Feuding over furniture? how interior designers resolve couples’ style clashes

If one half of a couple prefers, say, the Flame lamp from Parisian ceramist Jean Roger (left) while her more restrained partner covets something as minimalist as Manhattan artist John Sheppard’s Mountain lamp (right), can they find a happy medium? Yes. (WSJ) — If one half of a couple prefers, say, the Flame lamp from Parisian ceramist Jean Roger (left) while her more restrained partner covets something as minimalist as Manhattan artist John Sheppard’s Mountain lamp (right), can they find a happy medium? Yes. (WSJ)

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6 min read . Updated: 27 Aug 2022, 12:04 PM IST Kathryn O’Shea-Evans, The Wall Street Journal

Interior designers often employ therapy-like techniques to find stylish compromises for clients with warring aesthetics. Here’s how to handle each other’s décor dreams with care

My husband James and I are decorating our new vacation house in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado and have taken on so much more than we can chew that we’re choking…mostly because I’ve been a rude co-designer. Years of writing about decorating have turned me into the Joan Rivers of home décor, minus the comedy.