While some people may be cringing with the cold, or with the ever-nearing holiday season, I am getting super-stoked for the holiday season! I, like many of you, love this time of year because I get excited to make my home a fun welcoming place and I love preparing both food and my home for holiday gatherings.
In my profession, I work with home goods: housewares, textiles, and everything in-between! The home business booms around this time of year for the very reason that I like to buy fun home goods this time of year: people love to prepare for get-togethers with family and friends.
Take a look at some of my favorite websites for home items of great design and function. Maybe you’ll find that perfect thing you’ve been looking to serve your homemade cheeseballs in; and, keep these sites in mind for holiday gifts as well!
1. Bodum
Bodum is no big secret. Bodum has expanded to sell all over the place, including mid-to-high-end department stores, but I listed them first because I always enjoy their products’ design and functionality. Also, when I think of home entertaining, I immediately think of making coffee. Check out the Brazil Set: a colorful 8-cup french press with four matching cups. Great for entertaining, OR as a holiday gift!
Greener Grass Design’s mission statement is plain and simple: they want to provide interesting goods. Boom. GGD carries everything from bold barware, to playful pet-homes, to whimsical dishes, to charming trash bags. And come on fellow squirrel-lovers, what home doesn’t need an adorable squirrel-shaped nut bowl?!
The Shoppe always has some cutesy goods perfect for gift-giving, like a cheese board in the shape of France (ooh la la!), or these well-dressed napkins for your not-so-well-dressed family to jam in the necks of their T-shirts and look fancy.
4. Reiko Kaneko
Let’s switch it up for a second and move beyond the entertaining items, and go straight to a purely holiday gifty item – because it’s just that damn special. Based in the UK, Reiko Kaneko hand-crafts contemporary designs in bone china. Their items are interesting and fun, like these cat and dog bone china Christmas tree ornaments. Hand-crafted people!
5. Perch!
Perch is a small company (um, three people and a cat?) based in Brooklyn that produces home items that can perform double duty! A freeform basket can also be hung as a bird-feeder, a mason jar can be used as a vase or pitcher…you get the idea. Whatever you use them for, their designs and products are beautiful, modern yet organic, and environmentally friendly. Perfect for entertaining, or gift-giving!
Main Article Image features Perch! Rosette Vase
