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I am willing to admit that I am *somewhat* psychotic about the state of my house. I don't like messes, or clutter--I enjoy keeping things perfectly clean and everything is in it's place.
Surely then, you can understand why I was so peeved when I come home on Saturday to find that my darling FI and his "man" friends decided to drag a leather recliner into the MIDDLE of the living room. The recliner typically lives in my FI's office (which works perfectly for us both!). Once the man friends left, I said "ok, ha-ha, lets move that god awful thing back into your office". To which he said "what?! No way. I'll use it way more out here in the living room". Whaaaa?!?
Well, I waited til he fell asleep and I moved the ugly thing back into the office by myself. But alas, I slept in on Sunday and was surprised to find it back in to the living room! Yes, we are in a silent recliner war. Every night, I move the recliner---every morning, it's back. When does the cycle end?!
What do YOU think of recliners?
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HAHAHHAHAHAH ugh, i totally feel you, at least yours is a nice leather one, ours is a cloth, suede, dark turquoise striped one! UGH.
i never even started the battle with him... as the house isn't at all decorated at this point. so his recliner sits in the corener of our 2 story living room... in the corner sticking out like a sore thumb in between my beige couches.
Haha that is awesome! At least you are getting exercise by moving the dumb thing back and forth!
Wow. I hate recliners. I really do. I get that they are comfortable, but I just don't like the way they look.
My FI has a horrible couch that has a recliner in both ends. Awful. Right now, it is in his house,..I dread the day we sell both our homes, buy a new home together, and find out he wants that thing in our living room.
I feel your pain, but I don't have a solution for you. I thought the office sounded like a perfect compromise.
Don't let it end!! For all the ladies out there, you have to win this war for good! And if it takes months, consider it a good workout everyday! And consider yourself lucky that his office is on the same floor than your living room! ;)
Perhaps the threat of another kitty crossbones tattoo on his forehead while he sleeps is enough to keep it out of the living room?? :)
that is a tough one! Is there anything you want that he's not giving in on? Maybe use it as a bargaining chip...he gets the recliner in the living room and you get X that he wouldn't give in on.
LOL! Poor VM! That stinks when your man thinks something absolutely hideous looks wonderful in the front room! For several months, I had to put up with an ENTIRE wall FULL of HOT WHEELS! That's right. Imagine a 3 X 3 ft. square of hot wheels (still in packages BTW) thumb-tacked into the wall in the formation of a perfectly hideous blue square. Thank the LORD that he recently took them down to make room for our new tv. I stopped fighting him about it and just "let it go" and it worked itself out LOL.
As for the recliner, does it look like the one in the picture or is it some super-ugly plaid color combo from the 70s or something? The one in the picture doesn't look TOO bad compared to some I've seen. ;)
Recliners don't really bother me but I don't like the wood handles on them, they just don't look good to me, haha.
Good luck! I hope you both come to a compromise! =]
Oh man we have a recliner. It is SO comfortable. We have a nice microfiber one that sits in our living room. It's so comfy; i don't know why everyone hates it!
Why don't you move it next to a couch like ours is? It's not an eyesore and we both crash in it quite a bit.
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You poor thing! Could you possibly get a joint loveseat or something for your living room that you both enjoy equally, and allow the recliner to go back to the office?
Any way you can give him some sort of man-space?? We have a mancave and it is amazing. Anything I hate I deem man-cave worthy and it works just fine.
FI and I went shopping Sunday for new living room furniture and LEFT THE STORE upset with each other because of recliners!!!! I want a big couch and a big, beautiful, comfy chair to go with - he insists on a recliner. He'll never get out of it. We currently havea sectional with recliners in it and he will sit down 'just for a minute' and not get up unti he's watched an entire move!!! LOL. Recliners just remind me of old men... like my Dad who has claimed it as 'his chair'
Mr. DG sprung it on me the other day that he wants a recliner. I asked if we could instead get something tasteful like a craftsman style rocker. We're still working it out, but if I do lose on this one, said recliner definitely won't go in the living room. (We don't have a TV anyway, so it doesn't matter what room it's in!).
OMG VM! I feel your pain! I don't have an adversion to ALL recliners, just the hand me down, light tan, ratty, leather recliner my husband INSISTS on keeping in our beautiful family room. He thinks it's comfortable, I think its a ridiculous eye sore that even has the top coushion worn out from people's heads! Ugh...
But, can I say, that your posts always make me crack up laughing?? Don't give up! I gave in, and now the recliner has been in that spot since we got married...booo!!!
Thanks for the support ladies. Yes, he has been a bad kitty.
The recliner is nearly identical to that in the photo. It is actually a matching set with our couch and loveseat. But, keep in mind, our living room is not very large so it is like huge matching furniture overload. Basically it looks perfect in the office and over my dead body will it be in the living room permanently. I will out-play, out-wit and out-last him on this one!
UM, HILARIOUS about the mini car boxes tacked on the wall-massive LOL. You have some much patience!
@VM - tell me about it... and the stripes... are alternating between a diff of turquoise and maroom! YUCK. on top of that it has one of these sitting on top of it:
Ohhh man Miss! Is that a vibrating massage cover? Ouch. The designer in me just cried for you.
@VM, yes mam with a remote control attached to it.
:'(
WAHHHHHHHHH.
(the good thing is FI says we can decorate our entire house after the wedding... since that's where all of our "extra money" has been going)... we'll allot some into savings... and the other into re-vamping our house!! :)
@okqueenbee, I've never heard of anybody else that had to deal with Hot Wheels! When I met FI one entire wall in his room was covered with Hot Wheels cars, still in their packages, stuck on with thumb tacks in neat rows. It was SOOOOO bad. Granted, he was 17, but still, it wasn't a remnant of his childhood. They had just moved into a new house. :|
@VM, I believe in you! You can outlast him :)
I actually like recliners! They are so comfy! We don't have one only becuase we have no room for it!
This is too funny! Don't give in VM!!
We have a huge sectional La-Z-Boy couch that I think is hideous, too, and my husband always sits on the recliner end. I think the worst part is that he never closes the stupid thing, so I'm constantly having to go into the den and close it. I don't know why he can't just lock it into place when he gets up?!
But I would so rather have your recliner than this monstrosity that my husband loves and refuses to get rid of (this is not my house!):
Haha, that's too funny--too bad he doesn't know who he's messing with! ;) I wouldn't mind a recliner, but in the middle of my family/living room, that's where the problems would start, lol!
@ bree72: is that a horse? Where is the rest of it's head?! Oh wait! I think I see it now. A dog, with a bird in its mouth!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHA! That is amazingly horrible!
This is HILARIOUS! I am with you, not a fan of recliers at all! Unless, they are the type that look like a normal chair (ie. legs, no arm, etc) that you have to open with your body weight. I can live with those if I have to.
This is hilarious! Good for you for sticking to your guns. I don't think men understand the concept of clutter.
The turquoise recliner reminds me of my grandpa. He had a hideous orange striped recliner that no one was allowed to sit in but him (not that we wanted to- it smelled like old farts)
Recliners must be a man thing. Right now we have an ugly old reclining couch in storage that was given to us when we first got our own place. It was good enough to get us by in our apartment, but now that we're getting a house I started researching nicer couches and my husband insists that we need another reclining couch or a recliner because it's "so cozy" Boo.
@bree72- WOW! That is one unique coffee table... I would probably accidently break it with a hammer :)
@bella, i am hoping that our turquoise relciner does not turn into one like your grandpa's... i am hoping it's gone a few months after the wedding! :P
is it funny that i got a tickle when you wrote "husband!" just cuz you JUST GOT MARRIED!
totally off tangent - but is it weird to use that word? ... over "feeeeaaannnsaay"!
@gummibear, I've since covered it in Amy Butler fabric and plan on restaining the wood to match our new coffee table. It's pretty hideous in orange gingham, no? 
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O-M-F-G.....now THAT is a coffee table!!!!! It leaves me speechless! I get it, the dog is supposed to be swimming? Hey, at least it's a conversation starter!
@MichelleMyBell - He loves cars, and before I moved in his furnishings were "sparse" to say the least but he still had his cars up! :P
Can you compromise and get him a nice comfy armchair with an ottoman? I am not a fan of recliners either but I LOVE ottomans b/c they can double as a coffee table.
OMG i just LOLed about this at work!! This is quite possibly something that should have been scripted. One of you will eventually give in... hopefully it won't be you!
@ Rosie & VM :It is so horrible. He bought it before we were married. It's now a joke amongst family and friends. The head lifts right off and his sister randomly steals it for fun.
The worst part was how much he spent on it. I'm too embarrassed to even say it. I can't believe I'm even admitting to people I don't know that this exists in my house!
LMAO@ VintageDivine! I was thinking the same thing.
Do you guys have a basement or spare bedroom where "man-land" can be established. FI can't wait till we have a house and demands it has a finished basement for ManLand where all his dude-stuffs can go.
When in doubt, there's always slipcovers. ;)
@missjyc- tell him he's going to turn into a stinky old man with a stinky old chair. Maybe it will scare him into tossing it :) haha! That's funny that you mention fiance. He actually made me call him fianco. Yup. Instead of "ay" at the end I had to say "oh" He said it sounded way cooler and I thought it was funny so I played along. Calling him husband is awesome!
@Bree, well we appreciate your raw disclosure, it's not easy to talk about these things. I truly LOL'd at the fact that his sister steals the dog's head...that is beyond funny. Does the dog have a name?
This reminds me...have you guys seen the episode of MOdern Family? http://www.sidereel.com/Modern_Family/season-1/episode-12
Jay has one of those hideous life-size "dog butlers" (the ones you see in restaurants?) by the door and Gloria HATES it. It's Hi-Larious. Totally this thread made into a tv show
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