Style. Ahh, yes. Style has become almost synonymous with a sense of self. It represents, defines who you are. There is clothing style, hair style, jewelry style, and of course home decorating style.
For me, clothing style is comfort (ie - pajamas and tank tops) for leisure and 1950's style dress for dress up. Hair, simple again; easy to maintain. Jewlery is minimalist. My husband and I had a disagreement about the size of my engagement ring. He wanted to get me a bigger stone but I didn't want a whole carat. Yes, you read right. I WANTED A SMALLER DIAMOND. I have small fingers (the only part of my body that is small and delicate) and a carat would look ridiculous on it.
Now to the point of this, home decorating style. Ahhh, see this is the tough one. This is the one where, when you are married, you have to merge your sense of style with someone else. There are different types of men you can marry. One doesn't care, one wants veto power and the last wants to be involved. And I married the last one.
I have a theory. The younger the guy is when you marry him, the less he cares. See, you can train him to like whatever style you like but the older the guy gets, the more he develops his own sense of style. Often, this sense of style is based on the idea of comfort - hence, the hideous gray blue couch that my husband still regrets selling because it was a great "sleeping couch". And if he still had it, he might have had more occasion to use it over the years!
Just kidding. Sort of.
I have found that my own sense of style has matured. We have learned to meld our styles. We have learned that when we both really like something, we continue to like it ie the lamps it took us 2 years to find. It is when either of us compromises that we dislike whatever it is.
So what is our style? We are still getting rid of "his" and "hers". Hey, we aren't made of money! So we are gradually switching things over. So far, we have been looking at couches on and off for the past year but a bigger vehicle trumped a sofa.
I would say our style is a subtler steampunk. If I ever figure out how to add pictures, I will. Until then, google it! And enjoy!
I married one who doesn't give a rip and I'm very thankful:)
ReplyDeleteI've only recently heard of the term "steampunk." My husband told me about it. :) Very interesting! Uploading pictures is pretty easy. When you're writing a post, you have options across the top and you'll see a little thing that looks like a picture. Click on it and then it'll pop up a screen and you can select your pictures and upload them. A hint, upload the last one first and so on or they come out in the wrong order. Hope that helps and makes sense. :)
ReplyDeleteThanks Emily. I will try! We are soft steampunk style. No skulls here! Does your husband read scifi?
ReplyDeleteBe glad, Kat, but then I read your blog because I love your style so maybe that is why he doesn't care! You just have good taste!
hahah, no my husband doesn't read much. He was telling me how the movie Wild Wild West has a lot of steampunk in it. I think he was reading about it in a video gamer magazine he gets - that's about as much as he reads. He found a couple steampunk images - one was this really cool playstation 3 case and another was this neat guitar.
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