Do you choose where things go in your house?

[Chris Daley]

I let my girlfriend say where things go.  Also her sister which is into feng shui.

 

8 years later:

 

Sofa facing sliding doors.  TV facing a wall where no one can sit to view it.  My office consists of a dining table and a hard wooden chair.  Of course, the power cable runs right across where people walk and hangs floating in the air a bit.  As I look at it now on the dining table there is saline solution and cat medicine (the cat died a year ago) a nasty Thai calendar just perches on the edge of the table.  2 bags of medicine and one box of medicine.  A chair?  On the chair there is a cat carry bag, two badminton rackets a picnic blanket, a stick on the wall cat shelf which broke immediately, and more. 

 

A noisy fish tank with pumps running 24.7.  Have you ever heard a motor rattling against a metal frame?  I have.  I hear it all day.

 

My favorite one is the microwave.  So much crap on top of it.  A plastic cup inside other plastic cups with chopsticks and straws.  Just so it falls every time one uses it.  Nice brown cloth for no reason other than overheating the microwave and of course plastic bags so it gets caught in the door each time.  Absolute classic.

 

How about you?  Do you spare the rod and let your girlfriend choose where things go where in the house?

Edited 11 hours ago by Chris Daley

[novacova]

If it’s in the wrong place it gets moved, non negotiable.

[Dante99]

23 minutes ago, Chris Daley said:

Sofa facing sliding doors.  TV facing a wall where no one can sit to view it.  My office consists of a dining table and a hard wooden chair.  Of course, the power cable runs right across where people walk and hangs floating in the air a bit.  As I look at it now on the dining table there is saline solution and cat medicine (the cat died a year ago) a nasty Thai calendar just perches on the edge of the table.  2 bags of medicine and one box of medicine.  A chair?  On the chair there is a cat carry bag, two badminton rackets a picnic blanket, a stick on the wall cat shelf which broke immediately, and more. 

 

A noisy fish tank with pumps running 24.7.  Have you ever heard a motor rattling against a metal frame?  I have.  I hear it all day.

 

My favorite one is the microwave.  So much crap on top of it.  A plastic cup inside other plastic cups with chopsticks and straws.  Just so it falls every time one uses it.  Nice brown cloth for no reason other than overheating the microwave and of course plastic bags so it gets caught in the door each time.  Absolute classic.

Hard to imagine living like that.  Why do you do it?

 

[georgegeorgia]

Just now, Dante99 said:

Hard to imagine living like that.  Why do you do it?

 

You only live once so we all should do things differently 

I remember a few months ago "mooning" cars on Jomtien road at night , no particular reason 

[Hummin]

I designed our living spaces to be my areas, and her areas. The indoor, outdoor kitchen and tv room is at one end, and the gym, our room/balcony at 2. floor and garage/toolhouse on the other end. Our building is 24 meter long. Best thing I have done in my life. Especially when the wind comes from the mountains, I hear nothing from the other end at all. 

[DaddyWarbucks]

After reading the OP, the term "pussy-whipped" comes immediately to mind.

[youreavinalaff]

3 hours ago, Dante99 said:

Hard to imagine living like that.  Why do you do it?

 

He doesn't. He lives under a bridge.

[treetops]

You have a girlfriend?  Wow.

[Mutt Daeng]

4 hours ago, youreavinalaff said:

He doesn't. He lives under a bridge.

You hit the nail on the head @youreavinalaff. Just another fantasy post by the OP.

[KhunLA]

After 18 yrs together, and 3rd house, we kind of got it sorted out.

 

She dominated the bathroom of course, as I get a spot for razor, toothbrush & soap.  She has 3 different soaps, couple rubs, and 3-5 bottles of other crap.

 

Don't have a living room or dining room.  I dominate the foyer/entrance.  Drone & RC cabinet (tall & large), w/2 vid drones now dominate the low cabinet that was photos & collectibles.  With me other junks scattered about.  There's a hand off order for all of that.

 

She has multipurpose desk in bedroom, and I get 1/3 of the walled in closet 

I have to share my 1/2 of the bed, with the dog 

 

She has large area of eat in kitchen (main room of house) for her sewing.  Along with full control of laundry & storage, which runs the length of one side of the house.    Which means I haven't a clue where anything is, that I haven't used in the last month.

 

We both get to clutter up the carport, me with EVs, her with gardening supplies.  Also the garden lot & Greenhouse is all hers.

 

So I basically got 1/2 the bedroom, and shared kitchen access.  Call that 50 - 75 m² of the 800 m², of the 1/2 rai it all occupies.  

 

Sadly, neither on of us seem to be in control, as we serve the dog, master of the house 

Edited 2 hours ago by KhunLA