Revealed: What People Really Look At When They Visit Your Home, According To Science

New research from Confused.com has revealed the things that people really notice when they visit our homes. Using eye-tracking technology, the study pinpoints the exact parts of our homes, and the current decor trends, that attract attention the most and hold our gaze for the longest.  

 
Perhaps unsurprisingly, given the amount of time spent working from home over the past 18 months, office chairs beat all other items in the home as the most viewed, amassing a total of 410 views.  

Kitchen floors, with 323 views and maintaining the gaze of visitors for 2,987 milliseconds, are the second most viewed element, and the cot in a child’s bedroom came in third place. Bed throws came fourth and kitchen cabinets fifth. 

The top 10 things in a home people focussed on the most 
 
To conduct the study, a sample of people were shown a series of images of different rooms in a home. Confused.com’s research team tracked the total number of times people looked at different elements within the room, along with the total amount of time they looked at it for.  

Bathroom mirrors and drawers under a bathroom are both among the top 10 areas of a home that people looked at the most. In the bedroom, a throw on the bed and a chest of drawers also made the top 10, and in the kitchen, it’s the floor and the cabinets that were inspected the most.

The top 10 areas in a home that people looked at the most: