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Anyone else's DP never make up their mind about decor?

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Echobelly · 27/12/2020 18:47

Blimey, it drives me nuts sometimes. I had thought we'd agreed a month or two back on a scheme for our front room, decorator booked for February, had looked at tiles for fireplace, today I show him some blind samples and... he's changed his mind.

TBF I had some nagging concerns about the front room scheme and luckily there was another, less risky, but not too boring colour I had tried months and months ago and couldn't get any opinion from him about at the time that he's now prepared to go for... apparently.

He was a bit taken about how upset I was until I explained he has a habit of doing this and it's really stressful for me because I'm pretty sure we agree on things, then he changes his mind. It happened about 3 times with our hallway wallpaper and he only agreed to one because the decorator was there by that point stripping the old paper.

He has promised he will be responsive as we now have to get the carpets, blinds and tiling rethought and sorted in the next few weeks!

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BeBraveAndBeKind · 27/12/2020 23:27

My DH rarely has an opinion on it all so I make 95% of the decorating decisions and do 100% of the work. His role is to provide a constant supply of coffee while I'm doing it.

NovemberR · 27/12/2020 23:30

@BeBraveAndBeKind

My DH rarely has an opinion on it all so I make 95% of the decorating decisions and do 100% of the work. His role is to provide a constant supply of coffee while I'm doing it.
Same here. Wink

DH tends to say vaguely Aye, whatever you like to anything I suggest.

Echobelly · 28/12/2020 09:42

I wish my DH was like that! But he wants to be involved in all the decisions even though half thec time he doesn't want to have the necessary discussions, then he can't make his mind up, or else I show him lots of stuff I researched and he just suddenly sets his mind on something totally different. He's especially indecisive on curtains, lighting and tiles.

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Mydogisagentleman · 28/12/2020 09:55

I’m another with a disinterested DH.
I chose grey for everywhere and got many litres of polished pebble.DH only noticed it was the same colour once we had finished the downstairs hall, living room and DDs bedroom.
He has the decorating taste of a three year old and was a bit put out when I refused to consider custard yellow for our bathroom

Echobelly · 28/12/2020 12:22

haha, I'm the colours one - DH always balks and says anything bright will make the room look 'poky' despite the fact I've only ever suggested them for large rooms with 3.3m ceilings which couldn't look poky if they tried. I gave in and had a grey bedroom with the proviso there were colours in the curtains, but I almost flipped my lid when the told me he'd changed his mind and maybe 'it could just be plain'.

I told him when we moved in over 5 years ago I wanted to bring colour into the house (everything was magnolia or brown) and he's resisted it every time. The only colour I've succeeded in getting in on walls or floors is blue, which is better than nothing, but I would have liked to have gone for something gutsier.

Now just trying to get him to commit to things so we don't end up with the house full of stuff from the front room for months because the carpet hasn't gone in etc (it's the room with all the bookshelves etc)

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