Hosting a housewarming party is a great way to share the joy of a new home with your friends and family. It also helps you get to know your neighbours and introduce them to your family. That said, throwing a housewarming party can be overwhelming if you go overboard with the decoration, arrangements and food. To ensure stress-free arrangements, we have put together a list of useful housewarming party tips.
How to organise a housewarming party
Keep things simple and don’t go overboard when planning a housewarming party. Let’s go through some useful, effective and stress-free housewarming party tips.
Settle in your new home
First things first, settle in your new house. Your new place doesn’t have to be in the perfect condition for housewarming, however, we suggest unpacking the boxes and keeping the furniture in place.
You may also want to get the walls repainted before throwing a housewarming party. If you’re based in Dubai, here is a list of house painting services in Dubai.
Just remember the most important housewarming party tip is not to rush for one. There is no set timeline for the party, if it takes you two to three months to settle in nicely, throw the party after two to three months.
This also allows you to plan the party in advance. Things to consider include the size of your house and the number of guests that can be accommodated and finally the date for the event. Having these things sorted will result in a stress-free housewarming party.
Send out housewarming invites early
After you decide on a date, make a guest list. Inviting family and friends is a given. However, having your neighbours over is a great idea to get introduced to each other. You can also invite coworkers to the party.
As for the invitations, choose if you want to mail them or go digital. While emails and text messages are perfectly fine, if you want to go with traditional printed cars, there is nothing wrong with that either.
Whatever mode you choose, send the housewarming party invites early. Ideally, send the invites three months in advance. This will also confirm the guests planning to attend. Since many people will be attending your new place in the first place, a useful housewarming party tip is to mention clear address details in the invites.
Make use of simple decorations
Another stress-free housewarming party tip is to keep the decorations simple. Don’t go overboard spending a massive amount of money on the decorations. Keep the décor classy, but simple. Just add a few touches like a welcome garland, balloons, some lightning and a vase of flowers.
You can get creative with party decorations in many ways; however, the key is to stay within your budget. Remember, the guests are there to see your new house.
Create a casual and easy menu for guests
Keep your life easy and create an easy, casual menu for the guests. Make use of food such as chips, fried items, sandwiches, pizza, some salad and veggies. Pick out some appetisers and don’t forget the drinks.
As for cups and plates, it’s best if you use the ones made out of paper. You can easily throw them away once used and save yourself from the hassle of dishwashing at the end of the day.
People typically stay around the food. Decide if you wish to keep the food space in the kitchen, dining room (if your house has space) or outdoors. Once decided, set up the table and keep a comfortable seating arrangement.
Give home tours to the guests
Everyone invited to your new house wants to go through it, therefore, be prepared for giving lots of home tours to the guests throughout the housewarming party. Among useful housewarming party tips, time management is essential. Limit the number of guests each tour to avoid cramming to many people and time yourself. If any other family member or a housemate answers the bell each time a new guest arrives, it will save you from being stressed while giving the tour.
You can also create a floorplan, hand it out to the guests and allow the guests to take a home tour themselves.
Think of a few interesting games
Once everyone is done with the food and tours, there’s not much to do. To keep everyone from getting bored, think of a few interesting indoor and outdoor games. As for indoor games, you can play new house scavenger hunt and the room memory game.
New home scavenger hunt: ask guests to answer questions about your new place. You can ask questions about the number of windows in the new house or the colour of the front door, or how many pens were on the study table.
Room memory game: ask guests to enter a specific room, say your bedroom, let them observe the room for five minutes and then escort them out. You can take your guests in groups of five. Once everyone is done viewing, ask them to write down all the items they remember from the room.
If you have space in the backyard or have a separate garden, you can also play outdoor games such as tug of war and card games, among others. The purpose of playing games with guests is to loosen them up, become friends with them and enjoy. Moreover, here is a list of a few other fun games to play at home.
Those were some useful housewarming party tips.
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