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We've been REALLY lucky on this one so far - we have very similar styles! Sometimes he tends to lean towards more traditional stuff while I'm all about the modern, but once he sees examples of my ideas he usually ends up liking them better than the traditional ideas.
clash!!! he's totally into traditional furniture, and I love more modern stuff.
when he first move he only brought his clothes... lol i was lucky
It was really easy for us to merge households, mainly because neither of had much furniture to merge in the first place, and because he got an office to himself, where he stored stuff that doesn't match our other decor. We call the office his "nerd den."
we are going through this now... his stuff is just kinda junky though. His stuff is the typical college furniture/decor that is cheap (walmart chic) and includes a lot of hand-me downs from his mother. His mother's style is country and mine is more traditional/modern so it doesn't jive at all. He hasn't really fought to keep much of anything though. And some of his things we'll be keeping for a little while until we can purchase some upgrades just because it's something he has that I dont.
Edit - we did have a funny little argument about the toasters though. I want to keep mine because it's red, but he wants to use his because it can do 4 slices. We will still probably keep mine because we never actually toast anything very often.
We were really lucky - our first shopping venture out ended up very positively! We both have the same style for the most part - we wanted the same couch and tables, and every time i have had a crazy idea he has totally supported it. but that said, theres had to be some compromises in colour... I like things a little lighter and he likes colour! hence the icky red wall in our lounge room (it was there when we moved in... he just wont let me paint it!)
neither one of us had anything! we both came straight out of the dorm rooms to our apartment, so we pretty much just took what we could get as hand me downs. thank goodness we are moving into our new house in a month... i can finally start buying things i actually want!
Before I moved in, he had had his house for 5 years, but never decorated, so we chose his stuff together. Then when I moved in, merging our stuff was easy, because we chose things for his place that were in a similar style. We have the same taste.
It's not really the decor that clash, but more the "organizing style". I'm all about pretty boxes and storage space; while he doesn't care that much about that... until he used my boxes to make me happy and realized he loved it, haha!
we're lucky, we have very similar styles. hubs likes pretty much anything I pick out, so usually I narrow things down and he chooses from that. works well for us so far
we are def lucky that we have very similar styles and tastes...
we just don't have the money to decorate the way we want.
we're both stuck in the situation where paying for the wedding is eating at our wallets, so we haven't been able to do a lot of the "extra" decorating that we'd like... but as the wedding is coming closer... FI is def getting excited about planning "themes" and decor ideas that we'll be embarking on post-wedding :)
we've had a few arguments about stuff we've put in the house... (ie. i can't stand the green leather sofa with gold studs on the arms in our den, and i also can't stand our kitchen table with wheely chairs)...
but the couch is a space filler for now and the kitchen table (FI doesn't like either, it was just a lot sturdier than the small dining table i had in my apt)...
so we're making do until we have some money to get the stuff we both want.
I moved into a place that my FI owned himself. It was pretty much a bachelor pad. I did the changes and decorating the way I wanted it to be, and he seems to pretty much agree with whatever I want. I think 90% of it is that he doesn't really have his own taste in regards to decor, and the other 10% is that he is okay with my taste.
My husband moved from his parents house to our house so he didn't have any stuff. Love the When Harry Met Sally reference!
We integrated fairly seamlessly. His taste can run a little more rustic than mine but I think he's converting me. So long as there are some more modern touches I'm happy.
Actually, when we were talking about what color to paint an accent wall he kept talking about an orangy-brown. I was not a fan but figured a rust color could look pretty cool and told him as much. He wasn't sold so we went back and forth until we went to the paint store and realized we were talking about the same color. It's all in the name I guess. :-)
We're a total match. Although, he didn't care for the Jay and Silent Bob poster in the laundry room.
When we picked out bedoom furniture, I think it took us 20 minutes to browse the store before picking out our set. We're kinda manly modern together.
I think I'd rather have a wagon wheel coffee table! Ours is a resin sculpture of a dog swimming with a duck in its mouth. HORRIBLE, but my husband loves that stupid thing, so I let it slide (while of course letting all our guests know how much I hate it in secret).
Overall, we have rather different tastes, but I think it's mostly because he can't quite get out of the college decor mentality. My tastes have really grown up in the last 2 years or so, and while he can admit what I put together looks nice, he still wants to throw in tack here and there. He just can't help it.
his style is nothing. I'm the only one who cared about putting up curtains or pictures. If it were up to him the walls would be bare.
i would say clash - his parents are very rustic, neutral, and that's what he grew up with, where as i'm colourful, vibrant, and modern.
i told him that as much as i love his mother, i am never going to decorate like her, so get used to it, and thankfully he said i could do what i wanted :P
We didn't come into the relationship to fight over, but now we are having trouble making decisions on stuff like couches because we sort of have 2 different styles.
We have VERY different styles! The things FI thinks look good I would think early 90s bachelor! lol We got a lot more accomplished on our registry yesterday and the things like bedding/towelse/shower curtains etc. were the worst!
Haha! My FI was such a guy. The only things he brought with him were: clothes, electronics, and his comic book/baseball card collection.
For the most part, he doesn't care or he likes what I like...... but some things he's very passionate about, which is why I'm currently living with a plastic lawn goose on top of our book shelf in our bedroom. And it's likely he will move with us, and stay til death do we part.
well he doesn't have much of a "stye," so it wasn't that hard for us. the walls were pretty bare, it was obviously a boys house. he was pretty ok with me doing whatever i wanted to the place. i always ask before i bring anything too girly in, and i'm not mean enough to buy anything like a hot pink bed spread. but i did cover our kitchen with egg plates and pigs, i figure i'm the one who uses the kitchen so i can decorate it how i please.
Ha ha, we still both have the furniture we've accumulated through our college years through hand-me-down/roommate-left-it-here/found-it-on-the-street-and-it-looks-pretty-clean. And we're in our 30s! When we first moved it was more a matter of, what do we have space for in our apartment? Looking forward to having a couch that isn't a futon and a bed with a headboard, like grown ups :)
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When you and FI / DH first moved in, where you arguing about the wagon wheel coffee table (a la “When Harry Met Sally”) or was it relatively easy to integrate your belongings and your ideas about décor into a home style that suited you both?