What to Do When You and Your Partner Can’t Decide on One Home Layout

Your next home embodies all the good things in the world: your aspirations, hard work, and the bright future ahead of you. This dreamy image is one thing to protect in the homebuying process when you’re looking at the possibilities and want them all. Moving into your new home is a big step in a relationship. It’s also at this stage that you and your partner learn how to talk things out and consider each other when making decisions. Now more than ever, you and your future spouse want to be on the same page.

It’s normal to want different things, and your personalities don’t necessarily have to be the same to make the relationship work. Still, the home buying process can be made sweeter if you and your partner do the following:

The first rule of deciding on a home layout is to do it together. For your upcoming date night, while you’re enjoying the pasta and wine, ask your partner to imagine the look and feel of their dream home. Share yours as well. Draw up how you want your kitchen to look, where you’d prefer the rooms to be, and what type of views you would like to wake up to. Do this separately, perhaps while waiting for your entrees. Then, show each other the list you came up with. Pay attention to the similarities. Maybe you both want a bedroom that has a view of the garden. It won’t even be surprising to see that, in the end, you both want a big island in the middle of the kitchen. After all, the things you want to include in your dream home probably have a significance in your relationship and may even remind you of your favorite memories as a couple. These are the aspects that you should focus on and use as a springboard for the design of your home.