Not that ANY of you would ever need any help like this, BUT it is a fact that a fast growing segment of the interior design and furniture buying population is made out of... divorced, single men (the first part of this sentence is a joke - of course there are all types of readers in our audience out there and NO ONE wants to get divorced. Sometimes it just comes unwanted in the night). These men have money and standards and don't want to do it all by themselves. They've learned to delegate, and they want to get it done asap.
Enter the skilled interior designer to solve their problems and make their home MUCH more dating friendly . THIS is a good thing.
One of our favorite contributors took the pictures for the New York Times and you can dig into this all you want. Let me know what you think...
Question: the article is about divorced men. What are divorced women, chopped liver??
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Hello, Maxwell.
Interesting post.
Re: "Question: the article is about divorced men. What are divorced women, chopped liver??", I think you answer it yourself: it's about divorced men, not divorced women. Perhaps divorce doesn't change women's perceptions or attitudes towards design, other than having less money to invest in it?
Just musing... Have a good weekend!
Judging by those photos, the trick seems to be to make the houses of divorced men look like every other home featured on AT.
Nice pseudo-niche.
If you read the article in the Times, the point of it being divorced men is that they are more likely than their former wives to be the spouse who leaves the marital residence and has to start over.
Maggie, you're right. Still it's interesting that divorced men seem to seek out designers' help more than widowed or single ones.
Julia, if going under the assumption that divorced man "leaves the marital residence and has to start over"--a widowed or single guy will already have a home with furnishings, and that is why divorced men are more likely to seek out designers' help.
"Sometimes it just comes unwanted in the night." Poetic and nicely written. Also, hello, Dr. Freud. ;-)
Divorced man here. The NYTimes article just seems to be describing rich people problems. I don't need design help, I need someone to pay for it. Not sure I agree with all the assumptions about divorced people that seem to be floating around though.
I'm divorced and have 2 kids... just got a house and I'm having a blast decorating it myself. I can not do it all at once but having time between "things" to get is good as I have the time to think it over and get exactly what I want. Having a background in art and design helps quite a bit, some guys just do not have that but they have the money to get someone that does. I say, good for them.
Unwanted in the night? To paraphrase Louis CK, no happy marriage has ever ended in divorce.
Do divorced men generally have more money than divorced women?