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Bread and salt. wine. A broom or a bag of flour. For centuries, honey, pineapples, and even blue birds—symbols of happiness—have been given to people who move into their new homes.

Autumn is a busy time for relocation, and many people have recently done so due to changes in work, school, and family life related to the pandemic.

Therefore, if you are looking for some modern housewarming gifts to match (or replace) traditional gifts, we will provide some suggestions for new tenants and new owners from interior designers.

Baylee Floyd is a designer based in Orlando, Florida. She has an online platform Decorist. She suggests giving your friends a welcome mat. "Front door cushions are always a great gift-I get customized, monogrammed cushions to help them really make their place feel like home," she said.

Etsy.com and other websites offer customizable mats, or you can buy initial cocoa mat designs at Grandin Road, Frontgate and Birch Lane.

Elysia Home’s Letterfolk doormat comes with a bag of 75 hexagonal penny tiles, so new tenants or owners can create their own welcome message.

Leia T. Ward, the founder of LTW Design in New Canaan, Connecticut, likes the idea of ​​providing a little connectivity.

"Alexa or Echo (may) seem casual," she said, "but it's perfect for extra space where homeowners don't usually tend to buy smart speakers, such as a patio, garage, home office, or bathroom."

Or how about a house key locator?

"Their keychain GPS detector is a great housewarming gift," Ward said. "It seems random and unimportant until they really need it."

If they already have a viewfinder, you can update the keychain itself by obtaining a keychain with a letter combination. Mark & ​​Graham offers Kelly green, black, red or blush leather tassel shoes.

If the new mover wants a bohemian decoration, consider Natural Life's hand-painted wooden flower hook, which can be placed next to the door, on the porch wall or anywhere.

Seattle designer Elizabeth Herrera suggested a custom house portrait. "Upload a special photo to minted.com and they will make letterpress or standard prints," she said. You can choose the frame style, cushion and size when ordering.

If the recipient has moved to Chicago, New York City, San Francisco or Texas, Minted’s designers will create cool toilet paper for each of these cities and provide frame pins suitable for kitchen or home office plate.

Chatbooks allows you to connect Instagram or camera roll to create photo albums, prints or cards, and also offers wall tiles options. Print the image on a square canvas frame with removable adhesive; very suitable for renters.

Whispart on Etsy will create personalized heart-shaped or house-shaped maps for new excavations; add as many details as possible, then download and frame.

City dwellers may like Green Philosophy Co’s tropical leaves or succulent-shaped soft plush pillows; they partnered with the non-profit organization Trees for the Future to provide pillows and throwing sales to support planting programs worldwide.

Another environmental protection concept: The Polished Jar provides reusable bottles for personal and household products such as soaps and lotions. Choose plastic or glass, you can further customize fashionable metal or matte black pump, plus waterproof label. Available separately or bundled, including stylish pallets.

Use Otherland's Manor House Weekend soy candle series to bring some pleasant scents to your new home. The autumn version has smoky maple, cardamom, roasted nuts, pear and apple flavors.

Homesick's New Home candle is a mixture of jasmine, cedar, lime and sandalwood, and can be customized with personal information on the jar label.

If you know your recipients well and can buy gifts for them that will be revisited every month, then a subscription box might be great. There are many options, and they can eliminate guesswork in decoration.

“I like to decorate the subscription box for a month’s holiday for friends who have a new house,” Freud said. "Because this is their first home, they don't have a lot of decorations, or they just moved in and don't have time to decorate for the holidays."

Mikayla Keating, a designer in Boise, Idaho, has suggestions for flower and plant lovers in a house or apartment.

She said: "Flowers always make a new home feel warm and warm."

At Bloomsy Box, the bouquets come from a fair trade farm, wrapped in eco-friendly paper, and shipped monthly. Subscription options include pet-safe bouquets and mixed arrangements, as well as bouquets inspired by the New York Botanical Garden; some of its sales help support the garden’s work in plant science and conservation.

For people who want simple, low-maintenance plants, The Sill has multiple subscription options.

The new residents are art lovers, but aren’t they?

"A good way to get your friends to decorate their home is to subscribe to art," Keating said. "This is ideal when you are not sure about their style, or when it is difficult for them to choose the artwork themselves."

The gift card allows them to register with Art Crate, fill in the style test, and the in-house curator will help them choose the fine art prints of independent artists; they choose the size and format, as long as they think their wall is satisfied, they can cancel it.

Tabletop objects, wall art and pillows are possible goodies in one of Decocrated’s seasonally curated boxes.

Knife blocks and cheese boards are classic housewarming gifts. If you want to take it to the next level, consider Crate & Barrel's monogram service board, which is made of mango wood, marble and inlaid brass. The retailer also has Schmidt Brothers Cutlery tabletops and wall-mounted knife holders, made of warm acacia wood.

Or consider Material Kitchen's reBoards, which are cutting boards made from recycled plastic and sugar cane and offer beautiful rainbow-like shades.

KitchenAid’s Artisan series of limited edition Light and Shadow stand mixers have a "wow" factor; the base is a creamy milkshake hue, the bowl is matte black, with a rivet-designed texture, making your recipient want to use it Place it in front and center of the kitchen counter.

A thin but powerful semi-automatic espresso machine, blender and coffee grinder from KitchenAid also offers this milky white hue.

Mark & ​​Graham has several unique serving trays, pitchers and blankets that can be personalized with various fonts.

Wildwood House, a gift shop in New Jersey, offers beautifully carved maple, cherry or walnut corks made in Maine by Captain John Coppola, who learned from the store’s co-owner’s father Turning of wood. There are also eye-catching woven baskets, which are perfect for placing in any room. The procurement helps support basket artisans in the Bolgatanga agricultural region in northern Ghana.

Or consider some chic backyard picnic items, such as personalized rattan tote bags, wine and cheese backpacks, steel or copper growlers, acrylic glasses and linen napkins, all with monograms.

Cook is a freelance writer for the Associated Press.

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