Why We Should All Embrace Scruffy Hospitality 

Do you hold back from inviting friends round because you put yourself under pressure to clean the house before they arrive? Does everything have to be perfect before they come over, leaving you feeling exhausted rather than looking forward to seeing them? 

Maybe there’s another way to do things.

Scruffy hospitality embraces the ‘feel’ rather than the look of a home, celebrating how people are welcomed into your home rather than how tidy it is.

 

 

Scruffy hospitality is the practice of welcoming loved ones into your home no matter what your home looks like.

Erica Lane, Decluttering Coach

 

Scruffy hospitality puts the focus on making people feel welcome, rather than worrying about whether you’ve cleared the kitchen counters or put away the pile of laundry that’s been building for weeks - because let’s face it, if we were to wait until the laundry was completely done, most of us would never have anyone over!

Decluttering coach Erica Lane delves deeper and describes scruffy hospitality as ‘the practice of honoring your home for what it gives you, instead of criticizing it for how it looks’.

She has these 3 tips to help you practice scruffy hospitality in your home:

 

1. Remember that people are there to see you, not your house.

It’s about relationships, not aesthetics. Your friends are coming to see you, not to carry out a house inspection, so you don’t have to wait until your home is Insta-perfect before inviting them over.

 

2. Keep in mind the many ways your home serves you.

Your home is your safe haven, providing you with comfort, shelter, nourishment and love when you walk through the front door. It’s also a place of the many experiences and memories, good and bad, that have shaped you and your family. These things mean so much more that whether or not you have shiny countertops or freshly painted walls. 

 

3. Anyone who turns up their nose at your home is probably not someone you want in your house anyway.

That pretty much sums it up, don’t you think? 

 

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