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19×30 Chicago Bears Medallion Door Mat $20.25 Wow your guests with door mats by FANMATS. Adorned with your favorite team's logo, these door mats make a statement while keeping dirt and mud from entering your home. Heavy duty vinyl construction ensures a durable mat. Deep reservoir contains water and debris. Rugged ribs scrape shoes clean. Your favorite team's logo is molded in 3D construction. Color: Multi |
Make Your Home a Cozy Nest for Winter by Susan Dunn, MA, Professional Life Coach
It never turns fall, but I think about my mother, and how she disliked the cold. She grew up in the south, and we ended up on the North Shore of Chicago, on Lake Michigan. It’s in the snow belt, where the winters are dark and grey for months and the wind off the Lake gives the city it’s other name, “The Windy City.” When the funkia started to bloom, a sure sign that winter was coming, I cannot but remember how she would start to withdraw, like the woman Edna St. Vincent Millay writes about in her poem, “When the Year Grows Old.”
I cannot but remember
When the year grows old —
October – November —
How she disliked the cold!
She used to watch the swallows
Go down across the sky,
And turn from the window
With a little sharp sigh.
And often when the brown leaves
Were brittle on the ground,
And the wind in the chimney
Made a melancholy sound,
She had a look about her
That I wish I could forget -
The look of a scared thing
Sitting in a net!
Oh, beautiful at nightfall
The soft spitting snow!
And beautiful the bare boughs
Rubbing to and fro!
But the roaring of the fire,
And the warmth of fur,
And the boiling of the kettle
Were beautiful to her!
I cannot but remember
When the year grows old —
October – November —
How she disliked the cold!
There’s no reason you can’t add the roaring of a fire, the warmth of fur and the boiling of the kettle to your home in the winter to help lift your spirits. The way you feel as the dark, cold winter progresses is now called SAD (seasonal affective disorder.) It has to do with the change in the levels of sunlight and affects some people more than others. Like the bear in hibernation, those most affected would like to stay curled up all day, on the edge of sleep, with no energy for people, sex, or exercise, layering their body with fat because they crave carbohydrates.
There’s no need to feel like a scared thing sitting in a net, when you’ve made your house cheery and cozy, and warmth, beauty and rich colors surround you. You know you’ll be inside more in the winter, and doing less, so make it as lovely as you can. We can take a tip from the Russians, who really know winter.
Here (http://www.zinos.com/authors/1/AU01703/AR008456_img ) is a photo of my tour group in Russia, on the Island of Kizhi. The cabins feature one large room, with a very low ceiling and ceiling, wall and floor are all made of wood. You can imagine the glow from the fireplace. In the corner opposite the hearth, which is considered sacred, there’s an icon.
Homes in Russian villages are brightly painted on the outside as you can see here: http://www.webstrategies.cc/nancy_and_babushka.jpg. The windows, which are not standardized, are ornate, and the villages look like fairylands against the snow. We do not want to camouflage ourselves in the snow. We want to shout out like the bright red cardinal: “Hey! I’m here! I’m alive! I’m surviving!”
Sitting there in the primitive cabins on Kizhi, it was easy to imagine Neanderthals huddled around a fire, getting as close together as they could to one another and to their animals, borrowing body heat and limbic connection. When it’s very cold, the Eskimos refer to a “three-dog night.” In the Kidzhi larger cabins, one of the “rooms” was a winter barn for the livestock where the animals spent the winter.
I always start “nesting” in the fall. I want to stay home more, and start doing handwork again – sometimes knitting sweaters, sometimes needlepoint pillow or pictures. I keep the home fires burning, cooking more, making heart stews and steamy chilis, and bake homemade bread–the staff of life.
What can you do to make your home “warmer” in the winter? Work with that primitive scene – the furs, the closeness, the color of fire, the need to hunker down.
1. Being prepared helps us feel secure.
Signal change is coming by changing things like slip covers, throw pillows, afghans, accent pieces and towels. Have winter slip covers in fabrics with pile, such as velvet and corduroy, in deep colors of the fire. Deep jewel tones, dark golds, rich magentas and burnt oranges, and a splash of ultraviolet blue, the floor of fire at its hottest.
1. Have winter slip covers in fabrics with pile, such as velvet or corduroy, in deep colors of the fire. Deep jewel tones, dark golds, rich magentas and burnt oranges, a splash of ultraviolet blue, the color of fire at its hottest.
Bring out warm accent pieces like pillows with your handwork, and afghans with large chunky cable stitches. Make use of fur.
2. Bring the furniture in closer to other pieces and to the fireplace, so people can figuratively “huddle.” Add throw rugs for extra depth.
3. Buy a Lab to curl up by the fireplace. J.k. about buying one for the occasion, but since its such a comforting and visible scene get him a special winter bed.
4. Change out the bedspreads and duvets to winter fabrics and color scheme. Use flannel sheets.
5. Put something bright on the outside of your home – door mat, door decoration, mailbox cover, or wall mounting to signal your haven from the cold as you enter from the outside.
6. Build a collection of winter photos – the kids playing in the snow, family skiing, etc. Happy winter memories warm the tummy.
7. Don’t forget the bathroom. If you keep a neutral wallpaper and carpeting, it’s an easy to room to change because it’s small. Change towels, soaps and shower curtain when the season changes using the same warm, enveloping colors and fabrics.
8. Work with the lighting. Change lamp shades in the living areas so they “glow”. Choose warm colors of yellow, orange and red. Better yet buy one of those salt lamps from Czechoslovakia. The lamp itself is a block of salt which makes the prettiest glow, and is said to ionize as well.
9. If you don’t have a fireplace, buy a wood stove or space heaters.
12. Make it smell good. Do some real cooking on the weekends when everyone’s home. Few of us get to walk in the door at night and smell the pot roast cooking or the wonderful odor of stew simmering on the back burner any more, but you can do this on the weekend. Make special breads as well. If you’re not allergic to candle aromas, work with those. Cinnamon and vanilla are favorite homey scents.
Even a touch or two can make a difference.
13. Have fireplace accessories of gold, brass or pewter, metals you sink into, not bounce off of.
14. Comfort depends on safety. Get the carbon monoxide detectors, escape ladders, smoke alarms, smoke guards, creosote removers, stove boards and hearth extenders, and choose a hearth rug for safety as well as ambiance.
15. Put a bird feeder in one window. There’s nothing like watching a cardinal hop around on the window sill to cheer.
Stay warm!
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