Decorating, DH and you.

Do your tastes and styles match? Did you argue over furniture, colors, bedding?

Ours don't, and as a result, everything remains white or neutral. No style, no mood.

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same with us. DH is tacky as hell. I feel like separating rooms, he gets one then I get one...but then half of our rooms will be tacky. So everything stays boring.

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Thankfully, DH leaves the majority of the decorating to me. So, tacky or not, we have lots of color and stuff in the house.

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Our styles definately don't match which is why I'm in charge of decorating. He barely notices what I do in the house anyway, and tells everyone it's my domain to do with as I please.

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After I beat him down and show him that my vision is the "right way"...we have the same exact taste

Seriously, our tastes compliment one another...he is just way more visual and needs to either see things first or hear other people agree with me before he "relents". So it's usually a longer process than it needs to be.

If he were more like me, it would be easier...I leave all electronic decisions to him. He should leave all paint & decorating decisions to me!

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Posted by MrsRbk

Our styles definately don't match which is why I'm in charge of decorating. He barely notices what I do in the house anyway, and tells everyone it's my domain to do with as I please.

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we have pretty similar tastes. we argue about a few things, but for the most part can agree on decorating.

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We agree 95% of the time. I am a little more quirky, but we both like really casual decor. And we both like rooms to have their own feel.

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No, we do not! Especially when it comes to color. I like much more vibrant colors--he would paint everything white if he had his way. I'm trying to meet him part way, but he won't budge and doesn't seem to think he's being at all unreasonable.

I should point out that I let him have full reign over electronic decisions--why can't he just let me choose the colors?

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Ours pretty much match, and now I'm finding that if we do disagree on something he is willing to leave it up to me anyway b/c he always ends up liking how things turn out.

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Posted by ~Colleen~

After I beat him down and show him that my vision is the "right way"...we have the same exact taste

Seriously, our tastes compliment one another...he is just way more visual and needs to either see things first or hear other people agree with me before he "relents". So it's usually a longer process than it needs to be.

If he were more like me, it would be easier...I leave all electronic decisions to him. He should leave all paint & decorating decisions to me!

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We have mostly similar tastes. The only moment of weakness I had was letting him put up a police mug shot of Frank Sinatra in my living room...which is hung right next to our wedding picture.

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I find it's easier not to ask him what he thinks but just to let him know of my choices and then discuss the costs, etc to make sure we both agree on the big items. On small items, I just do it, and he usually likes it.

I've made the mistake of taking him furniture shopping/paint shopping, etc. and it is usually a long process and he doesn't want to spend the time to explore all our options, etc.

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JW needs to "see" what I am suggesting and he always asks for a million other people's opinion as well. We painted the bathroom this weekend and he did not like the ideas that I had suggested. Once it was completed, he loved it! But he just couldn't imagine it in his head.

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DH doesnt really have "bad" taste but its just not 100% what i like. so most of the time i just buy things and he'll come home and go "oh nice".

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we're soooo lucky. When we met, DH was still pretty young... I guess I may have influenced his developing sense of style.... his tastes and mine almost completely overlap... and that's pretty unusual.

I have really rigid decorating rules for our tiny 1 br apartment. Everything has to be black, grey, white.... maybe with a touch of cherry red.... but that's it. Also pretty much no wood furniture. Most furniture is glass, steel, formica... you get the idea.... I'm going for a modish / minimalistic vibe.

I get no argument from him about that at all! If he doesn't like my first choice, he'll like the 2nd choice, so we're pretty much in synch. His only 'rebellion' for a while was his royal blue mouse pad. It's now replaced

conversely, I gave up all rights to the desk area in our bedroom.... which doesn't sound like much, but we're in a tiny place! It has become his giant computer shrine.... and the gaming computer he built pulses with blue LEDS all night

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he has way too much say and it makes me nuts.

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My DH really doesn't have much say in decorating the house. I pretty much choose what I like and he usually likes it too. We did have to compromise on our bedroom set because I tend to prefer contemporary and he wanted a bedroom set that looked like it came from a castle. Luckily we found something in between and we both love it.

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Thankfully we agree 99.9% of the time.

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Dh just lets me decorate the way I want. We have always agreed on furniture so we never had a problem.

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We have very similar taste and I rely heavily on his opinions.

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we have similar taste - but he really doesn't care- as long as the sheets are soft (he never experinced good sheets till he met me) and the couch is comfty

the only thing he asked for was the couch to be leather with the nailhead details- so we got that

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We have similar taste but he's a good boy and lets me pick

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DH and I have similiar taste. He is very simple, not fuss no muss. I like clean lines solid colors no prints. He deals with it. He however has a contemporary spin on things where I dont. I dont think a plasitc chair is comfy, he would get it because it "looked cool".

So I do it like this...I shop and decorate as I wish, he at everything and pays the bills.