Should be called "An Anal Retentive Man" that tells you how to wash your hands and and to not lean your back on the couch 'cause you smell like "movie theatre" who you break up with after a few agonizing months...

Love it...wish all men were this organized. I must say visually it looks so GREAT!

I prefer the term 'agreeably fastidious' to anal retentive. I appreciate an organized and meticulous space, so long as I have my big hidden drawer of utter disarray. I'm in love with photo #2; I want to throw everything off that table in a terrible heat of the moment need to have 'relations' atop it, then spend the next afternoon placing each item precisely as it was before.

Not all men are messy... just like not all women are tidy. It's just the way you were brought up. We all eventually start to be more like our parents than we would believe.

I have a male friend like this - I went over mid-week for a glass of wine after work, needed to use the bathroom and noticed the toilet paper was folded into a triangle. I don't go by very often. I wouldn't call it anal retentive, it's more obsessive compulsive.

Is that a painting of a nude man in the background that one pic? Explains everything: totally and completely gay.

It would be nice to be able to zoom in. There's a lot of stuff to see in pic one... would be nice to know what's being organized...

thanks for the stereotype...

sailingfms:

a) That looks like a nude of a woman, not a man.

b) Being neat doesn't make a man gay; I feel like on every other page of Dwell magazine there's a frighteningly neat house that happens to belong to a very neat man married to a very neat woman (and often the man is identified as the neat-freak).

c) Not that there would be anything wrong with that if the neatness in these photos were all due to the photos being of gay men's homes. Welcome to the 21st century!

I wish my husband and I were both neater but we're at least compatibly disorganized and don't get on each other's nerves because one of us is significantly more organized than the other. That's a mismatch that can be the kiss of death in a relationship, whether same-gender or mixed-gender.

I remember this home from dwell mag a few years back. It was a man and woman living together -- was amazed at the organization then and still am!

sorry, didn't realize at first these are all different homes! I was just referring to the first photo.

@sailingfms: You're the one with the cat kiddo, what does that say about you? You know, since we're irrationally generalizing and all...

I disagree that we are how we were brought up. My dad is a neat freak. Annoying and problematic, actually (though strangely horrible at hand washing dishes.) Me (female) - I'm definitely on the messier side, but I'm also very organized, oddly enough. I like to have things clean, but just find it harder to put everything away. My husband is very tidy and quite clean, but is realistic enough to be able to put up with me.

Now that's MY kind of man!!!

How about a man who knows the difference between your/you're?

Anyone? ANYONE?

Glad a dude wrote this post because I know LOTS of very tidy men. In fact I know more tidy men than tidy women (of the ones who live alone, myself included).

But if I ever meet anyone male or female who folds the toilet paper to a little point at home, I will ... well not sure what I'll do because I wouldn't want to hurt their feelings but .... well... that is just above & beyond

Hotels are one thing although it strikes me as comical even there....

Man or woman, this is so clean and beautiful. I feel peaceful just looking at the pictures!

My husband is blessedly tidy and organized, and as the daughter of a messy magpie of a father, I really truly appreciate it.
I think it's a combination of disposition and upbringing.
Although I think if more straight guys knew that being tidy meant better chances of getting lucky there would be run on Bed Bath and Beyond for organizers and cleaning products!

When you see a guy who can keep his home this neat and clean, you have to wonder where he's hiding the chopped up body parts.

Just kidding (sort of), it looks great. But really, where's the corpse?

Speaking as a straight woman who hopes she comes back in another life as a gay man...that stereotype remark most likely was meant as a huge compliment. This place is fabulous!!!!! OMG!

Um... are these guys single?! lol.

As a straight guy who likes to keep things clean, I do it because I care about what others think and I am annoyed by clutter to a certain extent. Since I was a child I've always had the habit of putting like things together. I'm not a perfectionist though. I don't always make my bed, I always end up with a clothing pile, and sometimes I letmy room go a bit too far when I'm busy for that week. But yeah, overall I like things to be clean.

i think a man who was neater & more organised than me would be slightly intimidating.. sure im going to drag my husband to the computer by the ear to read this post & study the pictures in great detail but i kinda like how he couldnt clean up after himself to save his life, makes a woman like me feel needed.

My partner is the clean one. He is always whining about how much of my hair he has to vaccum or why I don't squeegee the shower down (even though he always showers like, 20 minutes after me)

It's annoying but good, it's kind of the extra kick up the ass I need to do things like iron my clothes or stack the dishwasher. If it wasn't for him I would probably have rats

@sailingfms... you must be a crazy old cat lady, because you own a cat, right? that explains why you are so ignorant...

@jacksonlalonde - hahahaha. It's like double the gratification.

@illestwifey - I am dating a guy who is WAY compulsive about being clean and tidy...and yes, it's slightly intimidating. I get home from his place and feel the need to clean my house, purge, and organize. And I'm already borderline OCD with my neatness & organization!

sailingfms--

Not all gay men are anal retentive.

Ironically.

Sadly.

I think all these gay slurs are rather embarrasing. Keeping things clean and organized means that you have good discipline. Being lazy and sloppy doesn't make you some kind of manly man, it just means that you're lazy and sloppy, and I don't think that's something to take pride in.

On the other hand, trying to turn weaknesses into virtues is something a lot of men do, so hey, maybe it is a manly thing after all.

One more thing, slightly off-topic, but still. Is there any way you could link the pictures to more high quality ones? As things are, they're almost stamp-sized and it's difficult to make out the details, which kind of defeats the purpose.

Roshin--

You do know that those thumbnails along the bottom getting bigger when you click on 'em, right? Apologies if I'm stating the obvious, but ya never know.

I'm proud of all these gentlemen. I always say, "the most organized person wins." It's true. And these guys win.

Am I the only one wondering how I can store my occidental chairs like Mr. Maxwell Gillingham-Ryan?! That first pic is wonderful when it comes to storing things RIGHT.

I'm a messy girl myself, but I envy these pictures and my memories of my neat and tidy best friend, who is the most stylish man I know. Anyone who can turn a garden-level studio into an old-world lounge simply by picking the perfect pieces is a-okay in my book.

ummm, wouldn't you say that all these guys cleaned up their places so that they can share their homes on apt therapy? i'm a very neat person but its not going to look that perfect 24hrs a day 7 days a week...unless you are ocd or something

If I'm not mistaken, though, at least one of these samples is a home where male and female co-habitate.

If we're going to do an "Inside Man" thing, I wish it would be totally All Male.

And that first pic may have been taken by Maxwell, but it's not his home.

Most of the guys I've dated have been very neat and tidy (except, sadly, the one I eventually married). So I don't think it's unusual for a guy to be neat. In fact (yes, I'm about to stereotype), I think there are more super neat freak men in the world than super neat freak women. I think it's because (get ready for another generalization) women tend to be more sentimental and have trouble getting rid of stuff. It's easier to be tidy and organized when you have fewer possessions.

Funny that you say that, creative license. I was talking to a male coworker about why men can't get rid of things like ripped, stained and pitted out t-shirts and he said it was due to sentimentality. So many memories associated with that shirt. I think it really is just personal preference. I'm a real clutter hog, but I'd like to be less cluttered. The places pictured above are beautiful, but they don't feel cozy - to me.

What's all this about male stereotypes? These homes are clearly occupied by well programmed androids.

I'm sorry to disappoint the messy guys. I'm neat, not because I'm gay (married, 1 kid) but because I like order (OCD maybe) and everything perfect.
There's proof:

http://blueantstudio.blogspot.com/2009/02/sliding-closet-glass-door-diy.html

http://blueantstudio.blogspot.com/2009/02/little-closet-re-done.html

http://blueantstudio.blogspot.com/2009/01/master-closetdone-using-ikea-kitchen.html

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My ex was unbelievably neat and organized. It's one of the many things worth missing about him.