When my girlfriend and I had first moved in together we shared everything, we shared all of our furniture, all the chores, and even all the food.
However, if there was one thing that we couldn’t share it was the thermostat. We had pretty different temperature preferences, I am a cooler guy, and that simply means that I like my temperatures to be on the cooler side. Nothing too extreme, but a bit below what most people would consider your average room temperature. My girlfriend on the other hand is the exact opposite, she is a southern girl and is used to warm and sunny weather and so she likes the indoor air climate to be a bit on the warmer side. We agreed to meet in the middle and just keep our place at room temperature, however we both knew we weren’t as happy without our temperature preferences. We didn’t fight over the thermostat or anything like some couples, but we would have both liked it better if we had our temperature preferences. Then one day on the way home I was driving and I saw a billboard for a HVAC company, on the billboard a zone controlled HVAC system was being advertised and it talked briefly about splitting temperatures. I wasn’t sure what this meant and so I went online to look it up. I learned that with a zone control system, the house can be split to be different temperatures. What a great idea! I told my girlfriend about it and we purchased one. It was perfect for us because once it was installed she had her room cool, my room warm, and the shared rooms we kept at room temperature. It was like it had been made for us!