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My partner and I are moving into our new house in January and have been having lots of debates/mild arguments about how to decorate. She wants to go with a higher-end classy look, which is coming into conflict with my decorating taste, which is, shall we say, eclectic. I owned our current home, a condo, before we met, so most of it was decorated by me. I have a lot of collectibles - action figures, movie replicas, that sort of thing, that I like to display prominently in the house. I don't mind having different collections displayed in the same room, whereas she wants things to be more divided, and she has different ideas about what things fit into the same category than I do. For example, I think it's fine to have an area/room that is just spiritual/goddess statues and decor, whereas it bothers her to have Indian stuff mixed in with Chinese, etc. She likes things to be organized and simple, I love knicknacks.
I also have a lot of Phantom of the Opera memorabilia, some Wicked stuff, and about 4 or 5 posters from various musicals. It is these posters that are the point of contention at the moment. Currently, they are framed and hanging in our hallway. I like this and would like to do the same thing at our new house. However, she sees them more as posters a teen/young adult would have on the wall and doesn't really want them up. She also seems to have an aversion to anything big, as I have some poster-sized framed photos of my childhood dogs that she isn't a fan of either. Anyway, my argument is that these theatre posters, if nicely framed, ARE classy. I contend that there are many gay men who have these exact posters in their homes and consider them quite stylish. But honestly, I haven't been to the homes of many other musicals fans and don't know if that is true. So I guess what I am asking are two questions:
1. Are musical theatre posters acceptable to you in a nicely decorated home?
2. How can the two of us reconcile our decorating taste to make this move and new house work?
We really need Queer Eye for the Lesbians, I fear. ;)
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