[Closed] Messy house v spotless house v showroom condition house

We struggle to find somewhere to sit down on a regular basis.

We were a bit slovenly before, but two kids really didn't help the situation!

Haha, this was our dilema last week, we had the adventure show in filming .....

My house is a pepetual state of diy atm..... As i. The upstairs doors currently live behind the front door,the skirtings from the whole hall at there also, some of my doors downstairs dont have stops on as i run out of wood for that , none of the architraves i have up are stained / varnished , i broke a tile in the floor fitting new door posts.....heres hoping they just show the living room...

Although we do keep it clean

There's far more interesting/fun/important things to do in life than housework!

DIY-pending-kids-toys-clothes-everywhere kind of state

Have you been looking in through my windows again?

Re "clean". It's not dirty it's messy, there's a difference. Although my DIY / decor issues seem small compared to yours trail rat.

clean but lived in is good.
then the grandkids come............ 😯

My house required total renovation - plumbing, boiler , electrics , stripping back to bare bomes , replastering, woodwork ...... I think im on the home straight now really. Gotta fit it in around cycling and other fun stuff

My place looks like a ****ing squat.

I feel the same sometimes but take comfort in the fact that we have a life as a family. The main the thing for me is that the house is clean. Imo kids should live in a home not a show home.

Little and often helps us keep on top of things, but it is difficult with three young children.

Our house has been a mess/ongoing renovation project for 11 years. I'm just too lazy to do it.

DIY-pending-kids-toys-clothes-everywhere kind of state

Showroom house, to me usually means no other life apart from plumping cushions and keeping up with the neighbours.

I'm happy with a lathe in my kitchen, and a pile of reading material in every room, and plenty of time outside riding/fishing/gardening.

We were always going to get things sorted when the kids left and we retired and had more time. 18 months later it's still a tip....just too much to do that's so much more interesting.
It is nice on the few occasions it's tidy (usually just before we go away, and what's the point in that!))

funnily enough, having a kid has made us more tidy.
just don't open any cupboards.

We make an effort since we had the kitchen done...

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Ours is clean now we have employed a cleaner.

My place pretty much looks like that ^

Not dirty per say, just messy... Clothes toys etc cover all of the floor/furniture. I feel more like a zoo keeper than a father sometimes

You only live once. Time spent cycling, with family, on holiday and generally having fun is more important than spending all your spare time decorating. Choose life!

[i]"There's far more interesting/fun/important things to do in life than housework!"[/i]
Errr yes, [b]LadyGresley[/b] . . . I hear you've spent a lot of time recently [b]stripping in the lounge[/b] 😯

Only saddos live in showroom houses. All the fun folks live in the unfinished or messy ones.

I always apply the death bed test. When you're there, what will you wish you'd done more of? Dusting or riding your bike?

I guess it depends if your messy* house put you on your deathbed

*dirty

Ride more, less mess at home.

Shit, if we were going round tidying up, we'd have no time for hanging out on Singletrack,, err I mean cycling!

Buy a dog that will sort out the showroom house

Mainly messy, though pretty clean (we have a cleaner).

Which is really getting on my nerves. I make the same sort if mess in the same place, but Mrs North makes different mess in different places. Consequence is that the house quickly descends into a piggy.

And never mind Miss North who, even at 3, already treats every flat surface as a dumping ground.

I blame the parents.

You're dead a long time, someone else will tidy up.

Mess and clutter really bug me. I probably shouldn't have married someone so messy.

I've got bikes in the front room, riding kit hanging off most of the radiators from the commute and the living room and my daughters bedroom seem to have more toys than she or i know what to do with.

There's also pictures my 3 year old has drawn blue tacked to the walls everywhere.

I wouldn't have it any other way, the plus side is I quite like hoovering the carpet waaaay more than the laminate flooring in the old house. Weird.

The great thing about getting a neighbour to do the cleaning is that you tidy up ready for the house to be cleaned before she comes every week. 😀

Confession: in the last few days I've been reading blogs on decluttering. Worrying, I know, but I've decided if we have less stuff, there's less to tidy up.

An sick of living in a tip and I want to spend less time dealing with it.

Love messy houses, me!

Went for a ride with friends of a friend and ended up inadvertently going back to a house that had been trashed by 3 kids, 3 cats and a family life lived to the full. I lay on the carpet after moving the Lego and felt like part of the furniture; houses are like bikes, if they aren't worn out and used, they should be.

Confession: in the last few days I've been reading blogs on decluttering.

Want some links? 🙂

Before selling our previous house, we got rid of loads. Got rid of half our books last year.

DIY-pending-kids-toys-clothes-everywhere kind of state

Mess and clutter really bug me. I probably shouldn't have [s]married[/s] moved in with and had kids with someone so messy.

Only saddos live in showroom houses.

Or serial killers.

Our house is organised mess.

For the last three years I have been meaning to do something about 2 patches of blown plaster in our living/dining room but the thought of tidying up enough to get to them keeps putting me off.

Our house is quite tidy. It's never been much more than somewhere to hang our hats so both me and the mrs tend to avoid time-consuming DIY and house-related activities.

It's clean, it's tidy, everything works...more time to do the things we enjoy!

For the last three years I have been meaning to do something about 2 patches of blown plaster in our living/dining room but the thought of tidying up enough to get to them keeps putting me off.

We moved in 4 years ago and were rewired 3 years ago. It was only a month or so ago that we finally replaced the Old Lady Wallpaper with missing patches of bare plaster.

We also only just replaced the carpet in the dining room, which we cut parts off to make repainting the skirting easier four years ago.

Stuff like that doesn't bother me, or the dried on mud on the kitchen floor, from the dogs' feet. But, clutter is really irritating and must be expunged.

I seem to be in the minority here but I like a tidy house, find it hard to relax in a room that is full of crap.

With 2 kids this is hard so I have resigned myself to the fact that I wont have a tidy house so we keep 1 or 2 areas clear. 1 is the lounge where we relax and watch telly.

It isnt a matter of spending all day tidying and cleaning, it is just 30 seconds to put something back when you finish using it so it doesn't build up.

Saying all this, my house isnt a show house by any means. Everything has been done to make it easy to live in and somewhere I dont worry about if kids spill drinks or come running in with muddy shoes. Wood/Tiled floors, paint that can be scrubbed etc.

I feel much better now. It's not just my wife that leaves a pile of handbags in the kitchen to grow on a monthly basis, or this weeks post in a single growing pile under the coffee table, or me constantly treading on Lego....

Keep it tidy and clean. But the best thing we ever did was get a cleaner... whizz around tidying a few bits Monday night every fortnight and cleaner comes and does the house top to bottom on a Tuesday.

House tidyness discussions in my house tend to go this way...

Me: Why can't you and the kids tidy up after yourselves...
Her: Why can't you put your bikes and all associated paraphernalia in a shed in the garden.

We have settled on an uneasy stalemate 🙂