Nestora Home Decor

Close your eyes for a second and think about what autumn smells like. Cinnamon. Something baking. The particular warmth of a oven that has been on for an hour. The faint smokiness of a candle. The earthy smell of something with ginger in it that you are going to drink in a large mug later. Every single one of those smells happens in the kitchen. Autumn does not happen in the living room or the bedroom or the garden. Autumn happens in the kitchen. It is the room where the season is most completely felt — where the shorter days and the colder air outside become warm light and warm smells and warm food inside. The kitchen is the room that autumn was invented for. And yet most people decorate their living rooms for autumn — putting pumpkins on the coffee table and a wreath on the door — and leave their kitchen exactly as it was in July. The same dish towels. The same ceramic pieces. The same cool white light that looked perfectly fine in summer and looks slightly wrong the ...