This morning DH got up early and put up a storage unit in our living room as a 'surprise'. It is horrible. It's huge it doesn't match any of the other furniture, it sticks out into the room and it makes the room look smaller and darker. All not good but the thing that really, really irritates me about it is that this is the latest in a string of unsuitable things that he has brought into the house and put up without giving me a say.
He buys stuff like this because he thinks it will be nice, or "it's a really good deal". It then sits in its box for weeks/months while I point out that it's the wrong colour/we don't have space and then one day he decides to put it up while I'm out/asleep and presents it as a massive surprise and aren't I delighted? No I am not! Then he sulks. Then it ends up staying because he conveniently screws up the packaging so he can take it to the tip. Then he does it again.
Worst of all is when he has one of these bright ideas, does discuss it with me and we decide against it, then by some odd coincidence his mother decides to buy whatever it is as a present, so of course we have to put it up (again while I am out/asleep). Or when he buys as a 'present' for me. Argggggggghhh! The only item of furniture I have chosen in the whole house (I didn't even choose the house, he viewed it and put an offer in before even mentioning its existence) is the baby's cot.
Today I finally lost it and told him that either he takes the unit down and takes it back today or I will be paying someone to come and remove every but of junk that he's sneaked in.
/rant. Feel free to ignore, I feel much better now :)