By Katie Laughridge
From Tribune News Service
Few places in the world encapsulate the spirit of the holiday season quite like Scandinavia. It brings the scenery you’ll find on your favorite Christmas cards to life: ice and snow, roaring fires and beautiful homey spaces that encompass the spirit of hygge.
A finalist for the Oxford English Dictionary’s 2016 word of the year, hygge is a Danish term defined as a quality of coziness and comfortable conviviality that engenders a feeling of contentment or well-being, and in recent years it has taken the interior design world by storm. Pronounced “hyoo-guh,” the word is said to have no direct translation in English, though “cozy” comes close. And this Christmas look follows suit….