A Gift For: A New Student House

A gift for a new student house

It’s that time of the year again – when our younger siblings, niece, children or godchildren head off to university, and set up home in a student house. But it needn’t be all baked beans on toast, slug infestations and damp. Or if it is, here are a few housewarming gift ideas that will make it a little better.

Those box rooms that crop up in most student houses never quite feel like home at first glance. Turn an unwelcoming box room into a beautiful boudoir with a few special touches.

This delicate, handmade, butterfly garland by Anusha is just the thing to transform a pokey bedroom into a cosy haven. Whether it's draped around an otherwise boring bedstead or hung from an old curtain rail, it’ll look girlie and gorgeous.

Much as most of us relish the luxury of curling up in a huge armchair with a favourite book and bar of chocolate, a student room, once furnished with a divan bed and small bookshelf, leaves little room for much else, least of all a ‘lounge area’.

This is easily solvable thanks to the ingenious LoJo Ball, your own personal (and most importantly portable) chill-out pod, which can be perched on or unzipped for optimum lounging. Our favourite is the ‘Humbug’, a stripy design which, unzipped, reveals a flash of hot pink.

Student life isn’t without its blown fuses, power cuts, and black outs.

When calling the (unhelpful) landlord on a Sunday evening just isn’t an option, your student will be grateful for her pretty and oh so stylish floral toolkit.

Even if your newly independent darling has managed to master the use of the oven (or at the very least has discovered the ‘microwaveable meal’ section at their local supermarket), there’s nothing like home cooked treats.

That’s where Meg Rivers, and her Starving Student care package comes in. Crammed full of yummy, wholesome treats, their house / room will be the most popular on the block.

If they insist upon devouring several portions of beans/cheese/marmite (delete as appropriate) on toast each day, make sure the bread is toasted with love.

Let them know you’re thinking of them and prepare them for those early morning tutorials with this sweet toaster that stamps 'I love you' on each slice. After all, breakfast is the most important meal of the day (even it is eaten at 3pm).

And once their stomachs are suitably lined, would-be nutty professors might enjoy playing drinking games with these test tube-shaped shot glasses, which are definitely not for use in the lab - you wouldn't want to mistake hydrochloric acid for vodka.

Fabulously fun, but enough of a reminder of that 9am lecture the next day...

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