What Brands Use Christmas House Boxes For
Chocolatiers use them as counter impulse buys holding two or three pieces. Bakeries fill them with gingerbread and sell the box as the gift, not the wrapper. Corporate gifting teams send them because a house holds its shape on a desk long after a flat box is recycled.
The common thread: customers keep them. A house box goes on a shelf and comes out again next December, buying your logo another season of display.
Three Ways We Make the Roof
Single-blank die-cut. The whole house is cut and creased from one sheet, folds up and locks with tabs. Cheapest per unit, ships flat, and the right choice for favour sizes and volume. On larger sizes the roof panel bows, so we add a support crease.
Lift-off roof lid. The base is a straight-walled box and the pitched roof is a separate lid. Filling is faster because the whole top comes away. Two dies instead of one, so it costs more.
Rigid collapsible with magnets. Greyboard wrapped in printed paper, folding flat for storage, with magnets that snap the walls and roof into position. The premium option, and it holds its shape for years.
Sizing a House Shaped Box: Wall Height and Roof Peak
A house box has two heights, and most quoting confusion starts here. Wall height is the side of the box, peak height is base to roof apex. Give us both.
- Favour size: 7.5 x 7.5 cm base, 10 to 11 cm to the peak. Holds two or three chocolates.
- Treat size: 12 x 12 cm base, 14 cm to the peak. A few cookies or a small candle.
- Gift size: 20 x 20 cm base, 18 cm to the peak. Hampers, mugs, bundled products.
Send the product going inside and we work back to the dimensions.
Stocks and Finishes for a Printed Christmas House
Die-cut styles run on 300 to 400 GSM kraft or coated cardstock. Gift sizes move to E-flute corrugated for wall rigidity. Collapsible versions use 2mm greyboard with a printed wrap.
Uncoated kraft gives the gingerbread look without printing a single brown ink. Coated white is the base for snow scenes and saturated reds. Foil along the roof snow line pays for itself in photographs, and embossing gives the panels a shingle texture you can feel.
For chocolate, cookies or fudge in direct contact, add a food-grade liner or greaseproof insert.
These sit in our Christmas boxes, and the collapsible version comes out of our rigid boxes production.
Village Sets and Advent Runs
Six, twelve or twenty-four different houses printed as one collection gives you a village. The designs gang up on one press sheet, so the cost per design drops sharply against separate runs.
Twenty-four houses also gives you an advent format, one opened a day. Bakeries and chocolate brands run this as their highest-margin holiday product.
Shipping a Peaked Box Without Crushing the Roof
An apex takes the impact a flat lid would spread, so assembled house boxes travel badly unless the carton is packed properly.
Flat-pack wherever the format allows. Single-blank and collapsible styles both ship flat, cutting freight and storage through the holiday run-up. If you need them pre-assembled, tell us early so we can spec a carton with void fill above the roof line.
Ordering Custom Christmas House Boxes in Canada
Send the fill, quantity and preferred style. Our designers cut the dieline at no charge and return a digital mockup, with a physical sample on request. Turnaround is 10 to 12 business days from artwork approval, shipped free across Canada. For holiday retail, approve artwork by early October.
