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What feeling would you associate with that? And How would you define cozy for yourself?
I've been thinking about what is cozy to me, and I am trying to come up with answers that aren't the standard ones. For me, I understand cozy for me to be something that's peaceful, safe, meditative. This is usually a small warm room, but I was wondering If I would find something unconventional cozy.
Edit: but I also find soviet bloc brutalist architecture aesthetics somewhat cozy. And It's not for the same reasons, it's an escapism of sort that feels good. I won't call it warm for sure.
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For me, it’s being warm and being enclosed in some way - could be a blanket, or walls of books, I’m not really sure. For example a fireplace with a chair and a book is cosy, but if the room has massive floor to ceiling windows it is no longer cozy, because it’s not enclosed. Also because typically the light at the time of year that fireplaces are appreciated tends towards a cool grey cast.
I think what a psychologist would say I’m driving at is some kind of return to the womb.
Antithesis to your cozy spot.
Edit: not a complete antithesis, but a spin.