When guests, expected or unexpected, arrive at your home do not apologize for the appearance of the home. Not only does it immediately set you against your best, and most positive house, it may very well alert your guest to a situation that to them was otherwise very pleasant. Homes are meant to be lived in not displayed in a magazine.
On any average day your home will have some clutter or misplaced items. If they are so bothersome to you, remove them quietly while engaging your guest in polite conversation. People feel more at ease when they are welcomed with warm words than with excuses. Your home is where you ought to be most comfortable, so share that warmth with your guest.
If the untidiness of your home is so very bothersome to the guest that they feel a need to remove themselves from your home, you have easily identified someone who is not of your metal can easily put them on your list of pleasant aquaitances and not close friends. The truest friend of the deepest cast dye will recognize the irregular state of your house and sense your unease and immediately begin to helping to tidy things up as you visit. After all, house call ought to be useful as well as pleasant.
In speaking of being useful, when making calls, plan to do something with your host, offering to help with the task they were in the middle of, rather than just inconvience the flow of their daily projects. Just as the socialization will help the soul, the busy hands can help the home.
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