The Hillsdale Home Gift Guide

Black Friday (and Cyber Monday) may be behind us, but if you’re like many of us at the Hillsdale Headquarters, you likely still have some shopping to get done. In the grand tradition of holiday gift guides, we’ve decided to put together a compilation of some of our favorite things to give (or get). To put our own spin on the exercise, we’re going around the house to offer a suggestion for each room in the house. Happy shopping!

The Kitchen

So central to the holiday spirit, give the cook or gourmand in your life a gift that will keep on giving. We love Deb Perelman’s Smitten Kitchen blog, and she’s a special kind of genius when it comes to fancy meals and desserts perfect for the holiday season. This year she released her first cookbook, The SmittenKitchen Cookbook, and it’s so full of gorgeous photographs and amazing recipes, it’s already on The New York Times Bestseller List. 

The Bathroom

One of our favorite sites for customized planners, notebooks and stationary is ErinCondren.com. All of their products are custom designed and made in their California studio, and they recently started melding their colorful creations with acrylic materials. Their acrylic boxes and trays are the perfect tools for corralling perfumes, hair products, make-up and whatever else is crowding your bathroom sink or shelves. They are available in a variety of styles, and can be personalized with photos, names and monograms. 

The Hallway

Know someone with a bare hallway or a few empty walls around the house? Anyone who has moved recently likely has this problem to some extent. Jennifer Hill is an American graphic artist who has created a series of prints inspired by the places she’s never been before. There are several dozen options, and the prints come in a variety of sizes, all fully matted, and for a very reasonable price. They can also be customized if the occasion so calls. We’re of course partial to the Louisville print. 

The Bedroom

A throw remains one of our favorite winter gifts, based both on its coziness factor as well as its flexibility. It can be thrown over a chair, a couch or our preference, a bed (especially over a comforter that might be in need of a trip to the dry-cleaner). We like these options from West Elm that you can monogram. The quality and cost breakdown here are hard to beat.

  

The Office

Creatively disguised iPhone chargers are the new hit gift for 2012, and there are some really great options out there. Our favorite though would make the perfect decoration for a desk already cluttered with technology. Substitute another piece of sleek white plastic from the Apple store for a pretty stack of antique books that will amazingly enough charge your phone too! We like this option from Anthropologie, but there are lots of other choices on Etsy.com. 

The Living Room

With holiday entertaining on the horizon, perhaps the perfect gift to give yourself is the sleek Hillsdale Furniture Bardstown Bar, ideal for turning a small corner of your living area into the life of the party. You can turn any nook or cranny into a swanky (and practical) serving station with this simple, space saving piece, constructed of pewter-finished metal and wood in a rich cherry hue. The bar includes space for over a half dozen hanging glasses, eight wine bottles, and a glass platform for additional glasses and spirits. The bar is accompanied by two backless bar stools, with a glossy black vinyl seat covering. Some assembly required.  For details on where     to purchase, please visit www.hillsdalefurniture.com and click on the dealer locator.

We’ll be back in the coming weeks with some more fun thoughts on the holiday season, but in the meantime, let us know in the comments about some of your favorite gifts to give and receive.