I got a flyer in the mail on Friday about a warehouse sale at a furniture company. So I went on Saturday afternoon, just to see what they had. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

My husband and I have been married for six years now and we've never had proper bedroom furniture. We bought a really nice Select Comfort bed, so we're comfortable but . . . our bedroom looks sterile. Yuck. Crappy old put-it-together-yourself stuff, of which we each brought several mismatched pieces to our marriage.

So back to the warehouse sale.

The furniture was great. The prices were great. We found stuff we both like (ok, he probably doesn't even notice the yucky mismatched stuff, but hey, he wants me to be happy, right?). So I picked out several pieces of nice, Victorian-style furniture. Sleigh-bed, 2 nightstands, 2 chests of drawers, and a television armoire/chest thingy. Dark cherry wood, ornate scroll design - Victorian. It's really, really pretty.

Problem is, it's too big for our room. Or there's too much of it. Or both.

OMG. It didn't look that huge in the warehouse. AH HA! I think I've spotted the problem, detective. Warehouse vs. bedroom. Warehouse, bedroom. Hmmmmmmmm.

It was a one time sale to the public - they normally only sell to furniture stores and interior designers. ALL SALES FINAL!

Oh my.

Big furniture.

I guess we have to move to a bigger house!

Crud.

Here are a couple of pics: (Note the plain room with no color, draperies, artwork, or decorative accents - I don't even have freaking lamps! SIX YEARS! I guess I went a little crazy.) (My husband is taking it very well.) (Thank you, Lord.)

(Just for scale, that's a 27" television) (sigh)

I still really like it - there's just a lot of it.

Question:

Do most couples have mutual consensus on decorating their homes or do most women just decorate and let their husbands get used to it?

As far as I can tell, the husbands really don't care that much about it, and after the decorating is done they stop seeing it. Whereas women still see it - they have to, they're the ones dusting it.

P.S. The cat's are Baldrick, he's the 16 year old gray Maine Coon, and the white tub of lard, er, cat is Percy, he's 15 years old.

My hubby does have ideas about how things should be, fortunatly we have pretty much the same taste. He's really good at arranging furniture in a room.

But somehow, I'm still the one who sees that it does get dirty and need dusting!

OH YEAH, CONSENSUS! UH HUH....As I am reminded quite often, IF MOMMA AIN'T HAPPY, AIN'T NOBODY HAPPY. You catch my drift???

I have the answer to your problem, Donna. Just knock out that wall and move it back a few feet. MsJoy and I sort of did the same thing as you, but instead of buying our furniture, we built it. King size bed with headboard and footboard, two nightstands, TRIPLE dresser with custom built TRIPLE-sided mirror and an armoir. Of course, our bedroom is about 20 by 20. I love big rooms.....hehehe

Donna,

My husband doesnt say anything about color or decorating. My taste is more neutral/warm tones - definately generic when it comes to gender.

So.. since Im not one for the "girly-girl" kinda decoratoring

(for example: pink/lavander/white lacey-frilly-flower stuff all over) I guess he feels safe?

Donna, I love the furniture it looks great! Next step is to buy a bigger house!!!

My hubby is european...hence his sensitive nature...he has to approve EVERY decoration thing I do. He and I argued forever over the color to paint our walls, the material for our drapes, and of what pictures to hang up. Fortunately we were on the same wave length about furniture, but everything has to go by him first...... men.....

Well, the first room I painted in our house was my craft room. It was a VERY dark room, it go no sunlight ever because of the dense canopy from our greenbelt. So, I painted it in two colors of yellow and white. Very bright, very light, very cheerful! When I showed the colors to my husband, he just about freaked... NOOOO! you can't paint a room yellow and gold and white! No! Just... NO! Well, I sponged the two yellows together darker at the base boards up to lighter at the celing with the lighter yellow being sponged together with the white on the celing. It is such an increadibly cheerful room! I love it.

My husband loved it after I finished it. He decided then and there that he would just have to trust me when it came to picking colors for the house.

Of course, when I told him I was painting the living room and kitchen dark emerald green, with orange trim, he panicked until it was finished. Now, it's Yes dear. Here's the check-book Dear...