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any advice would greatly be appreciated...
my wife (who i love and adore) and i used to share creative control
with how the house looked as far as furniture and decorating goes. anything
over 100 bucks we needed to ok it with each other.
Not really a budget concern, but more with sharing how the house should look.
Before purchasing anything we agreed to pick it out and
on it together. i thought the arrangement worked great. Shopping
and planning was a team project and reflected on both our style.
Anything we aquired was planned for. We'd save up for something nice and agree on it together.
This was the year that i was granted free reign of the garage and basment for relenquishing creative control of the dining room, bedroom, and living room. Like a fool I agreed to it. Whats the worse
that could happen? I get my basement lounge and all the garage control
for giving up the living room, dining room, and bedroom decorating control.
What a mistake! Our small living room now looks like the Pottery Barn
and Z-Gallery showcase showdown. What was once a simple, cozy
listending room and reading area (audiophile here) is now trasformed into god knows what.
There are candles everywhere (we have never lit a candle).
There is any ugly carpet that buries the nice hardwood floors.
(I trip on the edges which curl up and constanly catch my feet and anyone else feet ).
We now have a too big couch and two large overpowering chocolate brown recliners
(which I hate, they are uncomfrotable)
The armrests are too high and when you slounch on it you slide off, like your being ejected.
Fugly gawdy red curtains hang from the wall.
Everyweekend she comes home with more cast aluminum bowls, book ends, and even more candlesticks.
I used to love reading the paper sunday mornings listening to jazz, but now i make a pot of coffee, fry and egg and shuffle off to the garage instead.
what should i do? i miss my living room. now she wants to downsize
my hi-fi stereo for a crappy bookshelf model? i'm about to cry when
she tugged me into the BOSE store. I thought she was joking. This is
also costing me LOTS of MONEY! - way more than i spend on the garage.
The recliner I never sit in, was expensive.
sorry about the rant, it's been seriously bothering me for a long time
and whenever the weekends come i regret looking at that room. all
the money gone and i hate that room.
any advice would be greatly appreciated.
my wife (who i love and adore) and i used to share creative control
with how the house looked as far as furniture and decorating goes. anything
over 100 bucks we needed to ok it with each other.
Not really a budget concern, but more with sharing how the house should look.
Before purchasing anything we agreed to pick it out and
on it together. i thought the arrangement worked great. Shopping
and planning was a team project and reflected on both our style.
Anything we aquired was planned for. We'd save up for something nice and agree on it together.
This was the year that i was granted free reign of the garage and basment for relenquishing creative control of the dining room, bedroom, and living room. Like a fool I agreed to it. Whats the worse
that could happen? I get my basement lounge and all the garage control
for giving up the living room, dining room, and bedroom decorating control.
What a mistake! Our small living room now looks like the Pottery Barn
and Z-Gallery showcase showdown. What was once a simple, cozy
listending room and reading area (audiophile here) is now trasformed into god knows what.
There are candles everywhere (we have never lit a candle).
There is any ugly carpet that buries the nice hardwood floors.
(I trip on the edges which curl up and constanly catch my feet and anyone else feet ).
We now have a too big couch and two large overpowering chocolate brown recliners
(which I hate, they are uncomfrotable)
The armrests are too high and when you slounch on it you slide off, like your being ejected.
Fugly gawdy red curtains hang from the wall.
Everyweekend she comes home with more cast aluminum bowls, book ends, and even more candlesticks.
I used to love reading the paper sunday mornings listening to jazz, but now i make a pot of coffee, fry and egg and shuffle off to the garage instead.
what should i do? i miss my living room. now she wants to downsize
my hi-fi stereo for a crappy bookshelf model? i'm about to cry when
she tugged me into the BOSE store. I thought she was joking. This is
also costing me LOTS of MONEY! - way more than i spend on the garage.
The recliner I never sit in, was expensive.
sorry about the rant, it's been seriously bothering me for a long time
and whenever the weekends come i regret looking at that room. all
the money gone and i hate that room.
any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Mrs. Wallnut
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