Acceptable Mess and Unacceptable Mess
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I must admit that I always find the photos in the glossy magazines about housekeeping will be in touch with reality, and above all the terrible reality of children and pets. A particular case was an article in which several designers had on a house in pure white for everything – bed, carpet, walls, cushions comment was decorated, the lot. If the designer does not say that it looked terribly sterile and lifeless, and that it was completely impractical and wouldcompletely ruined the first time someone spilled the smallest drop of coffee or red wine? Get real!
The other brilliant thing about these homes may, is that they look more like museum pieces. Everything is "just so", even children (I suspect that the children in question was done to Grandma's for a week during the photo shoots were sent). If something dares to sit on a flat surface, it is a bowl of fruit (which has never brown bit) or a stack of magazines and books, which alwaysTitle on decoration and art, if you look closely at the spikes.
Peg Bracken, in her delightful do I Hate the budget book also laughed at "designer Chaos", the feather boa on the back of the chair, opera gloves, draping a first edition Shakespeare in an attempt to make a house look lived in.
But needs a house to look lived in., to be friendly and welcoming, a home needs a certain degree of disorder – but not too much. It must be acceptable mess, but not acceptableConfusion.
Examples of acceptable mess hanging laundry on a clothes horse in a corner, a book (or three) with a bookmark on the sofa or table, or a few plates and cups, sat the kitchen sink ready for the next wash load. Unacceptable confusion, however, are things like dirty socks lying around the floor (Listen to stack other members of my family and the sofa / coffee table or so books, magazines and old newspapers that you can not sit down without significant ???),Room-clearing and a teetering pile of dishes.
Here are a hand full of examples:
Acceptable: cobwebs with spiders living in them in a discreet corner.
Unacceptable: abandoned dusty cobwebs filled with fluffy bits of old insect long time from a dead spider now.
Acceptable: wooden blocks or Lego on the floor in a lavish castle, city, or a different layout.
Unacceptable: Lego, wooden blocks, three dolls and a whole teaspoon of chaotic live scatteredRoom where you have your step or you risk impaling your foot to see shaken in plastic.
Acceptable: the sweater or jersey you took this morning (and are all set out once the sun goes down) on a chair in the bedroom.
Unacceptable: go to Jersey, plus three pairs of socks and a dirty underpants dubious on the chair (and the owner of the socks, "where are all my clean socks?").
Acceptable: work in progress on a desk on which a pen, a diary, aCalculator and a few folders. Unacceptable: desk completely covered in old letters, notes, printouts, papers, pens (dead and alive), CD-ROMs without boxes and unnamed items (this is not an exaggeration – I have seen such desks, but not by me.)
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