I lived in a development that was built in 1963. There were ranchers, split levels and bi-levels throughout. These were the only designs in the neighborhood. My friends from school, church, etc... also lived in developments with these same styles of architecture. A few of these neighborhoods also had cape cods. Don't try to tell me these are 1970's designs. It was all I knew growing up in the 1960's.
You forgot tri-levels! When my siblings and I were young, my parents wanted to get a new house. We begged and begged for them to get the tri-level because we loved the stairs lol We never ended up moving, and my sister now owns the house we grew up in. We just couldn't sell it. It was too painful.
I’d love a sunken livingroom today. So visually interesting 😍 It’d have to be a modern version though - the “built-in” furniture just doesn’t do it for me.
My daughter just bought a house from the 50’s and calls when she finds something that doesn’t make sense to her. Laundry chute, phone alcove, why there aren’t doors to some rooms. She’s discovered they’re pocket doors. My mom has a split-foyer house they built when I was a baby. Grew up in it. My mom has willed it to my son.
Almost nobody decorated their homes this way. I was around in the 70s and don't recall seeing any like this. These are magazine pictures of some faux-sophisticates idea of what he or she HOPED would become the trend. 😂
That’s funny cause I have tons of vintage furniture that’s stereotypical mid 60s modernism and most are from 65-67. And everytime my dad visits he says it reminds him of what houses looked like when he was a kid in the early 70s. Just because it wasn’t around YOU, doesn’t mean it nobody decorate their homes that way.
@@BSuydam99 Some people did, but most people didn't. Or didn't redo their homes comprehensively to resemble a magazine shoot. It was more piecemeal at most, at least for most people. Our house more resembled a combination of the 40s to the 60s I suppose...during the 80s. With of course some 70s as well. Just depended on what we needed to replace.
@@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER where I am originally from a LOT of suburban homes were built in the late 60s early 70s cause it’s when my hometown started to explode in population, so it would make sense they would have new furniture in a new home.
I remember the colors puke green and piss yellow that were so common back then!
A Vermont furniture store owner used to advertise on WCAX Burlington, sitting in his hand chair.
I lived in a development that was built in 1963. There were ranchers, split levels and bi-levels throughout. These were the only designs in the neighborhood. My friends from school, church, etc... also lived in developments with these same styles of architecture. A few of these neighborhoods also had cape cods.
Don't try to tell me these are 1970's designs. It was all I knew growing up in the 1960's.
You forgot tri-levels! When my siblings and I were young, my parents wanted to get a new house. We begged and begged for them to get the tri-level because we loved the stairs lol We never ended up moving, and my sister now owns the house we grew up in. We just couldn't sell it. It was too painful.
I’m living in a 70’s Tri-level now. Kitchen, dining room and living room (recessed!) upstairs has bedrooms, family room below!
@@KimSimful That's so cool! If I decide to ever move and found a tri-level, I'd certainly seriously think about it, that's for sure!!
I’d love a sunken livingroom today. So visually interesting 😍 It’d have to be a modern version though - the “built-in” furniture just doesn’t do it for me.
My daughter just bought a house from the 50’s and calls when she finds something that doesn’t make sense to her. Laundry chute, phone alcove, why there aren’t doors to some rooms. She’s discovered they’re pocket doors.
My mom has a split-foyer house they built when I was a baby. Grew up in it. My mom has willed it to my son.
Does he want it?
Forgot the geodesic dome house. Probably the most iconic... R Buckminster Fuller...
The couch my mom had when I was a kid was the single ugliest thing there ever was. I miss that couch.
Almost nobody decorated their homes this way. I was around in the 70s and don't recall seeing any like this. These are magazine pictures of some faux-sophisticates idea of what he or she HOPED would become the trend. 😂
That’s funny cause I have tons of vintage furniture that’s stereotypical mid 60s modernism and most are from 65-67. And everytime my dad visits he says it reminds him of what houses looked like when he was a kid in the early 70s. Just because it wasn’t around YOU, doesn’t mean it nobody decorate their homes that way.
@@BSuydam99 Some people did, but most people didn't. Or didn't redo their homes comprehensively to resemble a magazine shoot. It was more piecemeal at most, at least for most people. Our house more resembled a combination of the 40s to the 60s I suppose...during the 80s. With of course some 70s as well. Just depended on what we needed to replace.
@@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER where I am originally from a LOT of suburban homes were built in the late 60s early 70s cause it’s when my hometown started to explode in population, so it would make sense they would have new furniture in a new home.
@@BSuydam99 True.
I hate split-levels, worst design ever, and theyre still building them today!