HomeGoods has launched a particular Ramadan and Eid dwelling assortment that includes festive decor designed to assist households have fun the season in model. The 2026 Ramadan and Eid assortment consists of elegant lanterns, serving trays, candles, Eid Mubarak indicators, crescent moon accents, ornamental tableware, and assertion items that fantastically mix conventional motifs with trendy design. There’s little doubt that the limited-time assortment makes it simpler for patrons to create welcoming areas for iftar gatherings and Eid celebrations.
It’s all the time a pleasure to have fun holidays with household. Here we’re in Kuwait.Courtesy of Latifah Al-Hazzá
Growing up with a Muslim father and a Christian mom was a distinctive expertise to say the least. Though neither of my mother and father could be very non secular, we loved celebrating enjoyable holidays from each religions, and my mother and father all the time embraced one another’s holidays. Most notably, we by no means missed Christmas and Eid, a vacation that marks the top of Ramadan.
To present some context, Ramadan is a month the place Muslims abstain from consuming meals, consuming water, smoking, getting indignant, and having sexual relations from dawn to sunset. It’s additionally a month that Muslims follow gratitude and enhance charity-giving. The begin of Ramadan strikes up by about two weeks annually. There are exceptions to who fasts; for instance, kids, the aged, pregnant girls, girls who’re breastfeeding, ailing people, and vacationers don’t quick throughout this month.
Though it might look like a punishment, Muslims all around the world discover this month to be probably the most festive. In Muslim-dominant international locations and Muslim communities world wide, Ramadan is widely known with decorations of crescent moons and lanterns, in addition to shows of native traditions. The month is then embraced with gatherings each night wherein households, buddies, and neighbors get collectively in a completely different dwelling every night time, wearing stunning, elaborately embellished apparel, and spend time chatting and feasting on a scrumptious and considerable meal, adopted by espresso, tea, and sweets, into the early hours of the morning.
Admittedly, Ramadan is less complicated and extra thrilling to have fun in a Muslim-dominated nation. I say this as a result of, being from Kuwait and sometimes spending this month there, society adjusts to accommodate these fasting. Work hours are considerably shorter, most institutions are closed to permit for daytime napping, and eating places, malls, and even gyms change their hours of operation to increase late into the night time.
In current years, lodges have opened their banquet halls, lavishly embellished for Ramadan iftar meals (the meal that breaks the quick), and well-known designer manufacturers like Dior and Bulgari have even hosted spectacular iftar gatherings with decorations, musicians, meals, and extra conventional components.
A have a look at Four Seasons Hotel Kuwait throughout Ramadan.Latifah Al-Hazzá
To mark the top of Ramadan is Eid, a three-day pageant that entails visiting household and buddies in much more embellished apparel, providing items and meals. Children particularly love this vacation as a result of it’s common for the aged to offer kids cash. Both Ramadan and Eid require dwelling decor particular to those holidays. With that being stated, it has all the time been troublesome for my household to embellish our dwelling within the States, as there has by no means been a brick-and-mortar retailer that sells Ramadan and Eid decor. In the previous, we’ve bought objects from Kuwait, and even some buddies have requested me to deliver again objects as a result of they had been sad with what’s obtainable on-line and would relatively have one thing extra genuine. Thankfully, HomeGoods’ Ramadan and Eid assortment lastly provides Muslim prospects a probability to showcase their stunning vacation, reflecting a broader shift towards inclusivity in retail.
Saira Anwer, a South Florida tv reporter and first and foremost, a new mom, displays on the second she walked into HomeGoods and noticed their Ramadan assortment:
“Honestly, I got a little emotional. I grew up seeing friends’ homes with beautiful Christmas decorations that were so easy to find in any store. I always wished that someday my home could look just as festive for the holidays my family celebrates, but Ramadan decorations weren’t really a thing, except for families who were able to bring over decor from overseas. I didn’t know I’d see a day when I could walk into one of the most mainstream home decor shops in America and see decorations for a holiday I actually celebrate.”
Previously, Anwer had no alternative however to show string lights and low-cost paper garland that stated ‘Ramadan Mubarak’ (which means blessed Ramadan), which she reused 12 months after 12 months because of restricted decor choices. “This is my husband’s and my first Ramadan in an actual house with a baby, so we wanted this year to be extra festive”, says Anwer. The reporter provides, “The items I saw in store were colorful, sparkly, had Middle Eastern themes, and lots of crescent moons and stars. It’s exactly how I imagine home decor specifically for Eid and Ramadan.”
Florida-based tv reporter Saira Anwer takes delight in adorning her dwelling for Ramadan.Courtesy of Saira Anwer
Anwer mentions that she has seen web sites that promote Ramadan decor that options individuals and animals, however contemplating that Islamic artwork and decor are closely centered on geometric shapes and calligraphy, these websites “seem to miss the mark,” she says. Anwer provides, “I’ve noticed some brands selling Ramadan advent calendars. I know advent calendars are a special Christmas tradition for a lot of Christian families, but I feel like incorporating it into Ramadan is just copying another faith’s tradition rather than highlighting what makes Ramadan and Eid unique.”
While Anwer needed to browse a number of HomeGoods in South Florida earlier than discovering one which offered this assortment, I noticed it on the first retailer I visited in Virginia Beach, VA. I did not even enter the shop searching for this assortment, as a result of I had no concept it existed. When I walked into HomeGoods and seen a show stuffed with Ramadan and Eid objects, I actually stopped in my tracks. I was genuinely delighted.
HomeGoods in Virginia Beach not too long ago had a powerful vary of patterned material napkins, good for an Eid celebration.Latifah Al-Hazzá
Having spent the previous few Ramadans in Kuwait, I am used to seeing stunning Ramadan decor in all places, from outlets to individuals’s properties. Coming again to the U.S., I anticipated Ramadan to really feel a bit lackluster, since I had by no means seen decorations for the vacation offered in shops right here earlier than. Discovering this assortment was such a nice shock. I bought a two-tiered mirrored serving tray with intricate metalwork and a crescent moon on prime, which felt like the proper solution to host my non-Muslim buddies and introduce them to this particular vacation. Anwer purchased moon and star string lights, reusable garland, lanterns, and a sparkly desk ornament that claims ‘Eid Mubarak’.
I have an inkling that Anwer and I communicate for many Muslim Americans once we say our hope is that not solely does HomeGoods increase its Ramadan and Eid assortment, however that different retailers get impressed to promote extra merchandise with a deal with inclusivity and range. It’s a should as a result of there’s all the time a marketplace for this. “Muslim Americans want to make our homes beautiful and festive with decor we can buy from stores near our homes. The demand has always been there,” says Anwer.
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