Decorating Your Conservatory For Winter

When it comes to winter we sometimes avoid our conservatories; although most are well insulated and perfectly warm during the winter months we avoid them almost out of habit, whether we simply don’t want to spend time staring at grey skies and slush in the gardens or whether it’s just that we’d rather stay in bed. The fact of the matter is that a conservatory can be a great space for spending your time regardless of what time of the year it is, and a little bit of wintery decoration might be the encouragement that you need to help you feel more like using your conservatory often during the winter months.

First of all make sure the conservatory is nice and warm, a portable electric radiator is a cheap and effective way of doing this if you do not have a heating system. The cost of a conservatory should not be expensive in the winter because conservatories are relatively small. You should find that it warms up very quickly. Of course if you have wooden or tiled floors these will retain a lot of the cold, so putting down a rug (there are some perfectly nice and very cheap options in most furniture or carpet stores) will help to make walking around the conservatory a little more comfortable and could add a little bit of a cosier feel.

Introducing some warmer colours and a more spring or summer like feel to the conservatory could help you to find it an enjoyable space to spend time in regardless of how cold or terrible the weather is outside. Adding plants and flowers to the room with bright coloured pots can help to make the room feel livelier and using blankets on the furniture can add more colours to the room, red or orange blankets might even give it a warmer and sultrier look. The brighter the colour scheme within your conservatory the more it will be complimented by the open space and amount of light available in the room, this might be nature inspired greens that will compliment your garden and look particularly pretty in spring or it might be bold, summery colours that completely contrast the weather outside.

If your conservatory doesn’t already have blinds you should get some, this will allow for privacy as well as keeping out the glare of sunlight in the summer and retaining more of the heat in the winter. The right selection in blinds can also compliment the room, whether this is with a lively colour or whether it is an interesting pattern. This can be used to emphasise the impact of your furniture and draw more attention to the room. Finally consider what you will be using the room for, during the cold winter months when it gets dark early and going out can be plain miserable. It might be a space you use to relax, perhaps a quiet TV room or a silent space for reading; if the sound of the wind and rain will be a distraction to your activities you might think about installing a more effective sound system for peaceful music or your television.

Many people chose to use a certain theme when decorating; tropical paradise and Caribbean islands are great themes for during the winter when you might want a holiday to a hot location but can’t afford to actually take the holiday. This makes a great spot to sit down and warm up after a terrible day travelling or working in the rain and snow.

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