Newspaper article this morning provoked the question….also as following neighbour around with a doormat as he was helping us fix a door and couldn’t keep taking shoes on and off.
We have always removed shoes in the house, it’s just what my family did and have never changed. Indoor shoes are by every external door.
But guests coming for a meal can keep them on.
And you?
Then it heads into carpet or not type of questions. I would say shoes off if carpeted, possibly also if you have a real wood floor. Tiles may not bother.
My father would have loved “shoes off” in the days of stilettos. The new flat we lived in had parquet flooring. 
PS: I’m usually shoes off, but that’s just because I take off my wellington boots at the kitchen door and then pad round in socked feet.
Shoes on, always.
Guests may have holes in their socks, smelly feet, floors are cold, pets leave things to step in etc. Making me take my shoes off when I enter your home makes me feel barely tolerated and very very unwelcome unless you are going to provide me with slippers too.
I don’t see a problem keeping shoes on (unless covered in mud) on any hard floor. We haven’t had carpets for over 30 years, and I’m struggling to remember the last time I went into a french house that had carpets, certainly not in living spaces (been a while since I’ve been in bedrooms 
).
Shoes on, except when there is underfloor heating.
Interesting….we either take our shoes off when going it to someone else’s house, or at least ask. Apart from dinner party type situations when I would keep them on as go with outfit, or take suitable indoor shoes with me.
And most people who visit us do the same. We have guest slippers if they wish.
And we never wear outdoor shoes in our own house.
Slippers should be provided if the host wants shoes off thats just courtesy.
As the Danes do!
I would love a shoes off rule (other than for guests) but hubby is terrible at leaving them on!
Brought up to have slippers indoors and shoes outdoors… and often bare-feet inside and out…
Nowadays, we have tough doormats at all the entrances and we automatically “wipe our feet” on entering… so anything nasty drops there… on the mat… to be cleaned-up later. Solid floors are easy to clean but can be slippy… so safety first.
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Can’t wander around in socks in case I slip and fall (brittle bones) so if I’m visiting a certain couple, who are guarding their ancient floors like treasure… I take indoor shoes to change into…
but, in the main, we wipe our feet and trundle in…
Incidentally, keeping eyes peeled does help to avoid stepping in nasty stuff… but it can happen and I wouldn’t take that indoors, anywhere… I’d sit outside and clean my footwear as necessary… before proceding…
Shoes on here - but I am not fussed if visiting someone else and they have a “shoes off” policy.
I usually take my cue from whether there is a pile of footwear by the front door as I come in. 
I live on a building site still outside my front door so family take their shoes off at the door and I did ask other visitors to bring something to wear as I did not want great footprints of wet clay inside my house once after we had wetted the entrance via external building work and they were not put out at all. Mostly people will wipe their shoes on the mat inside, outside mats only make more mess as you bring in what others have wiped off already. I always take slippers when I go visiting, makes me feel better knowing they havn’t got to clean the floor plus granddaughter crawls a lot too.
I don’t want to wear anyone else’s slippers thank you.
Before you criticise remember to walk a mile in their slippers 
My first reaction to that situation would be have I arrived by mistake at a mosque?
I remember visiting a couple who’d got a new hardwood floor and asked guests to remove their shoes and walk around in their socks (one half of the couple was an Icelander) - so I slipped going down their new, polished wooden stairs and bounced all the way to the bottom on my spine. Bastard hyggey Scandis!
Meanwhile in France several of our friends have very old, lovely irregular herring bone chestnut plank floors that I’m very envious of, but wouldn’t want to walk on without shoes. Regretfully, our house doesn’t have the original boards - think they were probably replaced in the Sixties or Seventies with high quality, but boring narrow ones.
Defo shoes on in our house if you want, but if you want to take them off it’s up to you, wouldn’t dream of supplying slippers and if I did they’d go in the bin after one use. I definitely wouldn’t wear someone else’s slippers. I usually walk around the house barefoot or with socks on.
We have Oak & Travertine flooring easy to keep clean.
I remember my ‘O’ level maths teacher explaining why a 7 stone woman in stiletto heels put more pressure per sqr inch on a floor than an adult elephant…
Fortunately my seven stone wife is frightened of breaking her neck in high heels so our floors are safe.
upstairs, we do have original boards and some of the ancient nails have lost their tops (off with their heads…) and can be painful on bare feet… ouch…
All washed after every use. But since Covid we tend to be more relaxed about other people’s shoes, just don’t wear outdoor shoes in the house ourselves. Rather unpleasant as a concept to me.
For me it depends on the amount of de-lacing involved - loafers no probs, but not the case with my snappily named Thorogood American Heritage 8″ Tobacco Moc Toe Maxwear Wedge that are my go-to winter footwear - possibly the last really good boots still made in the USA (sadly Red Wing are now made in the Far East though I’ve two pairs of 30 years old plus US made Red Wing boots). My Thorogoods are only thirteen years old (but are too old to have the stupid label on the side) They’re great value if you order online from the factory in Milwaukee, even after French import duty you should save at least €100.
