How would you react to this comment?

[n2mark]

Your home is so homey! I also heard , "you are so homey!

Should I take this as a compliment, or "your house needs to become more fashionable". Or, further comments.

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[KitchenWitch]

2. I think it is a high compliment

Says that you and your home are comfortable to be around.

[n2mark]

8. Sometimes I think

people are telling me my house is not fashionable. I need to buy all this modern type of furniture or have a certain "type of style".

My house depicts my life and my family and that is what I want it to say. I am sort of a nostalgic type of person. I have a hat hanging in my livingroom (that has a memory) , objects given to me from my own children and those in my care and also pictures of past staff, angels galore, plants, cushy couch and chair, my house includes many years of memories, also plaques "employee of the year", outstanding service and management appreciation award hanging but hidden in my house. A lifelong teddy bear sitting in a rocking chair reading to my daughter's first doll from her grandmother on a high shelf just so many important things.

My house may not be House and Gardens, Good HouseKeeping etc., but I am happy but hope others feel the same way when they come here.

[progmom]

3. if i said it, it would be a compliment

A house is meant to be lived in, and should make people feel comfortable. Homey isn't an insult.

[Tsiyu]

4. "Homey" means I could snuggle right down

in that easy chair and sip on some nice hot tea ( or toddy) and warm my feet by the fire and the food will be good and the smiles will be warm and I will regret leaving to go out into the cold, cruel world.

Not bad.

[shawcomm]

5. Thinly veiled... well, I wouldn't go so far as disgust

but, it doesn't sound as if the person liked your place. They DID try to be diplomatic about it. Though I suppose it might depend on their inflection.

Was it smiling with a fauning and raucous exclamation, or was their expression sort of dour when they said it? The first might mean they actually love your ability to make a house your home. The second is "grit your teeth and say something that sounds nice."

[Not_Giving_Up]

6. Homey=good

Homely=bad

[bloodyjack]

7. HOMEY DON'T PLAY THAT WAY

THWAKK

[n2mark]

10. comments came

from someone who said they could not live in my house because it was too homey.

Another was a coworker who thought my house was too homey.

And a few others who walked in my house and said "oh, your house is too homey".

I've worked to have my house comfortable and always welcome people who come here, but I'm beginning to wonder.... should I have french provencal or whatever to be considered what? Anyway, I love my homey house, my adult children and that is what matters to me. I must add my senior cockerspaniels and my daughters Corgi mix are also welcome here.

[RevCheesehead]

9. Depends on the voice inflection.

But when someone says that to me, it's "your home is so lived-in," which translates to "damn, woman, clean your house!"

[n2mark]

12. My home is clean

but my furniture is not the latest style. So I am going out to buy new furniture next week. New rules, there will be a shoe rack outside, everyone entering must take off their shoes, that is what my mother did, if you want to drink something while visiting join the smokers outside, I don't want water marks on my furniture or smoke smell in my house. Now is my house homey or what?

[RagingInMiami]

11. Where I come from, it means you're down with the posse

[EC]

13. Home vs/ Showcase

I used to do Interior Design, got tired of it because people seemed to want their homes to be like store displays, felt like I was doing Visual Merchandising instead...


My home looks and feels like a home, not a showcase and that is how it should be...In design school the professors used to say, a designer home has no pets or kids...homey homes do...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

14. I've always thought homey meant

comfortable, pleasant, and unconcerned with designer fads. Not that homey can't be trendy, but homey doesn't care about such folly.

[mykpart]

15. Okay, a couple of things:

1. Assume it is a compliment. If it was meant as an insult and you take it as a compliment, it will drive the other person nuts.

2. To the person who said they couldn't live in your home, tell them they weren't asked, nor are they welcome if they don't like it! Tell them your home is the way YOU like it because that is where you live, not them.

3. Fuck what other people think of your home. You live there, they don't. I am short, and I hang pictures at my eye level, which is low for other people, but I spend more time with the pictures than they do, so to hell with 'em.

[pauliedangerously]

16. Who cares?

It's YOUR home. If it make YOU happy, then nothing else really matters, does it?

You should take it as a comment.

Your house doesn't need to become anyhting, unless the roof leaks or if the stove doesn't work. Don't let other peoples' opinions goad you into spending money you don't need to spend.