Home Registries: Get What You Really Want As a New Couple

You may not be familiar with the companies Feather Your Nest or Hatch My House, but if you’re in the market for a new home you might want to brush up! Feather Your Nest and Hatch My House are creative home registry sites. What’s a home registry sight? It’s a new take on the old wedding registry. Rather than registering for 10 place settings of china that you’ll never use, you can have your guests help you fund your first home as a couple!

How Home Registries Work

Blenders, Pyrex and mixers are so last year — especially in an era where so many couples live on their own before coming together. You’ve already got 20 place settings of dishes, 3 coffee pots and a complete set of mix-matched Tupperware (forget that you have 5 more lids than bottoms). The point is, when you blend yours and your new spouse’s belongings, you may already have all that you need to fill a home, but you may be lacking that home!

Here’s where the home registry comes in. You can register for a house. OK, not an actual house, an imaginary one…but with real money. You visit one of the sites mentioned above and choose a design for your dream home. Have a clear picture of the home you would like to purchase together. Is it two stories? Does it have 2 bedrooms or 5? Will you need a garage for tinkering or a tool shed for gardening? How about a pool or deck? Plot out a general idea of the home you would like to buy. Depending on which site you use, you’ll need to insert different details.

On Hatch My House, you’ll choose from some preset homes that most closely match what you’re looking for and the setting in which you want to start your lives together. Through Feather My Nest, you’ll answer a series of questions and even upload pictures or drawings of your own. You’ll then link your PayPal account in order to receive gifts.

Once you’ve chosen your registry site and entered the details, you’re ready to share. Set your site to go live and share the URL on your wedding website, via social media sites and email. In lieu of gifts, guests can purchase a portion of your down payment toward your home in a cute way, by purchasing a “window” for $75 or a “door” for $200. Of course they aren’t actually purchasing windows and doors they will lug to your reception and bestow upon you; it’s just a fun way to visualize what their gift is giving you.

Other Ways to Use Home Registries

While wedding gifts are the most popular reason for using home registries, they aren’t the only reason. Think home improvement, remodeling and adding a newborn baby to the mix. You can fund any project through these sites and add your personalized details every time.

Use these home registries to acquire the money you need for a down payment, get excited and call Olga Diana to find your dream home in Northern Virginia.