If this magazine cover looks familiar, you’ve probably already noticed that the second installment of our “He Said, She Said” column has appeared in Do It Yourself Magazine and is now on newsstands.

Seeing our column again was just as exciting as the first time we tackled decorating disputes from both sides of the gender line. This issue allowed us to answer even more reader questions across a two-page spread, and we also worked with a professional illustrator to develop one of our floor plan suggestions. It felt a bit like describing a scene to a sketch artist—only instead of “make his eyes more sinister,” we were saying “let’s make the coffee table slightly larger.”
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If you want your own guy vs. girl decorating dilemma considered for a future issue, submit your question as a comment on this post for a chance to be selected by our editor. You can include a “before” photo hosted on a site like Flickr if you like, though that’s not required. If chosen, your space might even be one we illustrate professionally in a future column—so go ahead and share your design challenge.