If you want me to remove my shoes. . .
margaret_garfield
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removing shoes/fairly long/but it's me
Comments (1)Who knows what tomorrow may bring? There used to be a japanese restaurant in Atlanta many years ago that made you shed your foot wear at the door. It was a novelty then. We would eat there when we were in town for a play or some other such event. We were in Charleston a few years back doing the plantation tour fund raiser. It was pouring down rain when we went to one beautiful place. I can't remember the name now but it had a golf course. We had to take off our shoes at the door and don those hospital type things. I totally understood. The mud and water would have ruined their floors and carpets. Once in Russia I laughed because we were touring a palace there and we had to put shoe covers on. The shoe covers were squares of carpet pulled up by two corners and a piece of elastic holding it together. I remember thinking then that it was a good idea but wished they knew about the hospital shoe covers. I also wondered why they didn't do a similar thing at the Hermitage in St. Petersburg to protect those beautiful old floors. In private homes,I suppose "when in Rome" would be the thing to do. Just think what a whole new world of opportunities for yet another shopping trip it would bring if it became the norm to take off one's shoes before entering someone's home. You'd have to have a pedicure at least every 2 weeks and you certainly wouldn't want to wear those tacky little shoe or foot covers or anything that someone else had put on their feet. The very thought of catching a fungus or some other such thing would be enough to drive one to drink. There would be a rush to design little shoes and foot covers of every color and material. Fabric would have to be imported from all over the world. There would be a scramble of designers to come up with the best the quickest. Milan would probably devote a whole show to shoe covers alone. Television commercials would have to be made showcasing beautiful feet wearing the very latest from Paris in shoe and foot covers. Oh! My! God! we would then have to make yet another decision. Which shoe covers to take to wear with the dress. I can't think about this today. "I'll think about it tomorrow y'all" she says as she presses the back of her hand to her forhead and sighs. No wonder the Wall Street Journal was so interested. Janis...See MoreOpen House - Can I ask people to remove shoes?
Comments (59)I can't believe how BIG of an issue this is. What a joke. If someone has a sign requesting no shoes in the house, I don't even think twice about it. We are remodeling a home now that will soon be up for sale and there is NO WAY I won't have a sign. People are not very considerate and will wear high heels on brand new refinished hardwood floors and/or track mud on the new carpet and not even think twice. We are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars fixing this house up and if someone has a problem with taking their shoes off (or wearing booties) so be it. This is a sellers market and I'm not worried about it. If someone doesn't want to see a house because they have to take their shoes off....they don't really want to see the house. Move along. Keeping a remodeled home in as pristine condition as possible until it's in contract and closes is paramount....See MoreHanging a 'Remove Your Shoes' sign on door
Comments (70)What if you had a lightweight sign and hung it with that blue sticky-putty stuff? I don't know what it's called but it's kind of like play-doh, and you can put little balls of it on the back of the sign and hang it that way. Now that I have answered the actual question, I'll say that I agree with funkyart that it is off-putting to encounter an order like that before you even knock on the door. If you must hang the sign, how about in a spot just inside the door? We are a "mostly shoes-free" house. My family removes shoes automatically, in the mudroom. Friends of ours and friends of our kids almost all remove their shoes automatically, too, either because they also do it in their own house, or because it's obvious that we all have removed our shoes. If KIDS don't remove their shoes, I ask them to do it before they get too far. If ADULTS don't, I say nothing. If we have adults over for a party, I never ask anyone to remove their shoes. I think if you have someone over for a social event, they have chosen an outfit that includes their shoes, and for a variety of reasons it wouldn't be right to ask them to remove them. I think when you have a party or just a few friends over, that's the risk you take -- your floors may get dirty, someone might spill a glass of wine, someone might dance with a lampshade on their head... ooops, that's a different forum. Now, back to my popcorn. I had to admit I peeked in here only because I knew there'd be some Opinions on this topic....See MorePainting the stairs-shoe marks & when to remove tape???
Comments (6)Paintguy on the paint forum told me to score the painters tape too so I'll be doing that after everything cures. I'll have to check tonight and see if it's dirt. I knew the dark treads would show dust but and I thought a little bit about shoe prints but ... oh my, I hope I'm not regretting this later. Although, we really don't wear shoes in the house so it shouldn't be too huge of a problem. I can always add a runner later if I hate the footprint thing. Lots of other people in the word have dark stair treads so what do they do? Clean all the time? :)...See Morelindac
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