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winter home essentials

Winter is the time to keep your home warm and cozy. With these home accessories will make sure your home and family are ready to survive a cold winter season.

Ann Gish Cable Knit Throws

Ann Gish Cable Knit Throws

Nothing is cozier than a night by the fire while it’s cold and snowy outside. So keep you, family and guest warm with a soft throw like these beautiful Ann Gish Cable Knit Throws. These luxurious throws will add warmth and are the prefect accent to your home décor for the winter. Drape these over a sofa, lay at the foot of your bed and best of all wrap yourself in warmth and coziness to snuggle up. You can get these adorable throws from Nieman Marcus starting at $119.

Pottery Barn Arches Lantern

Pottery Barn Arches Lantern

Lanterns are a fantastic way to add some winter charm to both the interior and exterior of your home. Also add warmth to your winter entertaining gatherings by showcasing these lanterns that hold candles or seasonal botanicals. Create a vignette with a variety of sizes and light neutral-colored pillar candles inside. These decorative candle lanterns and holders also provide stunning illumination for any party or everyday occasion. Get these at Pottery Barn starting at $19.

Williams Sonoma Essential Oils Collection Winter Forest

Williams Sonoma Essential Oils Collection Winter Forest

One way to make your home feel winter fresh is to simply change up the soap in your kitchen and bathroom. Williams-Sonoma has the perfect scent for this in their Essential Oils Collection – the Winter Forest Collection. With this collection you will bring the deep, woodsy aroma of an evergreen forest into your home It’s an invigorating collection that mingles the clean scent of pine with cedar wood, cinnamon, patchouli, thyme and citrus. At Williams-Sonoma starting at $9.00.

Slatkin & Co. Candles

Slatkin & Co. Candles

Crisp and woodsy, the trio of wrapped glass candles in this set fills your home with remarkable scents evocative of the winter season.

* Fireside scent combines birch, cedar, and sandalwood, sparked with vetiver and amber notes.

* Winter fragrance brings together shimmering pine, crisp bay leaf, red cinnamon, and warm winter woods.

* Evergreen is comprised of fir balsam, sparkling mint, cool pine, and white birch scents.

Williams Sonoma Hot Chocolate

Williams Sonoma Hot Chocolate Pot and Accessories

A delish way to bringing cozy nostalgia to winter gatherings is with Williams-Sonoma Hot Chocolate Pot, Sweet Ground Chocolate, and Handcrafted Marshmallows & Chocolate Marshmallows. Use this ceramic Hot Chocolate Pot to heat and froth milk for hot chocolate. First, use it to heat the milk in the microwave. Then add chocolate shavings, syrup, chips or powdered cocoa, insert the wand into the lid opening and froth to perfection. Enjoy the Sweet Ground Chocolate which is a fast-melting chocolate stirred into hot milk, whipped cream or espresso. The premium cocoa powder begins with Guittard chocolate, ground using a century-old grindstone to ensure perfect consistency. The handcrafted Marshmallows & Chocolate Marshmallows are classic light-as-air marshmallows that are just right for floating in a cup of hot chocolate or dipping into melted chocolate. Prices starting at $7.99 at Williams-Sonoma.