My Hubby has strong opinions and very different taste. He wants everything wood, plaid, forest green and leather. I have more of an eclectic, modern taste. The last apartment we lived in together we decorated all the rooms together. After so much compromise, neither of us felt like the decor reflected our true tastes. When we bought our home last year our compromise was that I got to decorate the living room, he could take the whole basement for his "man cave" and the rest of the house we would decorate together. I still asked his input on some of the items, for example we went sofa shopping together. When he's crabby he will sometimes bitches that he doesn't like the living room, but he can always just go to his 'man cave' and feel better.