Dil Wants To Choose Decor

Cloverjo | 19:29 Sun 14th Apr 2019 | ChatterBank

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Just wondered what you good folks of AB think about this.

We will have to redecorate two bedrooms in our house because of damage by damp. One room is my son’s; he is in his late 20s and has had his own home for six years. He wouldn’t care how I decorated it, but he said his wife ‘wants some input’ in the decisions. I thought ‘Cheeky mare! It’s not her house.’ Or even her room. But I don’t want to fall out with my son.

What do you think? Should I consult her, or do what I damn well like with my own home?

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pixie374

Do what you damn well like :-). If she gets invites over, she can take or leave it.

Ken4155

It is you who will have to live with it, Clover, not her. Tell her to 'do one'. I've been decorating for about the last 30 years and i've done an awful lot for our Asian cousins. I have a feeling many of them are being financially helped by their fathers who, in many cases, try to have an input suggesting traditional Asian style patterns. Most of my customers are young couples making a home for the first time and, on the whole, they resist their parent's ideas.

Mamyalynne

I'd tell her I'd be happy to take a look at her ideas but I will make the final decision.

Ken4155

The room is no longer his! It's a spare room in your house.

Sqad

Why did you tell either of them that you were going to decorate "his" room?"

Sqad

I agree with Ken...we must have cross posted.

jno

it doesn't look as though you'll be falling out with him if he doesn't care. Just suggest she have input into design decisions in her own house, whensoever she gets one.

LadyCG

Tell her she can choose the decor if she's happy to pay for the redecoration.

Damn cheek!!

Cloverjo

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Thank you, all. Just what I was thinking, mostly. He does still have some of his things here, and we do still call it his room. But anyway, I don’t want her coming in with curtain swatches and test paints etc.