Okay, I won’t beat around the bush, decorating a house is usually a job women take on. I would say 98% of my clients are women.
This is how it goes when clients contact me……I liaise with wife via email. I meet with wife. I liaise some more with wife in her home. I put together a decorating scheme based on the brief I’m given at the time of meeting wife. I proudly send off the mood board to wife with a big smile on my face. Wife replies. Wife is over the moon with the mood boards and loves everything. Then guess who rears his head? Enter husband. For the first time (possibly ever), husband has an opinion on the lounge room and wants to make his own decorating wishes known.
This is a common problem I come across, wife likes one look, husband likes another and they haven’t discussed this before I’m invited in their home. Wife collects inspiration for how she wants her home to look. Husband isn’t consulted. Which results in me doing a re-design of the mood board (and also a bit of marriage counselling), submitting the new look and THEN getting on with the job of re-decorating.
Who else can relate to this? I know I’m not the only stylist who faces this problem and I bet there are loads of wives out there nodding along who have husbands who are happy to come home and sit on the 12 year old Ikea sofa that he had in his bachelor pad before you met, but as soon as he gets wind that the room is going to be brought into the 21st Century he needs to make his opinions known!
I am really lucky that’s husband and I have similar styles. He is great as a sounding board because he is a clear decision maker. I again use for hours over which fabric ect, finally get down to three choices, and he looks at them and says “that one”. Great team work!
VERY lucky indeed Eva 🙂 x
Classic post Emma – you’ve just described 95% of my clients and a blow by blow account of EXACTLY how most of my jobs go! Husbands are mostly always the dissenting voice…
Haha So glad I’m not alone! x
I hear you loud and clear! I also have trouble with husband picturing the finished product! And paint is always a frustrating aspect of decorating for the husband and wife! Good luck!