Look 1: Festive Farmhouse
Amanda Brooks’ house is a cosy Christmas lover’s fantasy. We adore the soft candlelight and the stuffed bookshelves flanking the fireplace. We’d happily settle down in this room for days mainlining mince pies and Christmas ghost stories.
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Look 2: Joyfully Colourful Bohemia
No guest to this house on Christmas Day could fail to be cheered by the fact that every surface is festooned and festive. A delightful exercise in maximalism.
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Look 3: Victorian Christmas
The Victorians created Christmas as we know it. Dennis Severs’ extraordinary house-come-still life drama in Spitalfields may be more of an ode to the Georgians than the Victorians, but he was no pedant. When it came to Christmas, it was Victoriana all the way.
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Look 4: Pared Back Beauty
Minimalists need not be excluded from the festive fun. This simple and beautiful room demonstrates how it’s done to exquisite perfection.
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Look 5: A Scandi Christmas Table
Create atmosphere with an onus on natural and foraged-for materials, Scandi style.
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Look 6: Country Christmas
This pretty tableau is irresistibly inviting. The fire, the pile of presents and the understated bunting: each element of this room is beckoning us in. The stuff of Christmas dreams.
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Look 7: Christmas, Bloomsbury Style
This artsy beauty does Christmas in the most delightfully informal of styles. Homemade and all the more heavenly for it.
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By Nancy Alsop
November 2022
