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* Creator/QuentinCrisp lived in a notoriously unkempt home. In the TV drama based on his autobiography, he remarked that "the dust doesn't get any worse after a year".

* ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle''. Poor old Sophie has to clean up the whole thing.
* A variation in ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'' is when Kiki rents an apartment from a baker. She finds the entire apartment extremely dusty, however, after further inspection, the apartment is caked (no pun intended) in ''flour'' rather than dust.
* The Dwarfs' home in Disney's ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', so much that the dwarfs are shocked when they come home and find everything clean.

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* A variation in ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService'' is when Kiki rents an apartment from a baker. She finds the entire apartment extremely dusty, however, after further inspection, the apartment is caked (no pun intended) in ''flour'' rather than dust.
* ''Anime/HowlsMovingCastle''. Poor old Sophie has to clean up the whole thing.

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* Picture comes from the first act of the Creator/RogerCorman anthology film ''Film/TalesOfTerror'', where a girl visits the home of her father, who let most of the place get this way after his wife died.
* This trope shows up a lot in the Creator/RogerCorman Poe pictures; in the comedy adaptation of ''Film/{{The Raven|1963}}'', Creator/PeterLorre improvised the quip "Tough place to keep clean, huh?" as he and Creator/VincentPrice walk through an extensive and overly-cobwebbed room.
* Not Creator/RogerCorman, but Creator/VincentPrice: ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1959''. Also lampshaded, as Frederick Loren's wife asks him why he couldn't have had the haunted house he's rented for the party cleaned. [[DeadpanSnarker Frederick]] responds "Atmosphere, darling. You know how ghosts are, they never tidy up."
* ''Film/{{Dagon}}'' has a staffed hotel that is at the same time coated in dust and cobwebs.

* In ''Film/TheWolfman2010'', Talbot Hall is certainly untidy to say the least.

* Appears all the time in ''Literature/{{Dracula}}'', notably in the old wing of castle Dracula and in his purchased mansion.

* In ''Amelia Bedelia'', the titular [[TheDitz maid]] added dust to a living room. Her rationale: To ''remove'' dust is to "un-dust;" therefore, to "dust" is to ''add'' dust. Her main character flaw was that she was LiteralMinded, and didn't quite understand figures of speech.
* "The Dark Crusader" by Creator/AlistairMaclean starts thus: ''A small dusty man in a small dusty room. That's how I always thought of him, just a small dusty man in a small dusty room.'' The 'dusty man' is the protagonist's [[TheSpymaster boss in British Intelligence]].

* ''Series/TheMunsters'': "Dusting" actually means spreading ''more'' dust around.

* The mansion of ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'', while not as smothering with dust as most examples, has enough that Luigi kicks up a trail of it wherever he goes, and most vacuumed objects give a puff of dust if they don't have any items within. Played a touch straighter in one basement room with large dust piles that have to be vacuumed up to proceed.

* Not Creator/RogerCorman, but Creator/VincentPrice: ''Film/HouseOnHauntedHill1959''.

* Creator/QuentinCrisp lived in a notoriously unkempt home. In the TV drama based on his autobiography, he remarked that "the dust doesn't get any worse after a year".

* This trope shows up a lot in the Creator/RogerCorman Poe pictures; in the comedy adaptation of ''Film/{{The Raven|1963}}'' Creator/PeterLorre improvised the quip "Tough place to keep clean, huh?" as he and Creator/VincentPrice walk through an extensive and overly-cobwebbed room.

* In ''Podcast/TheMagnusArchives'' episode "Vampire Killer" the eponymous Trever Herbert describes the house of Sylvia [=McDonald=], the first vampire he killed (or so he says), as covered in dust and mould except for a narrow strip along the floor where she walks, as if she has lived there for years but done absolutely nothing except walk through the place.

* Parts of ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'' in the Ride/DisneyThemeParks. The cast members use a machine similar to a fertilizer spreader to spray fake cobwebs around just to keep it optimally dingy.

* Pipit's house in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaSkywardSword'' is so dusty that Pipit's mother actually pays Link to clean it with his Gust Bellows, a futuristic device resembling a leaf-blower. [[YouBastard And then you learn where Pipit's patrol money winds up...]]

* Done for laughs in ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967''. The daughter of Mata Hari is infiltrating her mom's ''NebulousEvilOrganisation'', and is shown her mom's old room by a henchman who states "It's just the way she left it". The room is covered in dust and cobwebs, exactly as it would be after decades of neglect.

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* One of the areas in ''VideoGame/{{Seiklus}}'' is a corridor covered in collossal amounts of ash that, thanks to wind blowing there, was confused with arctic area by ''many''.

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->''"Certainly he didn't expect to come home and find a clear inch of dust."''
-->-- '''Dumbledore''', ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince''

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* Series/TheMunsters' house. "Dusting" actually means spreading ''more'' dust around.

* ''Series/TheAvengers'' - a Charles Dickens enthusiast has his manor house themed to the author's works, down to a recreation of Miss Havisham's dusty, cobwebbed wedding feast room.
* In ''Series/BlackBooks'' the Cleaner highlights this as one of the worst features of the bookshop. While we can't see it, he does the traditional demonstration of wearing a white glove, running it along a surface, and showing how much dust it's collected. The surface in this example was the '' air.''

* The Dwarfs' home in Disney's ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs'', so much that the dwarfs are shocked when they come home and find everything clean.

* This is the first obvious sign that something's gone weird with the world in the ''Anime/UruseiYatsura'' NonSerialMovie: Onsen Mark's house is absolutely covered from floor to ceiling, wall to wall with a layer of dust and mold.

* The mansion of ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'', while not as smothering with dust as most examples, had enough that Luigi kicked up a trail of it wherever he went in the mansion and most vacuumed objects would give a puff of dust if they didn't have any items within. Played a touch straighter in one basement room with large dust piles that had to be vacuumed up to proceed.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' episode "Pinkie Apple Pie", Goldie Delicious's house is extremely messy, including plenty of dust and cobwebs. What looks like one of Goldie's [[CrazyCatLady many, many cats]] turns out to be a pile of dust inexplicably shaped like a cat (at least, [[FridgeHorror we hope it's just dust]]).

* Picture comes from the first act of the Creator/RogerCorman anthology film ''Film/{{Tales Of Terror'}}', where a girl visits the home of her father, who let most of the place get this way after his wife died.

* Picture comes from the first act of the Creator/RogerCorman anthology film ''Tales Of Terror'', where a girl visits the home of her father, who let most of the place get this way after his wife died.

* The mansion of ''VideoGame/LuigisMansion'', while not as smothering with dust as most examples, had enough that Luigi kicked up a trail of it wherever he went in the mansion and most vacuumed objects were give a puff of dust before releasing any items within. Played a touch straighter in one basement room with large dust piles that had to be vacuumed up to proceed.