With Valentine’s Day just around the corner, it’s time to make plans for you and your love. You don’t have to head out for a fancy dinner or make extravagant plans. Sometimes staying in is the perfect way to spend Valentine’s Day, whether you have kids at home, are on a budget, or just prefer to stay in.
Since the start of the pandemic, we’ve gotten more creative when celebrating occasions at home, from birthdays to anniversaries. If you’re wondering how to make Valentine’s Day special at home, we’ve got you. With a few simple touches, you can create a romantic atmosphere and have a fun night with these ideas for spending Valentine’s Day at home.
Things to Do at Home for Valentine’s Day
No matter what you choose to do, the most important is spending quality time with your partner or significant other. Whether you’re cooking dinner together, playing board games, or just cuddling on the couch, with a little imagination, Valentine’s Day at home can be just as special and romantic as a night out.
Here are our ideas on how to celebrate Valentine’s day at home and how to make it special.
Spa Night
Treat yourselves to a bit of luxury with a spa night at home. Take a bubble bath, give each other massages, to a relaxing spa day at home.
Set the mood by creating a relaxing environment with candles, soothing music and dimmed lights. Use an air diffuser with your favourite essential oils to fill the room with calming scents. Give each other a massage, do a soothing facial or take a luxurious bubble bath while sipping on herbal tea or wine and nibbling on snacks.
Cook Dinner Together
Most of us need to cook dinner every day. It might seem mundane, but a Valentine’s Day dinner at home can be a special and romantic way to spend the night. Try a new recipe together, recreate your favourite takeaway or cook your partner’s favourite meal. Make homemade gnocchi or dumplings or try your hand at making your own pasta.
If cooking isn’t your forte, order takeaway from a fancy restaurant and eat by candlelight. What’s most important is that you have fun and spend quality time together.
Gaming Night
Valentine’s Day is all about spending quality time with your significant other. What better way to have a bit of fun at home than to have a gaming night? Whether you’re playing video games, board games or card games with your partner, you can have a great night!
If you’re both into gaming, set up a cosy spot with floor cushions, blankets and a light projector and start a two-player game together. Whether it’s a board game, card game or video game is up to you and your partner.
Bake Together
If you’re spending Valentine’s day at home this year, why not try something new and bake together? Bake something sweet and don’t be afraid to get messy–save the cleaning up for tomorrow!
Bake heart-shaped cookies or brownies, red velvet cupcakes, strawberry shortcakes or make chocolate-dipped strawberries. Try baking a cake you both love, whether it’s tiramisu or cheesecake. If you have kids, this is the perfect activity to do together as a family.
Movie Night
If you’re sending the night at some, cuddle up on the couch with your significant other and enjoy a movie night. If you and your love watch movies together on the regular, go a step further to make it feel special. Choose a romantic movie, rewatch the film you saw when you first started dating or line up their all-time favourite and surprise them with it. Go the extra mile and set up a projector and some comfy floor cushions and blankets, light some candles and have the perfect array of snacks ready!
Create the perfect ambience with a starlight projector or fairy lights.
Get Creative
If you’re stuck on what to do on Valentine’s Day at home, spend it getting creative together! Start a DIY project together, whether it’s painting together, pottery, creating a terrarium or candle making. Not only will it be a fun and romantic experience, but you’ll have something special to keep and display in your home.
Cocktail Night
Unleash your mixologist skills and have a cocktail night! Grab a cocktail kit and make your favourite cocktails together. You can even create cocktails based on each other! Make it romantic by expressing why you feel your cocktail represents them, why it makes you think of them, and how you feel about them.
Afternoon Picnic in the Backyard
Want to stay home but not indoors? Have a picnic in your backyard! Set up a picnic basket and blanket and a fruit and cheese platter, pour some wine and enjoy each other’s company in the sun in the privacy of your own yard.
Wine and Cheese Night
Keep Valentine’s Day at home simple! You can’t go wrong with some delicious wine and a cheese platter. Make it exciting and take a trip around the world by tasting wines from different countries. If you are both wine enthusiasts, take turns blindfolding each other and guessing which wine is which.
Turn Your House Into a Ballroom
Get fancy and turn your home into a ballroom for the night! Treat your partner to a night of romance and elegance with a few simple touches.
Turn your dining room into a candlelit dinner spot. String up fairy lights, buy some roses and arrange your furniture to create the perfect atmosphere. Create a playlist of songs you have a special connection to together. Dress up and have a candlelit dinner together, followed by dancing. If formal is not your thing, try out salsa dancing or swing for plenty of laughs.
Valentine’s Day Brunch at Home
Recreate your favourite brunch for your loved one and surprise them with breakfast in bed! From French toast to smashed avocado to eggs benedict to corn fritters with smoked salmon, this is a simple idea that goes a long way in making your love feel special.
