How To Get Your Husband To Agree With You On Rug Choices

 (Clockwise from Top Left) 1) Zumi Rug at Crate & Barrel; 2) Granada Rug from Pottery Barn; 3 & 4) Keno Contemporary Rug from Rugs USA; 5) Dalyn Carlisle Rug from Rugs USA; 6) Liora Manne Area Rug from Macy’s; 7) Martha Stewart Full Bloom rug from Home Decorators; 9) Henley Rug from Pottery Barn

So originally Mr. Juicefairy said, “here is a lump sum of money go have fun decorating our new house.”  What he meant was “Here is a lump sum of money.  Don’t spend all of it and don’t buy anything without my approval.”  I am paraphrasing of course.

I thought we were on the same page with decorating but I soon found that most of my choices were “too girly” or “too loud” for his taste.  These responses were beginning to annoy me every time I thought I had found “the perfect [insert decor item here]” for the house .

You have seen the first rug that I bought for the family room.  But I still needed to buy two more — one for the dining room and one for the formal living room (a.k.a my library).  I decided the best way to do this was to tag all of the rugs that I liked in Delicious.  When I was satisfied with the collection I went back and picked my favorites from those.  Then I created a PDF (above) of my picks.  I emailed it to my husband and said “tell me which ones you can’t live with at all”.  This was his time to give his two cents.  I purposely didn’t say “which ones do you like?” because then if I disagreed with his choices neither of us would be happy.

Of the above he vetoed 1, 3, 4, 5 and 8.  Obviously the man does not hold back.

He actually did like some of them though.  So I ended up getting the Martha Stewart Full Bloom rug in Pumpkin Seed for the living room (library).

… and then I got the Grenada Rug from Pottery Barn for the dining Room.  These essentially had to match well because the rooms are one big area.

The rugs have come in and I am very happy with my choices.  They match great and I think they fit my style nicely.  Mr. Juicefairy is very fond of both of them. I hope the Martha Stewart one is big enough though.  I got a 5×7 and it looks small in the room right now.

I will put up pictures soon.