When the people in your life become homeowners, you want to celebrate them and their accomplishments! Giving a new home buyer a welcome gift is a great way to celebrate this exciting new step in their life.
We’ve compiled a list of the best gifts for first time homeowners and new home buyers. We also included links that make purchasing any of these exciting gifts easy. This takes the stress out and makes giving a gift easy and fun.
Now, let’s get into the first fun gift idea for a new home buyer.
#1 – Personalized Address Sign
Help your loved one adorn their new home with a unique, personalized address sign. Many options are available for a customized address sign, ranging in price from $20-$100. Pick something that matches the style of their home to add to their curb appeal.
Choose a bold, modern metal sign like this one from RapidArc on Etsy. Birch Ln offers a beautiful classic lawn address sign for a more traditional sign featured in their yard.
#2 – Potted Plant
Give their home a breath of fresh air with an air-filtering potted plant. It’s best to select a low-maintenance plant for a new plant parent.
An easy-to-care-for plant is a pothos; this beautiful climbing plant grows rapidly and adds life to the home. The money tree is easy to care for and is considered a good luck token for the home. HomeBuyer.com has a great list of more plants that are considered auspicious.
Check out your local garden centers or plant nurseries for a beautiful, full potted plant. Or you can purchase some low maintenance from places like Easy Plant or The Sill.
#3 – Personalized Welcome Mat
Welcoming guests through the threshold of their new home is an exciting moment for a new homeowner. Give their front porch a touch of personalization with a custom welcome mat.
Etsy has a lot of great options featuring the family name, like this one from HisandHerDecor, for $25. Or you can find something unique to their style and sense of humor for $50 and up at Society6.
#4 – Cookbook
The kitchen is the heart of the home. The new homeowners in your life are probably excited to break in their new kitchen, hosting dinner parties for friends and cooking traditional holiday meals for their family.
Add some extra excitement and flavor to their new kitchen with fresh recipes from a good cookbook. If your loved ones enjoy hosting dinner parties, you can give them Joanna Gaines’ new cookbook Magnolia Table. For great food and cooking information, Samin Nosrat offers some wonderful lessons in Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat.
On the other hand, Graze by Suzanne Lenzer is a charcuterie cookbook with stunning photos if they are more interested in assembling than baking.
#5 – Cookware
A great, practical addition to the home is some solid cookware. A large, enamel Dutch oven is both a beautiful feature in the kitchen and a handy piece of equipment.
Anthropologie also has a beautiful set of glazed stoneware for the aesthetic chef in your life.
#6 – Custom Home Painting
Celebrate the purchase of their new home with custom artwork commemorating this exciting step in their lives. Many outstanding artists feature their custom art skills on Etsy.
This lovely watercolor painting of their home is a great memento of their new purchase, with lovely coloring and the new address memorialized. For a more traditional black-and-white sketch work that features well in any home, consider this option from RoseArt. A more unique, modern take featuring clean line work is this style by OpheliaCreativeArt.
#7 – Video Doorbell
Home security is essential. Video doorbells offer a sense of security and calm, knowing you will see and record every approach to your home.
With all the expenses of a new home, your loved ones may choose to forgo this purchase for some more immediate needs. A video doorbell gives them the gift of calm and security.
Obviously, the most popular brand of video doorbells is Ring from Amazon. Ring doorbells come in a variety of options and connect to an entire security system if they wish to upgrade. Ring is easy to install and use, plus there’s a ton of great information and support for the system.
There are also great options like the Arlo Essential Wired Doorbell, which provides fewer false alerts. Or the Google Nest Doorbell that connects to Google’s entire smart-home system.
#8 – Engraved Wood Cutting Board
Another of the best gifts for first time homeowners is a wood cutting board. Wood cutting boards make a great accent piece for a kitchen. A perfect serving platter for a charcuterie board or a fresh loaf of bread, they are functional talking points for get-togethers and dinner parties.
Give the new homeowner in your life a wood cutting board commemorating the purchase of their new home. Personalized cutting board options are easily found on Etsy, Amazon, and elsewhere.
ForeverWeddingCrafts on Etsy has an attractive option starting at only $20. Copper Fox Co features a variety of color and engraving options like this modern look featuring their new address.
#9 – New Home Gift Basket
Moving into a new home suddenly creates a massive checklist of needs that a new homeowner might never have imagined. A gift basket bundles some items from that checklist to simplify life for the new homeowner.
The traditional new homeowner gift basket consists of bread, salt, wine, honey, olive oil, and a candle, all items with meaning for the new home.
Consider creating a new home survival gift basket inside a laundry basket, with some cleaning supplies, hangers, and plastic baggies. Or a gift basket of items to destress after a big purchase and move, like bath bombs, lotions, and a cozy blanket.
Sending a pre-made gift basket direct to their new home is also an option through places like Spoonful of Comfort or Giften.
#10 – Gift Card
You truly can never go wrong with cash. New homeowners have dozens of unexpected purchases after completing the biggest investment of their life. Make life a little easier for them with a gift card to a convenient place like Amazon, Walmart, or Target.
Make a New Home Buyer Happy
No matter which of these gifts for first time homeowners you choose, they are sure to make the new home buyer in your life excited. It’s a big responsibility owning a home for the first time. But giving a gift is a fun way to help start this new chapter in a new home buyer’s life.
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