Luxury Housewarming Gifts & New Home Gift Ideas

A new home is the perfect space to fill with your thoughtful gifts. Housewarming parties and ‘Griha Pravesh’ events are a great occasion to get your loved ones that home accessory they always wanted, or maybe something surprising and personal they never knew they wanted. Follow along our 9 ideas for new home gifts for your friends and family.

9 Gift Ideas For a New Home

1. Dinnerware

Dinnerware is obvious, but there’s a reason it’s a classic gift. Fine china, plates, dinner sets and other food serving vessels are a traditional gift for a new home that goes back well beyond recent human history. It’s also a practical choice beyond the symbolism.

Dinner sets are both impressive and a substantial investment. It’s often a great gesture for people who are just starting a home. You are giving them a leg up in the entertaining department and you’re gifting them with a set of items which can potentially be used for decades to come.

2. Decorative Ceramics

Or how about some decorative ceramics? There’s no pressure to make use of them.

For certain people, a dinner set can be a bit of a burdensome gift. Everyone doesn’t like elaborate meal setups and sometimes your choice of food presentation ware may just not be a good fit (more on the importance of the right fit later).

If you’re not sure of the practicality of dinnerware, decorative ceramics, pots, planters and artistic china can be a good buy too. They can elevate the space in aesthetic ways without putting any pressure on your host to make use of them in some practical way due to some sense of formality.

3. Cutlery Sets

Elaborate cutlery sets are also a cliche for a good reason. It’s impressive to receive one of these boxes of metal finery!

Dinner sets can be magnanimous gifts. Cutlery sets can be extravagant. Even if the costs aren’t excessive in comparison, the sheer visual impression of all that shiny metal in a box cannot be discounted. This too might have something to do with our traditional valuation of metals and shiny objects in social gifting, but again, there is a very practical value in cutlery.

Metals are simply longer lasting and cutlery can be used in small batches and piece meal. Cutlery is useful even if a few of them are used regularly with the entire collection saved for special occasions. Cutlery is a very flexible gift for anew home.

4. Bar Sets & Accessories

Sticking with utensils, are your friends more into beverages than food? Present them with a bar set or accessories, simple or quirky.

You can’t go wrong with a bar set if you want to lean into the shiny object syndrome of gifting for a housewarming event. Not only are bar accessories not something most people thinking of buying themselves unless they are cocktail aficionados, but by their very use, bar accessories have that sense of celebration to them.

What better way to remember your gift celebrating their new home than while cracking open a special bottle of something in celebration?

5. Cushions & Linen

In softer directions, sofa pillows, cushion covers, and even a nice set of bed linen can rarely be misplaced. Just make sure things are the right size.

Sizing up the beds and furniture on which your gifted linens will sit, and sizing up the tastes of your intended recipients are most important with cushions and linens. Other than that one caveat, it is a very warm and practical gift to give new home owners.

They will be reminded on a regular basis how your thoughtful gift made their space that much more comfortable to live in.

6. Side Tables

Choosing furniture for someone else is tough, but small accent pieces and side tables can be thoughtful additions to a friend’s new home.

The great thing about small side tables is that they can sit out of the way, be a practical tool for any home, and they can also function as little unobtrusive art pieces that demand a conversation. This little-bit-of-everything aspect of unique side tables makes them a great gift for a new home with a bit of space to fill with something useful and interesting.

7. Art & Sculpture Pieces

If you’re truly adventurous, try some art or sculpture. For the right friend or loved one, it might be just the right added accent for their space.

If art is the right gift for your friend and family, then accept no substitutes and go straight to unique pieces which will bring them joy. Practicality is not everything and we all know some people prefer to choose the practical aspects of their home themselves.

With a little bit of insight into their likes and dislikes, and a touch of adventure in your decision making, adding a mood piece to a new home can be that memorable gift you have always wanted to give which can have a permanent position on a wall or on a table in someone’s personal space.

8. Lounge Chairs

For the closest ones, maybe a comfortable lounge chair wouldn’t be over stepping.

What better way to celebrate the home of a loved one than by gifting them a comfortable corner for them to take a load of their feet and mind. A good lounge chair can be a cocoon away from the rush of the world outside, and every new home deserves that small escape.

9. Large Furniture

And if it’s family, maybe you can bring them along and help them choose a larger piece of furniture for their home.

Furniture can be an investment, but also good solid furniture can be a very good investment. Do this for the special people in their life. There can’t be a more practical and more generous gift than in letting them choose a large piece of the space they will be spending their time in.

Essential Housewarming Gifting Tips

The points above should give everyone some ideas they can use, whatever your price point and your level of closeness with the person you are presenting with a housewarming gift. No matter what you choose as a gift, always keep a few things in mind

1. Make it thoughtful
2. Make it practical for the home it will stay in
3. Make it personal
4. MOST important of all! Know the tastes of those who will live with your gift.

That last point is the most crucial and challenging, but you find a way with the people you care about. We can’t promise to help you with that part per se, but to choose the best gifts for them come over and talk to us. We’re always happy to gift you with a few insights into home accessories and furniture.

For all your new home gifts this festive season and beyond, visit the Tranceforme store. We have an extensive collection of glassware, dinnerware, ceramics, bar sets and many seasonal wonders for you to explore.