Do you enjoy hygge (Scandinavian cozzines)?

I have and most of them are made with coconut fat which really upsets my stomach, I get a similar colicky and painful reaction to when I eat meat. I tried a lactose free one too and didn't get on with that either.

Bunny said:

electric versions of tea light candles

I love these, in warm white, they are so versatile.

Here is one used to illuminate a home made dinner table glass jam jar lantern (decorated with fine nib acrylic pens by Mitoymia):

Your humour cheers me up.

Wow Bunny!

You're place sounds very appealing.

I've never tried hue bulbs, but they sound perfect for creating hygge.

Oops, sorry! 

I use mood lighting to help make rooms feel more cozy and welcoming - as well as more sensory-friendly.

In my study, I have warm yellow fairy lights draped over things on the wall in the corner where I sit (around framed pictures, calendars, etc), with big loops hanging down in between. And a vase filled with red fairy lights as a mood lamp for my desk.

The staircase has blue and white fairy lights looped around the bannisters, whilst the hall table lamp has a Philips Hue bulb, which is set to red. They might make the place look a bit like a brothel from the outside, but I don't mind! 

The living room also has Hue lamps, with different "scenes" set for cleaning (bright), eating dinner (warm yellow), and watching TV (dimmed really low), balanced with a corner lamp that's set to a warm red. When I can remember to charge them, I also have electric versions of tea light candles (which give the benefits of the warm feeling, but without any smoke), which I place around the room.

The bedroom has a table lamp with Hue bulb in one corner, again set to red. And a (remote control) galaxy lamp in the opposite corner, also set to red. These make the room feel really warm and cosy when I read before going to sleep.

JHFC! I just told you people that cheese upsets me and you haven't shut up about it since! At least have the decency to move your posts a little further away from mine! I'll never get my hygge back at this rate!

TheCatWoman said:

I'm forced to live a life without cheese, I can have a little parmessan but no more, or it goes straight through me and I used to love cheese.

Have you tried any of the vegan cheeses? There's a really wide range of types now, but it might take a few tries to find one that you like.

My favourite at the moment is Cathedral City plant-based mature cheddar flavour, which comes in a good-sized block.

Or, for a smokey, cheddar-style option, there's Applewood's vegan version, which melts nicely on toast.

I think stoves and open fires are great when it's a choice and not your only form of heating

Yeah 

I get that, totally, I have a stove and there is a down side, it doesn't work for everyone,

Its good for me to see the other side of the coin and I'm so pleased you can have heat at the flick of a switch.

On the cheese front, it's making me appreciate it even more knowing that some people love it but can't indulge. At least you can still have a small taste.

Oh wow

Thank you so much for the detail it's so important.

This space sounds amazing especially the part where you can see the birds going about their birdy business.

It sounds very hygge.

I had my therapy today and my therapist has a garden room at her home and today I loved it because I could hear and see the the rain, it felt very hygge. 

I'm forced to live a life without cheese, I can have a little parmessan but no more, or it goes straight through me and I used to love cheese.

I just enjoy being cosy, I'm glad not to have an open fire or stove anymore, the ash gets everywhere, everythings always dusty, my breathing has improved loads since I moved out of a house where the only heating was wood or coal fired. I bet all the books and ads don't show having to clean the stove or fireplace out, or contastantly keep having to dust and hoover. Or how one side of the room can be toasty warm and the otherside freezing. I love chopping wood and kindling, but when you have to do it everyday before lighting the fire so as you can be warm in an hour, it's less fun.

For my personal version of hygge:

In the back garden there is a bench seat (2 offcuts of wooden railway sleepers fixed onto a u-shaped low wall) with a DIY wooden "arbour" over / around it - which has treated Feather Board fence boards on three sides and a pitched roof of black Onduline sheets (www.wickes.co.uk/.../240039 ). 

The structural elements were like a pergola using wooden square fence posts (verticals and horizontals) and wooden arris rails (useful to form the roof skeleton).

Like a tiny shed, with a bench seat, plus, a completely open front, which is tall enough to be able to stand up without stooping. 

The roof doesn't only protect the bench but also extends further forwards like a porch (to keep both the sun and heavy rain off you for more months of the year).

The seat is just wide enough to seat 2 adults - good for a coffee break, or an informal garden picnic, or reading, or having a chat without feeling perceived.

Inside; there are a mounted a few large galvanised cup hooks - so that you can hang up (out of the way) things like: water bottle, torch, binoculars, or a zipped book sleeve.

I use a short, lightweight plastic / metal table with folding legs (fishing bivvy table) about the size of a lap tray - to provide somewhere to put food and drink (which can fold away under the bench when not in use).

Under the bench; I also keep a large plastic, clip-on lidded, storage box - for things like: cushions / a fleece blanket / fleece hat, scarf and gloves / a wind-up torch / spf lip balm / spf hand cream / spf face cream.

In our household this hygge area is known as: "the nook".

All the plants visible from the nook are native to the British Isles - which encourages wildlife.  You can see a birdbath, a wildlife pond, plus on one tree there is a birdbox.

This means you can sit in the fresh air of nature; and yet protected from sun, wind and rain. 

It also acts as something of a wild bird "hide" - as the birds quickly seem to become accustomed to someone sat there.

In really poor weather (very heavy rain / strong winds); I sometimes add a small rectangular camouflage / green tarp with eyelets - set horizontally (like the bottom half of a stable door) - so I can still see out into the garden).

Yeah, although parmesan is one of my favourites, I get why you might have an aversion to it.

It can be associated with not so pleasant smells. 

Great!

Thanks for that.

Lonehare12 said:

A life without cheese!!

One can only dream ... aah ...

I had to leave a restaurant last month when the next table over went really heavy on the Parmesan. Hygge it was not!

If you own a library card you can use tiur details on the borrowbox app 

you get all papers/audiobooks/books for free. Defo check it out

theres a great hygge one

Great.

Thank you 

A life without cheese!!

Never!!

Oslo1987 said:

Some cheese fondue

Oh, no! I draw the line at cheese! (Preferable a line about half a mile away.)