On the hunt for stay at home date night ideas? We’ve got you covered with 25 stay at home date night ideas for couples that are way better than yet another Netflix marathon. Going out for date night can sometimes be a challenge. Whether it’s the pandemic, not having a baby sitter, or just not having the energy to go out after a long work day.

Whatever the reason, we’ve come up with tons of options for cute date ideas at home. Bonus, almost all of these stay at home date night ideas are super budget friendly! Next time you don’t feel like going out or maybe can’t go out, try one of these unique and budget friendly stay at home date night ideas for couples!

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25 Stay At Home Date Night Ideas

Stay at home date night in ideas. Couple laughing together on the living room couch

Stay At Home Date Night Ideas:

1. Have a game night for a date night at home

We LOVE game nights! It’s one of our favorite ways to have a date night at home. We will usually open a bottle of wine, set out a cheese board, and challenge each other to a bet. Backgammon used to be our favorite game to play together, but now we’ve been really into playing cards.

We are currently obsessed with this game that kind of like an adapted version of Gin Rummy but we have no idea what it’s called. We can seriously spend hours playing this game and we have so much fun! A little bit of competition can also be a great aphrodisiac! If you want to host a double date, a game night is a fantastic at home date night idea for a group date or a double date!

Ideas for stay at home date night games at home:

Fun games for couples

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2. Pretend the electricity is out for a cute at home date night idea

As an adult, the electricity going out is my worst nightmare. No wifi?! What am I supposed to do with myself! (Wish I was joking, but I really can’t survive without wifi.)

As a kid, I used to think it was a lot of fun and found so many ways to entertain myself. Why not turn this into an awesome couples night in date idea! Light candles, play games, tell ghost stories… come to think of it, sounds like the perfect romantic stay at home date night idea!

Put away your electronics and make believe the electricity is out.

How many ways can you come up with to entertain yourselves?

Some ideas:

Light the fireplace and make s’mores
Create wacky meals out of ingredients in your fridge that may “go bad” since the “electricity is out” { a little make believe never hurt anyone, just go with it! Plus it’ll be a great way to clean out your fridge!}
Tell scary stories and use a flash light to add drama
Build a fort and snuggle up
Play a guessing game. Give each other random items, have the other person close their eyes, and guess what it is by any sense other than sight

3. Play a trivia game for your at home date night

We love playing couples trivia games together. Trivia nights are great for at home date nights that help you get to know each other more and have different conversation topics.

After being together for over 15 years, it’s easy to feel like we know everything there is to know about each other, but games like this help us learn even more about each other and help open up new topics of conversation.

You can find fun questions online, make up your own, or get a game like this one. When we’ve played it before, we each wrote down our own answer to the question and then guessed out loud what we thought the other person wrote down. No one can cheat because the right answer is already written down!

Some questions to get you started during your cute couples night in:

Which celebrity couple would your partner compare you to?
What is your greatest fear?
If your partner could choose one thing of yours to get rid of, what would they choose?
What is your least favorite food?
Who said “I love you” first?
What is your favorite thing about your partner?

shop trivia & conversation starter games

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4. Have a tasting party during your staying in date night

One of our favorite staying in date night ideas is to have a tasting party. Pick any theme: whiskey, ice cream, cookies, chocolate, whatever and lay out a bunch of different options. To make it extra fun, create “tasting stations” with everything needed for the tasting party laid out and a sheet of paper to take “tasting notes”.

The sky’s the limit with the kinds of tasting parties you can have for your at home date night. We’ve even had a smoothie tasting party before!

5. Turn your bedroom into a fancy hotel room

Ahh staying at a fancy hotel always feels luxurious. While that may not always be in the budget, you can turn your home into a fancy hotel room for an ultra luxe and romantic stay at home date idea. I absolutely love this night in date idea!

Ideas for a date night at home hotel:

Start collecting sample sizes of fancy body lotion and other skin care ideas. Most department stores and beauty stores are happy to provide them if you ask. Place them in the bathroom in a pretty basket
Light a few scented candles and turn on soft music
Place a bottle of champagne in a bucket of ice near the bed. If you really want to go all out, make some chocolate covered strawberries and sprinkle flower petals on the bed
Watch movies in bed and pretend you’re watching hotel pay-per-view. {Only, you won’t have to pay because you’re at home!}
Order in your favorite food and eat it in bed
Make a simple breakfast in the morning and serve it in bed on a tray. This will take your date night into the next morning and will feel oh so luxurious

6. Set up an at home spa date

An at home spa date can be very relaxing and romantic – without the high price tag. This is one of Bassam’s favorite date night at home ideas.

Slip into comfy spa style robes and slippers. Make your own face masks and body scrubs or buy them premade. Draw a bath for 2 and drop in a nice bath bomb. Fill a pitcher of water and infuse it with cucumbers and mint or other infusions.

This is a great stay at home date night idea to do on a Friday night so you can start your weekend feeling relaxed and refreshed.

Spa date essentials

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7. Travel Inspired Theme Dinner At Home Date Night

This idea so great for at home dates and can be customized is so many different ways! Pick a country you’ve been wanting to travel to and cook dinner together inspired by that country. This at home date night idea is also a perfect way to curb wanderlust when you can’t travel.

Ideas to try:

Italy: Make homemade pasta or pizza together. This can be super easy with store bought dough or make it homemade {Here’s an easy pizza dough recipe}
France: Dine on a cheese platter and wine {this is our all time favorite dinner!}
Japan: Learn to make sushi together. Pair with sake if desired
Greece: Feast on a dinner of Mediterranean appetizers like Greek salad, olives, feta, hummus, artichoke dip
Mexico: Set up a make-your-own taco, nachos, or burrito bar. We like to make individual nachos in these mini cast iron skillets. They can go straight into the oven to melt the cheese, but we usually line them with foil first for easy clean up

8. Challenge each other to a cook off

Getting competitive can be be a great relationship booster! Adding some competition to your date ideas at home is such a great way to spice things up and boost your bond!

Instead of the standard cooking with each other, why not challenge each other to a cook off! You can choose a specific course to each create {like an appetizer or dessert} or pick a particular ingredient that each person has to incorporate into whatever they make.

For example, the ingredient could be pickles and then each person comes with a creative dish that incorporates pickles in some way or a three course dinner incorporating pickles into every course.

9. Have a DIY Wine and Paint Night

We love going to Paint and Wine Nights, but they can be pricey. Fortunately for your wallet, are really easy to recreate at home. Buy some cheap canvases and paints, look up a painting tutorial on YouTube, and paint at home together for your at home date night! It doesn’t matter if you’re not artistic or your painting comes out looking nothing like the original, just being creative can be so fun and relaxing.

Paint Night Essentials

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10. Set up an at home date night picnic

Having a picnic is one of our favorite cute at home date ideas. We love going to a nearby park or beach and setting up a delicious spread with a nice bottle of rose and spending the day just relaxing on a picnic blanket.

If you can’t get out somewhere, why not bring the picnic home? You can set it up in your living room or in the backyard. Just as romantic at home as a stay at home date night idea as it is at a park!

11. Play interior designer for your stay at home date night

This is a fantastic budget friendly stay at home date night idea! Pick a room of the house and redesign it together!

Challenge yourselves to use items that you already have around the house and see how much you can revamp a corner of the house or a whole room! If you’re needing inspiration, you can spend some time looking up home design on Pinterest or in online magazines.

You might learn a lot about your partner’s taste and style with this at home date night idea!

If you’re good at Photoshop or willing to learn, you can virtually recreate the room with your ideas to see what it will look like! We love at home date ideas where we can work on something together.

12. Have a karaoke night

Karaoke is one of the most fun at home dates! Sing your hearts out together to all your favorite songs. You can look up karaoke versions of songs on YouTube and purchase wireless mics to use. Or you can just look up YouTube videos of your favorite songs + lyrics and just sing your hearts out.

This stay at home date idea is a great endorphin booster too which is always great for your relationship!

13. Go wine tasting – at home!

We love going wine tasting and it’s pretty easy to set up as an indoor date night idea! Here are tips on how to set up the perfect at home wine tasting.

We bought mini cheese boards and tasting glasses to use since we have this at home date night idea often, but you don’t need any accessories to make it work.

This is one of the romantic date ideas at home that we do most often! We love inviting friends over for this stay at home date night idea and turning it into a double or triple date at home!

wine tasting at home accessories

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14. Learn your love languages

Do you know what your love language is? This can be game changer for your relationship if you are able to “speak” to your partner in the love language that they “speak”. Why not improve your relationship with your date nights at home?

You can take the quiz for free here and purchase the book here. The book is actually really helpful and if you’ve planned in advance, you can have it delivered to your house before your romantic date night at home. After you take the quiz, spend some time reading the book together.

Keep in mind, that speaking each other’s love language can be very difficult, especially if you have opposite love languages. Be patient with this one and don’t feel frustrated if it doesn’t go well right away. It can take years of practice for some couples to be able to see results with this one, but it’s so worth it in the long run. We have a 6 week relationship challenge where we talk more about this.

You can also learn what your apology language is here. This is the perfect at home date night idea to improve your relationship and strengthen your bond. We love anything that can help strengthen our relationship, which is why we also love listening to these podcasts together.

15. Have an at home date at a “bookstore”

When we were in college, we used to love going to a bookstore and sitting there for hours reading books and magazines as a budget friendly date night. This is easy date night idea to recreate at home and is one of our favorite stay in date night ideas.

If you don’t already have a corner with two comfy chairs, move two chairs next to each other with a table in the middle. Make yourselves a yummy hot drink and spend the next few hours perusing a stack of books and magazines!

Book ideas for your at home date night:

Travel books or magazines
Old copies of Cosmopolitan – take the fun quizzes and read through the sexy tips
Relationship books
Mysteries – we love this cozy mystery series

16. Plan your dream trip

It’s no secret we love to travel, but we can’t travel all the time. Fortunately, we use this concept for some of our home dates. Sometimes on an at home date night, we’ll plan our dream trip. We’ll scout locations on Pinterest, Instagram, or look through our many travel books.

For a spin on this, try giving yourselves a budget and see what kind of trip you can plan on that budget. You’ll be surprised what you can come up with when you’re creative!

As a bonus, you’ll have a fun date planned for the future. You can even turn this into a competition and see what type of trip each person can plan with the set budget. It’ll be interesting to see how differently each of you goes about it.

Some travel inspo books we love

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At home date night ideas. Have a cute breakfast outside in the backyard or on the balcony. Perfect for a budget friendly and romantic date

17. Pretend you’re at a drive in movie – at home!

Instead of just a regular movie night, make it a little more exciting by taking it outdoors! This is such a fun option for dates at home. Just take your computer outside {charge it fully first!} and create a cute little setup to pretend you’re at a drive in movie or outdoor movie.

18. Create the ultimate bucket list for your date at home

Work together to come up with your ultimate couples bucket list during your date at home. All the dates you want to try, places you want to travel, experiences you want to have together, etc.

You can even take it one step further and schedule one item from your to do list each month for the rest of the year!

You’d be surprised how many great conversations this activity will bring up and what new thing you might learn about your partner. You can use this list of 101 adventurous date ideas to get you started!

19. Write each other love letters during your at home date night

Add a little romance to your stay at home date night idea and write each other love letters. You can share them right away or pick a pre determined date to open and read them. It’s so rare nowadays to receive a personal letter of any kind and it can feel really nice to have love professed to you in writing. We absolutely love this romantic date night idea at home.

20. Have a video game marathon

This is Bassam’s dream date come true and such a fun at home date idea. Spend a few hours challenging each other to video games you have at home. We love playing Pacman at arcades when we go out, so I’d eventually love to get a version we can play at home. This is also a great stay at home date night idea if only one of you knows how to play video games. The video game expert can teach the other person. Learning new skills together and being able to teach each other something is a really great way to boost your bond and connection!

21. Fight it out

When was the last time getting in a fight was a good thing? It’s a fun date with this feisty and fun at home date night idea! Plus, dates like this boost your adrenaline and dopamine which mimic the feeling of falling in love! You’re stay at home date night can actually help give you butterflies all over again!

Ideas to try:

Water gun fight (probably best in the backyard)
Whipped cream fight
Pillow fight
Food fight

At home date night ideas. Having a pillow fight for a fun way to strengthen your bond

22. Visit a museum

Did you know you can visit many museums online? Many museums have an online collection that you can access for free, which is perfect for a couples night in idea! Get your artsy fix and check out one of these museums you can visit online:

The British Museum in London
The Louvre in Paris
The Dali Theater and Museum in Spain
The Vatican Museums in Vatican City

You can spice up your visit by playing games like having to pick one piece of art from each page to put in your house or a drinking game, like every time you see flowers, take a sip of wine.

Bassam and I have been together for over 15 years and didn’t know what type of art the other person liked! It wasn’t until we visited a museum together that we had a conversation about it and learned more about each other. Any date where you get to connect and learn more about each other is a win in my book!

23. Get crafty

Getting creative together is a really great bonding activity. Choose some sort of craft or DIY project to tackle together during your at home date night.

Ideas to try:

Draw each other’s portraits
Create a scrapbook
Decorate ceramic mugs
Give an old piece of furniture a new look {We had so much fun distressing our fireplace on a recent date night in}

24. Have a lovey dovey cheesy night

Our date nights usually tend to veer towards fun and adventurous, but every once in awhile we like to have a really romantic date night. We’ll light candles, play some romantic songs, and center our conversations around romantic topics, like our favorite date or what we love about the other person. Why not even make it Valentine’s Themed on a regular night? Here are some cheesy Valentine’s inspired dinner at home ideas. Such a cute home date idea!

25. Challenge yourself to recreate your favorite date night, but while staying at home

One of the most unique (and slightly challenging) date at home ideas! Reminisce over your favorite date you’ve ever had together and figure out a way to recreate that at home! Half of the fun will be in getting creative together and setting it up. The other half will be in actually enjoying it. Kind of like two dates in one!

Want more at home date night ideas? We’ve got rainy day date ideas for you here!

What to wear on your stay at home date night:

Deciding what to wear on a stay at home date night is always interesting because you want to be comfy {you are at home after all}, but you still want to look cute {because it’s still a date!} You don’t want anything too flashy that will make your significant other wonder why you dressed up so much just to stay home. Basically you need something that seems effortless.

Here are some comfortable but cute stay at home date night outfit ideas that will be attractive but still very comfortable:

We are curious to know, what are your favorite stay at home date night ideas? Let us know in the comments below! We are always looking for more stay at home date night ideas!