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Giving him a little taste of the frustration.

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My husband rolled his eyes and scoffed at the idea of me not being able to choose a fabric for the sofa he liked among a hundred and fifty choices so I decided to let him experience the joy of fabric selection first hand.

Since we needed to find a different brand of furniture, shopping began anew.

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Can you tell how thrilled he was?

He didn’t mind that couch, but vetoed the square arms.

The salesperson said it could be ordered in a rolled arm style….

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And we were off.

Standing in front of that brand’s wall of fabric, I started pulling patterns.

The following comments are his.

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Too swirly.

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Too wavy.

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Too blotchy.

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Too hippie dippie.

45 minutes later, he started wandering around and picked these.

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Too bad they belonged to a brand that didn’t sell a couch he liked.

The designer in residence took up our cause at that point and pulled this.

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The husband?

He said it looked like television static.

Almost an hour and a half in, he was done…. and pointed at this.

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“That one.

Get that one.”

I thought it an odd choice, but the salesman plugged it into the creation app and the husband was so sick of the process he approved.

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I argued that it would be too light a pattern for an ottoman not to mention our white walls and opted to take the swatch home.

The husband? He opted for a bar because the whole thing had driven him to drink.

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Cranberry gin fizz for me.

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Two beers and a disappointing French onion soup for him.

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My crab cakes with spicy remoulade were wonderful.

Fortified with lunch and alcohol… we kept shopping.

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22 thoughts on “Giving him a little taste of the frustration.”

      1. Thanks for that, I was getting worried. Those colors and graphics would look better in a beach house and, if you don’t get some pretty bold colored carpet, the furniture is going to disappear right into the floor.
        Did you buy the dining room set with the hidden leaf and black chairs? If you did, can you see it from the living room? If so, select a fabric with a little shot of black in it and some sharper lines, not like hippie dippie or the sloppy paisley one your husband settled on.
        Or, if you just plain aren’t getting any love from the world of textiles, perhaps you might pick the fabric that offends you least and paint one wall in a coordinating color. This is almost as exciting as wrestling. I can’t wait for the next episode.

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      2. Ha!
        If my life is resembling pro wrestling things must really be bad.
        We did buy the Amish dining room set, though it won’t be here until April. The living/dining space is one open area in our house so picking up a little black could work. No sharp abstract lines for the husband though, he hates modern.
        The painted wall idea might be a good idea. Thanks…

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      3. The people at design school said I would never make it. They were right but not for any of the right reasons.
        If your life resembles wrestling in any way I want to see it. The world needs a YT video of you suplexing the shit out of someone in a bar while your husband laughs and drinks his beer. Now that’s exciting.

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  2. So, you’ve got a hubby who’s hard to please. The way I see it, that’s a virtue to be prized — after all, he chose you to love among all the women in the world (granted that he probably hadn’t looked all of them over)! 😀

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  3. Are you struggling with fabric for the couch or the chair? Why not a solid color? I’d worry that you’ll tire of a print after a bit.
    In the end, if you have enough cocktails, you’ll never care.

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