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We went with neutral earth tones throughout our house. I do have my own office that I painted and decorate much more femininely.
We went with very neutral colors also. The house is mostly light cream. I painted the master a blue/grey and one of the rooms sage green. Husband would flip if the master was pink! HAHA. He wouldnt even go with a puprle/grey.
Boy, I'll tell ya, moving into our new home together and furnishing/decorating the place had been a trip. We have such different styles, and unfortunately, my husband isn't the kind of guy who chooses to keep his mouth shut and let his wife make the decisions. So, it's been really hard finding middle ground that we both agree on, but it's happening, slowly but surely!
When we first moved in together we had a completely blank slate with no furniture AT ALL (we had just graduated from college). Decorating was frustrating for me because I love colorful girly things, and he vetoed EVERYTHING. I understand that he doesn't want it to be full on girly, but I think color can be fun. We ended up with a color scheme of blue and brown with pops of oranges and yellows. It defintely isn't my favorite, and luckily we will be moving at the end of the year and selling all of our cheap furniture so I can start fresh yet again!
oh man. i could totally see him being like, "let's do dark blue and tan and hunter green.." i'm just going off of his favorite shirts, here. he ADMITS he doesn't even have a style. maybe a compromise for us will be letting one guest room be a girly haven... where i can put my pink fluffy dusty rose donna karen duvet? and make everything else gold and cream and stuff? luckily we'll have 2 spare rooms in the beginning, so maybe he can take one to make all...non-styled and whatnot.
i'm all about being man-friendly. my newer concern is explaining to him the art of "coordinating colors". haha.
DH and I are in the process of acquiring furniture and decorating our house. It's been a little bit of a struggle since we have very, very different taste. He likes big, overstuffed furniture, earth tones and traditional rugs and art. I'm more modern and I love bright, fun colors, high contrast, clean lines and lots of patterns and prints.
As a reference, this is DH:
And this is me:
It's been a bit of a struggle, for sure. We've been pretty good about compromising on the furniture so far. So far we have black and gray furniture with our beige walls and carpet (we can't change them, it's a rental). We're adding in red and maybe a couple other colors to appease me.
my boyfriend just bought his first home, and we've been renovating it for over a year! (we both work full time and weekends are all we have) it needed new outside, new siding, halfbath downstairs was gutted so we rebuilt is and painted a nice plum color with white trim and black and white hex tile floors, , all new kitchen, new paint, insulation.. this baby was a Handyman's dream.
We've got them living room medium grey-blue with white trim, medium brown wood floors, burlap colored drapes and a tapue sofa and a brown leather chair. the dining room is army green with dark brown wood trim, wood blinds and the same wood floors. lots of wood and brass! this is out antique-y room for displaying our antiques and things. kitchen is pale yellow walls with white trim, white cabinets, white appliances (eventually stainless), with a slate foor and hopefully soon stainless sink and dark grey countertop. guest room is mint green white trim, bedroom is light blue with dark wood trim grey carpet, wood blinds. full bathroom is medium grey walls, wood cabinet, ivory shower, white toilet, burlap sort of curtains, white wainscoating.
the whole outside of the house will be light grey, white trim, navy blue shutters!
and thats the plan. :) about 80% there!
We have really similar styles so its been pretty easy. We didn't decorate our old apartment much but our house we've painted with earthy colors-light greens, tans, and blues. We typically don't buy something unless we both love it. The only exception is curtains-he gave me free reign on those because he couldn't care less :)
Luckily my fiance and I have the same style and decided to go with neutrual colors. We haven't had one disagreement about decorating our place. Before I lived with him, I lived with a roommate and had hot pink comforter etc, but I already knew that wouldnt work once we lived together and I didnt mind it at all. I love our new set even more!
If he decided that he HAD to have something, i usually let it go, but if i HAD to have something, i kindly reminded him that he had his thing. :) we styed neutral, luckily we both like earthy colors!
DH and I both like modern and clean elements within a cozy comfortable warm space. He let me decorate 2 of the 3 bathrooms to my taste and he got to choose the colors for our master bathroom we share. We both chose the colors for the rest of the house. His audio room man cave has a big plaid blanket and my celtic tapestry from my college days on the wall to absorb echo...but I never go into that room! It was easy for us to agree on colors, thankfully.
My FI will get his own room where he is allowed to do whatEVER he wants-- which means he will be filling it with DVD cabinets, a huge flatscreen, glass TV stand, scarface/godfather memorabilia, sports trophies/balls/bats, etc. etc.
I get the house decorated in a sleek/comfortable/contemporary style, he gets his media/manroom. Win-win.
Dh never decorated and only got hideous handmedowns from his grandparents. So we started out using most of my artwork and posters with some of his own. He has one room to decorate how he wants but we have agreed to greens, tans and creams elsewhere. We have pretty similar decorating style so it makes life easier.
That carpet sounds familiar.... did it look like this (or a little darker in nonnatural light)?
I'm lucky too that my FI and I have generally the same styles. Sometimes I look quirky things, but we learned to make my quirky things mix well with our apartment.
Overall we shoot for neutral. I watch a lot of HGTV, and I love their ideas.
@Wonderful: To funny! The first two apartments I lived in had it. It was horrible!
Uh, well...
My initial reaction was: Hard! Lol. We've been living together for a long time but we just got our first actual house a few months ago so we're taking our decor more seriously.
He wanted to put his display case in the living room. I almost died initially. But then I figured out a way I was okay with it (placement, what was in it, etc) and so...there began our compromise.
Color-wise we've ended up with what I call "pretty neutrals." Color choices are more tailored to him (though we generally like similar colors) and design elements are more me. So, for example, our bedroom is primarily navy blue. But we're putting up a metallic-y wall paper, I chose the pictures, the throw pillows. You get my drift. It's like masculine-ish colors done pretty! haha.
I realize I made no sense. Lol
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my future husband (not technically my fiance yet. complicated story.) has inherited a house. we are pretty excited about this. i'm feeling amazing about not having to deal with a mortgage or lease when we start out- and now his mother and I have taken on the task of renovating the house. some of the projects are already easily agreed on. like, "we need to rip out this carpet." y'all, this carpet somehow manages to be both evergreen and neon AT THE SAME TIME. does that sound horrifying to anyone else? because it is horrifying. haha.
it hasn't really come up yet, and i'm not expecting any "issues" (i honestly wouldn't care if we kept the carpet, and the whole place was decorated like a medieval dungeon. i love this man and can't wait to be living together.), but out of curiosity, how did you find the balance for decorating a home together? were there any bumps along the way about whose furniture to keep, and about things being too masculine or feminine?
i have a friend who got married, became a stay at home mom, and in the little spare time she got, decorated the whole house like a female apartment. their master bedroom was pink and purple and green. her husband was horrified, but he went with it.