How to mix very different tastes?

[thatverynightinmaxsroom]

We've just bought our first home after renting for years. It's a modern house but not a new build.

DH loves everything modern - lots of white, chrome, uncluttered.

I love antiques, pot plants, vases, colour.

We are getting slightly stuck when it comes to decorating... Does anyone have any inspiration on how to mix our rather different tastes?!

Let him paint it all a soft white.

Fill it with your stuff

Get yourself on pinterest, houzz and apartment therapy. You'll find a lot of mixes on there. Mid Century Modern can be a very modern looking, very retro or a bit of both and it's painfully popular atm.
Take your time decorating if you can and give yourself space to really think about each space and allow it to develop over time, rather than throwing everything at it at once.

LBOCS2

Thanks NotAMammy. I am so new to this I'd never even heard of houzz or apartment therapy!

Good luck! We are similar and end up never getting anything because we can't agree on a compromise! Took us 3 years to get a rug and even longer to get a couple of pictures on the wall! Sorry x

TBF I am in the lucky position in that my DH didn't have any firm thoughts on decor before I met him and over the years I have indoctrinated him into liking everything I do.

Swedish style could work.

Does in my house. Large,light, white, minimalist, but lots of wood, a little country vibe going on.

We live in a falling down very old cottage; huge beams, massive fireplaces, low ceilings, cobwebs giving the set of Raiders Of The Lost Ark a run for their money and have a very eccentric eclectic taste. We have loads of very nice Victorian antiques furniture and ornaments , some pretty special original art mainly early 20th century, following a recent trip to South Asia now a few Asian antiques, chrome and stainless steel fitting in some rooms and as my DH works in high end construction/design business some cast offs some of it is very modern stuff. It all works.
People who visit my house regularly comment on mixing the old and the new and the weird and the wonderful and most seem to like it.
I've no white walls by the way.