Helping Friends or Family Find Their New Rhythm
When you move into a new home, you’ve got to establish a new rhythm. The day when the garbage is picked up may differ from a previous address. How you water the premises may not be the same. Keeping the yard green with the lawnmower may require new intervals and all that is before repair, refurbishment, or other home improvement considerations. For friends or family who has recently become homeowners, there’s a lot of work ahead of them. Consider this reality when you buy housewarming gifts. Following we’ll explore a few options you might want to think about.
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1. A Big Beautiful Bouquet
Flowers are one of the most delightful home gifts there are. Also, they’re a great way to brighten up a space and help new homeowners walk into a given room feeling refreshed. They’ve got work ahead of them, and something else nice about flowers is they can stay gorgeous for a while, but by the time you’re tired of them, they’re about done anyway.
2. Tools to Help With Yard Work
Hedge trimmers, weed eaters, leaf blowers, lawnmowers, rakes, shovels, gardening spades, and gardening gloves; there are quite a few little tools of this variety that new homeowners forget they need until they realize there’s a chore to be done, and they don’t have the proper tool. If you give them some of those tools, that saves them a trip, and they’ll appreciate it.
3. Paintings, Posters, and Other Decor
A painting is a good gift because the recipient doesn’t necessarily have to hang it. They can hang it somewhere prominent, or nowhere at all, but there’s almost always a space somewhere in their home that could use a little color. Posters are similar. Decoration like little signs, little statuettes, and the like can all come in handy for new homeowners.
Just in case you’re not sure whether or not they’ll like the painting or poster you found, give them mounting kits as well. One, this will make it easy for them to put up whatever you’ve given them. Two, they’ll have other things they’re looking to put on the walls themselves, and your kit may be more valuable to them than the poster or painting.
4. Lamps—There Are Seldom Enough
The loveseat futon in the guest room needs a lamp. You need a kitchen LED light for when you need to see something, but don’t want to turn on the garish fluorescents at 2 AM. For a couple, the bed is going to need several lamps; and you get the idea. There’s generally a need for lamps in new homes.
Celebrating a Truly Important Step in Society
Bouquets, tools to help with daily chores like yard work, paintings, posters, general decorative items, and lamps all represent fine gifts you can give to the new homeowner. Hopefully, these suggestions act as fodder for the engine of your imagination. Any gift is a good gift, but with careful thought beforehand, some gifts are remembered for a lifetime.
