To not want a massive framed man u shirt on my wall?

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It's DP's 40th and his lovely sister has bought him the aforementioned shirt. It's from a v special game and signed by lots of players. DP will love it.

But i just don't want it on my wall. It's about 1.5m by .5m so isn't going to 'tuck away'. It really doesn't go anywhere.

Am i being horrible and unfair to him to say i want it in a wardrobe? It's his home too after all.

You hit the nail on the head when you remembered that it's his house too.
So you can ask him to find somewhere discreet for it, but if he really wants it on the wall somewhere, you might have to compromise.
But you know that really.

Oh I have so much sympathy, my DH was given a framed Celtic park photo- it is about the same size. He wanted it above the mantlepiece

Have you got a football mad son who could hijack it?

No YANBU, those things are hideous. If someone bought my DH one I would insist it went in either the downstairs loo or in the office/study as that's 'his' room. There is no way I would have it in any other room in the house. If you don't have an office or other room that is considered his room, then maybe you could have it propped somewhere (ie not fixed to the wall, just leaning against it). Then at least you can put it away if people are coming round (except his sister obviously, then you can prop it up somewhere prominent!). My husband had framed certificates and medals from doing the London Marathon a few times. He actually thought I would want them up on the wall!! They are in a box in the loft!

No son or appropriate boys room to hide it away in.

Thing is, if i ask he will put it away. He's kind to a fault.

He should put it up where he wants it's his house too.

bathroom?
toilet under the stairs?
(if your lucky enough )

Make him move out. It's the only way.

No you are not being unreasonable to not want it on your wall, but it is unreasonable if you decide it's definitely not going on the wall. Could it hang in your bedroom somewhere so you don't have to look at it all day?

It might be his house too but I think couples should both be comfortable with the decor. Has he got his own office at work??

I think it would be very reasonable for your present to him to be a shed. Well providing you don't live on a houseboat or in a flat with no garden

Downstairs loo or maybe the garage...?

Somewhere he will be able to see it but you don't have to look at it all day!

His house as much as yours. His gift. Yours to put up and shut up I'me afraud - but negotiate on where it's going.

Awful. I'd insist on equal space for a Johnny Depp poster.

Can you hang it half way up the stairs maybe?

Spare room? Office? Back hall?

Back of the bedroom door?

I feel your pain. Currently have the world's most hideous painting on our living room wall. I feel the need to explain to everyone who comes into the house that it's nothing to do with me.

But DH loves it. He really loves it. So on the wall it stays.

That said, he has just agreed with a plan to knock the wall down and make the room open plan. And there are no other empty walls in the house it will fit on. Oh well!

There is no way, in a million years, that I would have a football shirt monstrosity on any wall in my house - even if my dh was the type to want one.

The shed or the garage would be OK.

It doesn't sound like your DP pushes his taste often when it comes to your house - I might be wrong, just what you said about how he's mind to a fault and wouldn't insist. It is his house too and there's probably stuff of yours in it that he's not so keen on but is too kind/laid back to protest about.

We have DP's vintage Ducati motorbike displayed in our living room. I love motorbikes too, but the idea of staring at one from the sofa floored me a bit initially. But, it makes DP happy to have it here. It's (quite literally) part of the decor and I've become quite fond of it really. Can you not make a peace with the football shirt on account of it meaning a lot to your OH?

Can you hang it on the wall behind your normal chair in the living room? That way it's in there, yet you won't see it when you're sat down. Or in the bedroom, because frankly, if you're like me, you don't see much of it awake anyway.

I also feel your pain. DH was at the Rugby World Cup final 10 years ago when England won and managed to get Johny Wilkinson to sign his programme. So far, so exciting, PIL offered to have it framed along with his ticket, again, so far so nice. Oh but rather than something just about A4 sized I was imagining (the progamme was about A5 sized, so thought that framed with the ticket underneath would be fine), they also got a huge photo of the final drop kick added. So the whole thing, programme, picture, photo, is about a 3foot across, 2 down. It's huge and in our hall.

Do you have a downstairs loo? Would it fit on the back of the downstairs loo door? Or does he have a garage or some other "man space" you can move it too? Or even better, can I suggest he takes it to work and puts it on his office wall? It'll be a "conversation piece".

London based so no shed or garage. No study (at least there is but it's the spare room too)

We already have another of his choices propped up on the mantlepiece there.

Maybe her can swap them?

Ours is nicely displayed in the utility room ....... Perfect !

Erugh! Yuk! YANBU.

Now if it was a Leeds shirt that would be a different matter..

I'm surprised someone would buy you something to put on the walls without checking with you both first.

i hear you sister!!!We have something similar.Its BEHIND the wardrobe.Need I say more?