The Home Gift Guide
Designer-brand gifts for the home at three budgets: under $150, under $400, and the splurge tier, picked from pieces people actually keep.
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The best home gifts share one trait: the person would love to own them and would not buy them for themselves. Everything below follows from that, at three budgets.
Key Takeaways
- •Give what they would love but would never buy themselves.
- •Under $150: a great throw, a sculptural vase, or a small glass table lamp.
- •Under $400: a ceramic lamp or an arch mirror reads far more expensive than it is.
- •The splurge tier is for design icons, the pieces that outlast the trend cycle.
- •Gifts for the home get used every day.
Under $150: throws, vases and small lamps
A soft, oversized blanket is the least risky gift in the home category, and Pottery Barn's Marshmallow Blanket is as soft as the name suggests. A sculptural vase like CB2's Aleksi works for the friend whose shelves are already styled, and a small glass table lamp is an easy upgrade for someone's bedside.
Pottery Barn
Marshmallow Blanket
📏 108.0"W x 98.0"D x 0.25"H
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CB2
Aleksi Matte Black Patterned Glass Vase
📏 16.9"Wx14.15"Dx14.95"H
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Wayfair
Emmalee Glass Table Lamp
For a hosting family, a seasonal table piece like Pottery Barn's embroidered Gingerbread Village table throw comes back out every December.
Pottery Barn
Gingerbread Village Embroidered Table Throw - Neutral
📏 50" sq
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Two categories work hardest here. A ceramic table lamp with real presence, like Pottery Barn's Faris, gives you furniture-level impact at accessory-level cost. An arch mirror, like the Sabine, works above a dresser or in an entryway, where it makes the room feel bigger and the light better at the same time.
Pottery Barn
Faris Ceramic Table Lamp
Joss & Main
Sabine Metal Arch Wall Mirror
The splurge tier: design icons
When the budget is real, buy a piece with a name. The Flos Glo Ball, designed by Jasper Morrison, has been in production for decades and is recognizable to anyone who cares about design. A statement mirror like Arteriors' Pira anchors a wall on its own. These are the pieces people ask about.
Flos
Glo Ball T1 Table Lamp
📏 23.63"H x 13.0"Dia
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What members pay
Every gift above comes at member pricing. Membership is free, and it gets you 10 to 40 percent off retail across over 400 top brands, an average of $3,246 a year, on the piece you actually chose rather than whatever the store decided to mark down. Request your member price and your member success rep places the order and follows the delivery, which matters more than usual when there is a date it has to arrive by. If you are picking a finish for someone else's home, our designers will weigh in first; design help comes with every membership.
Frequently Asked Questions
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