Are you a housie? Are houses your hobby? Your interest and your passion? Take the quiz below to see just how “housie” you are:

 

Answer the following questions with True or False: 

  1. When visiting a friend’s house you have been known to rearrange their belongings into a more pleasing vignette.
  2. You have fantasized about transforming the lives of friends and family by doing a “while you were out…” style surprise revamp of their houses.
  3. While waiting for an appointment you find mentally redecorating the waiting room to be a most pleasant diversion.
  4. When you first enter a new setting that is beautifully styled you find it difficult to focus on anything else until you fully take in your surroundings.
  5. You believe that you know much more about a person after having had the opportunity to spend time in their home. (The home is the ‘window to the soul’ rather then the ‘eyes…’).
  6. Your version of ‘counting sheep’ when going to sleep each night is to plan and visualize upcoming house related projects or to mentally redecorate spaces you have recently been in.
  7. While watching TV you are often distracted by the set backgrounds and have re-watched shows or movies just to see the spaces that they have been filmed in.
  8. If you have children, you had the nursery planned and decorated long before the baby was born (or perhaps even before they had been conceived).
  9. You own a whole paint colour series put out by at least one paint company.
  10. You rearrange something in your home on at least a weekly basis.
  11. You own a book of graph paper and you have used it extensively for planning house related pursuits (or just designing renovations that may never actually happen)!
  12. You have been known to plan room layouts using miniature cut-outs of furniture on a to-scale drawing of your room (or perhaps a techie version instead…).
  13. Your favourite part of going to stay in a nice hotel is checking out the décor.
  14. The most exciting part of moving out of your parents house was getting to decorate your own dorm room or apartment.
  15. It would not seem crazy to you to replace light fixtures, flooring, cabinet knobs and repaint in a home you were ‘only renting’.
  16. You would rather go shopping for house-related items then clothes any day.
  17. You love real estate and enjoy looking at MLS just so that you can see inside of so many different houses and imagine how you could renovate and redesign them.
  18. You have been tempted to move (even if you love your house) simply because a house that you have seen online has ‘so much potential’.
  19. Your house never is and never will be finished. If it were (or when it is) you would (will) have to move.
  20. You truly believe that most people do not understand how affected we are by the spaces we live in, and you wish you could ‘help’ them to create their best house possible.

Score yourself one point for each question to which you answered “true”.

Points Assessment:

0-7 points:  The Dabbling Housie

You enjoy houses and house related pursuits. You take pleasure in looking at people’s houses, decorating your own house, and crafting and DIYing may even be hobbies of yours. You like to dabble in housie every now and then but you artfully balance your interest in houses with other interests and pursuits.

 

8-14 points: The Hobbyist Housie

Houses and house related pursuits are your main hobby. You love all things house and enjoy making your house a home. People often ask you for your opinion or advice because of your interest and skill in this area. Sharing your hobby with others is part of the joy!

 

14-20 points: The Seriously Obsessed Housie

The name of this category says it all. You are obsessed. Perhaps it is a problem, perhaps it is not. Depends upon what you do with it. So, go forth, and spread the house love. Bless others with your passion for this hobby and spread function and beauty around your little piece of the world.