17 Cozy Winter Decor Ideas That Will Light Up Your House Until Spring

The holiday season is in the distant rearview mirror and all the Christmas decor is sitting in storage or back in your attic till next year.

There comes the point where your typical seasonal decor starts getting a little dull, where you want to add some winter warmth and texture to your chic minimalistic space.

The winter nights are dark and long and unless you live somewhere tropical the winter season is just settling in. The temperatures outside are dropping and you choose instead not to venture out for date night but to do something cozier at home.

Whether it’s a date night or you want to invite your closest group of friends over to beat the winter blues you want your home to be as cozy as possible, especially all winter long.

As much as I love clean minimalistic decor items, this is the time of year when I like to add some extra layers to my bedroom like using a faux fur blanket and stocking up on my favorite Byredo candles.

For the living room, I like to bring in some natural elements using warmer beiges and brown accents. Try some new throw pillows, add extra candles to every room (to set the mood), incorporate seasonal floral arrangements like a glass vase filled with branches for the coffee table, a matching wine glass set (every adult should have), and curl up on my couch in a soft luxe set of pajamas and get cozy.

Ahead, we’ve highlighted some of the FEMMENA-approved winter decorating ideas for your next night indoors. You’ll thank us for the good vibes and romantic sophistication later!

Keep reading the 17 easy winter decor ideas that will make your home cozier under $200.

1. Create Warmth in the Living Room

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Whether you spend the winter months indoors next to a roaring fire or you use candles to light up a dark cold room after the Christmas holidays Winter decorating can be subtly mixed with your existing decor.

Creating a warm and inviting living room that is a cozy balance of rustic and modern can be achieved in a few simple ways. We draw our decor ideas from Paige Pettit Design’s home collection for instance, notice how she mixes all season-long textures such as the marble coffee table, a white linen sofa with a soft and fuzzy winter throw blanket, a luxuriously soft fur-like chair, and an earth-toned woven pattern rug to create a tasteful winter environment.

2. Winter Tablescape Decorating Ideas

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Jenni Kayne Home decorated this dining room table for winter using frosted greens, baby’s breath, bottle brush trees, and dark beige long-stem candles with rustic silver candle stick holders.

3. DIY Winter Wreath

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Your January wreath shouldn’t resemble your Christmas decor but should incorporate woody neutral elements of spruce, and evergreen branches, also notice how Jenni Kayne Home fills a ceramic rustic bowl of birch logs that makes the house warm and inviting for winter, the only thing missing is the snow!

Make a DIY Winter Wreath for your front door with Southern Charm Wreaths in less than an hour or if you’re short on time and don’t have the patience shop our top winter wreath.

4. Use Lots of Candles

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What better way to add warmth throughout your house during the cold winter season than with warm cozy lighting? Whether it’s a snow-lite winter night and you enjoy decorating all your rooms with these Jenni Kayne candles or creating a DIY winter glass cloche these decorations will surely create set a romantic winter mood.

5. Nordic Winter Decor Ideas

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If you’re someone who is into the less is more minimalistic approach then most likely winter decorations aren’t a sustainable way for you but that doesn’t mean you can have fun. Winter decorating a lustrous nordic designed room with cozy earth-toned shaded pillows, woven wall hangings, and minimal touches of black accents can add instant warmth without all the winter decor fuss.

6. Streamline the Mantel

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Creating a winter wonderland at home can be as easy as lighting up your fireplace but Jenni Kayne Home shows us simple winter decor ideas to streamline a mantel from your Christmas decor to a rustic winter mantel by layering natural elements of seasonal greeneries and decorous vases.

7. White Fur

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Add a throw pillow or two to your year-round decor so that you can easily transition into your spring and summer collection. Again, we love how transitional these throw pillows from Jenni Kayne Home are because they are a great neutral to mix and match with your winter decorations. As you can see in this photo they decorate this modern winter look with a warm and fuzzy throw.

8. Add Alpine Touches

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If you like to create DIY winter decorations trim a few evergreen branches and add them to your favorite winter vase with some baby’s breath to make an accent table stand out as Viktoria Askerow shows us how to do here.

Staying true to her minimalistic aesthetics while integrating a winter wreath, a soft luxurious throw blanket, and a candle we see how winter decorating doesn’t have to stray too far from our usual aesthetics.

9. Decorate with Vintage Photos

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Etsy is a great online shop when searching for an array of DIY winter decor ideas. Take for example these abstract classic wall prints that you can frame and put on top of your mantel or you can use them in a cluster as you see here to decorate a dull room. This affordable bundle is a great option that can easily transition into your spring decor.

10. Layer Fluffy Textiles

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Viktoria Askerow inspires us again with her winter decorating ideas when she added warm seat covers to these mid-century modern chairs, and elegantly paired them with some soft and simple DIY winter decorations by adding these winter branches to her kitchen breakfast table.

11. Warm Up The Kitchen

If you want to leave your Christmas decor sprinkled throughout your home, why not (just make sure to eliminate the Christmas ornaments)! Matilda Espy delights us with her southern charm by showing us how she decorated her kitchen for winter by adding earthy elements that look good all winter.

12. Add A Cozy Throw

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Pass a cold snow-filled day lounging in your favorite old sweaters and get cozy under a soft luxurious throw blanket like you see here from Jenni Kayne Home or get the same bang for your buck without sacrificing on quality from H&M Home both are great high-quality options for all your winter decor essentials.

13. Winterize Your Bedding

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Believe it or not, I love using linen bedding all year round, even in the winter because it breaths so well but naturally, that means I have to add an extra layer or two to keep warm during a cold winter in New York.

One way I add texture to the winter decor in my bedroom is by integrating a faux fur throw blanket or using darker-toned sheets and pillows. I also love decorating my nightstand with opulent Byredo candles and fresh winter flowers.

14. Warm Tones

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Jenni Kayne Home gives us some simple winter decor ideas that will fill your modern home with the missing pieces to boost your mood to fill your post-holiday voids.

In-house designer Linnea Schooley explains some simple ways you can breathe life into your winter decor, “An easier refresh is textiles (pillows, blankets, and so forth), which I love to switch out for different seasons or when I’m feeling like I need a refresh. My number one simple upgrade would be to make sure your rug is the correct size. I often see people with rugs that are too small. A simple jute rug in the correct size can be an affordable option that will really elevate your living space.”

15. Bring the Outdoors In

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I love DIY winter decorating ideas as Henna Kotona created by tastefully bringing in the natural elements of the outdoors inside to warm up her dining room during the winter. Also, you can recycle your white Christmas lights by adding them to some mason jars and lighting up your kitchen countertops or adding some touches of mid-century modernism with these silver textured candle holders that are the perfect winter decor staple.

16. Set a Winter Table

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Set your winter table with a few easy DIY winter decorations by blending a bowl full of pine cones, mercury glass, and wood branches into a winter vase to offset your crisp snow-like table linens. Scatter in small and long votive candles with rustic silver utensils for winter decor ideas like you see here.

17. Wall Art

Another easy way of decorating a space for winter is deciding on one foundation piece that will set the tone for the entire room and then building off that. That foundation piece can be a piece of art like you see here as some ideas that will last beyond winter and something that will easily blend in with the rest of your sleek modern decor.

Michigan-based interior designer Sarah Sherman Samuel details her design philosophy to Jenni Kayne Home, stating “Planning out the structure and then the materiality of the space combined with a few key pieces creates a language for the room—layering in the rest of the furniture, art, and accessories are my favorite dance to dance.”

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