Raise your hand if you’ve ever been to someone’s house only to discover they are nothing like you’d imagined them to be.
Is your hand up?
Perhaps it was:
- A co-worker’s home that didn’t align with their work personality (What? Sally has three deer heads mounted and hanging in her living room! Who knew she enjoyed hunting?)
- Your date’s place. They seemed so put together and yet their apartment is a complete mess!
- A neighbor’s massive doll collection displayed in the living room (you didn’t see that one coming).
- Your friend’s fastidiously clean home (who casually mentions they don’t believe in having a “junk drawer”)
- A Zoom call with a colleague who has a fancy office (complete with a mahogany wood desk and bookshelves with lots of gold accents)
Our homes reveal a lot about us.
They give clues.
Nonverbal cues talk loudly.
Pick the living room below that feels the most like you.
Got one?
- What is the style you are most drawn to?
- How does the room make you feel?
- Which one feels most like yourself?
My guess is that the room you picked feels a lot like your personality.
Our personalities shine through in the objects we surround ourselves with. They say a lot about us.
The author of the book Snoop says,
“Essentially, what your home does is distil a very long history of behaviours and choices,”
Which explains why we love snooping in other people's homes!
Seeing someone’s home is like a backstage pass. We get to learn much more about the person through nonverbal cues. It’s like detective work where we pick up on the clues the person is sending out with their home choices.
Clues like are they…
Neat
Organized
Messy
Sophisticated
Rustic
Modern
Family Oriented
A Traveler
Seeing someone’s home often answers questions by giving us a glimpse of what the person likes and how they choose to curate things.
And it's all done by reading nonverbal cues.
Pretty Cool.
Now, think about what this could mean for your office space, Zoom background, and home.
Whoa!
Your co-pilot (who is tidying up so any unexpected guests view her as organized),
