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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I relate so much to wanting your first house to immediately be perfect and ready for hosting friends etc. We lived in a tiny, crappy house for years and finally finished an addition and re-model…and then we moved all our old, gross furniture in. I hate that the house looks bad because we have the falling apart IKEA couch in our brand new family room, and several rooms with no furniture at all. But I am with your husband on you needing to take a chill pill and wait on some of this stuff. Fix the necessary stuff and then pick other projects one at a time. For us, it’s super expensive and we just can’t afford to buy art AND chairs AND an outdoor table right now.  If you want new kid furniture AND basement stuff AND bookshelf organizing AND a new light all at once…that’s a lot! Not just money, but it’s a pain to pick all this stuff, and he doesn’t want to do it all immediately.  And it sounds like you knew this about him, he isn’t going to want to do all of this totally optional stuff right after you just moved in!

So pick what matters most right now, and focus on that. You hate the light, is he ok if you spend the money to replace it? If yes, find a couple styles you like and get his input. But you can’t make him want to do all these optional things that are all basically couch cushions. [/quote]

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