Seven ways to update your home to welcome in the Autumn
As September leaves fall and there’s a chill in the air, it is time to give your home a seasonal adjustment.
It can be a simple switch of colour to create a more welcoming entrance hall, or simple vessels that are functional and bring in decorative colour.
Amber alert
Amber glass is a very affordable way to inject a room with the new season’s colour.
H&M Home has a selection of vases and decorative objects that add decorative pops of colour on their own or provide a vessel into which to add seasonal berries of Chinese lanterns.
Prices range from €7.99 to €34.99, depending on the size and width.
Take a seat
Guildjerg is a new lounger chair that comes in a colour the Danish firm JYSK describes as wed sand. Its foam and polyester-covered form will lend a room or corner a sculptural quality.
Its seat is just 42 cm off the ground, and it costs €150, and can be ordered online or from stores.
It requires some self-assembly.
Scandi style underfoot
Part of Ikea’s Stockholm 2025 collection, this handwoven wool rug is reversible, so you can switch sides should you spill something on this geometric pattern.
It measures 170 cm by 240 cm and costs €349. It is sold with an anti-slip underlay that costs €9.50 per metre.
The oak and oak laminate table, and the six dining chairs, also pictured costs €1,699.
Mood lighting
The evenings are closing in.
This dual-lit fabric table lamp, 40cm high, emits both high and low-beam light to illuminate your space with style.
Made with natural fabric throughout, it creates a soft glow that contrasts with its scalloped shade, which is designed to look like skeletal petals for an elegant finish.
It costs €85 from Marks & Spencer stores.
Make a new entrance
River Spell is a muddy violet colour that will give your hall and woodwork a whole new look.
One of the shades in Colourtrend’s new collection, Wonders of the Woodlands, will give your entrance a moody new mood.
There are eight offbeat hues to choose from, so play with the choice before committing.
Pictured in an eggshell finish, it costs €88.00. Sample pots are just €5 each.
Are you game for dinner?
Meadows & Byrne’s new season tableware includes this earthenware set of 24cm dining plates, €25.95 each, seen to the rear of this shot, and a rectangular serving platter, not shown, €49.95.
Turn breakfast up to 11
For rock chicks everywhere, a little leopard print at breakfast serves up a different day, one where anything seems possible.
This butter dish, €25; cappuccino mug €23 each, and large tea mug, €25, are available from April and the Bear.
