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kenzie


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My bf and I are like night and day when it comes to decorating and have a hard time agreeing on what to do. 


My Style:


Very bright and bold (much like the way I dress) with lighter weight fabrics (sheer curtains, ect).  I love bright colors, patterns (like leopard, stripes, hawaiian flower, ect).  I like my house to have almost a beach/coastal vibe to it with seagrass rugs and bamboo blinds. I'm not afraid to paint a room bright orange, pink, turquoise, whatever. I love color. As far as furniture, I like modern with a girly twist (curves as opposed to harsh, straight lines).


His Style:


Dark, rich colors and heavy fabrics.  As for furniture, he likes antique, beat-up looking furniture. We have two desks that are begging to either be refinished or painted a fun color. They look like crap the way they are right now.  He also has awful, college dorm-like furniture like plastic drawers, tables and a broken coffee table that he refuses to get rid of.


Help, please! How can we merge our two very different styles??? Any suggestions?


 



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Elle


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Rule #1:  No plastic storage furniture in plain sight.


Rule #2:  Anything broken either get fixed or leaves immediately.


Rule #3:  You're stuck with everything else!


At least you are both okay with color and you aren't stuck with a builder-beige lover!  When my SO and I painted our first apt, we couldn't agree on a color either.  We ended up going to Home Depot and Lowe's, each of us pulling paint chips that we liked (separately of course).  Then we compared our choices and narrowed it down to only the colors that we had both chosen and made our final decision from them.  Or maybe you could let him pick a color he loves and then you could pick a faux-finish that you love?


As for furniture, IMO a room is much more interesting when it is filled with an eclectic mixture of found/inherited/new/old pieces, as opposed to a furniture 'set'.  You just have to find a way to tie it all together.  You can use some kind of theme to do this, with color or a certain accessory genre.  Also, you can try truly mixing his and yours - your 'new' desk chair at his 'old' desk, his 'old' bookshelf holding your 'new' sculpture pieces etc.  If you purposefully mix things up, it'll go from looking cluttered to looking eclectic.


As for that desk - maybe he would go for a distressed black finish?  At least then it would look beat-up on purpose!  Here's an example of the finish:



 


Good luck!


 



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