5 ways to welcome the winter season at home

“Winter is a time of rest, of good food and warmth, of the touch of a friendly hand, of conversation by the fire: it is the time of coming home.” Edith Sitwell

Here are five ways to welcome the winter season at home:

1. Embrace calm

Adopt simple ways to slow down and enjoy your home this quieter season. Include your favorite winter senses! The crackling of fires in the fireplace, the flickering of candles, winter scents, soothing music, more meaningful conversations, less social noise, more rest, less hustle. What inspires you to feel peace in your home? Do more of it!

2. Enjoy warmth, comfort + joy

Enjoy all the cozy comforts and joys of winter at home. Even though the Christmas season will be behind us, don’t leave behind the light, greenery and cozy fabrics. These items make your home feel lively and welcoming even in the dreary winter. Savor cozy winter rituals like making soup and sipping afternoon tea. Make time for winter experiences like reading your favorite book and sitting by the fire under a soft blanket. Read my book A Beautiful Life for more inspiration about the simple joys of every season.

3. Update + clean

Get a fresh, clean start to the year in your winter home. Take advantage of this winter to spruce up your home while you’re indoors anyway! Go room by room. What should go? What can you live without? What needs a deep cleaning? How can you reorganize or update what you have? Do you have inspiring home tunes to keep up with your cleaning? I teach my techniques at HomeBody Gathering Place.

4. Nourish and live

Start your winter home healing journey. Invest in what is healthy and good for you and eliminate what is not. Think about all the experiences of home: cleaning, entertaining, clutter, food, movement, social media, community, spending, decor, etc. What changes can you make at home to better nourish yourself in these areas this year? Read my book Homesteading for more inspiration. Find all my books here.

5. Set seasonal goals at home

Set household goals for the season and the entire year. There’s no rush to set goals by January 1st. Use the first weeks of the year to settle into the rhythm of the new year. Think about what you need to work on in your home this winter and next year. Which rooms need your attention? What projects need to be completed this year? What decisions can you make at home that will allow you to enjoy your environment (and your life!) more? Take notes and set attainable goals for your home.

Pick a room to work on in January! It can be such depressing. month but having a project with a specific goal or space to work on will be inspiring. Join me at the HomeBody Gathering Place to ask your decor questions or get inspired to make progress on a room in your home.

You’re invited to create a retreat with me at HomeBody Gathering Place!

This year at HomeBody Gathering Place, we’re launching new content and resources just for HomeBodies! Come get inspiration for your home, make progress, ask decorating questions and learn with us!

At HomeBody Gathering Place, we learn how to create welcoming havens in every season.

Think of the HomeBody Gathering Place as a treat for your home (and for you!). I provide practical, inspiring techniques, simple ideas, and encouragement to our community year-round.

Join us at HGP and you’ll get access to all our resources, including our new room recipe – a step-by-step decorating method for HomeBodies! Each month we’ll release a new exclusive room recipe lesson (with a digital magazine flipbook), a related home challenge and a weekly home therapy session. HomeBodies also gets ad-free blog reading on The Inspired Room.

Taking care of household objects!

Get a fresh start in the shelter in 2025! This week HomeBodies will find a brand new lesson in the dashboard called Preparing Your Sanctuary for the New Year. We have lots of resources to kick off the new year and the winter season in your home, including a printable HomeBody notebook, Welcome to the new season rhythm, 2025 home goals sheet, and HomeBody winter notebook sheets (all in your dashboard now!).

Then get excited for January! We’ll be launching an all-new room recipe method, monthly daily bag challenge and weekly home therapy sessions. All HomeBodies will get exclusive access to a monthly room recipe ingredient lesson, including a digital journal flip book, starting with Simplicity! See you in January!

Learn more about HomeBody Gathering Place and join us here.