Give your home interior a fresh new look for autumn. The high street is full of imaginative , budget priced, home wear. Create that cosy feeling with small, seasonal switches that add warmth, colour and comfort. It’s time to snuggle down.
TABLETOP DRESSING
Make the dining table a seasonal statement with a long, linen table runner in a rich shade of spice. Find custom-cut lengths of stonewashed linen in luscious shades of cinnamon, saffron and sage, a 41cm-wide length for a 140cm length table, £30.49, on Etsy.com. Add a stand-out centrepiece with an outsize earthenware bowl or platter, and fill to overflowing with bright oranges or baby pumpkins. If you have faux flowers, change them to suit the season. Fill an apothecary jar with hedgerow berries or pussy willow stems, real or fake
*For tabletop inspiration check out John Lewis’s new collaboration with Collagerie, the cult lifestyle store co-founded with ex-Vogue stylists Lucinda Chambers and Serena Hood.
AMP UP THE LIGHT
When the clocks go back ramp up your lighting. Switch to a scarlet lampshade (B&Q have a good selection) for an accent of warm, bright colour or a poppy red ceramic lampbase and red-and-white Ikat shade from John Lewis X Collagerie, £85, is a great style statement. Lampshades are the smart way to introduce lively print and pattern into a room: one of the season’s best is Dunelm’s finely-pleated, leaf-green and cream printed shade that doubles for table or ceiling, £20. Another way of bringing in the light: reflect it from outside with a decorative wall mirror. Dunelm’s circular Remi wall mirror is framed with a prettily scalloped, sage-green fibreboard edge, 63 x 63cm, £55.
REFRESH THE BEDROOM
Cocoon in comfort with new bedlinen, covers and cushions in warm neutrals and natural fabrics. A prime example is the brilliant new collection from Homesense, featuring bedlinen, quilts and coverlets in earthy tones of cream, coffee and chestnut or enjoy Zara Home’s soft-touch washed cotton quilts in ochre, vanilla, navy and pebble grey, from £79.99.
COSY UP THE SOFA
Layer up sofas with chunky throws in tactile textures, and load with cushions in berry-bright colours. Many of the new season’s throws feel like new wool, but are recycled polyester, such as soft-as-butter rib-knit blanket in beige marl or hunter green, £34.99; cosy cable knit cream blanket, £24.99, with chunky tassels; textural wool-blend woven blanket with deep fringing, in fawn or snow white, £59.99; fluffy, fleece-back blanket, £59.99, in warm caramel, all H&M Home.
PIX John Lewis X Collagerie cushions, from £25; stack of textural cushions, from a range at Homesense; John Lewis scallop-edged berry red cushion, £25.
TRANSITIONAL TOUCHES
