moving into a new house…fiance and i cant agree on how to decorate HELP?
Sunday, September 5th, 2010 at
10:52 am
my fiance and i just bought our first house and we are both excited to remodel and decorate it…but we have totally different ideas…i told him he can decorate his game room however he wants and hes excited about that but he also wants to decorate the entire house however he wants and he really just doesnt have good taste and i would like everything to be neutral so that we can have a high resale value…..i guess i dont really have a question i just need advice….or if you can let me know magazines or websites with good ideas…..thanks!!!!
Tagged with: fiance • first house • game room • good taste • magazines • resale value
Filed under: Decoration
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I have the perfect answer. Take your time, One room at a time. But make sure you agree before you jump.
You’d better learn to compromise now before the "I do’s". Tell him if he doesn’t do the game room then you will. He’ll most likely give in then. Then sit down with color samples and decor magazines and DISCUSS the problem. You each must learn to give and take. Go to HGTV.com for ideas.
Forget the neutrals, you’re not selling tomorrow, you are living there, and they’ll re-paint anyway.Paint never sold a house.
Go to your local magazine store and get a few to look at.Know what you don’t want will get you closer to what you DO want.
Most women have a knack for decorating, and a real man who wants his marriage to last should know who the REAL boss is!
There you go. Simple.
as far as magazines, architectual digest, elle decor, metropolitan home, western interiors to name a few
but what you need to do is find out if there is a Bassett furniture store in your area. They have designers that do free house calls and give you all that great advice- with some intent to buy from them, but they are custom and not at custom prices check them out
He’s half of the household, he gets half the say! My advice is to have a couple choices that you both are fine with and let him choose out of those. For example, let him choose the upholstery for the furniture you like. Or decide you both would like a blue kitchen, and let him choose the shade.
By the way, if you hate his style so much, he’s probably saying the same thing about yours. Learn to compromise.
Here’s a web site where people can upload actual pictures of their own home. It has everything from bathrooms and landscaping, to kitchens and kids’ rooms… it’s really neat to see what "real people" are capable of doing (not flashy professionals on TV) and it has given my husband and me a lot of inspiration for our new home.
Plus, maybe if you show your fiance photos of completed rooms with the colors you’d like, rather than just trying to let him picture it in his mind, he will see just how great it will look! Hope this helps, good luck and have fun…
LINK: http://ratemyspace.hgtv.com/SNC/Main.aspx?pguid=6db6be3f-1720-4ba3-a081-999042c09b6b