Cosy with Intention: Styling Tips for a Calm, Colourful Space

By Kiris Megaw

A curated guide to bringing comfort, character, and calm to your home.

When the weather cools down, or life feels a little chaotic, your home should be your sanctuary, warm, calm, and comforting. But let’s be honest, an empty space rarely brings that feeling.

Here are some simple ways to turn your home into a cosy retreat that feels like a warm hug.

Layer your Lighting

Simply put, use a combination of different light sources at various levels to create depth, but importantly mood.

• Statement Floor Lamps.

• Statement Table Lamps.

• Subtle Candles.

Statement Pieces over Clutter

Give me a statement piece, one thing that gives the ‘wow’ factor, rather than lots of little bits of clutter, that don’t have a purpose.

• Boucle Ball Cushions.

• Recycled Plastic Stool.

• Raw Timber Coffee Table.

Intentional Pops of Colour

Like that one friend that always wears black and then one day they arrive to coffee in a bright colour and look better than ever.

• Block colour throw rug.

• Block colour stool.

• Block colour hydrangeas.

• Block colour fruit bowl.

My Go-To Brands for Making my House a Home; Colour, Comfort & Contemporary.

Budget-Friendly Decor Brands

• H&M Home.

• Temu Decor (raw materials like stone coasters, vases etc).

• Citta.

• Once It.

Splurge Decor Brands

• Dinosaur Designs.

• Fazeek.

• In The Round House.

• Special Studio.

• Fenton and Fenton.

• Glasshouse Fragrances.

• Kip & Co.

• Sage and Clare.

• Home Lab Store.

• Country Road Home.