A new home deserves something with more meaning than a generic housewarming candle. EthniiChic's Housewarming collection gathers hand-painted and hand-carved pieces from across our full catalogue — Cheriyal, Kerala Mural, Tanjore, and more — chosen specifically for what they represent: welcome, abundance, protection, and new beginnings. Every piece is individually hand-painted or hand-carved by our studio artists, built to mean something the day it's gifted and still mean something years later.

Name Boards — The First Thing a New Home Says

A name board is one of the most immediately meaningful housewarming gifts there is — it's literally the first object a visitor sees. This collection includes three, each drawing on a different regional tradition: the Kolam Wooden Name Board carries South India's threshold-drawing art, traditionally redrawn fresh each dawn as an invitation for the goddess Lakshmi to enter the home; the Athangudi Wooden Name Board takes its pattern language from Chettinad's hand-cast cement tile craft, a two-centuries-old tradition tied to Tamil Nadu's Chettiar merchant community; and the Guruvayurappan Name Board carries the name and iconography of Kerala's Guruvayur Sri Krishna Temple deity, one of the region's most significant pilgrimage figures.
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Annapoorna and Ganesha — Deities Chosen for What a New Home Needs

Two figures in this collection are traditional, specific choices for a new home, not generic devotional decor. Annapoorna Devi, whose name literally means "she who is full of nourishment," is the goddess of food and abundance — a directly relevant gift for someone setting up a kitchen for the first time. Ganesha, invoked before any new undertaking and traditionally the first deity welcomed into a new home, is represented here in a Kerala Mural framed canvas painting. Both carry real, specific meaning tied to what a housewarming actually marks — a beginning, and the hope of never going hungry in it.
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The Kulo Shape — Grain, Abundance, and a Deliberate Pairing

The Annapoorneshwari Kulo Wall Mount takes the shape of a Kulo, a traditional Indian winnowing fan used to separate grain from chaff — a genuinely deliberate pairing with a goddess whose name means "full of grain," not an arbitrary decorative silhouette.
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Cheriyal Wall Plates — A Full Narrative Set for a New Wall

Eight individual Cheriyal wall plates sit in this collection — Village Musicians, Rani Sawari, Vivah Jhula, Shringar, Sita Swayamvar, Grama Streelu, Royal Procession, and The Shepherd's Flock — each depicting a distinct scene from Telangana's roughly 400-year-old scroll-painting tradition, GI-tagged since 2010. A new home with bare walls is exactly the kind of space this format is built for: buy two or three together and they read as a considered, matched set from day one, not separate purchases.
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Andal and Krishna — A Devotional Set with a Real Story

The Tanjore Hand-Painted Mirror Frame Set of 2 pairs Krishna with Andal — Tamil Nadu's only female Alvar, one of the twelve great Vaishnavite poet-saints, best known for composing the Tiruppavai and for the devotional legend of her mystical marriage to Lord Ranganatha (Vishnu) at Srirangam. It's a genuinely well-matched devotional pair, not two unrelated figures placed side by side. (The "Aranmula" in this product's name refers to a decorative frame-shape used across several of our collections, not the GI-protected Aranmula Kannadi metal-mirror craft from Kerala — that distinction is worth knowing if you're gifting to someone who'd recognise the difference. Our Aranmula-Inspired Hand Mirror, also in this collection, references that metal-mirror heritage directly and says so honestly in its name.)
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Temple Architecture, Reimagined for a Home Wall

The Gandharva Wall Corbel references the Gandharvas, celestial musicians of Indra's heavenly court in Hindu mythology, connected to a sacred musical tradition known as the Gandharva Veda. Carved Gandharva corbels are a genuine feature of South Indian temple architecture, particularly in Karnataka and Tamil Nadu — this piece brings that same architectural weight to a home wall. The Shree Yantra Wall Frame is similarly precise rather than decorative: a sacred-geometry diagram of nine interlocking triangles, used in Sri Vidya worship as the geometric form of the goddess Tripura Sundari — a considered choice for anyone setting an intention for a new space.
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Choosing Where to Start

If you're gifting for someone else's housewarming, a name board is the safest, most universally meaningful choice — it works regardless of their taste in decor, because it's functional as well as symbolic. If you're furnishing your own new home, the Cheriyal wall plates or a Kerala Mural piece are the better starting point for genuinely filling wall space with something considered. If the recipient is spiritually inclined, Annapoorna, Ganesha, or the Shree Yantra carry the most direct symbolic relevance to a new beginning.