How to Keep Warm Overnight in Winter (Without Heating)

Posted on - 21st February 2024

At Toons Home Furnishings, we understand how much your furnishings and surroundings can impact how warm your home feels overnight during winter. Keeping warm in winter without heating can be a struggle, especially as the icy temperature often forces many of us to use our expensive household central heating system to keep warm overnight.

Let that not be the case this winter with our guide on how to keep your home warm, cosy and snug with some household changes and additions. If you’d like to contact us for more information, feel free to pick up the phone today.

Lay Down a Rug or Carpet Runner

Not only can a Rug or Carpet Runner be a stunning addition to make a statement for a room, they can also be used in the winter months to prevent heat loss through the floor. Uninsulated floors are partially responsible for heat loss in your home, so imagine the difference a cosy thick Rug or Carpet Runner would make to those cold winter months where every little bit of heat helps.

Even rooms that already have carpet can benefit from a thick Bedroom Rug in the winter to help retain heat and prevent cool air from entering from beneath them, let alone a refreshing addition to the room’s appearance and the genuinely warmer feel. Overnight, we can all feel the cool, but the warmth in our soft flooring options offer a cosy contrast in comparison to bare, uninsulated floors that contribute to the room’s loss of heat.

While there are many benefits to Hardwood and Laminate Flooring, retaining heat does not fall into this list. So, if you’re wanting to prioritise keeping your household or room warm through the night, a soft floor addition may just be the budget-friendly and low maintenance option you require.

Our selection of high-quality, stunning and heat-retaining Rugs and Carpet Runners offer a solid solution to keeping warm in winter without heating, you can also visit our showroom here.

Reduce Draughts with Curtains

Another way to retain heat in your home overnight is by reducing the amount of draught coming into each room. An assured way of reducing draughts is by having Curtains that keep the warm in by holding back any draughts that may be entering a room via uninsulated windows and doors.

There are many different types of Curtains and Curtain Accessories for you to choose from at Toons Furnishings to keep that dreaded cool air from entering your cosy space, and our options range in colour, size, thickness and style. Keeping warm in winter without heating is easier than you think when you have the right furnishings, and our team is ready to get you on your way to a warmer home.

Another way to reduce draughts is by covering the bottom of doorways with anything from spare blankets to draught excluders. We offer Custom Made and Ready Made Curtains that can also be used for your doors as well as your windows, working in the same way by keeping the hot air in and the cold air out.

Install a Carpet

Although a carpet won’t generate heat on its own, it will work by insulating the room against the floor to raise the ambient temperature. Carpet helps to maintain the existing warmth in the room and allows the heat to move around rather than let the cool air fight its way through from beneath. Other flooring options like Hard Floors, while being a great choice for many, don’t benefit a room’s ability to keep warm as well as carpet.

High-quality thick carpet is made up of millions of tightly woven fibres that naturally trap air, meaning it has a very low conduction rate. Therefore, if you have a heater or central heating on, the hot air that is being produced will stay in the room for longer and the cold air from below the flooring surface won’t be able to enter.

Fitted carpets are crucial when it comes to the style, comfort and warmth of your home. We have a wide array of carpets available for you, the two main types of carpet generally being woven and tufted. The main difference being that Woven carpets require more labour making them more expensive, while Tufted carpets are machined, easier to produce and may contain more synthetic fibres. With a variety of piles and types, including Axminster, Twist, Velvet, Loop, Saxony, Wilton, and Wool construction, you are sure to find a design and carpet structure to suit your needs for a warm feeling room overnight.

View our full range of carpets here, visit our showroom or contact our team for support.

Embrace Layers and Blankets

This may already be something you practise, but if you haven’t already, a great way to keep yourself warm overnight is by layering up with clothes, dressing gowns and throws or blankets. Getting into the habit of wearing more layers before you go to bed or when you begin your wind-down time of an evening can make a profound difference in your warmth overnight.

Many people override this option and consider putting the heating on throughout the night, but this can end up with you having a very hot household which can prevent sleep just as much as a cool room temperature. The positive of embracing a bedtime immersed in cosy materials and warm layers is that you can remove any of these to suit how warm you want to be at any point in the night. And, let’s face it, there’s no better feeling than knowing you’ve saved money on monthly bills by utilising your own natural body heat!

Contact Our Team

If you’ve come to the end of this article inspired by how many ways there are to keep warm in winter without heating, feel free to visit our showroom to explore the cosy Flooring and Curtain options we have available for you today.

Our friendly, dedicated and experienced team are looking forward to showing you around and are ready to help with any enquiries you have. Contact us today.