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Autumn Reading Corner
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items Warm lamp light, dried stems and something heavy to pull over your knees. Everything for the corner you retreat to when it gets dark at four. Reading nook, autumn cosy, slow living.
Chunky chenille knit in a cream that goes with everything.
The throw that makes the sofa the best seat
Deep textured chenille for the chair you actually read in.
The cushion you actually sink into
The stems that warm up a whole room
Huge Dried Flowers Bouquet & Stems
Nine flameless candles for the glow without the anxiety.
The candles you can leave burning safely
Aran knit throws are the sensible investment in a category flooded with polyester chenille. This one is wool, knitted in England, in an ecru that sits quietly against oatmeal linen, mid brown leather and painted plaster shades. Wool matters here for ...
The Aran throw that outlives every trend
A reading corner needs light falling onto the page from above and behind the shoulder, not glaring from across the room, which is exactly what an arc pole is for. This one stands around 160 cm with an adjustable linen shade and a black metal frame, a...
The arc floor lamp that lights the page
Ceramic bases have weight and a hand thrown look that metal and plastic cannot fake, and this one comes in sage green or terracotta red under an ivory linen shade. Terracotta is the more autumnal of the two and works particularly well against warm wh...
The ceramic lamp doing the tonal heavy lifting
Most LED bulbs sold as warm white are 2700K to 3000K, which still reads clinical after dark. At 2200K this sits closer to candlelight and old filament tungsten, which is the single cheapest change you can make to a reading corner. It is a G125 globe,...
The 2200K bulb that fixes cold lighting
Rust is the workhorse autumn shade because it sits between terracotta and brown, so it flatters cream, olive, charcoal and natural wood without shouting. This is a 45 x 45 cm cover only, which is how the better cushions are sold: buy a slightly large...
The rust cushion that anchors the whole scheme
A reading corner side table only needs to hold a lamp, a mug and a book, and anything larger crowds the chair. A round top is the right call next to an armchair because there is no corner to catch a hip. This is solid oak with a three leg design, whi...
The little oak table built for one lamp
Reading with a book flat in your lap is the reason people give up after twenty minutes. A stand at an angle brings the page up to eye level and takes the weight off wrists and neck. This one is 8 mm wood with three adjustable angles and folds flat fo...
The book stand that saves your neck
Clip on book lights are worth having even in a well lit corner, because they let you keep reading once the main lamps go off without disturbing anyone else. The useful features here are stepless dimming rather than three fixed steps, and three colour...
The clip on light for late chapters
A footstool changes a chair from somewhere you sit into somewhere you settle, and a bean filled pouffe has an advantage over a rigid ottoman: it moulds to the legs and can be shoved aside with one foot. Velvet in ochre reads warm and slightly retro r...
The ochre pouffe that earns its floor space
Amber, cedarwood and eucalyptus is the classic woody autumn accord, warm and resinous rather than sweet, so it suits a room you actually sit in for hours. Aery is a well regarded British fragrance house and this is hand poured soy wax at 200 g with a...
The amber candle worth the shelf space
A belly basket is the neatest answer to blanket storage because the wide mouth lets you drop a folded throw in without wrestling, and the handles mean it moves easily when hoovering. Natural seagrass brings texture that plastic and fabric bins cannot...
The seagrass basket that swallows the throws