Symmetry

I really admire you for doing it yourself MissA. Its possible that your floor isnt exactly square and thats the problem.

I like tidiness but symmetry isn’t important to me. On the other hand my DH is Mr Symmetry personified ! We were watching the excellent BBC series with Monty Don in Japan visiting all the Japanese gardens and I realise there were other people just like DH who wanted things perfect. I’m surprised we have been happily married for 47 years.

Our DD and SIL have recently had a new kitchen fitted.
All that is perfect, but, the grouting in the utility room floor tiles , that runs off from the kitchen, do not line up with the kitchen floor tiles. (There is a step down)
I know it was a bit of an afterthought, and the workmen probably used left overs, but it is glaring to me.
When I asked DD if SIL had said anything, she just said "Don't! When the door is back on, nobody will see it"
(But I know)

I have a real problem with posters in waiting rooms which are not quite straight. I don't bother about ornaments, but my husband always parks slightly on the skew at home and I can tell he has when I'm in the car by the way that it lines up with the garage door, and that bothers me (although I don't say anything). I've put it down to slight autistic traits along with the dislike of loud unstructured noise. This only occurred to me after reading up about autism when a grandson was diagnosed with it. They say we're all on the autism spectrum somewhere! Strangely, dust doesn't seem to affect me at all ?

I could aim for symmetrical heaps, if that helps.

I like symmetry with anything on show, but behind cupboard doors is a different matter! Also a thick coating of dust doesn't bother me in the least! I am another who likes the car radio volume and air con on even numbers and often find myself lining up untidy supermarket trolleys.
Something that I annoy myself with is counting things. I know how many stairs and garden steps I have but it doesn't stop me, and the bathroom tiles are counted every morning several times while I lie in the bath.

I couldn't live with the wonky flooring - sorry, MissA. Otherwise, I'm not specially fussy, except with place settings.

Aaarrggg!! Place settings! I hate uneven tables. I can cope with squashed tables but uneven numbers drive me nuts.

Can someone explain why we had 5 children?

No re the flooring!! Ornaments I don't mind but things like tiles need to be spot on

DH is a Virgo, anyone less bothered about symmetry I have yet to meet. He just puts things down everywhere.

I am tidy but not obsessed by symmetry.Pictures level, rugs as square and parallel as out very old house will permit. Ornaments, balanced but not necessarily symmetrical, a certain level of symmetry in cushions on the sofa.

But regimentation - no.

We were offered the chance to pay extra for a 'superb' tiler instead of a 'good' one when we had the kitchen done. Assured the sockets would all be centred in the middle of tiles, and everything balanced. We paid the extra, but strangely he seemed unvailable when it came to do the job, and we have sockets crossing grout lines and odd cut tiles at edges. Basically we had the builder from hell on so many fronts, but you do learn not to notice, except occasionally, as time goes by.

My mother and grandmother used to fight over the towels in the bathroom. They never said anything to each other, but each time they went in ( we lived together) they would change them or change them back. My mother liked them folded once, hanging long, and my grandmother liked them folded twice, draped over the rail. It got to the stage that my mother would insert safety pins to hold them in place, and come back to find they have been refolded, and re-pinned. And yet they never said a word to each other!!!

Call me weird but none of this stuff bothers me except for the wonky unit and tiles not lining up those I would find totally unacceptable and would make the guilty party rectify them immediately. If I pay someone to do a job I expect the finished result to be better than I could achieve, otherwise what's the point.

Almost every time my AS visits I catch him straightening a picture. He's not even a Virgo.

Haha no I couldn’t - it would do my head in

Books/magazines on the coffee table have to be lined-up correctly, not just tossed down and the Welsh dresser must have (my precious very few!) china plates arranged just so.

And don't get me started on the angle of the sofa cushions......

I’m a Virgo. I hate clutter, the stuff of the OH’s I’d throw away given half the chance

The one thing that drives me mad is the curtains! In each room they have to be drawn back just so.... equal amounts of gathers etc. Also am forever cleaning the windows as well ...no streaks or smears. Otherwise am ok with most other things and can turn a blind eye to other imperfections.

I dont have ornaments ,one Bhudda in the living room with candles in front of him and that 's it.One row of 3 pictures on my wall.Perfumes and makeup in a drawer .I like clear worktops.Microwave toaster and kettle in the kitchen but that will change IF we get the new house as we've planned a layout that will keep the clutter in a large walk in cupboard and all the worktops clear

The floor would not worry me unless it is really noticeable .
I tidy anything and everything when I am having a viewing on my flat which is on the market at the moment. If no viewings scheduled everything goes to pot, wonky towels, ornaments haywire, rugs crooked...
One thing puzzles me. I am fussy about pictures and want them straight. A few days after straightening them, I notice they are leaning a bit to one side or another. I am convinced its to do with the motion of the Earth.

Well done MissAdventureon laying your new floor,
I wouldn’t know where to start. Only thing that has to be right in my house is carefully placed throws on sofa, exactly
right, but having thrown all caution to the wind last week
and ordering new pink velvet chesterfield sofa, and I only
went out for dog biscuits, now won’t need to have throws
strategically placed over worn and yuk bits, new problem,
how to keep the spaniel off?

I am not a virgo, [Aquarius] but i cant bear to see my windows dirty, and i have to have matching pegs on my washing line, same colour for each piece of clothing etc
Aquarians are not known for their tidiness, and although i like things clean, i have to admit i am in general not very organised,

When i had some tiling done I was asked if I wanted them straight or staggered i insisted on sstraight ,My ornaments are not neccessily in symetry but fhave some kind of order
Nott sure if ooits relevant but one of my hobbies is jig saw puzzles which I have a system 2 do ie must do the sky first

No I don't like symmetry..and I don't like things placed in the middle i.e fruit bowl or vase of flowers on the table..

I like symmetry. A lot of women wear necklaces with haphazardly placed large stones of various sizes. I couldn't wear one. There would have to be some sort of matching pattern for me. I can't stand wonky pictures. I can't stand mis matched patterns. But I'm very relaxed about most things so this is an exception to my pretty laid back attitude.

Nothing is straight or ordered in my home! except my desk/sewing area. I do like groups of 3, 5 or 7 objects though.