First Thing You Look At?

When you go to someone's house/apartment for the first time, what's the first thing you look at?

If visible (meaning: not in the bedroom), I check out their books and CDs. That usually tells me if we have quirky things in common.

I also notice instruments almost immediately. If it's one I'm particularly passionate about, I ask them to play a song.

I sneek a peek in the frig.

prints, posters, pictures, trinkets, antiques, souvenirs..unique, useless sorts of things.

i try to locate their most comfortable piece of furniture...and then i sit in it...and sigh obnoxiously...

-oz

shiney things

I like to walk around and look at all the stuff they have around, decorations, little knick knacks, pictures. Yeah books and CDs. You can really get a feel for someone by how they decorate their house.

Inside the Fridge yo!

That's a good point. In that case, I sort of look at the pictures and things on the common walls before they say, "Let's go in my room... we can talk in there."

THEN I look at the books and things.

My age - I check out posters, movies, CDs

Old - Go to the medicine chest and take their pills.

hmm. Usually, when Im in an unfamiliar house Im just about to pass out.. hehe. So, um.. the floor usually.. haha.
But, I like looking at whats on the walls... tells you a lot about a person I think.. I mean, if they family photos.. concert flyers... what have you..

Pictures on the walls.

I look in the kitchen, to see if they keep it clean.

I always try to see if there's a gun rack

I look for butter and/or sex toys.

Don't ask.

The door usually.

[added]

This is the first thing you look at at my pad. It's on the wall directly across from the front door. I thought it was important to display something cool and positive for people to see when they first walk in. I think I read that in some feng sutra book once.


[Edited on Dec 29, 2003 by JPEG]

After thinking about Tekky's post, I looked around my place. I live with a roommate who has tastes VERY opposite from mine, and it's really hard to tell I live here if you look in the common rooms.

My bedroom, however, is very much Sorcha's World. The chaos of Jessica's World ends at my door.

ah, but how many roommates do you have?
when it's a roommate situation, you have to go by individual rooms
for tekky, as she is one cool motherfucker
(MrSmead is drunk, but he means well)

books and whether its clean or not (ie dust)

Music collection first, then books. Music tastes are usually more revealing than books as I find many put intellectual books on display as some sort of proof of their intelligence.

art/posters on walls, then books.

first thing i check is the smell. you know, when someones place just smells like dirty? after that i check the walls....posters/pictures or whatever people put on their walls these days.