Looking for a thoughtful housewarming gift for someone in your life? Support local and give a unique, thoughtful gift that the recipient is sure to love and appreciate. We’ve curated a list of the best local gifts that make perfect and super considerate thoughtful gifts. Whether the homeowner loves decor, plants, is a naturalist, is eco-friendly, or a coffee-junkie, we have something for everyone!
This Beautiful Decor Bowl
Decorative bowls are one of the best decorative elements in a house because they also serve a purpose: to be a cute place for all of your loose “clutter”. This beautiful brass bowl was made in India and has a decorative primrose design all over it.
This Votive Candle Holder
Pair this candle holder with a package of lovely-scented votives for a lovely housewarming gift. This glass candle holder is hand-blown and hand-etched with golden accents. It’s a true work of art!
This Stunning Stone Printed Peshtemal
This beautiful peshtemal (which is a large, soft, and super absorbent Turkish bath towel) is handwoven and is stone printed with a beautiful blue coral pattern.
This Hand-Woven Tablecloth
This Pompon coffee table cloth is handwoven Buldan linen. It makes for a perfect tablecloth for a coffee table, or looks super cute as a decorative throw on a rustic “blanket ladder”.
This Taper Candle Holder
This golden metal candle holder is a beautiful piece to gift to someone! It was sculpted to look like a Ginkgo biloba tree and is 20 inches high!
This Serving Tray
This serving tray feels vintage and old-world-y. It’s food safe and is made from lightweight aluminum!
For The Eco-Conscious
This Zero Waste Starter Set
Households generally use a lot of paper products that end up in the trash: paper towels, toilet paper, and cotton pads! This starter set has un-paper towels, cloth wipes, and facial rounds! You can clean the home, wipe up messes, dry things, remove makeup, blow your nose and clean yourself after the bathroom.
This Kitchen Combo Starter Set
This package comes with beeswax food wrap, bamboo paper towel, and reusable produce bags! New homeowners can keep their kitchen clean, their food wrapped and transported, all without using single-use plastics or paper! Awesome!
A Dishwashing Wooden Dish Brush And Bamboo Soap Dish
This zero-waste kitchen gift set comes with a wooden dish scrubber, a No-Tox vegan dish soap block and a bamboo soap dish!
For The Coffee and Tea Lovers
This Super Dark Blend Of Coffee
This blend of beans from Patrick’s Beans is roasted extra dark for a HUGE dark roast taste without any bitterness. Patrick’s Beans hand roasts the beans in small batches to ensure perfection each and every time. Grab a pound of these beans and pair it with the beautiful mug below
This Handmade Local Canadian Pottery Mug
This ceramic mug features a beautiful modern monochromatic look. Each mug is hand-dipped, making it a completely unique one-of-a-kind piece! It comes from Hutton House, which is a local organization that promotes and supports people with disabilities through creative learning and life-enhancing programs. This mug makes a thoughtful housewarming gift, especially when paired with local tea or coffee!!
This Delicious Vanilla Chai Loose Leaf Tea
This blend is creamy and heavenly! It features Madagascar vanilla with ginger and candied cardamom. Paired with a super cute mug, like the one above, or a tea glasses set, like the one below, this makes a cozy and friendly housewarming gift.
This Stunning Black And Gold Set Of Tea Glasses
This beautiful set of Turkish tea glasses makes for a lovely housewarming gift! They’re black with a gold-plated rim. This set comes with 6 cups and 6 plates.
For The Naturalist
This Himalayan Salt Candle Holder
Himalayan salt is thought to improve air quality, boost your mood, and help you sleep. On top of that, this candle holder is super cute! It can fit a beeswax tealight or you can fill it with sand or small pebbles for other tea lights.
This All Natural And Organic Candle
Scented candles are a great option for housewarming gifts! This handmade one is made with sandalwood and fresh lavender and has a super cute “let’s stay home” saying, making it a GREAT gift for the new homeowner. It’s vegan, paraben-free, cruelty-free, petroleum-free, and phthalate-free and made from coconut soy! Pair it with this vanilla, wood & musk candle that says “congrats” on it!
These All Natural Handmade Soaps
These beautiful soaps are eye-catching and smell great, but they also are super moisturizing and gentle on your skin! They’re handmade in small batches and are filled with organic olive oil, coconut and shea butter, pure essential oils, botanicals and plants and/or minerals for colour! Pair one of these with a beautiful soap dish for an attractive and thoughtful gift!
These Crystal Candle Holders
These beautiful tealight holders are made from crystals. There are four different crystals to choose from. The Rose Quartz crystal is known for encouraging unconditional love, making this a great gift option for newlywed new homeowners or someone who is moving out on their own for the very first time after a breakup. The White Clear Quartz reduces negative energy and stress from our systems and makes a great gift for someone who could use less stress and negativity in their lives. The Black Obsidian is a strong psychic protection stone and is a great option for someone who believes in the power of crystals. Sodalite brings order and calm to the mind. It’s a great gift for those who experience anxiety and panic attacks.
For The Plant Enthusiast
This Beautiful Succulent Garden
This planted succulent garden is set in a stunning half-moon planter with pebbles and selenite crystals. Succulents make for beautiful gifts because they’re easy to take care of and don’t require special temperatures or humidity levels.
This Stunning Glass Watering Can
If you know that the gift recipient is going to have a home full of plants, this watering can make for a very thoughtful gift. It’s glass and modern, making it a decoration as much as a useful tool. Plus, having the watering can out all the time will be a great reminder to water plants!
This Glass Terrarium
Whether you create the terrarium yourself as part of the gift, or simply give this stunning terrarium itself as the gift and let the recipient have the fun of creating, it makes a LOVELY housewarming gift!
These Palette Pots
This beautiful palette pot comes in two different sizes and three stunning colours: lemon, honey & lime! Grab one a couple of these, grab some cute plants to fit inside, and watch your friend’s face light up when they see your housewarming gift!
This Black Crisp Plant Pot
This pot is part of the DeVil collection and is perfect for the minimalist. It’s black, which means that it will go with any decor concept. Get this and put a plant inside and it’s the perfect gift for any home and any decor style.
Final Thoughts
Everything on this list can be found on Locorum. Locorum is an online marketplace that is exclusive to small, local businesses across Canada! We’re making supporting local easy and rewarding. Find all of your favourite local brands under one virtual roof! Plus, you’ll get flat-rate, discounted Canada-wide shipping for every purchase.
When you shop Locorum, you’ll also get rewarded for choosing local. For each purchase you make you’ll receive credit into your Locorum account, which you can use towards your next purchase! It’s like getting paid to shop.