3 Themed Party Ideas for Your Apartment Housing

If you are looking to throw a great housewarming party for your new apartment move-in, here are some themed party ideas that are sure to match your enthusiasm for your new home. Your apartment will be your sanctuary, and you want to feel like it’s a true home as early into the move as possible. One quick way to do that is to show it off to your friends with an apartment housewarming party to remember.

1. Happy Homemaker Party

Theme your apartment to the 1930’s, 1940’s or 1950’s, depending on your favorite decade. The most popular choice is a “Nifty Fifties” theme. Make it a semi-costume party as well, with everyone wearing decade-appropriate clothing, hairstyles and jewelry.

To make it work for a small space, defer furnishing the main room if you have to buy new furniture until after the party, and bring in foldable chairs, so that everyone can get comfortable and sit down for mingling.

Ask for appliances and things for your kitchen if someone asks what you’d like as a present, but place vintage ads for such appliances or gifts as decorations for the invitations. You can easily print those out online now. It can be a really fun, yet inexpensive theme, as vintage clothing can easily be found at thrift stores for the party.

Be sure to make party favors for all of your guests for coming to your apartment housewarming. For food served at a “Nifty Fifties” housewarming party, you want to serve TV dinners and glass-bottled Cokes. Just be sure to buy nice brands of dinners, and you may opt for family servings that be cooked in the stove, so that you can all eat at the same time.

2. The Bachelor Pad Party

Celebrate your new home by also celebrating the independence that your new apartment gives you. If you have a roommate, you may opt to host it together. You can find decorations for this at a bachelorette or wedding supply shop, but you don’t want to make this party like a bachelorette party celebration.

You’re not giving up your bachelorhood; you’re embracing it with your own apartment. Therefore, accentuate all the fun things about being single at the party, while not alienating your married or living together friends. Make banners and decorations to welcome people to the “penthouse” (even if it’s a basement apartment) and “bachelor pad.”

Play games that contrast being single and being married. Give an exaggerated grand tour, calling the names something more extravagant and fun than they are. Have fun with it; this theme for a party is all about not taking yourself or your pad too seriously.

Serve martinis and “single” shots, as well as having plenty of drinks available for your non-alcohol loving friends. If possible, have a bartender of the opposite sex to serve drinks and bar food appetizers to the attendants of your housewarming party.

3. Little House Housewarming

A “Little House” housewarming party is especially relevant when it comes to throwing an apartment housewarming party. Because apartments are typically very limited on space, it’s easy to draw parallels between the size of your apartment and the little house on the prairie. Because most children grow up with this book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, and many also grow up with the television show, it’s a really fun theme that will bring back great feelings and joyful memories of childhood. Grab an old board game of the show from eBay and some pioneer-time, Old West decorations for your apartment. This one is easy to decorate far. For a fun touch, have everybody arrive for the housewarming in bonnets and with a gift from Olsen’s Mercantile. Wear blond curls and act demanding if you’re very daring, portraying the character of Nellie for the amusement of your guests.

Serve drinks in old-fashioned glasses and plates. Serve wine and champagne, or opt to not serve any alcohol to also have the housewarming a kid-friendly event. You’ll want to serve dishes that were staples of pioneer times, including lots of vegetables from the harvest.