etiquette at family homes

wik

We only really have a couple of rules:
1. NO Smoking!!
2. NO feeding my dog human food! ( this stems from years of having working sheepdogs in the house, and they should never be fed human meat products!)
3. The most important rule of all....... Make your self at home, and help yourself, just as long as you leave me a glass of wine in the bottle

re 3, a while back my fairly new to the family sis in law asked me if she could have some toast for breakfast!! I turned and said to her, that i hoped she would never ask again and she should know better!!!

oh a p.s. I dont drink tea or coffee so any guests are told to help themselves as I always forget to offer

gayleanne

I and my husband always take our shoes off when we enter the house, mainly because I have cream carpets throughout, but, I am afraid to say that when we enter some of our neighbours houses we keep our shoes on because the carpets are so filthy that our feet stick to the floor. I hasten to add that we never stop in their homes long enough for a cup of tea ha ha ha

MrsE_2

peachyprice wrote: »

There's this wonderful invention, it's called a doormat. In civilised families people are trained to wipe their feet when they come inside, it's possible to teach this skill from a very young age, as soon a children are able to wear shoes really.

Lots of shoes have groved soles & even if they are wiped, matter could still be in the groves that wont wipe off on a short haired mat, but would wipe off on deeper rugs or carpets.

Plus skinny heels will mark some floors & some soles will mark some floors.

peachyprice

MrsE wrote: »

Lots of shoes have groved soles & even if they are wiped, matter could still be in the groves that wont wipe off on a short haired mat, but would wipe off on deeper rugs or carpets.

Plus skinny heels will mark some floors & some soles will mark some floors.

Imagine how toe jam would get stuck in the pile of deep rugs and carpets though.

Person_one

MrsE wrote: »

Ive got a huge white rug in the living room & cream carpets on the stairs & landing and the bedrooms.

Sorry, but that just seems like a daft decor decision to me.

Choosing cream for the parts of the house that take the most wear and are most likely to get dirty. Who started that trend? Its baffling!

MrsE_2

Person_one wrote: »

Sorry, but that just seems like a daft decor decision to me.

Choosing cream for the parts of the house that take the most wear and are most likely to get dirty. Who started that trend? Its baffling!

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:
Daft:rotfl:
Its what I like to look at.
I like cream carpets, white towels & white bedding, it looks clean, really clean (assuming of course it is).
My walls & woodwork are all white or cream or natural wood too.
I dont like dark colours, I like light fresh natural & netural colours.

*max*

I would never, ever have light coloured carpets! 1/I would probably spill wine or ketchup on it the minute it's laid down 2/ life's too short to constantly worry about messing up your floor and 3/ I couldn't be !!!!!d having to hoover all the freakin time.

fluffymuffy

Do some people prefer patterned carpets and fabrics in dark colours because they can get them mucky and pretend they're clean? Is that it? And brown towels too?

*max*

fluffymuffy wrote: »

Do some people prefer patterned carpets and fabrics in dark colours because they can get them mucky and pretend they're clean? Is that it? And brown towels too?

Yes.

Although given the choice, I'd have no carpet at all. Wooden floors all the way.

Edit: I never "pretend they're clean". I don't care enough about it to "pretend" anything. lol

lostinrates

fluffymuffy wrote: »

Do some people prefer patterned carpets and fabrics in dark colours because they can get them mucky and pretend they're clean? Is that it? And brown towels too?

White towels and linen....you can see when it's clean. Hard floors, you can really make them clean.

We have inherited carpets, really old ....having a carpet cleaner helps. I don't know why any one would choose carpets and not have a carpet cleaner tbh.