Random Question: How much of your home...

playindagamewell

Do you consider your husbands space. . . aka the man space of the house, where he can decorate/arrange how ever he wants, and maintain as he sees fit 

I ask this because I have a friend who asked the question of Aaron because as he's getting married he finds that his new wife has way different ideas of what their home will be like and he's worried about missing his bachelor pad!

ASwank

I keep some "veto power" but for the most part my husband has several spaces:  his office, the media room (which he calls his man room), and the garage and corresponding work space.  Until we moved into this house, we also had separate bathrooms (which was the BEST!). 

There are things that he loves (like a collection of German bier steins) that I can't bring myself to display anywhere in the house so I tell him they need to go in his "rooms."  That way he is happy and I am happy that I don't have to take responsibility for his crazy stuff.

Jody81

My DH has a "man room." He can do whatever he wants in there. He has is Playstation, 2 TVs (one to play Playstation and the other to watch football at the same time), fooseball table, couch, recliner and bar area. He LOVES it and like to have his own space, sometimes I hate it because he gets lost in there for hours. And when the NFL draft is on he doesn't come out all weekend.

Jody81

Oh yeah, DH has his own bathroom too. And is in charge of the garage and barn.

JenOSU03

Sadly.. probably not enough.  Dh has a lot of control over the office room.  He also arranged the basement and garage the way he wanted to.  I took over the parts of the house for entertaining.  He had input on most of the decisions I made. 

Dh did have some issues with losing his bachelor pad too especially when we lived in our condo.  Now he just kind of accepts it because we are married and my ideas of decorating are much different than when he was growing up or living on his own. We got in a spiff because I wanted curtains and he didn't understand why we needed them.

I definetely think there should be a balance.  

Mrs*Pink

We're fortunate that we have similar decorating tastes.  But Chris does have a lot of sporting stuff that he'd love to put up.

At the condo, he had the basement from the time he moved in.  I wasn't using it, so I didn't care.

At the new house, we don't have any spare rooms or anything like that.  But we do have a gigantic garage.  I told him that he can do whatever the heck he wants to do out there.  I'm sure at some point, he'll have all his soccer scarves and banners and stuff out there.

playindagamewell

My response to my own question:

 

right now "aaron's area" = the basement and garage (but this isn't the garage at the condo cuz it's only a one car garage, so he rents a garage space from a friend who has a 2 car garage house...)

in about 2 weeks or so we're moving in to what we call "our" home since it will be our first bought together house... and not something we already had pre marriage

i forsee the basement to be an all aaron area, and entertaining game room/tv set up thing... fairly sizeable... just a fun area for his F1 racing stuff and model cars and such... and also the garage being set up to his needs/demands and just be his area to enjoy.. .
and OF course the patio with the grill on it is all his domain

i honestly am wierd tho in the sense that i don't mind having F1 cars and lego ferrari's on disaply in the house cuz they add to the character of stuff we like... i'm odly not a a fan of too much frou-frou.... looking currently at the entertainment shelf we have a mix of cars, books, and pictures and i think the cars win in terms of quantity, we have 1 of each scion model, a rc subie, a ferrari model, a lego ferrai model, a mini subbie models

maybe it's just cuz i'm not an innovative decorator

brandonsgrl

He has the office and garage. Once the basement is finished, he'll have that, but then I'll move my craft stuff to the office and he'll move the computer stuff to the basement He has say in all the decorating/arranging that goes on in the house. He helped pick all the paint colors, flooring, etc.

buckeyechik

None.  But we have the same interests, so our basement is COVERED in OSU and Browns stuff, but we were both responsible for that.  And I really don't decorate too girly anyway, so it all works out okay.

OSUfish123

In our new home, DH will get the entire basement (1900 square feet) to make into his buckeye room.  Of course, I hold ultimate veto power if I disagree with any of his decorating choices. 

jannypie

none that are specifically his, but i compromised with him on the entire house, so the only room that is mine is the guest room.

Mrs.SabrinaM

well to be honest our house doesn't have much style right now at all.  My grandma refers to it as "early salvation army style" aka. lots of handme downs.  I would say for the most part he gets the office to do what ever he wants, and the shop area in our unfished basement. 

We are slowly working towards actually getting real non 70's funiture and real end tables instead of rubbermaid tubs, but we don't want to go into stupid ammounts of debt over it so I figure it'll be awhile yet.  So with lack of storage, too much stuff, and decent furniture my entire house looks like a bachelor pad! 

My goal this summer is to try to get him pegged down on paint colors and add some color to our home.

YourSong

DH and I share the entire house.  We have had some trouble with it.  Mostly getting things that both of us like.  We joke about the basement being the man room, but I have just as much control over the decorating choices there too.  I don't think DH had a hard time with loosing the bachelor pad.  I moved in with him, and didn't bring too many furishings.

brainstorm102

He has the basement and garage. He did also have a computer room, but it's getting cleaned out for use as the nursery. We always knew that would happen, but I still feel sad for him. If the basement was finished, I'd probably feel better about it. Overall, he's pretty cool with how I decorate stuff. (I mean, come on, I chose to put up galvanized corrigated metal in our bathroom, LOL.) I try to incorporate some of his stuff into everything though, so it still feels like his house too.

Temp536318000001135

For the most part, Chris and I agree on decorating for the apartment...which means he lets me have my way for the most part   He does have one room (guest room/his office) that he can decorate and keep any way he wants. So basically it has all his sports memorabilia and Browns stuff. When we have a real house someday, he'll get a room and/or basement.

aleeandbry

My dh did have this (his office, I had my own office) until we had 2 babies, then he lost it to their playroom.  Now we have a room that's a shared office/guest room.

Andrea-n-Andy

Our house isn't big enough to have any his and hers spaces.  Luckily, his ideas of decorating aren't too college-ish and he actually has good taste.  The main parts of the house are pretty neutral and the fun part (basement/office) has all the crazy stuff. 

buckeyebabe99

LOL. He has the entire basement.  AKA:  "Man's Room" in our house.

Wendy81206

He gets the garage and that is pretty much it :-) He has cable and it is heated and he can tinker with whatever he wants in there. He can't complain.

brittle

He gets the basement and his office. That's it!  He trusts my decorating ability and doesn't seem to care.

tbonegrl

honestly, none. We have a tiny house.