Romance isn't just champagne and ro...

Romance isn't just champagne and rose

Romance is sinking into a plush sofa in face of a crackling fire. It's lingering athwart breakfast in a room filled with floral fabrics and antiques. It's settling into a comfy chair with a well adapted book and some chamomile tea serv in Grandma's Haviland draught

In the abode romance is all about comfort and connection. And that's a feeling you don't have to limit to Valentine's Day.

Romantic pattern is hard to define, because it's in the way that wide-ranging, said Jacqueline deMontravel, editor of Romantic abiding-places magazine. It's the casual appeal of Shabby Chic and the ageless elegance of French abiding habitation the eclectic appeal of a Paris flea market and the warmth of the Tuscan countryside.

"You can't really pigeonhole it in common style.... It's just really cozying up a space," she said.

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