Open House

How someone with the Open House profile lives

There's no “mine” in your kitchen. You cook big, put the pan on the table and shout that it's ready. You'll use someone's shampoo when yours runs out and assume they'll do the same with yours. Your door is open, literally. Friends of flatmates become your friends, someone's cousin sleeps on the sofa for a week and it's fine. You don't keep a tally of who bought the last bag of rice, because keeping tallies feels like living with strangers.

You turn a flatshare into a household. People who move in alone in a new city find you and suddenly have plans, a spare jumper and someone to eat with. You bend easily: a change of plan, an extra guest, a different rota, none of it bothers you. And you say what you think, warmly, so tensions tend to get aired before they turn into a note on the fridge. Whatever is going on in the flat, you're part of it.

Your generosity has a flip side: you assume everyone shares the same way, and they don't. A flatmate who labels their food isn't being petty, they're telling you something, and you find it hard to hear. Privacy means little to you, so you'll walk into a room mid-conversation or borrow a bike without asking. And you're not the tidiest: after your big dinners there's usually a big kitchen. People who need their space, or their accounts clear, will feel crowded.

Who they live well with

Profiles where the reference compatibility is 78% or higher.

Where friction tends to show up

Profiles where the reference compatibility drops below 66%. Not impossible: it just needs talking about.