aesthetic.
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Christopher Horwood4/38 The reconfiguration of Tamsin Saunder’s city cottage in London supplied the chance to create a small cosy on the entrance of the home. Partitions in a chocolate brown and materials in deep shades are very efficient right here – and the hearth shall be good in winter.
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Christopher Horwood5/38 A slightly totally different strategy will be discovered within the backyard of the identical home in south west London, belonging to Dwelling & Discovered designer Tamsin Saunders. The shed has develop into a fascinating folly, with partitions painted by Tamsin’s artist daughter, Freya Marton. With a way more bohemian, eclectic really feel than the primary home, it’s adorned utilizing a number of pure supplies and earthy colors. The perforated metallic lantern above the bench seat throws intricate shadows throughout the reclaimed wooden ceiling and painted partitions.
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Jasper Fry6/38 For those who’re trying to create a extra pared-back, modern look, take inspiration from this room in a London home by Rachel Aisling Walker. It’s furnished with a bespoke couch upholstered in Claremont’s ‘Carriage Fabric’ in rust, a Sussy Cazalet rug and a spherical palmwood veneered espresso desk, sourced from Dorian Caffot Antiques. These few selection items handle to make the room really feel heat and welcoming whereas sustaining a serene and uncluttered aesthetic. An L-shaped couch like this will work very effectively in such areas.
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Davide Lovatti7/38 This cosy in Keith Johnson and Glen Senk’s Tuscan farmhouse is brilliantly daring. Nicknamed the Coronation Room, because of the truth that they purchased a TV for this house with the categorical objective of watching the King’s Coronation with visiting mates, it has partitions impressed by Palazzo Davanzati in Florence. Identical to the Thurstan cosy, it exhibits simply efficient wall finishes will be in a smaller room. They’ve additionally layered previous and new furnishings for an eclectic look: ‘Mixing in a bit of contemporary has an awesome impact,’ causes Keith. ‘It's a sharpener and makes you look twice at what's previous and twice at what's new.’
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Simon Upton8/38 This small sitting nook in a good-looking Regency Grade-II home in Norfolk is ideally composed for a small however purposeful, habitable house. The bespoke banquette in Man Goodfellow Assortment’s ‘Olive Sacking’ in cocoa is teamed with a Nineteenth-century Hoshiarpur aspect desk with bone inlay from Westenholz Antiques and a classic spoon-back chair designed by Michael Taylor for Baker Furnishings.
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Lucas Allen9/38 Behind the primary sitting space of this home designed by d’Erlanger and Sloan sits this cosy. An ottoman in Namay Samay’s ‘Marak’ sandalwood silk and cushions from Penny Worrall, Susan Deliss and Robert Kime enliven a {custom} couch, curtains and tented ceiling, all in ‘Humbug Ticking’ cotton from Howe at 36 Bourne Avenue. The bespoke woven wicker panels are by Atelier Vime.
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Chris Horwood10/38 Within the acute nook of this invisible home hidden away beneath a trendy Shoreditch road, the couch was custom-designed by Shaw and upholstered with Kvadrat cloth. The blue recycled plastic lounge chair, console desk and lamp on the desk are all additionally by Shaw.
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Mark Anthony Fox11/38 A settee mattress from The Couch & Chair Firm means a cosy on this Wimbledon flat by Emma Burns additionally serves as a visitor room. Above it hangs a framed vintage silk panel from the Sibyl Colefax & John Fowler antiques division. The partitions are painted in ‘Baked Cherry’ by Little Greene and within the bookcase are a pair of late Nineteenth-century stained glass roundels, which Emma had made into lightboxes.
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Dean Hearne12/38 In an Arts & Crafts home in Putney rejuvenated by Area Day Studio. A classic chest from VintageFrench divides the library aspect of the room from the remainder of the sitting room.
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13/38 The entrance sitting room of Charleston conservator Kathy Crisp’s Sussex home is painted in Farrow & Ball's ‘Setting Plaster’, with the Bloomsbury-esque design on the prime in ‘James White’. A sculpture by Quentin Bell stands in the course of the bookcase, purchased by Kathy from the Charleston store. It's Kathy's favorite place to retreat with a guide, and certainly the sunshine that streams in from the south-east is magical.
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Martin Morrell14/38 This house off the doorway corridor in Saffron Aldridge’s home on a distant Hebridean island is warmed by an Esse wood-fired range. Arts and Crafts leather-based chairs and a built-in three-sided bench present snug seating.
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Paul Massey15/38 A comfy armchair is the perfect place to begin for a studying nook. On this Cheshire home designed by Rita Konig, an armchair coated in Pierre Frey’s ‘Izmir’ in rouge makes for an inviting place to spend a number of hours. The brilliant color is ready off by woodwork in Paint & Paper Library’s ‘Kigali’.
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Paul Massey16/38 In Nadine Finnegan’s Cotswolds home, a chaise longue coated in Colefax and Fowler’s ‘Alicia Chintz’ in pink/inexperienced makes for a vibrant nook in opposition to the wallpaper by Polly Fern.
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Haris Kenjar17/38 The ‘listening room’ on this home in Berkeley was a brand new addition with joinery sympathetic to the remainder of the home. ‘We designed a built-in the bench that mimics the present joinery. That is the place they play information and benefit from the dappled daylight that makes this property so particular,’ says the designer Heidi Caillier.
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Mark Anthony Fox18/38 Founder of girls's style label Rixo, Orlagh McCloskey, has carved out this little nook in the primary bed room. The curtain throughout the window will be drawn for much more cosiness.
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Owen Gale19/38 In what was a toilet, Sarah Fuller has constructed a comfy studying nook in her home in Bathtub. Virtually each inch of house has been used to deal with the wrap-around couch. The wallpaper, from Colefax & Fowler, and woodwork painted in yellow, deliver daylight on even the rainiest of days.
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Paul Massey20/38 A nook will be so simple as carving out a nook of a bigger room. In her Coswolds home, Sarah Hiscox has positioned an armchair and a lamp: a easy however efficient approach of delineating the house.
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Paul Massey21/38 Nestled away between the primary residing space behind the home, and a extra formal sitting room on the entrance in Rosi de Ruig’s West London home, is that this enclosed, cosy cosy. The ceiling is painted in stripes, including a component of enjoyable.
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Paul Massey22/38 A small nook below the steps in Lonika Chande’s west London cottage supplies not only a discrete place to learn a guide, but in addition helpful storage.
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Simon Upton23/38 After restoring the Georgian particulars to this Marylebone flat, its interior-decorator proprietor, Douglas Mackie, added furnishings with a French bias and twentieth-century artwork to create a sublime, subtle ensemble. Deep cabinets encompass the door within the examine. The best ones and the topmost bookshelves are accessed by a sliding, bronze ladder. The Howard chair, with gilded legs designed by Douglas, is roofed in silk velvet by Holland & Sherry.
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Christopher Horwood24/38 Francesca Gentilli spends her working life sourcing the perfect materials and textiles from India, Turkey, Morocco, Uzbekistan and past, and her personal home is the perfect showcase of her finds. Intelligent layering of textiles is likely one of the finest methods to make a small sitting room or cosy really feel heat and welcoming. This room is painted in ‘Breakfast Room Inexperienced’ from Farrow & Ball and is Francesca’s favorite room in the home. The rug is a classic Beni Ourain sourced in Morocco by Francesca, whereas the ottoman is upholstered in Penny Morrison's ‘Tulkan’ cloth.
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Owen Gale25/38 A Howard armchair sits in entrance of the chimneypiece in George Saumarez Smith’s beautiful residence, on prime of a French rug that belonged to George's grandparents. The bookcases are perfect for a studying nook and have been designed by George.
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Ngoc Minh Mgo26/38 Uncovered beams and a beautiful log burner make this the proper cosy in Harriet Anstruther’s Sussex farmhouse. A half-height wall was put in to create a casual room across the hearth.
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Paul Massey27/38 Reflecting the mixed imaginative and prescient of Jane Ormsby Gore and novelist Andrew O’Hagan, this former artist’s studio in Primrose Hill is very like a superb piece of writing – a well-structured and punctiliously conceived house that continues to evolve because the writer makes it his personal. Unsurprisingly, Andrew is an avid reader and has a whole lot of books, so cabinets have been constructed wherever doable to accommodate them. This contains floor-to-ceiling bookshelves on both aspect of the chimneypiece, which magnificently emphasise the peak of the room. The partitions have been painted in the identical inexperienced Andrew had admired in Jane’s personal home – ‘Invisible Inexperienced’ by Edward Bulmer Pure Paint.
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Paul Massey28/38 In the lounge of Sarah Corbett-Winder’s home, partitions in Paint & Paper Library’s ‘Caddie’ tone with the hearth, clad in inexperienced tiles from London Encaustic. A set of plaster medallions by Peter Hone hangs beside it. The bespoke high-backed pink porter chair and botanical prints got here from their earlier residence and units a contemporary tackle antiques on this studying nook.
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Lucas Allen29/38 Darkish, moody colors are good for setting a cosy or studying nook other than different rooms. On this home by Rose Uniacke, the partitions, ceiling and woodwork are painted in a custom-mixed shade of blue with a textured end. The c1900 English armchair has been reupholstered in Christopher Farr Fabric’s ‘Vary’ linen in gold.
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Paul Massey30/38 The sitting room at Fiona Golfar’s Cornish cottage has all of the basic parts of a superb cosy – strong wood furnishings, books, a hearth, and really snug chairs. Fleeces by native agency Celtic & Co and a rug from The Rug Firm soften the look of salvaged shelving and a log wall.
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Michael Sinclair31/38 A mixture of tough stonework and tongue and groove panelling make the sitting room of this Pembrokeshire cottage a very cosy place to be on chilly days. The chimneypiece is comprised of stone reclaimed from a bigger model that the earlier proprietor had put in. Cottage Inside, Night by Ivon Hitchens hangs above it. The Victorian studying chairs and Edwardian couch have been purchased on the Ornamental Artwork & Antiques Truthful in Battersea.
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Paul Massey32/38 Designer Ben Pentreath has given every room on this reconfigured Arts and Crafts home its personal persona, combining color and texture with attention-grabbing items from totally different durations. Within the attic, a snug-like house if ever we noticed one, the husband’s examine has views over the red-tiled roofs of different homes of the period and displays their colouring in its darkish panelled partitions. These are joined by a claret wing chair, a inexperienced couch and an orange ottoman.
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Paul Massey33/38 A big portray by Irish artist Martin Finnin hangs in the lounge of a tiny barn on the sting of a Gloucestershire meadow, adorned by antiques supplier and designer Christopher Howe. The house is crammed with different treasures collected by the designer, offering its house owners with an idyllic and rustic nation bolt-hole.
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Lucas Allen34/38 Darkish wooden panelling provides an enveloping really feel to the household room at Edward Bulmer’s Queen Anne home in Herefordshire, solely enhanced by fluffy throws on the sofas, and cheerful artworks by household and mates.
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Michael Sinclair35/38 Partitions painted in Farrow & Ball’s ‘Black Blue’ add to the darkish, moody ambiance on this examine in a Hampshire vicarage. It simply goes to indicate how necessary color selections are and the way a lot affect they will have.
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Alexander James36/38 The house owners of this Bahamas seashore home turned to trusted inside designer John McCall to offer their home with a British sensibility, sensible furnishings and interiors that aren’t ‘too beachy’. The cypress-panelled partitions, which give this small lounge a comfy really feel, are adorned with maps of the Caribbean. The sample on the blinds matches the one on the rug, tying the scheme collectively.
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Tim Beddow37/38 After visiting her pal Kathryn Eire in France’s Tarn area, Anne Halsey purchased a French farmhouse retreat there and enlisted the assistance of the decorator to create a relaxed house good for entertaining. In the lounge dining-style chairs encompass the espresso desk, offering a extra formal seating space within the residing house. A muted pastel color scheme permits the massive fire to take centre stage making for a comfy space.
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Paul Massey38/38 Within the sitting room of Sarah Stewart-Smith’s Herefordshire cottage, bronze gongs from Vietnam hold above the range within the cosy lounge. Transferring from a big London home to a small nation cottage, she determined in opposition to promoting her bigger furnishings. As a substitute, in opposition to expectations, it provides to a sense of house.
