OMG, TOO funny patser. Thanks for starting my day off with a laugh.

:snort:

And the thread just below this one, "help please with sitting area final choices", includes a query about . . . wait for it . . . nesting tables.

too too funny.good way to start the day.

Hadn't seen that yet - I love John Kass. Just more ammunition for women to decorate the way they want - men really don't care! ('cept for that silly old man chair thing)

That's so funny!

My partner has a "man chair", I guess. It's a recliner. He always sits in it. He knows to always check before he reclines it so he doesn't crush a cat. He'd never forgive himself.

We eventually need a new one since this one smells like dog, but when I getm oney.

Hah! Thank you for sharing. I especially love the part about the towels. So true. My partner sporadically has an opinion about decor and design for our home, so I never know whether I need to ask his opinion or not. But having recently been in the market for some new towels, this part nearly made me snort coffee onto my keyboard.

I may be breaking some unspoken gyno-American law by saying this, but...

Yea for man chair. And man room, if the space is available. And dedicated man bathroom. We (mostly unintentionally) demasculinize our men in every way possible. They need some way to recharge their testosterone or they will become the transgendered version of "purse girl" (the ugly friend who slops around after you and usually stays behind to watch your purse while you go have fun). To me, a man chair is much like a docking station. In more ways than I can count, actually.

A woman saying, "Is there a woman chair?" is very much like a child asking why there's a Mother's Day, and a Father's Day, but no Child's Day.

I despise nesting tables. There are few things I want less than to pay for 3 tables so that I can only use 2/3 of each. 6/3 = 2, not 3.

Me - Husband, do you like the green towels or brown?
Husband - Does one dry me better than another?
Me - No.
Husband - Then get the one you want. I'm going to pick wrong anyway.
Me - But which do you think would look better with the Vasseliva print and hammered copper vessel?
Husband - The what?
Me - The "crap on the wall" and the "crap on the counter."
Husband - Oh... haha, yeah you have a lot of crap.

And thus goes the cycle of futility. I can't comprehend how he can have zero interest in coordinating hues or complimentary scale anymore than he can understand my utter lack of interest in home theater gadgets or the latest motherboard.

Within 10 years, everything in the house will be hers. Give the guy a chair, for chrissakes...

How exactly do you define a "man chair"? Typically I think of something comfortable and functional (usually reclining) that is so ugly, few women would want it in their home.

Personally, I'd rather involve my man in making big decisions (furniture, appliances, flooring, etc) to make certain everything in the home suits both of us. I have absolutely no intention of de-masculinizing him or my home. Quite the contrary. I like to include his masculine style to juxtapose the few feminine items I like. (I generally prefer modern, clean, and sometime masculine styles.) I do not particularly like nesting tables either. I try to involve my partner with all of these types of decisions, not because there is a "wrong" answer and I'm testing him, but because I really care. I do find it a little unfair for people to assume all women choose to ignore/override their men's preferences when it comes to the home.

However, I recognize the disinterest on the part of my man to peruse stores for home goods (or really anything) so I try to minimize the need by scouting for products I like and then bringing them to him for approval or selection (if I bring several options). What I find difficult is not knowing whether or not he will choose to have an opinion, so I err on the side of asking. It seems like he has less concern about how something looks and more concern about how something functions. If I ask his opinion and he says "I don't care." then I know I can have my pick. I would certainly never purchase something for a shared space knowing he would hate it.

Very funny piece patser.

My DH has no man chair, per se. We each have a leather club chair in LR, chairs we chose while shopping together for leather for the LR. Wanted a specific color and grade of leather.

Most all other household choices are made by me, and DH likes it that way. He doesn't care if the towel is tan or white, so long as it dries his body. DH's evolved, rather than involved in the decorating process:).

Never complains, but doesn't always gush complements over my selections either. Some instances, I've made a change and he doesn't notice for a week.

Works for us.

I really don't care for the recliners of ole. Sooo glad DH never wanted one. They really aren't his style. However, I have jsut recently noticed some recliners that I could live with should DH grow tired of his comfy leather club chair.

That's a hilarious article.

I'm all in favor of the (tasteful) man chair - EXCEPT, based on my personal experience only (with DH, ex-DH and a grown son), the men always end up splayed across my couch to watch television while I'm stuck in the chair!

I LOVE it! Great article...

This is so funny! Don't you know that their eyes sometimes just glaze over when we get going on about decorating? After 36 years I rarely ask him to go shopping with me unless its for a big purchase-like a man chair, which he doesn't have. Never asked for one. Where do you find a man chair that is classic and doesn't look like a puffed up chair on steroids? I really would like for him to have one. I just haven't seen much furniture that I really like.

That was really funny!
It reminds me of the Flow TV commercial with the guy out shopping w/wife.
That cracked me up too.

Man chairs are fine, just not in the main room!

We have a tv room ( bedroom) in the basement with 2 huge recliners. During the day Dad watches tv all day and the dog sleeps in the other one. She's quite possessive of her chair by the way! Dh will go hang out there sometimes too.

When he's upstairs he prefers laying on the sofa.

I would never, ever, expect dh to go shopping with me if he didn't want to. And, he usually doesn't. And wouldn't if he didn't want too.

Okay, I don't really belong on this forum because I don't have any deorating know how, but this was funny and I felt compelled to respond.

We do have a man-chair. The interesting(or not) thing is that we have had it for 15+ years, it's pink/rose (MIL picked it out), and it smells like dog because they are the only ones who ever sit in it. I think a nice couch that sits in front of the TV and lets you spread out works just as well.

I would never dream of making my husband go to Bed, Bath and Beyond--he would question everything I wanted to buy--I'd rather he sit at home watching the big game.

Very funny article and I know several couples it describes. I sometimes wish we were on of them because from towels to china, my opinionated spouse has a strong opinion about them. In the end I think our home is better decorated because it contains both of our perspectives. But in the middle of the process when he's weighing the possabilities and making excel spreadsheets in relation to the decision (I kid you not) I often want to kill him.

Now as to the traditional recliner...I hate the things. There is no way for them to be attractive, and even the name indicates who should be sitting in one...lazy ring a bell? But I have to admit that after ds was born, and in those first few months when he couldn't sleep laying down, I found that my pretty art deco leather chair just didn't cut it for 24/7 baby holding. One night, in a near panic state brought on by no sleep for three days, I woke dh up out of his few hours of desperate rest and boldly said...."we are buying a lazy boy tomorrow!".

I had a horrific recliner in less than ten hours. It was ugly (and I bought the pretty one). But it was a great chair for the year I slept in it.

I kissed that puppy goodbye happily when we learned it was ok to give the baby narcotics....my once only love affair with a man chair was over...we sold it to a woman who was heavily pregnant with twins. Poor dear lol.