House Warming Party Ideas

Housewarming is an occasion of entering into the newly constructed home. Moving into a new home is among the more exciting events in life. This event means a new beginning of life, for the house owners and the celebration denotes their happiness about the new home. The occasion is also meant to meet old and new friends and relatives. It is a sort of welcome ceremony for the new home. In the case where the move is to a distant location, a housewarming can be used as a way to meet the new community. In short, housewarming is a conventional event to get into the new home.

If you’re hosting your own party, then it is not necessary to wait until the home is in perfect shape or until everything is unpacked. Your guests would be more curious to see how your house looks like, than on critically analyzing your home décor. So your housewarming party can be an informal and simple event.

Housewarming hosting tips:

Tours

As mentioned earlier, everybody in your party would be more interested in seeing your house inside-out. Therefore, you should have a plan for taking care of your home tour. If you are the one who is to conduct the tours, then you must find some to someone to act as host, answering the door, welcoming your guests, and making them comfortable until the next tour begins. Or you can give the guests the freedom to take self-guided tours. In that case, you should give the guests a floor plan of your home. If you’ve renovated the whole house, then just to make things interesting you can post a ‘before’ picture outside each room.

Food

As your guests will mostly be walking around and checking out the home, the ideal food thus for the occasion has to be something casual, may be finger foods. Finger food that you can include in your menu would be little tea sandwiches, fruit and vegetable trays, appetizers like stuffed mushrooms etc. For fun you can setup the food in several different rooms, thus the guests touring the different rooms will be greeted with small surprises. Have small plates and napkins in each room and this way you are sure to have your guests start interacting with each other.

Activities

The occasion being housewarming, the main attraction for sure would be your home. So you don’t have to plan a lot of activities to keep your guests amused. They will be far more interested in touring your house than in playing party games at this time. However, the only game that might be useful would be simple icebreaker to introduce old friends to new neighbors.

Decorations

Try to keep the decoration as simple as possible. In the party the guests are going to be much more interested in seeing your new home than wanting to look at decoration, so keep it very simple. A few balloons, a tablecloth on the dining room table, perhaps a welcome banner. Other than that, a couple of burning candles and some fresh flowers are best. However, please don’t forget to get paper plates, napkins and plastic cutlery, it will save you from doing the dishes later.

Invitations

When you mail the invitations for the party, please don’t forget to mention proper directions to the house. It is important, as most of your guests would be visiting your new home for the first time. Housewarmings are often casual events. However, you must must select an invitation card that never fails to impress. On searching the Internet, you will find an array of companies that sell invitation cards. There are even some like:

• InvitationBox
• The Personal Note
• They Deserve IT

Who offer unique and personalized housewarming invitation cards. But before you select an invitation card, you should make sure your choice ranks high on both quality and creativity.

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