It’s cold. It’s dark. It’s wet. Sigh.

Let’s be honest: these days, it’s going to take a heck of a lot to lure you out of your warm, dry home. So stop fighting it. Succumb to those urges: cozy up, and pamper and soothe your way through these dreaded dreary months. Nest away.

South Street Interiors, which recently opened in the Leather District, claims a snuggly home-building aesthetic as its mantra. "In decorating my house, I always think that I’m creating this nest," says owner Belynda Bady. "Birds pick a little from here and a little from there; I wanted to create a store that would be a collection of pieces that would be really warm and inviting and comforting."

To that end, Bady incorporates warm colors, like copper-brown and yellow, in furniture, accessories, and houseware accents. A few of her favorite winter nesting ingredients: colorful velour pillows decorated with feathers ($210–$400); down quilts with edges lined in feathers ($600); and an oval multicolored handmade rag rug tying together wool, chenille, and nubuck ($600).

If you’d like to try your own hand at nesting, you can mix and match various ingredients, from aromatic candles to soft shaggy throws. Red Flower is at once a stylish and holistic company that can help you create ceremonial hominess involving candles, dried petals, a prayer bowl, and smells that tease the senses. Lisa DeCobert, a stylist at Louis Boston, where the company’s 45-hour candles sell for $30, describes her favorite, the Thai Honeysuckle, as a "subtle, fabulous scent." "We burn them all the time here. It scents the area, but not in that overwhelming way; you don’t feel like you’re walking into Yankee Candle Company." DeCobert adds, as a selling point: "Rumor has it Barbra Streisand puts [the petals] in her toilet."

Lisa Verinder, 25, is a self-proclaimed starving musician in Jamaica Plain who says she’s been finding herself "nesting up a storm" recently. In fact, she blames her financial woes on her flannel sheets. "Maybe I’m starving because I can’t get myself out of bed these days," Verinder jokes. Some other nesters’ basic tools: cashmere socks, such as Banana Republic’s recently discounted pair ($9.99, down from $25); the Gap’s appropriately named Cozy Socks ($6.99); Eddie Bauer Outlet’s pink wool-lined suede mule slippers with delicate bow ($24.99) for her; and Brooks Brothers’ Moose Leather Moccasin Slippers ($61.60) for him.

With the candles burning, your feet warming, and bed calling, it’s time to take the ultimate nesting plunge: get into the fetal position. Aaah.

Where to find it:

• Banana Republic, various locations, www.bananarepublic.com.

• Brooks Brothers, 46 Newbury Street, Boston, (617) 267-2600.

• Eddie Bauer Outlet, 500 Washington Street, Boston, (617) 423-4722.

• Gap, various locations, www.gap.com.

• Louis Boston, 234 Berkeley Street, Boston, (617) 225-5135.

• South Street Interiors, 207 South Street, Boston, (617) 728-9991.