Winter-Proof Yourself & Your Home
Winter in the Northern Hemisphere can be rough, with rain battering on your windows and endless days getting up in the dark. It can affect our physical and mental health in a number of ways - just look at the number of people diagnosed with SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder)! With November arriving, we’ve consulted gardeners, interior designers, chefs and mental health charities about staying cosy, happy and healthy this winter, with a few little additions to your home and routine. We’ve also drawn inspiration from Scandinavian culture - because as much as we like to moan… Their winters are just a tadge worse than ours!
BRING NATURE IN
We’ve been bringing plants indoors, Catherine Horwood quotes Dutch traveller, Levinus Lemnius, who praised 1560s English home decoration for its ‘parlours strawed with sweet herbs…nosegays finely intermingled with sundry sorts of fragrant flowers in their bedrooms…[that] cheered me up and entirely delighted my senses.’
