What do you consider 'Lived In'

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To me it is clean but with signs of the family that live there.
The person I am talking to is less bothered about the clean part!
For example, I clean the kitchen and bathroom daily including sweeping floors and wiping cupboards.
Other person feels this is sterile and not lived in!
What do you think?

To me 'lived in' means showing signs of an active recent life but not long term dirt or neglect. So there may be sports bags in the hall or a few rumpled cushions and toys scattered, a few splatters of cooking from today's baking session with DC, but not from last night's dinner IYSWIM. And 'lived in' homes have things that show homes wouldn;t tolerate, so there may be seedlings sprouting on a windowsill, dog eared artwork on the fridge, a little bit of cat hair on the sofa.

I like a lived in home. It has signs that life is busy and full and interesting, not being deleted all the time by hygeniene neurosis. But you have to keep an eye it doesn't turn into neglect and grubbiness and hoarding.

You wipe the cupboards daily

Why?

Please come and clean my kitchen and bathroom daily My house is definitely dirty if that's your standard.

Cleaning cupboards would annoy me if it impacted on me in any way. But the rest is normal.

Your certainly a far cleaner lived in" than me! I clean the kitchen worktops, always put dishes away etc every day but I don't sweep floor every day and I don't clean the bathroom daily (a wipe down every 3 days maybe )! I'm funny about keeping this tidy though - I like items put away in cupboards and hate shoes lying around. I'd love to have a cleaner house but with a stressful job plus my destructive tot it's proving quite difficult!

I'm not sure clean = not lived in. Usually it's associated with stuff on surfaces. The empty kitchen counters look weird to me.

I clean the counters daily, and the cupboards if I see shite on them when crouching to wipe up puppy pee.

VickieCherry haha my parents always had greasy cupboard doors and I promised myself I wouldn't let my own be like that (didn't like it even as a child)
I am quite anal about things being clean but equally if you saw my house it is definitely obviously occupied by a family 😁
One of my DC's friends parents keep their house like a show home and to me it isn't cosy, beautiful yes with out a doubt but imho a little soulless.
I guess I feel I have the right balance for me and my family and was just interested in how others would perceived the way I do things!

Tp me "lived in" is a euphemism for "i need to do some blody housework!"

1MillionSelfiesTakenByMyKids that's the thing, it has different meanings depending on who you talk to 🙄

In an ideal world my house would be sparkling clean inside and out, but would still have lots of signs of activity: musical instruments and stands left out, books by beds, seedlings incubating, cats on sfas etc. In reality all this life makes grub that doesn't get cleaned as often as it should but I haven;t the energy, time or inclination to spend my life polishing every surface even though I love the effect.

But my cupboard doors aren't greasy, and I definitely don't clean them every day. Or every week/month even. I clean them when they look grubby, and they probably get a proper wipe down a couple of times a year?

VickieCherry sorry I didn't mean to insinuate that they were! The daily wipe is because of my own paranoia, I am aware normal people don't do them every day

Not offended, just baffled! Doors do not need cleaning every day.

Cleaning bathrooms and kitchens daily? Nope. Once a week I clean the bathroom, no idea how often I clean kitchen cupboards and doors. I wipe the section of worktop that gets used every day but it’s tiny and literally takes seconds. I clean the kitchen floor once a week max if I’m honest, probably every two weeks if I’m really honest. By that I mean cleaning with water and liquid. I hoover it once or twice a week. I don’t have time or energy for more.

Lived in means dirty to me. If someone said my house was lived in I'd assume they meant it needed cleaning and decorating.

My house gets a good cleans every week including a wipe down of the kitchen cupboard doors and all3 bathrooms. The rest of the week we clean kitchen work tops every day- or more than once a day if needed, sweep the floor at least twice but more often if I have time. I try and hoover through out at least once more mid week, sometimes I don't manage it but sometimes I managed to do it a couple of times.

My house is lived in, there is signs of life around even when I've just cleaned and tidied 😂