Ideas for · 2 min read · updated 2026-10-23

Closing gifts for new homeowners

For agents, lenders and the parents who helped with the down payment: a gift that arrives after the keys and is about the house they just bought.

The picks

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   Pillows

   Home Sweet Pillow

   Their new house as a pillow cut along the roofline, with the closing gift option that puts your note on the packing slip and leaves the prices off.

   Makes: Shaped pillow

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   Walls & mugs

   The Sky That Night

   The real weather and moon over the house on closing night, painted, with the recorded numbers on a plate underneath. Best sent a couple of months later.

   Makes: Poster

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   Stickers & patches

   Merit Badges

   A sticker sheet of merit badges for the buying process: escrow, the inspection, the first mortgage payment.

   Makes: Sticker sheet, holo sticker or patch

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   Hats

   The Club

   An embroidered hat for a fake club about their new homeowner problem, like the one who already owns three ladders. The site writes the club name and a faux-Latin motto.

   Makes: Embroidered hat, beanie or patch

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The house pillow, start to finish

• Get a photo of the front. The site asks you to confirm it's your house or that the owner said yes, so ask the buyers. It's a good excuse to congratulate them.
• Keep people out of the shot. Photos with anyone in them are refused, so skip the one of the family holding the keys on the steps.
• Check the count. The site counts windows, floors and chimneys before it draws. Fix any wrong numbers, because the drawing follows them.
• Pick a style and a banner. Storybook, Tiny Model or Risograph, and up to 24 characters underneath, like HOME SINCE OCTOBER.
• Choose the closing gift option. Your greeting and a note of up to 180 characters go on the packing slip. No prices print on it.
• Finish on the same device. The drawing can only be ordered from the browser that sent the photo.

Something from the closing itself

Closing day is a date and a place, which is all The Sky That Night needs: it looks up the weather and the moon over the house that night and paints the scene. NOAA's station reports take about two months to arrive, so this one works best as a follow-up gift a season later, when the records are in.

If they spent months in escrow, Merit Badges turns what they survived (the inspection, the appraisal, the moving truck) into a sash of scout badges, with a title like SURVIVED ESCROW.

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