The Best Housewarming Gifts for Any Home

Everyone's home needs a good set of coasters. Not only can they keep your surfaces safe, but a cute set like these Glass Cloud Coasters from East Fork Pottery also make a fun style statement on whatever tabletop they sit on. They come in two gorgeous sets of colors—Day, with a white and blue cloud, and Sunset, with a purple and orange cloud—and are a fun statement for any surface. They're a little slim, but still wide enough for my coffee cups and even my massive Owala. They've held up great after a year of drinks have sat upon them during my working hours, with no scratches or dings to speak of.

One of the best parts of owning a home is often the sudden availability of more surface area—larger rooms in which to put shelves, bigger kitchens with more counter space. If your giftee is interested in cooking or gardening (or both), this budget hydroponic garden would make a fun and unexpected housewarming present, especially if they live in an apartment. It fits perfectly on a countertop, requires minimal maintenance (you can spot from across the room whether or not it needs more water and nutrients, based on a liquid level gauge on the top), and, best of all, can accept any seeds you want to plant in it. No proprietary pods needed, and replacement sponges are ubiquitous and inexpensive on Amazon. —Kat Merck

Nothing says new home like a new set of bedding. One of our favorite affordable, long-lasting sets of bedsheets are Bedsure's GentleSoft Bamboo Cooling Sheet Set ($67). WIRED reviewer Julia Forbes reaches for it more than any other set she has, and says her set has lasted years. These sheets pack all our favorite benefits of bamboo sheets with a silky-cool feel, but are more affordable since they're made with bamboo rayon. It's a great price for a nice gift and something you know they'll need.

If you're looking for something on the higher end but don't want to just gift another bottle of wine, try the Chef's Kiss gift set from Flamingo Estate. The maker of our favorite scented candle puts a delicious extra virgin olive oil, spicy chili olive oil, and wildflower honey into a gift-wrapped box for a splurge of essentials your favorite chef will love using. I currently can't stop using the olive oil as a drizzle on my favorite pasta dishes.

Moving into a new home always feels like I’m in the cleanest place I’ve ever lived. Fresh paint! A clean shower! A stove that isn’t covered in burned rice remains! But it’s work to keep it that way. My new favorite tool to clean with is SonicPower’s Electric Spin Scrubber. It’s great to grab for shower stains and sticky sink buildup, and it comes with four different brushes so that you can pair the right brush with the right area of your home, like the hard brush for my shower floor and scour brush for the stovetop. It’s got simple controls: one button to turn it on and switch between low and high power mode, and a little screen to show how much battery life is left.

Anyone who’s moved from an apartment to an actual house—or from a starter house to a bigger house—knows the struggle. You’ve moved everything in, you’ve hung up all your pictures, but maybe there just aren’t enough, or what worked in the old place just isn’t working in the new place. Everyone loves a good gallery wall, and these professionally curated sets from Society6 are guaranteed to work together and look great in any setting. I had previously bought a different curated gallery wall for my living room, and not only were all the frames made of the same wood, the frames and prints came separately and required assembly.

When this set arrived, I deeply and immediately regretted not going with it first. The art arrives professionally framed and matted and ready to hang, and the different frames lend a high-end look to any room they go in. Set options as of press time include Heritage Haven (vintage still-lifes), Sierra (midcentury cool, pictured), Whimsy (funky-feminine), The Curator (art museum chic), The Seaside (coastal-inspired), and Dan Hobday Signature (an eclectic selection of his works). —Kat Merck

One of my friends and I are obsessed with tinned fish, and one of our favorite brands is Fishwife for its fun variety of tinned fish and delicious flavors. You can often find us spending a lunch break at our local Sprouts picking out another can to try. Don't let the “spicy” on the label scare you, I'm not a big spice fan and I’ve enjoyed every can I've tried. Anyway, now there's a perfect gift set for tinned-fish fans like us: Fishwife's Cookbook Gift Box. It has Fishwife's cookbook with 80 recipes using tinned fish, and comes with three different cans from Fishwife (I love the albacore tuna in lemon one). It comes in a cute box too.

If they love to bake, whether it’s homemade scones or just premade cookie dough from the grocery store (I’ve got aspirations of the former but currently have the latter in my fridge), these Great Jones baking sheets are both great for baking and fun to look at. The baking sheets come in five food-themed colors: raspberry pink, mustard yellow, broccoli green, blueberry blue, and pepper black, and can come as a half-sheet or two quarter sheets, or a set of both sizes. The two quarter sheets double nicely as little serving trays for a party.

In my seven years as a homeowner, a cordless electric drill is my most-used power tool—in fact, it's the only one I use more than a few times a year. This Greenworks kit has both a standard drill you can use to screw together furniture along with an impact driver that has five times as much torque for when you need to screw into something thick and heavy. (I have found that the impact driver is mostly useful for helping me avoid the temptation to push the regular drill too far on the rare occasion it's needed.)

This GreenWorks set works well, but the biggest reason to opt for it is that the 24-V Lithium batteries are recharged via standard USB-C, which is an extremely nice feature for people who don't want to hassle with the exotic brand-specific charging blocks that are far too common. That battery will also double as a backup battery to charge your phone a couple of times in a blackout, which is welcome versatility, especially for people with smaller spaces who might only use a drill occasionally. —Martin Cizmar

I was not expecting to love this tiny, cordless blender as much as I do. It takes around an hour to charge via USB-C, and the battery doesn’t last very long—about as long as it takes to make two smoothies. But we recently had to do an emergency restock on frozen fruit and protein powder because it’s more convenient than dragging out the Vitamix every morning. It has an 18-ounce capacity, which is pretty big, but my 7-year-old can drink from it easily, sadly. The lid and container are dishwasher-safe, and the blending is remarkably thorough and effective—no frozen berries getting stuck, no large chunks left. If you have an early commute, you can even blend and grab on your way to the car. —Adrienne So

Moving is stressful. You know what can help with that? A weighted blanket. One of the most beautiful weighted blankets I've tried is from Lola Blankets, which has supersoft, faux fur polyester cover that comes in a range of gorgeous colors. It's a lighter weight, with the large blanket only weighing 10 pounds, which I find to be a nice weight to use casually without feeling too heavy. It's one of my top picks in our guide to the best weighted blankets. If you're looking for more of the classic knit style to give as a gift, I really like Bearaby’s Tree Napper ($199) and Nuzzie’s Ice Knit Blanket ($199). Unsure what weight you should choose? A weighted blanket should be about 10 percent of the user's weight, and I'd recommend going lighter rather than heavier.

Nothing says it’s a real home like being able to see all the spices. The Container Store’s Expanding Three-Tier Organizer has three little shelves and can expand to nearly 2 feet long for plenty of room to arrange spices and jars. I don’t know about your spice shelf, but our house has a collection of hot sauces and extra containers of furikake (we can never remember if we’re running out yet) that are much easier to navigate with the three-shelf setup. It’s not an expensive item, either, but really cleans up a shelf in your pantry in a matter of minutes. It's the only reason my spice section looks even remotely organized.

Moving into a new home sounds like a magical time to get everything organized, right? I thought so, too, and then the chaos of moving in turned every closet I owned into a dumping ground. The top shelves of both my hall closet and my bedroom closet were the worst offenders. So much space, turned into haphazard piles of sweaters and random accessories. Until, that is, I added The Container Store’s Like-It modular bins and drawers to the top of my closet. You can stack them if you’ve got the height space, but I found that just two bins side by side suddenly organized sweaters that usually took up double the space. The drawers are handy too for more miscellaneous items. I’ll be adding these to every closet in the house, slowly and surely, and I’m sure any other homeowner you know would love them just as much as I do.

I've hated every shower organizer I've ever had. That is, until I saw The Spot from Quiet Town. It comes in three colors and uses a pegboard-like system, coming with three organizers, one hook, and a mirror you can attach to the organizer wherever you see fit. It's a modern style statement in a shower organizer, something I never thought I'd find. The included organizers have enough space for one person's various shower bottles, so if you're gifting this to a couple, you might want to add on an extra bottle basket or two for them to fit everything on there.

But my favorite thing is how insanely long the included strap is. I have a showerhead designed for someone upward of 6 feet tall, and most shower organizers sit weirdly high off my showerhead. The Spot doesn't have this problem thanks to the included long strap. I was able to hang mine about 22 inches below my showerhead with some extra strap to spare. It also comes with accessories to drill it into the wall if you prefer that.