Housewarming Gifts

Housewarming Gifts for a Griha Pravesh, a First Flat or a New Home

A housewarming gift is the easiest gift to get right and the easiest to get wrong. Right: something the house needs in its first week and does not yet own. Wrong: anything that assumes their taste in décor. This page is built on the first kind — the toran for the door, the diya for the puja, the urli for the entrance, the planter for the windowsill, the tea for the first guests — with a card in your words and tracked delivery to the new address anywhere in India.

The four things a new house needs on day one

1. Something for the door. The handcrafted jute lotus toran, ₹349 — the first thing that goes up at a griha pravesh and stays up for years.
2. Something for the puja corner. A brass diya, ₹250, or ceramic diyas from ₹99; the Lakshmi Ganesh prosperity box, ₹999; the German silver Laxmi Ganesh pair, ₹1,600; the Shubh Labh set, ₹2,499, for the entrance; the golden loban burner, ₹475, for the first evening.
3. Something living. The self-watering planter, ₹169, the planter with a water-level indicator, ₹249, or the gold-toned brass tulsi planter, ₹1,500, for the balcony.
4. Something for the first guests. The handmade urli set, ₹750, to float flowers at the entrance; the Duet tea and coffee hamper, ₹999, for the kitchen; the Royal Majesty silver-plated tea set for a house that will host.

Light, scent and the table

The hand-poured candle with a wooden lid, ₹449, and the jasmine candle, ₹799, for a room that still smells of paint; the lavender aroma vaporiser set, ₹300; the brass candle stand pair, ₹600, and the German silver peacock t-light holder, ₹1,250, for the first dinner; the jute wall-hanging organiser, ₹199, for the keys that have nowhere to live yet. For a couple's new home, Jodi — two shawls and two wine glasses — and for the sweets that a griha pravesh needs, the Shagun potli, ₹499, or the regional snacks hamper.

Housewarming gifts by budget

Under ₹500: the toran, a planter, a brass diya, the candle, the loban burner. ₹500–₹1,000: the urli set, the Lakshmi Ganesh box, Duet, the jasmine candle. ₹1,000–₹2,500: the peacock t-light holder, the tulsi planter, the German silver idol pair, Jodi, the Shubh Labh set. For a colleague's new home from the team: one piece with a card carrying everyone's names — the urli set or the toran, not a whip-round of small things.

Materials, honestly

Brass is brass and darkens with use; German silver is a nickel-brass alloy with a silver finish, not sterling — that is why the peacock t-light holder is ₹1,250 and not ₹12,000; jute and terracotta are hand-finished and vary. Each product page states the material and the size, so the gift is what the recipient thinks it is.

Delivery to the new address

Ready-to-ship pieces dispatch within 24–48 hours of payment and reach most Indian cities in 3–5 working days, tracked; brass, glass and terracotta are wrapped for transit. Check the new address has a working phone number attached — the commonest reason a housewarming parcel comes back is that the recipient's phone is still at the old flat. From abroad, deliver to the Indian address at no extra cost.

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This is the housewarming edit of our curated gift hampers. See also home décor gifts, wedding gifts for the couple before the house, gifts for parents and family and the devotional range.

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