House Proud Reflected in the attitude popularized by home media personalities like Martha Stewart and Linda Reeves. Her home is a self-defining high priority, a source of pride, joy, and self-fulfillment. She’s always striving for, and achieving, a picture-perfect home. Keeping up with the Jones' Everything she does is rooted in a sense of being personally judged by how her home looks and a desire to appear successful. Driven by high standards, her home life is characterized by a constant striving for perfection and a constant sense of underachieving. Treading Water Home to her is one more burden in an already overburdened life. She is too tired to care about the state of her home. While mildly embarrased when people come over, she has learned to live with the feeling. she’s given up on perfection and knows she’s underachieving. Keep it Simple Out of choice, not desperation, she lives by very practical home standards. With so many other important things in life, she doesn’t buy into all the pressure other women put on themselves regarding their homes. She has a whole different sense of perfection, achieving her ideal of a home that’s simply a comfortable family base.