I'm serious. This has been advocated before, experts write about it, and we even had a whole thread devoted to it once. Women, especially, reported how POWERFUL their reaction was when they saw their husbands begin to put their own "stamp" upon the marital home. Just ask Greek.
The bedroom (new set of sheets, new comforter?), kitchen and dining room have particular emotional connections.
Make the changes masculine. The aircraft stuff is perfect.
OK - not to hijack your thread, CD - but does that mean I should make MY home more frou frou??? LOL
Seriously, I have consented to the bedroom (et al) not being too girlie for H's sake and even though he's still living here, maybe it would make a statement if I were to girlie it up a bit more????
I haven't seen this technique work with men. Men typically don't assign the same kind of emotional attachment to the household marital symbols. Not saying that NO guys do, but it's just not the same dynamic.
Ya'll are too funny. Now, see...that's where I have done my best to make our home as much H's as "mine". We bought the furniture HE wanted... we got this huge eyesore of a fishtank and put it smackdab in the middle of the foyer because that's where HE wanted it to go.... Before picking out bedding I made sure HE liked it. Yet, part of his big reason for all this crap going on is because, "HE is never consulted and I just do what I want..." Yeah right. Like the last 2 cars we bought: cars HE wanted, not me...
Sorry, going off on a tangent here but I just realized how much our lives say "H" and not Sunny. Big epiphany for me!
Don't get me wrong.My W has been very good about it here too. Most of the decorations/accessories are somewhat neutral. Even the accent wall is a deep tone.
Our "accent color" for most art and stuff has some red in it. It appears to be "our" color. Even D's little push car and trike are red.
But I've been to some houses where I'm not sure he even lives there.
