Choosing Living Room Furniture - Do Men Have Taste?
The Male Point of View
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Men and Women: The Age-Old Question
This article is a companion to my other piece titled "Living Room Furniture - Finding the Bargains".
According to Dr. Laura
Schlessinger “men have simple needs”, which does not imply that we are simple minded
(a point that, I'm sure, some female readers may take issue with). I will open this article on living room
furniture with a little vignette about the selection of the type of seats in
our new SUV. Being a fisherman, I am naturally interested in functionality over
style so I told the dealer I was interested in cloth seats. My better half
wanted leather seats. Want to venture a guess at what kind of seats we drove
off in? The correct answer is leather.
Do women really want the opinion of a man on the selection of a living room
furniture set? Does a women really want a truthful answer if she asks if she is
fat or is she just wanting confirmation that she is not? If you said
"yes", would there be a price to pay? In many respects, asking a question
is a formality when the only response that will be tolerated is the one that is
desired. The same goes for our opinion of Traditional versus Modern. The
decision has already been made.
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Survey Says: You Gotta Be Kidding !
If one took a survey of a
million women that were asked for a simple yes or no answer to the question
"do men have taste in furniture" do you think that all but a tiny
minority would answer "no"? It is my opinion that the perception
of women is that men, in general, are "knuckle draggers" when it
comes to style and fashion. If left to my own devices I would go to work in
shorts, tee shirt and sandals or tennis shoes all of the time. Most men feel
quite comfortable in a pair of Levis and a flannel shirt, thank you very much.
When contemplating the value of a guy's opinion, my thoughts are taken back to
a time when we were looking for the house where we currently reside. My wife
actually wanted to take me to visit home after home after home. After seeing
four or five of them I told our agent that I would like the screening to be
handled by my wife and there are two and only two criteria that I had that were
set in stone. The first was that I preferred tile roofs to shake because tile,
in general, is more durable and requires less maintenance. My second criteria
was that the house be "turn-key", which means that it is completely
ready to be lived in and that there are no "fixer upper" projects
needed. The solution was simple. My wife picked the style color and layout of
the house and the house was of a durable, relatively maintenance-free design.
If we asked men the question: "Would your rather buy living room furniture or
watch a football game?", one would not be surprised that men would pick the
second choice. But lets say it really did matter to guys that an
opinion was sought. Do you thing your wife would say: "Hey, he really likes this
furniture that I hate, I'll change my mind". The reality is that the furniture would
be purchased over our objections and we would get used to it in the same way we
get used food cooked a certain way.
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Just Tell Me What My Opinion Should Be...
A critical guy issue is the simple question "Is this
the hill I want to die on?" Even if it was a furniture set that I had my
heart set on, it would not be worth it for two reasons. It would be totally
unreasonable for one to expect that our spouse would actually say "Hey,
let's get it even though I hate it". Also, there would likely be another
price to pay if we tried to force the issue in another area - the bedroom.
Let's use another example - Do you think that a bride-to-be would actually
consider your opinion if you picked flowers she hated for her bouquet? In their
heart of hearts, most guys just care about where and when then need to show up
at the church.
When if comes to finding the bargain, on a living room furniture set, the
opinion of the guy is irrelevant if it is contrary of those of our better half.
In the words of my mother asking if I wanted vegetables was just a formality. In reality, guys just want
a comfortable place to sit down and watch the football game. In the unlikely
event that we actually had an opinion on the type of furniture, in very short
order we would get used to whatever is there. The wisest of us understands that
our choice if contrary, is not really wanted. It is certain that a sofa is not
the hill to die on - particulary if that death involves sleeping on it.
Postscript. My wife insists on making it clear that this is not the way I am be
treated.