Home Essentials

Furnish and Beautify Your Home With eBay's Home Essentials Page

A home should be a sanctuary, a place that not only looks orderly and beautiful but that also has everything you might need close at hand. Many things go into crafting your ideal interior space, from rugs and towels to kitchen essentials like plates, tables, and glassware. Whether you want to be able to entertain guests or just make your home a bit cosier, eBay's Home Essentials page has everything you need, in one convenient place.

Essentials for your kitchen

When hosting guests, your kitchen is bound to become a central hub of activity. You'll need to feed, entertain, and comfortably seat your guests, friends, and family members, without them crowding your prep space. More generally, it should just be a place for you to relax and enjoy some food or drinks. Here's a sample of what eBay's Home Essentials department has to help you accomplish all of these goals:

Kitchen tables: A table will be the centrepiece of your kitchen, and eBay can provide you with a good one. They are available in all shapes — circular, oval, rectangular — can be made from various materials like wood or plastic, and can either come with a set of chairs, or standalone.

Plates and utensils: Many different dining room sets can be found on eBay. 18-piece dinner plate sets, which include 19-, 22-, and 24-centimetre plates, are widely available. 4-, 8-, and 16-piece sets of stainless-steel forks, spoons, and knives — whether entirely made of steel or with plastic handles — are also there. You can also find things like wooden cooking spoons, ladles, cooking pots, and so on.

Wine, champagne, and other glasses: eBay can help you find all sorts of ornate glasses to help you entertain and serve your guests. These can be small, thin, and elongated champagne flutes, whiskey glasses, or wider, bulb-shaped balloon glasses that are meant to hold wine, gin, or mixed drinks. These generally come in sets of either two or six.

Materials for the bedroom

Beyond beds and mattresses of every major shape and size under the sun, eBay can also provide you with the following bedroom essentials:

Smart and manually-wound alarm clocks

Tables, desks, and bedside lamps of various sizes and colours

Cotton fitted sheets

Cotton pillowcases

Pillow sets for your bed and your sofa

How can eBay help make the rest of your home comfortable?

eBay also has all sorts of very affordable things to help make your home a generally more comfortable and inviting place. These include:

Small rugs that can be placed in the parlour or in other spaces; these can be circular, oval, star-shaped, or take on some other shape

Larger square and rectangular carpets

Wicker or porcelain flowerpots for household plants

Scented candles or air fresheners

eBay UK has launched ‘essentials on eBay’ - a collection of homewares for everyday living with quality and value at the heart. ++

With prices starting at just £1.49, the range of items offers shoppers the chance to add stylish additions to the home, without breaking the bank. ++

Focusing on families, first time buyers and students, the collection has been curated to include functional items for around the home, that can easily be incorporated into existing interiors.