TOP TIPS FOR CHIC CHALET VIBE
You do not need a ski-in kitchen in Morzine to live with a chalet feeling. A few well-chosen pieces — wall art from the slopes, bone china on the table, a candle that smells of forest — bring the mountains into an ordinary room. Natasha Durlacher photographs and illustrates every Powderhound design from her own alpine trips, and each piece is made in England. Here are five ways to recreate a chic chalet vibe at home.
1. Adorn your walls with ski art
Chalets feel like an escape because the walls do some of the work. Hang artwork you can get lost in: snow, chairlifts, a skier in mid-air. Natasha reworks photographs from her own mountain days into prints that sit as easily over a London sofa as they would over a Verbier banquette.
Start with the pieces this article originally featured — Blue Jump and Freestyle Jump — then browse the full Mountain Art collection for Lech huts, Kitzbühel, St Moritz and quiet pine forest. Prints come unframed in A3 or A2, so you can match the timber, linen or brass already in the room.
Blue Jump Ski Art Print
From £50
Freestyle Jump Ski Art Print
From £50
2. Review your colour palette
Chalet interiors run on calm neutrals — winter greys, cream, raw wood — with a single warmer note. A full repaint is optional. One darker wall, a cream throw, or beige cushions will shift the mood. Then add colour the way a real chalet does: in small, joyful doses on the table.
Powderhound’s fine bone china is white porcelain with Natasha’s skiers in bright jackets circling the rim. It reads as a pop of colour against linen and timber, not as novelty ski tat. The Alphabet Ski Mug — our most-loved piece — puts your initial on both sides, which is the kind of personal detail a good chalet kitchen always has.
Alphabet Ski Mug
From £24
Ski Chain Mug
From £24
3. Combine textures — then set the table
Chalet rooms work because hard and soft sit together: aged wood against sheepskin, rattan against a wool throw. Source distressed timber at antique markets if you enjoy the hunt. The table is where texture becomes daily life. Fine bone china against a linen cloth, a breakfast bowl next to a wooden board, an egg cup that earns its keep every weekend.
The original Ski Chain design — skiers in action on white china — now runs across mugs, bowls, plates and gift sets. Pair a breakfast bowl with the mug, or lay the whole Ski Chain Breakfast Set for guests. Everything is dishwasher and microwave friendly, made and decorated in the UK.
Ski Chain Breakfast Bowl
From £25
Ski Chain Breakfast Set
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4. Take inspiration from the elements
Bring the outside in. Air is a chair pulled into natural light, or a window seat. Earth is timber and stone. Fire is a real hearth if you have one — or the glow of a candle if you do not. Water is glass, pale ceramics, a simple vase.
Skip the generic pine-and-juniper tourist candle. Our candles are poured in England into fine bone china pots illustrated by Natasha, so when the wax is gone you keep the pot. The large Ski Chain candle is scented alpine forest — the smell of a late afternoon in the trees, not a department-store Christmas aisle.
5. It is all in the details
Leave empty space. Overcrowding kills a chalet room faster than the wrong paint. Keep windows clear so daylight does the work that big alpine panes do. After dark, light one candle rather than five. A single vase of greenery or pine cones is enough.
The details that last are the ones you use: a mug for the first coffee, a personalised alphabet for the guest who always stays, a print above the table that still makes you look twice. That is the chic version of a chalet vibe — not a theme park of antlers, but mountain life you can live with in August as well as January.
Bring the mountains home
Every piece is illustrated by Natasha Durlacher and made in England. Start with a mug, add a print, or dress the whole breakfast table.
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