• Organic Seedling duvet and shams from West Elm
• Marimekko Putkinotko fabric (1957)
• Cowhide Floral Rug from The Rug Company
• Larch organic bedding in bark from Unisonhome.com
• Josef Frank Celotocaulis pillow from Just Scandinavian
• Calvin Klein Cottonwood bedding
• Batik bedding by Thomas O'Brien for Target
• Melamine dinner plates by John Derian for Target
• City Scene Bamboo Smoke Bedding from Overstock.com
• Etching Ink Duvet Set from DwellStudio
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The prints are o.k. and certainly men enjoy the same things as women do in terms of the occupations you mentined however I wouldn't classify any of those fabrics as masculine. On the flip side, I don't think any of those fabrics are particularly feminine either. Maybe I'm just not fond of prints.
How funny. I searched high and low for bedding that my boyfriend and I could both agree on and we ended up with the Calvin Klein Cottonwood bedding. He doesn't love it or think that it's masculine, but he can live with it.
My husband and I have the second the last bedding set, from Overstock. We love it!
I just got similar bedding as the first for our "manly-ish" master. We love it. I'm also loving the john derian for target, these are all great ways to add some natural element in your home/room
Some of these qualify for no one!
@TheoJ - I share your amusement at the irony, but I suspect that you have never been in the frustrating position of many a wife: Their husbands expect them to make the bedding and other interior decisions (if you’d like to discuss gender stereotyping…), but at the same time consider their silent preferences. Rather than provide input, their partners simply veto without explanation. Many of my female friends are therefore forced to anticipate their partner’s preferences and ideas of masculine linens. I’m sure these examples are a help to them.
When I met my husband - a landscape architect, gardener, naturalist, and outdoorsman who is capable of choosing his own linens! - his bed had a hunter green comforter with cream leaf silhouettes and sheets with the same in reverse. It suited him perfectly: strong, orderly, and natural.
I had to laugh when my father complimented the bedding (which is now on our guest bed since we changed bed sizes) since he is strictly anti-natural prints on the grounds that it is “girly.” Evidently the pattern passed his masculine bar.
I love the West Elm, Just Scandinavian, and the City Scene Bamboo Bedding. They're masculine without going over butch.
Men are also hair dressers, florists, colorists, knitters, nurses, etc. Women are gardeners, carpenters, mechanics, astronauts, etc. Please stop perpetuating your grandparent's ideas of gender identification and the walls such ideas erect.