I could be wrong, but I suspect that once she hears the difference of having a center channel on her favorite video content (whatever it might be), the cosmetics will become a non-issue. That was the case with my wife (same deal for the subwoofer, though she still doesn't want a huge one in our family room). The M80's were a hard sell, but once she listened to her favortie music a few times when I wasn't around....