My first thought is some pretty, customized return address labels with her new address, but I keep forgetting that people don't mail much anymore. But if you know the address, perhaps a customized gift. A woman near me sketches homes as gifts. Lots of options on etsy to digitally watercolor the house, a front doormat, or do something personalized with the address.

Like this, although it would require you photograph the house, but it's certainly a reasonable price.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/572253986/personalized-house-portrait-housewarming?ga_order=most_relevant&ga_search_type=all&ga_view_type=gallery&ga_search_query=housewarming+gift&ref=sr_gallery-1-7&frs=1&bes=1

Not knowing her style or anything about the house, I think I’d go the food or wine route. I never like getting decorative items since I then feel obligated to have it out or be ready to put it out when they visit. However, nice hand towels or dish towels would be good.

Feathers since this is a spec house, there's no real landscaping yet so it has that new house look with nothing personal yet. This is a pic from the listing which might work though.

ded I immediately thought of kitchen towels and I do know the kitchen colors at least from the listing. I always loved it when my MIL bought me kitchen towels at Xmas since it's the kind of thing I easily put off till I'm using stained rags! I should add, she loves chocolate and we always get her that for her birthday but other than that I have no idea what she likes and don't even know if she drinks!

Maybe a flowering shrub or other plant from a local nursery, if they're available now. Even if she cannot plant it yet, it will be fine in its nursery pot until she can.

You can’t go too wrong with giving white towels. Bath or kitchen.

Oh that's a great idea! Maybe I can suss out what type of flowering shrubs she likes.

Personalized paper coasters? I've given those in the lucite box and they've been well-received.

Nice large paper napkins with her monogram? We use those for a messy dinner. Or personalized hand towels for the bathroom / powder room if there is one. Probably the most useful gift would be a $50 gift certificate for either Home Depot, Lowes, Target or Home Goods. It is shocking how many trips to the hardware store you have to make wjen you move, even when you are convinced you own one of everything they sell already.

Kswl that's so true about HD trips. All the little things like drawer organizers or something is missing a screw..... it never ends!

Love all these ideas - keep 'em coming!

A few thoughts - its not a high stakes gift, so really the thought counts most. Start with a very nice card and note.

I agree never give anyone decor.

I always like combo gifts ... a nice card, something small and frivolous and/or personal (flowers? bubbly?), then a gift card for the bulk of the budget.

Home Depot gift card.

Gift Cert to The Container Store.

That would be great, Rory - I love the Container store but the closest one is over an hour away.

We have a little wooden silhouette of our house (it's probably 8" long, 3-4" high and 1/2" thick) painted the colors the house was when we bought it. On the back it has our family name and the date the house was purchased. I love it and it's been on the mantle for the entire 28 years we've been in the house.

Donna

I've been in my home for 21 years and I'd love a gift certificate to Home Depot or Lowes, even if it's to buy furnace filters.

LOL Bunny

Gift card to a local nursery. (The plant kind, not the child variety.)

When we moved into our house (many years ago), my in-laws gave us a basket with wine, a nice candle, some fancy salts, a nice jar of honey, and some fancy bread. It was accompanied by a nice picture frame reading:

• Bread: So that your cabinets will always be full
• Salt: So that life may always have flavor
• Wine: So that you will always be of good cheer
• Honey: So you will enjoy the sweetness of life
• Candle: So this house will always have light

I think it was a wonderful gift.

Beagles - what a lovely idea.

When we moved into our current home my friends gave me 2 huge potted flowering plants to place near the front entrance. They knew we were ripping out the old landscaping and this provided some much needed color. Of course this depends on what the weather is like where you live.

Bread, salt and wine with a card. And if you want to, a candle.

"Bread, that this house may never know hunger"; "Salt, that life may always have flavor. And wine, "that joy and prosperity may reign forever." Candle, " “May you always have light through the darkest times.” "

I really like that bread salt wine (and honey?) . What a really nice idea.

Oops, completely missed beagles' reply.

It is a lovely tradition. My parents gave that to us when we moved into our first house in 1968, and we've given it to each of our kids when they bought theirs. First I've heard of the honey, though.

We first saw it in "It's a Wonderful Life."

I am in the bread/salt/wine camp, that to me is the traditional new home gift. I think of it is Irish but who knows. I just dropped off a basket at our new neighbors a week or so ago.

Gift card to Home Depot, Lowes, Menards, Target.

When I bought my house got so much "cute" useless stuff I never used... but made many trips to home centers to get things I needed.

The bread salt wine is a lovely tradition for a first home, which is when we received it. It seems a little less impactful for a couple who just became empty nesters last fall, but still a lovely thought.

We actually received the bread, salt, wine in a nice basket, from my brother when we moved into our new home almost 5 years ago. It was a perfect house warming gift, as we really did not need things. That said the Home Depot gift card would also have been a great gift.

I too like the bread/salt/wine idea BUT I can’t imagine that she wouldn’t be very,very happy to receive a gift card to Lowes, Home Depot, a close by to them plant nursery or some type of home goods store. We’ve been here in this place for 26 years now and I’d still be thrilled with a gift card for any of the above!

In our circle, the standard housewarming gift is a sturdy rag rug, a bottle of wine and a roll of toilet paper! Along with the story that goes along with it..... Its an over 50 neighborhood that was mostly populated with older widows. Story goes the rug helps move anything, put it on rug and put your hip into it and viola! Wine self explanatory and the roll was because several moved in and the builder/previous owner didnt leave any and they were caught short...... Good for laugh.

This might be a weird idea but I would have liked it before I bought my own. Paint decks for Behr or Sherwin Williams or Benjamin Moore. I tend to think of practical things .

When we moved into our house, one of my best friends gave us a giant package of TP rolls and a can of bathroom spray. LOL. I have funny friends.

I love the pencil sketch! What app is that?

Sueb it's fotosketcher. I've been using it for a few years and really like it - doesn't take a lot to figure it out but there are plenty of drawing style options and ways to adjust within those options. I use it on my laptop, not phone and do the initial photo editing (brightening, color adjustments etc) usually through Google Photos before going to fotosketcher. I've found it very useful to take a photo of a room and reduce it to basic line drawing. Then I erase items and draw in things I'm considering, like window treatments or a media center I asked DH to build. It was very helpful with scale and working the design to existing architectural details in the room. It's free, which always rates high in my book. https://fotosketcher.com/