UPDATE: My (28M) wife (26F) has free rein to furnish our new house, and she is making choices I don't like

All of the advice was great. Thank you everyone. I did write an email to her and then spoke to her last night and this morning.<br><br>She seemed somewhat surprised by what I wrote, and then immediately apologized. So that is good. <br><br>This morning she said she had spent about 10 minutes looking at the pictures I posted and was surprised by how well everything went together. So that was good too.<br><br>FF to tonight and we went to some stores and took pictures of furniture. I was able to pick out some things that she was happy with.<br><br>I think we are good here.<br><br>Something else that came from this is that she felt like I didn't appreciate her efforts in decorating the house we live in now, which is actually true. I totally forgot about that. I did tell her at the time I liked it, but thinking back on it, the house we live in now is decorated lovely and she did it on a shoestring. <br><br>I am by nature not a people person, and while she is much more outgoing than me, she is not the biggest people person herself. So I think she felt like her effort wasn't appreciated. <br><br>And it did look nice, and she did a great job with it. I will certainly make sure she knows I appreciate it going forward.<br><br>In any event, we are good now and after we purchase the house we will probably have a lot more posts.<br><br>Also, I wanted to thank everyone again for their advice. It was very helpful.<br><br><br>Here is my original post:<br><br>I am sorry this is kind of long. I am in a weird situation I haven't experienced before and need some advice. <br><br>My (28M) wife (26F) and I are in the process of purchasing a new home. The seller has already moved out, so we have access to the house. We told her go ahead and start decorating the house with her tastes in mind. The seller left a few things behind, but not really much that we can use. So she has basically a blank slate. <br><br>She was very excited about the idea of decorating a house, and has been collecting Pinterest boards for years on different decorating styles. She still has a couple of weeks before we close on the house, but we live about 20 minutes from the new house, so she has been going there after work to do a few things here and there, like painting the walls, assembling light fixtures, changing out hardware on the cabinets, etc.<br><br>I haven't been there yet (I work an hour from the new house and have to drive home after work), but she has sent pictures. I was expecting her to do a lot of the decorating in the style of what she has posted in Pinterest, but thus far, it doesn't look anything like what she has posted. Most of what she has posted is modern farmhouse, coastal grandma, boho, etc.<br><br>I don't know how to describe what she has done in the new house, except to say it doesn't look like anything I would have expected based on her "style" and not really like anything I have ever seen before. It's not a good look, and certainly not something I would have chosen. I'm not really a "decorating" guy, but it doesn't look good. I'm not really sure how she thought her choices would look together, but it doesn't.<br><br>I know I should have gone over to the new house, looked at it in person and discussed it with her. But I haven't. The pictures she posted look bad enough in my opinion to not even bother looking at in person.<br><br>So I am at a loss at what to do. Do I tell her I don't really like the choices she has made (and continue to make), or do I keep my opinion to myself?<br><br>If I tell her, there is a very good chance she will be pissed off, and maybe even cry. She tends to be fairly sensitive. Plus, I kind of feel bad telling her I don't like "her choices", when she has free rein on the decorating, and I still haven't even been to the new house. <br><br>If I don't tell her, there is a good chance I will never hear the end of it if things don't turn out well. <br><br>Honestly, I'm leaning a bit more towards not saying anything, and just trying to keep my mouth shut. I know my advice is not likely to be well received, so it is kind of pointless. I'm not sure how much money she has spent so far, but she does have a habit of buying something, deciding she doesn't like it, and then returning it. So if I was going to say something, it should probably be soon as the majority of the items have been purchased.<br><br>Any thoughts would be helpful.<br><br>TLDR: My wife has free rein to decorate our new house, and she has made some choices I do not like. Do I keep my mouth shut and just let her do what she wants even if it looks bad, or do I tell her that I think it looks bad?<br><br>EDIT: I still haven't spoken to her about this and still haven't been to the new house. I have been told by her that all of the bedrooms are done, so I really need to stop putting it off. We have been really busy at work and still have a ton of stuff to do still, like pick out appliances, negociate the inspection repairs, etc. But that isn't really an excuse. I just don't want to deal with a potential issue of her being upset. I did tell one of my co-workers that she has been doing all of the decorating and he had the same reaction as many of you, that I am an idiot for giving her free rein when it was my money. So that is the way I am looking at it, that it was my money that paid for all of the furniture and still is paying for the house. I told her a couple of weeks ago that I was not going to pay for anything that I didn't like, but I have been approving the expenses, so she could consider that a lie. However, she has been spending over and above the budget we agreed to, so I still need to bring that up as well.