Be honest! What things do you judge in other people’s houses?

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Just a fun post.

Recently doing a huge renovation in our own home and am absolutely mortified at the dust everywhere, I keep having visions of visitors coming to the door and seeing all the dust everywhere, it is thick!

I also currently have a spatula sticking out my down pipe drain as we have just unblocked it and it’s to catch any old leaves/moss until it’s replaced 🤣

Cats on the kitchen surfaces

Unwashed dishes everywhere

Are any particular type of books judged, or just having no books?

More about the feeling I get from the house. For instance a work colleague of DH's expensive house has gone on the market, marriage separation that he says was planned for long before he found his bank accounts closed.

Anyhow looking through the for sale pictures, the house seems cold, no personality. Furniture etc is still there and it's not staged, but the house just without any character or love.

I was just going to say a house with no books, but somebody beat me to it.

Astroturf in the garden, these signs with gushy sentiments about family love, over abundance of scented things - candies, wax melts, infusers etc.

Also houses with no books.

Clutter and filth
Cigarette smoke
Poor maintenance
When there's only someone's used bath towel to wipe your hands on- yuk
(I use toilet paper instead)

I judge people who pave over their entire garden or concrete over it then don't have any flowers, trees or plants.

Loads of stuff, I’m quite the judgemental bitch when it comes to interiors.
Houses that look like a soft play centre - toys everywhere, beds with slides on, fake ‘grass’ carpets etc
Mouldy mugs or plates lying about
Smelly bedding 😷 worst when you’re staying the night in their house and can tell they haven’t changed the sheets
The smell of dogs/cats

Doors that should lock but don’t.

I do not want to sit on the loo wondering if it really is true that if the door is shut then no one will walk in.

Somehow I’ve managed to stay in several peoples houses where there’s just a kind of good faith system about privacy. And not where there’s a pervy man keeping it that way on purpose or anything, just because genuinely that household has got used to not having a broken lock on the bathroom door and has forgotten it’s weird. Or took the lock off when their child was 3 and they’re now 14, or something.

Ugh. Just NO.

Lack of books
Sentimental writing on the wall/ditto cushions
Professional group photos where clothes have been colour co ordinated
Shop bought cake. Shop biscuits ok, shop cake not ok (except yellow fondant fancies)
Ginormous tv in small room.

Houses that don’t allow pets on the sofa.

Endlessly shut windows with whiffy kids and babies at home.

A house with no books is so pretentious honestly I always hate when people say that.

You don't know where people keep their books, all mine are on my kindle including my library books due to my physical disabilities.

Its just pretentious notions. "Oh I don't care for material things, just books and art and conversations ".

Knobs.

Lots of animals. Dogs going mad when you ring the doorbell and jumping all over you when you come through the door. It scares me to absolute death. And cats roaming all over the kitchen counters and jumping everywhere and licking everything, they use those claws and tongues to lick their own arseholes and scrape litter trays! And piles of unorganized stuff everywhere absolutely does my head in, magazines, newspapers, ash trays, books, I couldn't relax for even a second. I'm comforted by order and symmetry!

It's very silly to judge on bookshelves. Have you never heard of the Kindle? Just because I don't have walls of books on show, doesn't mean I don't read!

Platitudes stencilled on walls or cushions that say 'Home', presumably in case they forget where they are

Astro turf, smelly dogs

No books - or with books but obviously chosen for the spine colour - and worst of all books purchased by the yard (and never read).

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No books - or with books but obviously chosen for the spine colour - and worst of all books purchased by the yard (and never read).

How can you tell they’ve never read them?

Cluttered countertops (just get rid of some stuff already!)
Unmade master bed (kids beds don't matter)
Cats who are allowed on table tops or kitchen counters
Last night's dishes, left unwashed

I don't judge mess with the exception of clothes on the stairs that have clearly been taken off and no one could be bothered to put them in the washing basket. That, for some reason, really gets on my nerves.
I do judge grey cobwebs as clearly no one has bothered to look up and dust in so long that the dust has fallen on them and started to turn black.

And artificial scents , yuk

I’m embarrassed by this but I’m totally judgy when it comes to art. Books too, but a lesser extent. Untidiness and renovations I’m totally ok about.

I’ve got loads of books but you wouldn’t know because they are either in my bedroom or in a cupboard upstairs. Unless you do a full inspection how can you possibly know how many book there are?

I don’t judge, but might make a metal note not to return to homes where every where is covered with pet hair. Or where the crockery is clearly hand washed very badly. People can live anyway they like but I find it hard to drink a cuppa which has cat hair floating in it, and hate having to clean pet hair off my clothes.

Households that don't take outdoor shoes off when they come in.

No point in our house. Daughter comes in with dirty wheels and we can’t make her take those off.

I don't judge - it might be for all kinds of reasons - but I can't really deal with unclean toilets and bathrooms. Just means I tend to meet these people outside their homes.