Hahaha no, not a velvet rope!! Lol, that's how my parents kept me out of our tiny living room so I wouldn't open my birthday presents first thing in the morning (a little velvet ribbon taped to the walls, but same idea). That is too funny.
1971 10th grade my first Real Boyfriend's mom had clear plastic slip covers on her "dusty rose" matching living room sofa set. Really terrible to sit on wearing short shorts or mini dresses. They used the room for cocktail parties & Christmas Eve
The formal living room was OLD, the old formal parlor, big if you had the money in the 19th century. We actually used ours growing up in the 60s, my silent generation parents were much more relaxed than their parents.
The reason why shabby chic was so popular with Gen X was because most of our furniture was dumpster dived or hand me downs, so we owned it & made it a trend.
@@claudiakarl2702 Earlier Boomer. All of our first furniture was hand-me-downs too. "New" furniture included cinder block and board shelving, desks made from doors, etc. There was a recession going on in the late 70's; you were lucky to have a job. No one had new furniture.
So true! I started doing up furniture when I was about nine years old! I would even buy old junk with my birthday money (second-hand stuff was cheap then) and fix it up. I am still doing it - of course, it's become popular now, and some people are making a lot of money out it, but we did it because we had no other option, and we were very creative.
Another GenX style trend was stenciling. Stencil borders, walls, decor, curtains, clothes. Ivy, flowers, geometric patterns. Whether it was nailed down or not, we put a stencil on it.
Gen x got waterbeds as hand me downs from our Boomer parents.... We drained them outside or into a bathtub and put a regular mattress inside the frame. No one needs that
Yeah, I had a waterbed and bought single waterbeds for both my kids. They really liked them when we were living in a place that goes to -40 and the walls are cold. Later on, not so much. And nobody wants to rent to people with waterbeds so putting the mattress in was key.
As a Boomer, waterbeds were EVERWHERE. We got ours late around 1982. We paid top dollar for the most quality mattress at that time. It was interesting and sometimes uncomfortable to sleep in and got very cold. You would need to have layers of blankets to insulate the coldness of the waterfilled mattress. Later, we took out the mattress and used the frame for a regular mattress.................🙂
GenX here; we loved shabby chic, because it was hand me downs, street finds & thrift store finds. We made do with what we could & tried to make the best of it.
Yeah. What later generations don't understand is the whole label of Shabby Chic was kind of a sarcastic label to begin with. We had to get some shabby, leftover, or hand-me-down, or thrift store thing and try to make it look like something other than a pile of crap. So we spiffed it up best we could, and tongue-in-cheek called it Chic.
genuinely worn down stuff i can stand, but what pi#es me off is when so-called design experts use sandpaper on perfectly new furniture to make it look shabby
Gen X - Torch lamps, futons, CD towers, big fat stereo systems, multicolor or single color striped linens and furniture, warm toned everything, IKEA, and couches you can sleep on. I honestly don't remember that celestial pattern except on a buckwheat neck pillow we had for a few years - never saw it otherwise.
Ahhhh you're describing my childhood home to a T! 😂 I'm an elder Gen Z and the very proud owner of elder Gen X parents. But I do remember the celestial print, we had bedding in a similar print and my dad even has a celestial tattoo 😂 I think it really was a new age hippy thing, which my parents definitely were/are. I love Gen X folks, I feel like you guys just get us Gen Z's, we have similarly chaotic energy 🥰
Yes, I don't remember the celestial stuff. I do remember when I first got married in 1989 it was very important to me to have a country "matchy" kitchen. Most of my friends did the geese and dusty rose...cookie jar, place mats, salt & pepper shakers, dish towels, napkin holder, pot holders, canisters, bakeware, etc. I did cows and country blue, lol.
I feel like sponge textured walls needs to be in one of these videos. My parents were obsessed with it and my childhood home had like three rooms that were sponge painted. My grandparents still have this ugly dark brown sponge-painted bathroom that my parents talked them into doing
YASSS! I had to reno my current place cuz when I walked in everything was sponge painted in burgundy and hunter green 🤮 I screamed "who splattered ugly all over this place...also had a border between the upper and lower sponge painting!
OMG yes! My Mom was into it in the 90s. I think our old house, which has since changed hands several times, had the rag rolled room until 2020. My mom got halfway through it and stopped for the day and Dad and I said it felt like trees and encouraged her to paint trees. Also, copper. The kitchen hood my mom covered in copper and the microwave shelf with hammered copper sides are still there. lol
Oh yeah! That was HUGE in the 90s. Did several walls myself with the sponge technique or the rag-rolling technique. A friend of mine started a painting business just doing faux-marble finishes for wooden kitchen cabinets. Paint/Wall techniques were HUGE. You are so right!
I don’t think Gen X could afford waterbeds. I know I couldn’t. I slept on a mattress on the floor. Interesting it was the one that my boyfriend at the time was conceived on😮😮😮 With age, came wisdom. I’m so ashamed about it and the boyfriend!
@@beebeebop3405For what it's worth, in the attempt to portray us as more out of touch than we really are, boomers are constantly credited with Silent Gen choices.
YES!!! We thought those laps were amazing... bug catchers, fire starters. We ignored those downsides. And all the variations of CD towers, to self-express a bit. Ooooh the memories.
My parents got navy blue satin sheets and found them too slippery to sleep on even though they were the height of luxury so they kept using them until they couldn’t stand them any longer.
Gen X here, and yes, I feel very called out by the celestial decor. Also the Gen X 'shabby chic' thing was really just shabby, the result of coming of age during a global recession in the early 90's.
I feel like the shabby chic/Boho trend for GenX was partly economic, but also b/c we really loved reviving our ex-hippy parents vibe. Everything 1969 was cool again: lava lamps, Woodstock, the word groovy, throwing peace signs, thrift store shopping, DIY, our parent's vinyl collection. Even smoking the devil's weed. We grew up during "Just say NO", and looked at The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and our parents and thought, 'you know, it doesn't actually look like it was that bad...." I think the only thing really uniquely ours were tattoos and Manic Panic hair.
Waterbed story 🙋🏻♀️😅My parents' friends had a one in their spare room. When my parents stayed there once my dad got up in the night to use the bathroom but it was low down and he fell back onto the bed which catapulted my sleeping mother across the room into a cupboard 🤣🤣🤣
My Gen X parents loved wallpaper borders, every room had a different wallpaper border up near the top. They also liked painting walls with decorative sponges, Martha Stewart would show them how to twist or squeeze the sponges into the paint as it was drying, would make it look like it wasn’t painted drywall.
oh My parents loved that, they are from Gen X but my parents, Boomer and silent generation adopted it and loved it, and I always asked myself what they saw in it.
Millenial and florist here, giving another perspective of why we tend to have a huge amount of plants. Personally I dont enjoy the full routine of tending to them, its not my favourite, but gosh the comfort they give us. A lot of costumers coming into our store comes in for the serene and calming enviroment. The calmness and lushness fills a void in todays stressful world. Plus also my mom and my grandparents had a looot of plants, maybe its also a heritage thing? Anyway, great video as always Nick! Cheers from Sweden
I think this is something people with a green thumb do in every generation, though the first time I went into a room with plant overload it was in the house of an old hippie boomer. Blue shiplap walls, zebra print day beds and plants everywhere.
I have nearly 200 plants in my small home. They are everywhere! Everyone that comes in says that my space feels peaceful and calm. I have a maximalist style, and while I appreciate it isn't for everyone, people feel less stressed, not more in my home, because of the plants. I think we forget that it's our natural environment is close to nature and the resources nature provides. We aren't meant to be living in concrete jungles. Also, as people can afford less square footage, and not every home has a garden, plants seem like a logical choice.
Don’t forget how we were raised with Captain Planet, acid rain, the hole in the ozone layer, and the deforestation of the Rain Forests blasting in our faces! The plants soothe the guilt, consciously or subconsciously. Also we were the first generation to not reeeaaally play outside so much compared to previous generations. I hated being forced out into itchy grass with ants and mosquitoes and the insufferable heat as a kid. Now I just bring the prettiest parts of the outside inside where I have AC and no bugs! I even have an Astroturf-esque rug!! (I know, please don’t laugh at me)
I miss the “formal living room” from my childhood home. We could enjoy the room, but it wasn’t where we would spread out a bunch of toys or fold laundry or something. It was the one spot in the house where we always knew it would be clean and nice if you wanted to go sit with a hot drink and read a book. Plus, since it was the front room of the house, we didn’t have to feel embarrassed if someone came over. It actually made it possible for us to be MORE relaxed in the family area in the back. Now that I’m an adult, and people can see our only living area from our front door, I wish we had a separate area for the kids to relax so that I could have that one nice spot that was always clean no matter what we’re doing.
Yeah! Wasn't that the point? That room was always ready for company, planned or not. And the other area was a "family room" for kids, TV, toys and games.
Celestial decor is absolutely coming back, thanks to the resurgence of metaphysical shops/witchcraft on tiktok. It's starting to pop up all over the place, and I'm kinda here for it.
I also I recall that somewhere between zoomers and millennials there was the galaxy print trend. That also paired with a lot of celestial, witchy decor that the time. I’m thinking of like 2012 to 2018
I think of waterbeds more as a boomer thing. In 87 even those of us early Xers were only out of high school a few years - not really able to buy water beds. We may have used them, but at least in my house Mom & Dad had one first and then bought more for the house. Edited because spellcheck is not my friend
The beds were cheaper than a mattress and a boxspring which was a BIG part of the water beds allure for young people. Obviously it was "different" at the time and most parents wouldn't approve which made it even more attractive... I paid around $110 for mine. You people have NO CLUE how much these beds cost, you're just making assumptions because you have no idea. It's really strange.
@SlimKeith11 you're right, I had no clue. In '87 I was too young to be buying furniture. Which was my point. Not saying no one from Gen X ever bought a waterbed - just saying that to me they were a boomer thing because my parents bought them. I never did.
My home was only waterbeds in the 80's but because of our Boomer parents. By the time I was grown I would never have considered a hot rubber squish bed.
I’m among the oldest Gen X cohort. In 1987, I was a sophomore in college, sleeping on a dorm bunk bed. Didn’t buy my own bed for several years, because the apartments in my college town came fully furnished. (We just didn’t think about all of the people who had slept on the mattresses before us.) When I finally bought my own bed, it was a mattress from a clearance sale. Definitely no waterbeds 😂
you totally missed me -- the silents mostly decorated like our folks, the greatests -- im 86 now and love my victorian and antiques -- and im not changing!
Mid-Gen X here. Can’t say I’ve ever desired a waterbed nor did I know anyone my age at the time wanting one. I did obsess over Pier 1 and Pottery Barn. Think Rachel and Phoebe’s apothecary table and all the other pieces from “Colonial Times”. Those were my go to styles.
this was during the height of the "im not religious but im spiritual" era. lol Also i think millennials loved it and slowly turned it into an obsession with "galaxy" print.
We have 3 (? I think?) torchiere lamps and one has the bendy reading lamp coming off the side 😂😅 plus my husband’s beloved lava lamp. The waterbed was definitely my parents. When they finally got rid of it, it went to me. It’s still rolled up in the basement
As a millennial with plants (& kids)... A significant part of having plants is a nostalgia thing for me, my grandma had a large beautiful garden & lots of indoor plants. Her home was always a sanctuary for me in the summer.
My grandma also had lots of cacti. I was so fascinated by it as a kid. When she and my grandpa were first married, they lived in New Mexico, so maybe that sparked her interest.
I feel this nostalgia too, also growing poor, and missing parts of home, I try to grow as much as I can of things that I cannot get easily in the US. I don't have many inside, but in cold months it is cluttered with large fig, date, olive trees inside.
Children are a luxury. Dogs are the new children, cats are the new dogs, plants are the new cats. Ergo, jungle house people are the new crazy cat people!
As one who doesn't want children, even if I could afford them and who has always been a dog person but now would rather have a cat...this comment speaks to me 😂
Gen x had wrought irion everything. End tables, 4 poster beds, picture frames. Having mis matched picture frames. Animal print/ ' wooden native masks'. Yellow kitchens. Sunflowers. Brown/ dark living rooms. Wallpaper!
I’m an older Boomer, and I’m laughing. Thank you. Water beds, potpourri/incense, a thousand plants per house, and shag rugs were ours first (maybe not first historically, but first for those living now), relics of the 60s and on through the hippie era. And by “ours first” I’m not saying they were great the first time around, just that we had them. But those shag rugs - they came in with the bright, previously-clashing colors of the British invasion. Shags in hot pink or orange, lime green or turquoise. What a fun time. And do let’s have some fun with decor. A little. Again, thanks!
My parents finally got the burnt orange plush wall to wall in 1974 when everyone else was refinishing their oak floors and shopping for Persian Karastan rugs. We weren't allowed on it without shoes or sitting on chairs because the pile would untwist and frazzle from body heat.
My parents are boomers, and I'm an early millennial. Beside formal living room and dining room. One thing I remember is that my mother still keeps the set of 24 Bacarrat French crystal wine glasses she has been given as a her wedding present in her large showcase cupboard. 39 years later, she passed down her unused wedding gift to me, which makes me and my French husband more than happy to use them regularly in addition to our beautiful dinnerware. Yes, I'm the millennial who loves to thrift unused exquisite boomer items. 😁
For we tail-end Boomers you forgot, or may not have known about, Geese! Every new Bride in the 80's had a kitchen loudy with geese. On the dishes, dish towels, curtains, rugs and don't forget the wallpaper borders. It was like an epidemic.
I remember this! I'm a millennial, but I still have a hand-me-down dust pan from my mother from this theme. Geese and ribbons. I know it came from a set.
I remember that everywhere, clothing too. I had this cool pair of beach cover pants, you tied each side at the hip and the rest of the leg was open with fringe down each side
Another Gen X trend, imo, was the Pier One Imports glassware that was dark blue at the top and faded into clear. It looked "rustic", maybe a mexican vibe
I think dusty rose, country blue, and cream came from the boomers - they were prominent in the Laura Ashely florals. I remember babysitting for a lot of families who had used those colors, especially in the kitchen. I think we did the peach and sea-foam green OR the hunter green, navy, and dark red.
As a younger Gen X / Xennial ('75), I see a lot of the Gen X trends mentioned as closer to the younger Boomer, older Gen X, like waterbeds. The young Gen X / older Millennial trends that stick out to me are salt lamps (along with the Edison bulbs) and pop-culture decor - comic book/movie posters and action figures or statuettes on full display. Especially figures in front of books or DVDs in cube shelves.
I'd say waterbeds are more boomer driven. I'm GenX, and I had one, but I was a teenager. I didn't pick it. They were cheap to buy, though. I got rid of mine when I left home as many apartments didn't allow them. BTW, you siphon the water out with a hose.
Oh my gosh, I'm a Boomer and what a fun walk down memory lane! A few exceptions and additions, Boomers loved their waterbeds AND you forgot our mega booming stereo sound systems with 3' high speakers AND our extensive vinyl record collections that sat on shelves make from large garden bricks and wooden planks! We also loved orange shag carpeting, indoor plants, potpourri and incense, stained glass, hanging macrame plant hangers or just macrame decor, wind chimes and those mega wooden spool coffee tables and swag lamps! I had it all! Thanks again for the nostalgic walk down memory lane!
With Gen X- I think gerbara daisies, reclaimed windows as picture frames etc…mixed media/decoupage, velvet couches. Also bold colour palates- a brightly painted “feature wall” or sponge painting etc
paper lamps are because of ikea, which spread fast in gen x times. my mom is a boomer and she paper lamped our apartament :) I am a milenial and I followed her in the multiple paper lamp steps
The only trouble is when you sit on your couch with a cup of coffee, look to your left and there's an opossum peeping through the foliage. But other than that, Jumanji away!
Gen X had the celestial patterns AND the SUNFLOWER pattern! I guess they just loved yellow Star shaped things! Please show all the sunflower patterns in the next video!
When I was about to graduate in the mid-ninties, I had a whole plan for themes rooms. My kitchen was going to be apple themed, the living room was going to be sunflowers, and the bedroom, you guessed it, celestial theme. I made a good go at it in my first apartment (96-97), but amended my ways by the time I was in a house with a roommate. Thank goodness for me, and her.
My friend’s sister was all chickens all the time. Somewhat farmhouse, but mostly chickens and roosters. My friend was more boho/almost cottage core. Their compromise was chickens in the kitchen and one bedroom, boho in the other bedroom and a little in the bathroom, with a pretty neutral living room. (When did cottage core become a thing? I think she was ahead of her time 😂) Both millennials.
A true boomer grew and dried their own flowers for homemade potpourri! My house was full of hanging drying flowers and homemade wreaths. Once I had to be hospitalized when foraging for wild grapevines-- I had actually made poison ivy wreaths!
I remember them decorating Sabrina the Teenage Witch’s bedroom in celestial decor in the 90s but that made sense for the character’s powers so maybe that boosted the trend?
I was going to ask if this might be the genesis of the whole celestial pattern thing! It's the only reason I can think of that everyone totally latched onto that pattern, and it really was everywhere.
X’er here (born in 75) and I loved SP. So did most of my friends but none had celestial decor as pictured. All of my friends loved plain cobalt blue glass (along with glass bottles in other colors) and they might have a random piece or two with sons and moons but I don’t recall a Melancholy and Infinite Sadness explosion.
Coming back to comment 3 days later because 😭😭 I JUST saw a gen Z reel obsessing over “celestial mythical” interior decor and style. You were spot on with that prediction!
I'm a boomer and we were totally bohemian. What you show as boomer was more like my parents decor. I got my grandmother' old Persian rugs, and Cost Plus imports was the place.
You seem to be confused about old Gen X trends. It’s understandable, since we are the forgotten generation😉 As a Gen Xer let me give you a few: wrought iron tables with glass tops; Greek columns and pedestals; Grape Vines, the Tuscan look, the tray ceilings with the shell pattern.
Yep. The Tuscan look …. I loved it, but at the time, couldn’t afford to go out and change my decor and by the time I could afford to, the Tuscan look was out. 😂
My 18 year old son decided to redecorate his room to turn it into "his space", and elected to buy a rug. He came home with a shag rug... I died on the inside, and now each time has to vacuum it, I chuckle.
Futons. Gen X was all about the futons. I bought one in Cambridge, slept on it (on the floor!) inSomerville, put it on an Amtrak to NYC for grad school (where I still slept on the floor), and then drove it across the country to Tucson (finally bought a frame for it) and back to Milwaukee before I finally ditched it. If you could roll it up, you could take that thing anywhere. Waterbeds were the province of my Boomer cousins. Also Gen X: The papasan chairs from Pier One and folding chairs. The one I bought at Conran's will survive the apocalypse.
Great video and you nailed it. What a trip down memory lane for this boomer. Sunken living room, formal living room and dining room, etched glass on the window in my front door (of the moon and a tree haha) and to top it all off.... dusty potpourri!
Re shabby chic: Yep. Sounds about right. One thing i'd say is i also think that style feels very Gen X (as a gen xer) is at that time, the 90s, we were in or coming out of college and our apartments where very much a patchwork of what we had. So miss matched couches chairs, dressors as tv stands, miss matched furniturre or thrifted or hand me downs. Like a lot of people could easily look shabby chic but didn't get that way by design. They just went to a thrift store or had hand me down furniture.
Target had a "shabby chic" line of bedding for YEARS. It was "too expensive" for me at the time, but I loved all those pastels and flower prints and ruffles!
I am a Gen X. My style is Shabby Chic-Boho. I did have the plastic glow in the dark stickers on my ceiling when I was a teenager. So there was the celestial!
What people don't realize is that participating in trends isn't the same thing as being a slave to trends. Maybe you don't buy new clothing or furniture every season to keep up with the latest styles, but to a certain extent, we all fall in line regarding trends simply because when we go to the stores, that is what is available. There were years where you were hard pressed to find anything *but* skinny jeans, or boot cut jeans, or refrigerators in avocado/mustard/burnt sienna.
Yes to the appliance colors! When I was a teenager (I'm a mid-late Boomer) it was one of those, or burnt orange. Bu the time I was old enough to need to by my own alliances, those had gone by the wayside and had been replaced with almond. I think almond was something of a backlash.
I'm 42 so I grew up with seeing lots of Potpourri & those shaped soaps that no one was allowed to use, & both would always get all dusty😂 Also, I ADORE 90s celestial decor. I keep trying to think of ways to incorporate touches of it in my home in a more grown up sort of way, like I don't want it to look like my bedroom as a teen. But I haven't bought anything yet
@@EmmaAbigail-p5wI think that sounds amazing! I keep thinking about maybe a really good quality, handmade quilt with a celestial motif, but those artisan quilts tend to be out of my budget unfortunately
Don't forget the floating candles and the gel candles with little seascapes in them that would collect a layer of dust on top of them because no one wanted to burn them
My formal dining room is right across from my living room, so it is just an "extension" of the living room. There is a dining room off the kitchen already in this condo. Many people who live here entertain their children and/or grandchildren a lot, so they use their dining rooms, but I live alone, so it would be a big waste of space.
I turned mine into the playroom. The formal living room is never used and everyone spends their time in the hearth room because it’s where the door to let the dogs in and out is, also I love the old man’s study vibe of this room and left it how it was when everything else was updated.
I had a daybed with a trundle bed! My friends and I would sleep the opposite direction when we had sleepovers, and it was like a queen size bed, if you ignored the crack. LOL
I think acrylic/glass is big these days is because they don't take up visual space in smaller rentals. Thick acrylic looks 'rich' to me, I don't know why. There's something luxurious chunky about a 2inch thick side table.
Acrylic looks cheap to me as well. Lets be honest, plastic is everywhere because it's cheap. There is a reason somethings like an iPhone feel luxury is becuase of the glass and fine metals. If it was all plastic, you would still pay 1000 for it?
As a millennial, i can say that eddison bulbs are gorgeous for both the filament and the warmth of the light they give off. It feels like a warm hug. As a brit, it feels so warm and cozy against the shit rainy weather. And with that, i love the more industrial/pipe style. It feels substantial and shows off the function of a piece. At least, thats my theory. That and steampunk. Im very into my steampunk. However,Art deco design is my favourite atm. Its comfy and glamorous in my mind 😂😊
I have a few in our old house that seem to fit - though I do have them inside fixtures. They are nice. We have long winters and the warm glow of Edison type lights are cozy.
Plants helped me actually grow my self worth and self respect because I could take care of things, and doing the gardening felt introspective and rewarding. And I recognized that I could take care of myself, like I took care of the plants! But yes hahaha my home was like a damn jungle 😂 but also! every single person who ever came over loved the vibe. Had a rooftop garden too which was off the hook. Plants is a vibe. 🎉🌿♥️
I'm Gen X and have had a small gold sun shaped mirror for about 25 years. It doesn’t fit my decor, but I finally found a spot on the wall on my stair case landing where it can shine 😅 🌞 I'll never get rid of it!
Can we talk, silent generation and rubbery plastic fruit? I don’t know a grandmother that didn’t have a bowl of it in the dining room or in the living room. Landfills for days.
I'm a grandmother and have a bowl of plastic fruit. 😅😂 My grandsons asked why. I told them because it reminds me of my grandmother and I just like the rubbery fruit because it evokes such sweet memories.
My Boomer mom always had a basket of plastic fruit somewhere. I used to chew on the fake grapes and she’d get really mad seeing my chew marks on them!🤣
Both Silent Generation and Great Generation. My grandparents were Great gen and their brothers and sisters had these. My grandparents were too tasteful to have that stuff.
Right? I winced. But then I’m a recovering DIY addict, so… I recently stayed in a VRBO where someone had put in a TON of work on tongue/groove shiplapping the bathroom accent walls…and had installed it by face nailing it to the studs. And not even caulking/painting the nail holes afterwards. Not great.
The biggest advantage of a waterbed was that it didn't create pressure points. All parts of your body were supported equally (which is the fundamental nature of water) and you never experience numbness like you sometimes do when you sleep in an awkward position on standard mattresses. You don't "sink" into the bed because you fill it to a pressure level that you find fits with your preferences. You can make it soft, medium or firm. Furthermore, those beds were always heated and could be tuned to exactly the temperature that worked for you. I once had one and I can tell you it still was the most comfortable bed I ever owned. But yes, they weighed literally a ton. And it was impractical to fill and drain. But I sometimes shed a tear for their incredible comfort.
Nick, I can tell you exactly where Gen X got the celestial pattern from. It started from the Smashing Pumpkins album 'mellon collie and the infinite sadness' (which was one of the greatest albums of that generation)
I‘m a millenial and felt very seen with the edison light bulb chain in my living room and my 10 plants. But - paper lamps! Weren‘t they all the IKEA rage in the 2010s? Great video, Nick!
Young Boomer here, Nick. I had a waterbed in the late 80's when I furnished my 1st real apartment in my 20's. It was not a cheap, enfold-you-and-make-lots-of-noise bed. Mine was a beautiful king-sized water bed with a gorgeous wrap-around headboard and footboard (purchased separately). Mine was a full-sized king, not a California kkng, so beautiful bedding was no problem.The bladder had a one-inch thick layer of non-molding (!) material that calmed the waters and sound. The bladder was inside a zip-top mattress cover (also muted most of the sound) that looked like a regular mattress. My back problems from a car accident went away in a couple of weeks when I started sleeping on it. The water took away the pressure points, but because I had a quality bladder with built-in insert, I also had support, not droop. You had to touch my bed to tell it was a waterbed because it did not well up in the middle. God knows I miss that bed and all the beautiful bedding that went with it, but I digress. It was more hygienic than a regular bed, too. Most of the dead skin cells that hang around in a regular mattress would pass through the sheets and mattress cover and lay on top of the bladder. Each month, we'd unzip the cover and clean away the dead skin cells with a cleanser that also moisturized the bladder for longer life. We'd add a small bottle of liquid product to the bladder to keep the inside of the bladder mold-free, close it up, zip the cover and vacuum any other dead skin cells (unseen) from the top of the cover. Other people with back problems who wanted the benefits of water without any real motion could buy bladders that were divided into long, connected water cylinders that restricted the water's movement. I preferred a little more motion in mine. Don't knock the waterbed until you do it right! 😊 Great, fun video. You nailed so many things. I skipped the etched glass, maybe because I'm a younger boomer. Oh, you could buy certain kinds of essential oils to refresh the smell of your potpourri. I didn't because I was at the end of the trend, but I think Patouli oil and orange oil were fan favorites. 😊 P.S. I think my bed had a warming pad under the bladder or somewhere . . . My bed was never cold. I remember plugging it in, but the details are fuzzy now.
Yes, waterbeds all had heaters. The water was always warm, the bed was always warm, they cost real money for all eternity. But boy, did we ever become experts at keeping them covered, i.e., making the bed the second you get up, lol. No such thing as an unmade waterbed. You'd cover your place in bed even when you got up in the middle of the night to pee! In Wisconsin it was -- okay I guess, but in AZ or FL?! wow NO.
You see? Nick needs to take back what he said about Gen X being responsible for this trend! You comment has made the point so much better than all the Gen X denials. But ultimately I'm not so different . . . I made a long comment in defense of shabby chic.
Loved my 80s waterbed and the king I have now. I didn’t get baffles in either and just have an eggshell foam and cooling matt on top which are nicer than the baffles. It’s so good for my back, shoulders and hips too and I get a much better sleep on it. Mine doesn’t make much noise due to the matts and I don’t have air bubbles in mine.
@@HappyHarryX5 You have one now?! That's awesome! I shall live vicariously through you, 😄. You don't look old in your picture (like I am kinda getting over here). Do you mind telling your age?
I am a millennial, I have a theory to light bulb. We had the good old incandescent bulbs and then we saw the arrival of compact fluorescent bulbs, which were supposedly better, but had a questionable look and really not beautiful. When a new bulb arrived, which was aesthetic and everything, we hurried to forget our horrible compact fluorescents. I have 8 plants, I am resonable because I love clean and a bit minimalist style 😆 it’s probably why! Very nice video, I always love see design with year’s 💛
I agree a little with the lightbulb theory. BUT , what I want to talk about is that fluorescent lightbulbs are way too stark and cold looking when compared to the incandescent bulbs. 😂
@@lpsftw8572 Seriously. I'll never forget when my grandmother replaced the light bulbs in her kitchen with CFLs. It was disturbing how a space that had been so warm and inviting then looked so cold and clinical. Like, I helped her make cookies at that table (I was little so when I say help I mean I made it take longer) and then she put the CFLs in and it looked like a doctor's office.
This is 100% true. I hate how obnoxiously bright and clinical fluorescent bulbs are. Also the cold bright white LED bulbs that some influencers still used today, but a lot more did in the 2010s made their homes look like a store in the mall or like they were living in a dentist’s office. It was definitely overexposure to the type of lighting that really shouldn’t exist anywhere but a hospital. They need that lighting to literally see what they’re doing properly, I get it. I mean, schools and prisons have that kind of lighting too, but they seriously shouldn’t. I mean, sorry if that’s anyone’s taste, but like…it’s just too cold and uninviting for me personally.
My mom (87 years old) STILL has a waterbed, and swears by it, therapeutically. I had one when i was in junior high and high school (mid and late 80s, yes) and it was definitely comfortable.
My thoughts.... Waterbeds were at least late Boomer/early Gen-X but I think most of us associate them with our Boomer parents, not our generational group. Gen-X is futons! Those glorious, cheap, college dorm staples of poor sleep and back aches! Further proof I'm Gen-X (born in '83 so usually classed otherwise): not a single plant but I certainly had a celestial pattern phase. Bed sheets and beanbag with the print in my first college dorm. My grandmother had a formal room used for special gatherings. My Boomer parents did have a second family room in their basement but I actually wound up using it the most for reading while the family was watching TV upstairs. It wasn't formal or forbidden in the least. Fascinating comparing trends over generations; love this series, Nick!
Spending Father’s Day at the in-laws tomorrow and can’t wait to gingerly walk through the powder blue 90s floral “sitting room” that hasn’t been used in 30 years.
My mom in law had a formal living room that had white shag carpeting. The couches were white with pink and blue flowers and one wall was all mirrors. You can imagine. But one Christmas my brother in law and myself made snow Angel prints in her carpet. Later the next day she called our house and my brother in laws house wanting to know who went in that room !!! She was not happy. I just laughed.
A lot of the design stuff (like shiplap!) was an attempt to give 80s, 90s- built generic suburban tract homes some personality. We couldn’t afford the homes with charm and character so compensated with the trends that seem out of context. Your videos are so fun!
Lol. And don't forget the 80's/90's southwest pastels trend. So glad that is over and done. The formal living room in our house was straight from the southwest in every pastel color. And yes... We never entered the living room except for holiday pictures and special occasions.
I lived in Arizona at that time, so at first I didn't realize it was a trend. The first time I went back to the east coast and saw all that stuff I was so confused!
@@vaderladyl That's what I meant. In Arizona it all seemed pretty normal, but then I went to different places and saw the same decor. Then I realized that it was also a trend. Unlike Tuscan kitchens, Southwest Decor had some basis in reality.
As an older millennial architect/designer, I'm so glad i happened into your channel. I appreciate your takes on different design elements even when you're wrong, lol. You never make it seem like you're judging anyone for making design choices for themselves, despite your personal feeling about it, which is quite refreshing. It honestly seems rare in this industry.
Yes some folks had "thou shalt not pass" rooms. Baby boomers in blue collar neighbourhoods grew up in "war-time homes" with 3 small bedrooms, a tiny kitchen and one small bath shared between @ 5 to upwards of 9 people. People just made it work but it may've created in many a craving for space. An extra room?! Wow🤩
I’m a gen x and loved my waterbed for years.Mine had a waveless mattress.I could control the temperature settings.So it helped to keep me cool in the summer and cozy warm in the winter.And after I was done with the waterbed I converted it with a memory foam mattress.We did some beautiful hand painting on the wood and faux stone tops to the furniture.It’s got built in drawers under the bed,shelves on the headboard and even shelves covered with stainglass.And it’s a California king size with canopy.We put gorgeous heavy velvet curtains we can open to enclose the bed inside, or draw back and our bedroom has a modern castle feel to it.I love it.And it’s still in such amazing condition after 40 years!!!Furniture is so expensive so save yourself money and purchase an antique item that you won’t have to keep replacing.
Fun US fact: Joanna Gaines is from Waco, Texas. A lot of those old historic homes in Waco (and some other lucky parts of Texas) actually had walls made of shiplap. Real shiplap not 2x2s painted and distressed. 😂 So as she was restoring these old homes they uncovered this architectural element to the home and celebrated it as such. So here’s your context. It’s a Texas thing yall. ❤😂
Monster teeth! We usually avoided them even in rooms we were allowed in, just because we liked the look. My mother was probably pretty amused by that. I still find a freshly vacuumed room or mowed lawn satisfying.
I'm an older millennial and remember the celestial decor. Everyone I knew that was into it, was also into pot and shrooms. They also had those little resin dragon and goblin/wizard statuettes all over, and fake resin wood candle holders.
That blue and yellow sun pattern is on a blanket that was my favorite in childhood. I didn't know that pattern was so popular. The blanket also has that shaggy carpet like edging to it too, which I agree is so hard to keep clean!
I’m a mid-boomer born in 1955, and truly believe we need to be a sub-genre. Everything associated with boomers in this video are things I grew up with NOT anything I would ever have had in my home. Formal living rooms, shag carpeting, and potpourri were things my friends and cousins made fun of our parents over. Those of us born in the middle of the 50s were the bulge of the boom, classes of 40+, double up lockers, going to school in shifts, were what we dealt with. Almost every job I had after graduation, I was told that it used to be busier, more people worked there, everything seemed to be in decline. Our older brothers and sisters were the ones that had the great jobs and were buying houses, I wouldn’t buy a house until I was almost 40 and in a downmarket.
Same here. There was an article about us awhile ago, calling us Generation Jones ". We were the Led Zeppelin generation, not the Beatles generation. The economy sucked and inflation was insane. We actually had more in common with Gen X and even Gen Z, I think.
As a fellow 55er, I agree that we did not indulge in many of these 'boomer' trends. I have never had potpourri, shag carpets, etched mirrors, a formal living room, and I positively detest florals as decor - couches or curtains etc. I have actually liked more of the Gen X trends over the years. A lot of stuff attributed to Boomers is actually stuff our parents had, not us.
I agree, I'm a late Boomer (1959), and nothing about their generation applies to me, I have nothing in common with someone born just after the war, because by the time I was 18, in 1977, the world was a completely different place. Plus if paper lampshades belonged to anyone, they were ours 😅
Another 1955 baby here. I agree with you about us being smack in the middle of the Boomer Generation (born 1945-1965). Many of the things that Nick attributed to us, actually were from our parent's generation. Formal living rooms, shag carpet, potpourri, floral everything, etched glass and mirrors are things that I saw but never purchased for myself. Last year was my 50 year high school reunion, and I very well remember attending classes in the auditorium and portable trailers, and being on either day shift or afternoon shift for classes that year. Fortunately, we didn't have to share lockers. After graduation, at age 17, I got my first (part time) job working as a civil servant, and after college graduation continued to work full time for the same city government. I only had 3 jobs over the course of 36 years with the city, and I was always busy. Can't personally relate to a job where the boss said that it used to be busier, but I believe you. I bought a condo when I was 27, and it was small and it was mine. I feel sorry for the young adults and teens today, it looks like very few of them will be able to afford home ownership or even afford much in the way of furnishings. Nick has his work cut out for him, figuring out ways to discuss room size or decor that his viewers cannot begin to pay for.
I totally agree. 1954 born, I grew up with the living room we seldom used. Shag rugs when I was in high school. Carpet in the kitchen and bathroom. Yuck. The trends Nick thought were Boomers wasn’t what we wanted or had. The house my husband and I lived in had both the formal dining room and living room but the dining room ad become the TV room and the living room was basically a walk through unless we had family or friends over. I never had a bit of potpourri in my house. It’s just a bunch of leaves and sticks that are always covered in dust.
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Boomer here, 1956 vintage. The formal living room hit its peak in '73 with my boyfriend's mom, who literally BARRICADED IT OFF WITH A VELVET ROPE!
Hahaha no, not a velvet rope!! Lol, that's how my parents kept me out of our tiny living room so I wouldn't open my birthday presents first thing in the morning (a little velvet ribbon taped to the walls, but same idea). That is too funny.
HAHAHAHAHA I had a friend whose mom did that!! But their house was/is really old, and that's where they kept the antiques.
I swear my Aunt Betty had that velvet rope.
1971 10th grade my first Real Boyfriend's mom had clear plastic slip covers on her "dusty rose" matching living room sofa set. Really terrible to sit on wearing short shorts or mini dresses. They used the room for cocktail parties & Christmas Eve
The formal living room was OLD, the old formal parlor, big if you had the money in the 19th century. We actually used ours growing up in the 60s, my silent generation parents were much more relaxed than their parents.
It will be fun hearing you breaking down interior sets from famous tv shows. Will &Grace, Sex and the city, Frasier etc.
Ooo, I’d love that!
I love that idea!
Yes, that!!
Also voting for this!
Chicken and the egg--does the show create the trend or does the trend turn up in the show?
The reason why shabby chic was so popular with Gen X was because most of our furniture was dumpster dived or hand me downs, so we owned it & made it a trend.
True. All my furniture was hand me down.
Waterbeds were boomer, not GenX😮
Late Boomer (1963). Except of my bed all of my first furniture was hand-me-downs. I don’t know anyone of my age who started with new furniture.
@@claudiakarl2702 Earlier Boomer. All of our first furniture was hand-me-downs too. "New" furniture included cinder block and board shelving, desks made from doors, etc. There was a recession going on in the late 70's; you were lucky to have a job. No one had new furniture.
So true! I started doing up furniture when I was about nine years old! I would even buy old junk with my birthday money (second-hand stuff was cheap then) and fix it up. I am still doing it - of course, it's become popular now, and some people are making a lot of money out it, but we did it because we had no other option, and we were very creative.
Another GenX style trend was stenciling. Stencil borders, walls, decor, curtains, clothes. Ivy, flowers, geometric patterns. Whether it was nailed down or not, we put a stencil on it.
I'm GenX and I have to cringely concur. Also the sponged-paint "textured" walls, which always looked a hot mess tbh.
I'm GenX and have to say my mother did that, not me.
I'd toss tole painting in with stenciling, sometimes on the same object
Tattoos for walls essentially
The weird paint rollers with different textures. All things Debbie Travis design.
Gen x got waterbeds as hand me downs from our Boomer parents.... We drained them outside or into a bathtub and put a regular mattress inside the frame. No one needs that
I guess if your parents were hippies. My parents were closer to Rob and Laura Petrie
Yes, water beds were older GenX/younger boomers
Yep!!!!
Yeah, I had a waterbed and bought single waterbeds for both my kids. They really liked them when we were living in a place that goes to -40 and the walls are cold. Later on, not so much. And nobody wants to rent to people with waterbeds so putting the mattress in was key.
As a Boomer, waterbeds were EVERWHERE. We got ours late around 1982. We paid top dollar for the most quality mattress at that time. It was interesting and sometimes uncomfortable to sleep in and got very cold. You would need to have layers of blankets to insulate the coldness of the waterfilled mattress. Later, we took out the mattress and used the frame for a regular mattress.................🙂
GenX here; we loved shabby chic, because it was hand me downs, street finds & thrift store finds. We made do with what we could & tried to make the best of it.
That’s the reason why I hated that style!
Yeah. What later generations don't understand is the whole label of Shabby Chic was kind of a sarcastic label to begin with.
We had to get some shabby, leftover, or hand-me-down, or thrift store thing and try to make it look like something other than a pile of crap.
So we spiffed it up best we could, and tongue-in-cheek called it Chic.
genuinely worn down stuff i can stand, but what pi#es me off is when so-called design experts use sandpaper on perfectly new furniture to make it look shabby
Gen X - Torch lamps, futons, CD towers, big fat stereo systems, multicolor or single color striped linens and furniture, warm toned everything, IKEA, and couches you can sleep on. I honestly don't remember that celestial pattern except on a buckwheat neck pillow we had for a few years - never saw it otherwise.
Same! I don't even remember the celestial pattern and I am squarely in the middle of Gen X. Futons were our thing too, not waterbeds.
Ahhhh you're describing my childhood home to a T! 😂 I'm an elder Gen Z and the very proud owner of elder Gen X parents. But I do remember the celestial print, we had bedding in a similar print and my dad even has a celestial tattoo 😂 I think it really was a new age hippy thing, which my parents definitely were/are. I love Gen X folks, I feel like you guys just get us Gen Z's, we have similarly chaotic energy 🥰
Yes, I don't remember the celestial stuff. I do remember when I first got married in 1989 it was very important to me to have a country "matchy" kitchen. Most of my friends did the geese and dusty rose...cookie jar, place mats, salt & pepper shakers, dish towels, napkin holder, pot holders, canisters, bakeware, etc. I did cows and country blue, lol.
I saw the celestial pattern *everywhere* but maybe that's just the type of stores I frequented.
@@lilymoon2829Right back at ya kid, a fair few of us Gen X like you Gen Z.
I feel like sponge textured walls needs to be in one of these videos. My parents were obsessed with it and my childhood home had like three rooms that were sponge painted. My grandparents still have this ugly dark brown sponge-painted bathroom that my parents talked them into doing
YASSS! I had to reno my current place cuz when I walked in everything was sponge painted in burgundy and hunter green 🤮 I screamed "who splattered ugly all over this place...also had a border between the upper and lower sponge painting!
This and rag-rolled walls. My mother was OBSESSED with this.
Boomer here, I totally sponge painted my living room burgundy & pink. Oh yes I did. What was I thinking?!?
OMG yes! My Mom was into it in the 90s. I think our old house, which has since changed hands several times, had the rag rolled room until 2020. My mom got halfway through it and stopped for the day and Dad and I said it felt like trees and encouraged her to paint trees. Also, copper. The kitchen hood my mom covered in copper and the microwave shelf with hammered copper sides are still there. lol
Oh yeah! That was HUGE in the 90s. Did several walls myself with the sponge technique or the rag-rolling technique. A friend of mine started a painting business just doing faux-marble finishes for wooden kitchen cabinets. Paint/Wall techniques were HUGE. You are so right!
Started embracing houseplants more when I moved somewhere with winter. When nothing is alive outside, it's nice to come home to a green space
We in generation X are so misunderstood 😢 I would say futons might be a better example
I don’t think Gen X could afford waterbeds. I know I couldn’t. I slept on a mattress on the floor. Interesting it was the one that my boyfriend at the time was conceived on😮😮😮 With age, came wisdom. I’m so ashamed about it and the boyfriend!
Yes!
@@beebeebop3405For what it's worth, in the attempt to portray us as more out of touch than we really are, boomers are constantly credited with Silent Gen choices.
Oh yes! Futons!! And those big round rattan or wicker chairs with the giant puffy cushion!!
YES!!! I didn’t know anyone in my immediate circle who owned a waterbed, but we all had futons!!!
For me, a Gen Xer…
Waterbed (and don’t forget the black satin sheets) = Boomers
Torch Floor Lamp or CD tower = Gen X
YES
Worse. Black “satin” polyester sheets with a polyester leopard print bedspread. Bad, bad flashbacks right now…
YES!!! We thought those laps were amazing... bug catchers, fire starters. We ignored those downsides. And all the variations of CD towers, to self-express a bit. Ooooh the memories.
Luckily I never had a torch floor lamp. I called them "funeral parlor lamps."
My parents got navy blue satin sheets and found them too slippery to sleep on even though they were the height of luxury so they kept using them until they couldn’t stand them any longer.
Celestial decor! That is very GenX mid-90s. I liked it but didn’t have a lot of it. My GenZ daughter likes celestial things.
I'm Gen x too, but I hated that pattern....lol
My genx mom bought a ton of it for me in the 90s. I loved it
Gen X here, and yes, I feel very called out by the celestial decor. Also the Gen X 'shabby chic' thing was really just shabby, the result of coming of age during a global recession in the early 90's.
Hee hee I didn't have the decor but this video gave me a flashback to my giant smiling sun earrings 🌞🌞
Right? I was accidentally on trend because I had old beat up stuff. It was really hand-me-downs from my parents basement.
I feel like the shabby chic/Boho trend for GenX was partly economic, but also b/c we really loved reviving our ex-hippy parents vibe. Everything 1969 was cool again: lava lamps, Woodstock, the word groovy, throwing peace signs, thrift store shopping, DIY, our parent's vinyl collection. Even smoking the devil's weed. We grew up during "Just say NO", and looked at The Beatles, Bob Dylan, and our parents and thought, 'you know, it doesn't actually look like it was that bad...."
I think the only thing really uniquely ours were tattoos and Manic Panic hair.
I always remembered shabby chic as sort of melding with French country? But most of couldn’t do all out French country.
Waterbed story 🙋🏻♀️😅My parents' friends had a one in their spare room. When my parents stayed there once my dad got up in the night to use the bathroom but it was low down and he fell back onto the bed which catapulted my sleeping mother across the room into a cupboard 🤣🤣🤣
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😂😂😂😂 Great mental visual 👍
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What a way to wake up!
My Gen X parents loved wallpaper borders, every room had a different wallpaper border up near the top.
They also liked painting walls with decorative sponges, Martha Stewart would show them how to twist or squeeze the sponges into the paint as it was drying, would make it look like it wasn’t painted drywall.
Oh my. So true. I did the sponge painting thing in our early rentals. I pity the person who tried to cover the texture. I now pity the lime washers.
There was also the border at chair rail height. My boomer mom loved the borders.
oh My parents loved that, they are from Gen X but my parents, Boomer and silent generation adopted it and loved it, and I always asked myself what they saw in it.
@@Betielix I (early Gen X) would've done them, but I rented. In the dining room, they protect the wall from the chair marking the wall.
Millenial and florist here, giving another perspective of why we tend to have a huge amount of plants. Personally I dont enjoy the full routine of tending to them, its not my favourite, but gosh the comfort they give us. A lot of costumers coming into our store comes in for the serene and calming enviroment. The calmness and lushness fills a void in todays stressful world. Plus also my mom and my grandparents had a looot of plants, maybe its also a heritage thing? Anyway, great video as always Nick!
Cheers from Sweden
When everything that surrounds us is negativity and destruction, it's nice to enjoy something alive and thriving (and not a kid).
Yep exactly. And yes, my boomer mom had a lot of plants when i was a kid.
I think this is something people with a green thumb do in every generation, though the first time I went into a room with plant overload it was in the house of an old hippie boomer.
Blue shiplap walls, zebra print day beds and plants everywhere.
I have nearly 200 plants in my small home. They are everywhere! Everyone that comes in says that my space feels peaceful and calm. I have a maximalist style, and while I appreciate it isn't for everyone, people feel less stressed, not more in my home, because of the plants.
I think we forget that it's our natural environment is close to nature and the resources nature provides. We aren't meant to be living in concrete jungles. Also, as people can afford less square footage, and not every home has a garden, plants seem like a logical choice.
Don’t forget how we were raised with Captain Planet, acid rain, the hole in the ozone layer, and the deforestation of the Rain Forests blasting in our faces! The plants soothe the guilt, consciously or subconsciously. Also we were the first generation to not reeeaaally play outside so much compared to previous generations. I hated being forced out into itchy grass with ants and mosquitoes and the insufferable heat as a kid. Now I just bring the prettiest parts of the outside inside where I have AC and no bugs!
I even have an Astroturf-esque rug!! (I know, please don’t laugh at me)
I miss the “formal living room” from my childhood home. We could enjoy the room, but it wasn’t where we would spread out a bunch of toys or fold laundry or something. It was the one spot in the house where we always knew it would be clean and nice if you wanted to go sit with a hot drink and read a book. Plus, since it was the front room of the house, we didn’t have to feel embarrassed if someone came over. It actually made it possible for us to be MORE relaxed in the family area in the back. Now that I’m an adult, and people can see our only living area from our front door, I wish we had a separate area for the kids to relax so that I could have that one nice spot that was always clean no matter what we’re doing.
I agree!
Yes! I think anyone with kids understands this.
Yeah! Wasn't that the point? That room was always ready for company, planned or not. And the other area was a "family room" for kids, TV, toys and games.
Me too. I would LOVE a formal dining room at least. I miss room, with actual walls. Separate spaces for different purposes.
I never thought about it that way, but you are totally right! We just had the one living room when I was a kid, and then the rec room in the basement.
Celestial decor is absolutely coming back, thanks to the resurgence of metaphysical shops/witchcraft on tiktok. It's starting to pop up all over the place, and I'm kinda here for it.
Yep, very cool looking
I also I recall that somewhere between zoomers and millennials there was the galaxy print trend. That also paired with a lot of celestial, witchy decor that the time. I’m thinking of like 2012 to 2018
@@krosser4015 sounds lovely 😍
I think of waterbeds more as a boomer thing. In 87 even those of us early Xers were only out of high school a few years - not really able to buy water beds. We may have used them, but at least in my house Mom & Dad had one first and then bought more for the house.
Edited because spellcheck is not my friend
Yep, my boomer parents had a waterbed til the 2010s. Lol
The beds were cheaper than a mattress and a boxspring which was a BIG part of the water beds allure for young people. Obviously it was "different" at the time and most parents wouldn't approve which made it even more attractive... I paid around $110 for mine.
You people have NO CLUE how much these beds cost, you're just making assumptions because you have no idea. It's really strange.
Yup…not an X thing
@SlimKeith11 you're right, I had no clue. In '87 I was too young to be buying furniture. Which was my point. Not saying no one from Gen X ever bought a waterbed - just saying that to me they were a boomer thing because my parents bought them. I never did.
My home was only waterbeds in the 80's but because of our Boomer parents. By the time I was grown I would never have considered a hot rubber squish bed.
GenX did not buy Waterbeds! Older GenXers were in HIGH SCHOOL in 1987.
So we did NOT do waterbeds
Boomers did waterbeds
100% correct. Waterbeds were expensive, and the oldest Gen Xer was 22 years old in 87.
Thank you! Yes!
Yep. Definitely a Boomer trend.
It's heyday was the late 70s early 80s I feel. Not so Gen X. I'm 53 and always thought they were dumb and tacky.😅
I have to admit I did want a waterbed, but yes, I was in high school.
I’m among the oldest Gen X cohort. In 1987, I was a sophomore in college, sleeping on a dorm bunk bed. Didn’t buy my own bed for several years, because the apartments in my college town came fully furnished. (We just didn’t think about all of the people who had slept on the mattresses before us.) When I finally bought my own bed, it was a mattress from a clearance sale. Definitely no waterbeds 😂
you totally missed me -- the silents mostly decorated like our folks, the greatests -- im 86 now and love my victorian and antiques -- and im not changing!
I remember from your generation the matching toilet lid cover, toilet mat and bath mat and the dolly with crocheted 'dress' toilet roll cover.
@@bEverCurious still have it except for the toilet paper dolly -- some things you just have to let go of
That’s how I decorate and I’m a millennial. We love that stuff too ❤️
@@bEverCurious ours was a crocheted poodle bar soap cover. But yeah your memory hits home!!
I'm a millennial taking absolute inspiration from that in my home!
GenX - Gustov Klimt "The Kiss" was the epitome of art! LOL
Yep!
And everything Patrick Nagel.
Owned a framed Tree of Life myself :D
Ummm In 1974-8 someone push-pinned this somewhere in each apartment I shared in Montreal's student ghetto.
I still do love The Kiss though 🤭
People just don't know how funny Nick is. Can you imagine being a first time viewer and thinking you are getting a serious decorative critique!
His monologues make me belly laugh! “You were either a farmhouse girl, a glam girl or a scandi girl. I could tell a lot about you.”
LOL, Here I am and this is such a hoot! Boomer here and I did not have etched glass 😂😂
Mid-Gen X here. Can’t say I’ve ever desired a waterbed nor did I know anyone my age at the time wanting one. I did obsess over Pier 1 and Pottery Barn. Think Rachel and Phoebe’s apothecary table and all the other pieces from “Colonial Times”. Those were my go to styles.
Yup, I loved Pier 1 and still like some of that style.
😂😂 "colonial times"
My flat in the 90s DRIPPED in celestial decor. Everything had a moon or sun with a face. I still have the original celestial earrings.
I was 13 in the late 90s, and I wanted that vibe so bad in my bedroom. I was very jealous of anyone with the celestial decor. 😂
@@redwoodcottageart I was 26/27 in the late 90s. I had absolutely no excuse.
this was during the height of the "im not religious but im spiritual" era. lol
Also i think millennials loved it and slowly turned it into an obsession with "galaxy" print.
I had glow in the dark stars on my ceiling ✨
Oh yes, celestial stuff was ALL the rage in the late 90s. I had plenty of it.
A Gen X lighting trend would be the torchiere lamp with the dimming switch, or lava lamp 2.0, or perhaps the bent neck lamp. Definitely not waterbeds.
We have 3 (? I think?) torchiere lamps and one has the bendy reading lamp coming off the side 😂😅 plus my husband’s beloved lava lamp.
The waterbed was definitely my parents. When they finally got rid of it, it went to me. It’s still rolled up in the basement
As a millennial with plants (& kids)... A significant part of having plants is a nostalgia thing for me, my grandma had a large beautiful garden & lots of indoor plants. Her home was always a sanctuary for me in the summer.
My grandma also had lots of cacti. I was so fascinated by it as a kid. When she and my grandpa were first married, they lived in New Mexico, so maybe that sparked her interest.
Plants were big in the 70s, too--the 'ecology' trend.
I feel this nostalgia too, also growing poor, and missing parts of home, I try to grow as much as I can of things that I cannot get easily in the US. I don't have many inside, but in cold months it is cluttered with large fig, date, olive trees inside.
Children are a luxury. Dogs are the new children, cats are the new dogs, plants are the new cats. Ergo, jungle house people are the new crazy cat people!
You're a genius!!
This feels so true 😂 😭
I have a cat a dog and plants 🪴 🌱millennial
Did you come up with that?🎉
As one who doesn't want children, even if I could afford them and who has always been a dog person but now would rather have a cat...this comment speaks to me 😂
Gen x had wrought irion everything. End tables, 4 poster beds, picture frames. Having mis matched picture frames. Animal print/ ' wooden native masks'. Yellow kitchens. Sunflowers. Brown/ dark living rooms. Wallpaper!
I’m an older Boomer, and I’m laughing. Thank you. Water beds, potpourri/incense, a thousand plants per house, and shag rugs were ours first (maybe not first historically, but first for those living now), relics of the 60s and on through the hippie era. And by “ours first” I’m not saying they were great the first time around, just that we had them. But those shag rugs - they came in with the bright, previously-clashing colors of the British invasion. Shags in hot pink or orange, lime green or turquoise. What a fun time. And do let’s have some fun with decor. A little. Again, thanks!
Agreed my friends parents had lime green shag in the family room wich no one was allowed in!
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Hi Nick. Spoiler alert! Unsolicited advice so block me now if you want to have a nice day.
You need a footlight. ❤
My parents finally got the burnt orange plush wall to wall in 1974 when everyone else was refinishing their oak floors and shopping for Persian Karastan rugs. We weren't allowed on it without shoes or sitting on chairs because the pile would untwist and frazzle from body heat.
Raking my orange shag bedroom rug , was one of my childhood chores. I had forgotten about waterbeds. Omg the memories.
My parents are boomers, and I'm an early millennial. Beside formal living room and dining room. One thing I remember is that my mother still keeps the set of 24 Bacarrat French crystal wine glasses she has been given as a her wedding present in her large showcase cupboard. 39 years later, she passed down her unused wedding gift to me, which makes me and my French husband more than happy to use them regularly in addition to our beautiful dinnerware. Yes, I'm the millennial who loves to thrift unused exquisite boomer items.
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As a boomer , same w/ what we received from our parents ( " The Greatest Generation " ) & even our grandparents . Value & quality over trends .
So much crystal and bone China are found in thrift shops (and much of it like old new stock). Thank you boomers!
That sounds great. Enjoy them!
I do the same! And I use it ALL. Fancy for every day!
@@Leslie-wb8cb love that words !!! Fancy for every day 😀
For we tail-end Boomers you forgot, or may not have known about, Geese! Every new Bride in the 80's had a kitchen loudy with geese. On the dishes, dish towels, curtains, rugs and don't forget the wallpaper borders. It was like an epidemic.
I remember this! I'm a millennial, but I still have a hand-me-down dust pan from my mother from this theme. Geese and ribbons. I know it came from a set.
But then it became roosters. And in-between the stacked animals that I think was a French meme? Or a pig in a chef's hat holding a menu chalkboard.
Don't forget the concrete goose on the porch with different outfits.
Me, a GenZ, seeing the celestial decor and thinking "oh wow that's fun I like that"
I like it too...miss that trend
I remember that everywhere, clothing too. I had this cool pair of beach cover pants, you tied each side at the hip and the rest of the leg was open with fringe down each side
@@g_willowthis sounds really cool. Like definitely not the type of stuff I'd wear myself, but I'd love to see that on people in the future
NO DON'T DO IT😂😂
@YoYoWaddupBro My Gen X son picked that celestial fabric for his pillowcases. 😊
Another Gen X trend, imo, was the Pier One Imports glassware that was dark blue at the top and faded into clear. It looked "rustic", maybe a mexican vibe
Also, for genX...dusty rose, powder blue and hunter green. And FOLK ART!
I think dusty rose, country blue, and cream came from the boomers - they were prominent in the Laura Ashely florals. I remember babysitting for a lot of families who had used those colors, especially in the kitchen. I think we did the peach and sea-foam green OR the hunter green, navy, and dark red.
So much hunter green
I planned my interior design around my plants...👀 I'll see myself out 😅
Same 😂love my plants. However I still have 3 children
I'm laughing about the dusty bowl of potpourri.😂 Also those dried flower swags with lots of eucalyptus leaves above doorways. 😂😂😂
As a younger Gen X / Xennial ('75), I see a lot of the Gen X trends mentioned as closer to the younger Boomer, older Gen X, like waterbeds. The young Gen X / older Millennial trends that stick out to me are salt lamps (along with the Edison bulbs) and pop-culture decor - comic book/movie posters and action figures or statuettes on full display. Especially figures in front of books or DVDs in cube shelves.
I'd say waterbeds are more boomer driven. I'm GenX, and I had one, but I was a teenager. I didn't pick it. They were cheap to buy, though. I got rid of mine when I left home as many apartments didn't allow them. BTW, you siphon the water out with a hose.
Same!
Oh my gosh, I'm a Boomer and what a fun walk down memory lane! A few exceptions and additions, Boomers loved their waterbeds AND you forgot our mega booming stereo sound systems with 3' high speakers AND our extensive vinyl record collections that sat on shelves make from large garden bricks and wooden planks! We also loved orange shag carpeting, indoor plants, potpourri and incense, stained glass, hanging macrame plant hangers or just macrame decor, wind chimes and those mega wooden spool coffee tables and swag lamps! I had it all! Thanks again for the nostalgic walk down memory lane!
My parents are in their 70s. When they first got married, their entertainment center was cinderblocks and wood. They also had green shag carpet.
Millenials dipped into macrame heavily haha
Born 1963. I had none of them except of the macrame flower pot hanger.
With Gen X- I think gerbara daisies, reclaimed windows as picture frames etc…mixed media/decoupage, velvet couches. Also bold colour palates- a brightly painted “feature wall” or sponge painting etc
Also classic artwork printed on canvas..van gogh sunflowers etc
Witches in chat know that the second hand celestial decor gets snatched up so fast 😂
As a former Wiccan, I can attest to the love of this pattern. Still have a couple pieces out of nostalgia.
I currently have the celestial shower curtain in my bathroom. I am an elder millennial.
Whimsygoth is popular again, I'm a millenial but I always loved the look of it
paper lamps are because of ikea, which spread fast in gen x times. my mom is a boomer and she paper lamped our apartament :) I am a milenial and I followed her in the multiple paper lamp steps
I'm total GenX & I blame Pier 1 for paper lanters/lamps
I blame the micro trend of Asian decor back in the 80's and early 90's.
Absolutely no such thing as too many plants. This is the flowery, lush hill I will die on.
Even if I subtract half of my collection like he said, that still leaves me with a little ways north of 200 plants 🙈😂🪴
The only trouble is when you sit on your couch with a cup of coffee, look to your left and there's an opossum peeping through the foliage. But other than that, Jumanji away!
@@jakevendrotti1496. That’s Jeffrey and he’s on the lease. There’s nothing to be done.
Gen X had the celestial patterns AND the SUNFLOWER pattern! I guess they just loved yellow Star shaped things! Please show all the sunflower patterns in the next video!
My sis in law still rocks the sunflowers 🌻
I think of celestial as a boomer thing … maybe my mom was just trendier than most.
Yes, I forgot the sunflower years, along with hunter green
When I was about to graduate in the mid-ninties, I had a whole plan for themes rooms. My kitchen was going to be apple themed, the living room was going to be sunflowers, and the bedroom, you guessed it, celestial theme.
I made a good go at it in my first apartment (96-97), but amended my ways by the time I was in a house with a roommate. Thank goodness for me, and her.
Yes! My kitchen was going to be fruit-themed. I hope Nick sees your comment and uses themed rooms for his next Gen x example.
Good start for a career as a museum curator, though.
As an elder millennial, I definitely loved all these themes in the 90s.
Apples! I'd almost forgotten those!
My friend’s sister was all chickens all the time. Somewhat farmhouse, but mostly chickens and roosters. My friend was more boho/almost cottage core. Their compromise was chickens in the kitchen and one bedroom, boho in the other bedroom and a little in the bathroom, with a pretty neutral living room. (When did cottage core become a thing? I think she was ahead of her time 😂) Both millennials.
A true boomer grew and dried their own flowers for homemade potpourri! My house was full of hanging drying flowers and homemade wreaths. Once I had to be hospitalized when foraging for wild grapevines-- I had actually made poison ivy wreaths!
Lavender was and is still a good choice.
I remember them decorating Sabrina the Teenage Witch’s bedroom in celestial decor in the 90s but that made sense for the character’s powers so maybe that boosted the trend?
Celestial stuff blame the Smashing Pumpkins album Meloncholy and the Infinite Sadness. Had to match that poster!
I was going to ask if this might be the genesis of the whole celestial pattern thing! It's the only reason I can think of that everyone totally latched onto that pattern, and it really was everywhere.
X’er here (born in 75) and I loved SP. So did most of my friends but none had celestial decor as pictured.
All of my friends loved plain cobalt blue glass (along with glass bottles in other colors) and they might have a random piece or two with sons and moons but I don’t recall a Melancholy and Infinite Sadness explosion.
Coming back to comment 3 days later because 😭😭 I JUST saw a gen Z reel obsessing over “celestial mythical” interior decor and style. You were spot on with that prediction!
I'm a boomer and we were totally bohemian. What you show as boomer was more like my parents decor. I got my grandmother' old Persian rugs, and Cost Plus imports was the place.
These videos are way too generalized and actually a bit inaccurate, but make for great debates.
You seem to be confused about old Gen X trends. It’s understandable, since we are the forgotten generation😉 As a Gen Xer let me give you a few: wrought iron tables with glass tops; Greek columns and pedestals; Grape Vines, the Tuscan look, the tray ceilings with the shell pattern.
Gen Xer here; still have those tables.
The Tuscan look 😭He just needs to watch the original Trading Spaces and re-experience the horrors.
Yep. The Tuscan look …. I loved it, but at the time, couldn’t afford to go out and change my decor and by the time I could afford to, the Tuscan look was out. 😂
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And that Unsellables , home show from the early 2000’s.
Horrible now that I think about it
Well, he was a baby back then, so he is going by research, not by experience.
My 18 year old son decided to redecorate his room to turn it into "his space", and elected to buy a rug. He came home with a shag rug... I died on the inside, and now each time has to vacuum it, I chuckle.
I'M OBSESSED WITH THESE VIDEOS
Same😂
Futons. Gen X was all about the futons. I bought one in Cambridge, slept on it (on the floor!) inSomerville, put it on an Amtrak to NYC for grad school (where I still slept on the floor), and then drove it across the country to Tucson (finally bought a frame for it) and back to Milwaukee before I finally ditched it. If you could roll it up, you could take that thing anywhere.
Waterbeds were the province of my Boomer cousins.
Also Gen X: The papasan chairs from Pier One and folding chairs. The one I bought at Conran's will survive the apocalypse.
I forgot the papasan chairs 😂 My college roommate had one and I think her butt was glued to it.
I bought a futon in 1994 in college that I STILL HAVE TO THIS DAY! My futon will be ripped out of my cold, dead hands!!
Great video and you nailed it. What a trip down memory lane for this boomer. Sunken living room, formal living room and dining room, etched glass on the window in my front door (of the moon and a tree haha) and to top it all off.... dusty potpourri!
Re shabby chic: Yep. Sounds about right. One thing i'd say is i also think that style feels very Gen X (as a gen xer) is at that time, the 90s, we were in or coming out of college and our apartments where very much a patchwork of what we had. So miss matched couches chairs, dressors as tv stands, miss matched furniturre or thrifted or hand me downs. Like a lot of people could easily look shabby chic but didn't get that way by design. They just went to a thrift store or had hand me down furniture.
Target had a "shabby chic" line of bedding for YEARS. It was "too expensive" for me at the time, but I loved all those pastels and flower prints and ruffles!
I am a Gen X. My style is Shabby Chic-Boho. I did have the plastic glow in the dark stickers on my ceiling when I was a teenager. So there was the celestial!
OMG, the glow in the dark stars on our ceilings!!! How did I forget?
What people don't realize is that participating in trends isn't the same thing as being a slave to trends. Maybe you don't buy new clothing or furniture every season to keep up with the latest styles, but to a certain extent, we all fall in line regarding trends simply because when we go to the stores, that is what is available. There were years where you were hard pressed to find anything *but* skinny jeans, or boot cut jeans, or refrigerators in avocado/mustard/burnt sienna.
Yes to the appliance colors! When I was a teenager (I'm a mid-late Boomer) it was one of those, or burnt orange. Bu the time I was old enough to need to by my own alliances, those had gone by the wayside and had been replaced with almond. I think almond was something of a backlash.
I'm 42 so I grew up with seeing lots of Potpourri & those shaped soaps that no one was allowed to use, & both would always get all dusty😂 Also, I ADORE 90s celestial decor. I keep trying to think of ways to incorporate touches of it in my home in a more grown up sort of way, like I don't want it to look like my bedroom as a teen. But I haven't bought anything yet
Shaped soap in shells, but no one used it. It always had a certain smell though. And there has to be a medicine cabinet that opened in 3 sections!😂
I love celestial decor too! I want to paint my black bedroom navy and have one thrifted, high quality celestial item. It could work, right?
@@EmmaAbigail-p5wI think that sounds amazing! I keep thinking about maybe a really good quality, handmade quilt with a celestial motif, but those artisan quilts tend to be out of my budget unfortunately
@@DreamlandHollywoodomg yes, those medicine cabinets, I forgot about those😂
Don't forget the floating candles and the gel candles with little seascapes in them that would collect a layer of dust on top of them because no one wanted to burn them
Our daughters turned their formal dining rooms into kids play areas. Smart as you can usually see the kids from the kitchen.
My formal dining room is right across from my living room, so it is just an "extension" of the living room. There is a dining room off the kitchen already in this condo. Many people who live here entertain their children and/or grandchildren a lot, so they use their dining rooms, but I live alone, so it would be a big waste of space.
I turned mine into the playroom. The formal living room is never used and everyone spends their time in the hearth room because it’s where the door to let the dogs in and out is, also I love the old man’s study vibe of this room and left it how it was when everything else was updated.
For GenX:
- papasan chairs
- mid-90s goth vampire chic with oversized crosses and Dracula inspired aesthetic
-resurgence of 60s inspired groovy things, daisy patterns, and bold colours
78 Gen-Xer! I’ve never sat or slept on a waterbed but daybeds were definitely trending around my teen years.
with a pull out bed underneath!!
@@jmsl_910 Absolutely! The trundle 🤣
@@Dashasiawith the see through telephone!!!
I wanted a daybed SO BAD!
I had a daybed with a trundle bed! My friends and I would sleep the opposite direction when we had sleepovers, and it was like a queen size bed, if you ignored the crack. LOL
Hilariously, vintage celestial decor is selling insanely well on Etsy right now. That Libbey mug you showed sells for over $80! Wild!!!!
Oh, industrial design. The steampunk of interior design. Still love it.
Yeah it wasn’t *my* thing but it was definitely my favorite for bars and coffee shops and stores!!
Me too. Writing this at my industrial desk in ma industrial home office. 😉
I think acrylic/glass is big these days is because they don't take up visual space in smaller rentals. Thick acrylic looks 'rich' to me, I don't know why. There's something luxurious chunky about a 2inch thick side table.
Funny how we have different perceptions....acrylic shouts "cheap" to me. Guess maybe it is the idea of plastic???
Acrylic looks cheap to me as well. Lets be honest, plastic is everywhere because it's cheap. There is a reason somethings like an iPhone feel luxury is becuase of the glass and fine metals. If it was all plastic, you would still pay 1000 for it?
As a millennial, i can say that eddison bulbs are gorgeous for both the filament and the warmth of the light they give off. It feels like a warm hug.
As a brit, it feels so warm and cozy against the shit rainy weather.
And with that, i love the more industrial/pipe style. It feels substantial and shows off the function of a piece. At least, thats my theory.
That and steampunk. Im very into my steampunk.
However,Art deco design is my favourite atm. Its comfy and glamorous in my mind 😂😊
Yes! It also felt like a reaction against the harshness of early LEDs and compact florescents. Those bulbs were the worst.
Hurts my eyes!
I have a few in our old house that seem to fit - though I do have them inside fixtures. They are nice. We have long winters and the warm glow of Edison type lights are cozy.
Plants helped me actually grow my self worth and self respect because I could take care of things, and doing the gardening felt introspective and rewarding. And I recognized that I could take care of myself, like I took care of the plants! But yes hahaha my home was like a damn jungle 😂 but also! every single person who ever came over loved the vibe. Had a rooftop garden too which was off the hook. Plants is a vibe. 🎉🌿♥️
I'm Gen X and have had a small gold sun shaped mirror for about 25 years. It doesn’t fit my decor, but I finally found a spot on the wall on my stair case landing where it can shine 😅 🌞 I'll never get rid of it!
lol - i was trying to think about the celestial stuff when it slowly dawned on me..... i do still have mine, too.......
I only recently got rid of mine small one! Dang... now I want it back! Along with my starry night print! Ha
Can we talk, silent generation and rubbery plastic fruit? I don’t know a grandmother that didn’t have a bowl of it in the dining room or in the living room. Landfills for days.
I'm a grandmother and have a bowl of plastic fruit. 😅😂 My grandsons asked why. I told them because it reminds me of my grandmother and I just like the rubbery fruit because it evokes such sweet memories.
Or in a cornucopia!
My Boomer mom always had a basket of plastic fruit somewhere. I used to chew on the fake grapes and she’d get really mad seeing my chew marks on them!🤣
@@juliepetersen7974I would pull the rubbery grape off the bunch, squeeze it, then suction it to my tongue 😂
Both Silent Generation and Great Generation. My grandparents were Great gen and their brothers and sisters had these. My grandparents were too tasteful to have that stuff.
My gen x aunt and uncle had the celestial pattern for their wedding in the 90s which I'm positive was THE wedding decor for that era.
oh my god how cute is it that Nick thinks you nail two-by-fours to the wall to make ship lap? 😂 ❤
Right? I winced. But then I’m a recovering DIY addict, so…
I recently stayed in a VRBO where someone had put in a TON of work on tongue/groove shiplapping the bathroom accent walls…and had installed it by face nailing it to the studs. And not even caulking/painting the nail holes afterwards. Not great.
The biggest advantage of a waterbed was that it didn't create pressure points. All parts of your body were supported equally (which is the fundamental nature of water) and you never experience numbness like you sometimes do when you sleep in an awkward position on standard mattresses. You don't "sink" into the bed because you fill it to a pressure level that you find fits with your preferences. You can make it soft, medium or firm. Furthermore, those beds were always heated and could be tuned to exactly the temperature that worked for you. I once had one and I can tell you it still was the most comfortable bed I ever owned. But yes, they weighed literally a ton. And it was impractical to fill and drain. But I sometimes shed a tear for their incredible comfort.
I really liked my water bed. I loved being able to adjust the temperature. I do miss it
As long as you sleep alone. Three cheers for mattresses where I don't roll into my partner.
they were great for pregnancy sleeping too.. getting out of one at 8 months was a challenge but the sleeping.. fantastic.
My college gf in the early 90s had a waterbed. Honestly, i think the flip and phu
Nick, I can tell you exactly where Gen X got the celestial pattern from. It started from the Smashing Pumpkins album 'mellon collie and the infinite sadness' (which was one of the greatest albums of that generation)
Oh my God, yes! Great call 👍
My sister loved the celestial trend! I remember the Smashing Pumpkins Tonight Tonight was like the epitome of this trend.
I‘m a millenial and felt very seen with the edison light bulb chain in my living room and my 10 plants. But - paper lamps! Weren‘t they all the IKEA rage in the 2010s? Great video, Nick!
Young Boomer here, Nick. I had a waterbed in the late 80's when I furnished my 1st real apartment in my 20's. It was not a cheap, enfold-you-and-make-lots-of-noise bed. Mine was a beautiful king-sized water bed with a gorgeous wrap-around headboard and footboard (purchased separately). Mine was a full-sized king, not a California kkng, so beautiful bedding was no problem.The bladder had a one-inch thick layer of non-molding (!) material that calmed the waters and sound. The bladder was inside a zip-top mattress cover (also muted most of the sound) that looked like a regular mattress. My back problems from a car accident went away in a couple of weeks when I started sleeping on it. The water took away the pressure points, but because I had a quality bladder with built-in insert, I also had support, not droop. You had to touch my bed to tell it was a waterbed because it did not well up in the middle. God knows I miss that bed and all the beautiful bedding that went with it, but I digress. It was more hygienic than a regular bed, too. Most of the dead skin cells that hang around in a regular mattress would pass through the sheets and mattress cover and lay on top of the bladder. Each month, we'd unzip the cover and clean away the dead skin cells with a cleanser that also moisturized the bladder for longer life. We'd add a small bottle of liquid product to the bladder to keep the inside of the bladder mold-free, close it up, zip the cover and vacuum any other dead skin cells (unseen) from the top of the cover. Other people with back problems who wanted the benefits of water without any real motion could buy bladders that were divided into long, connected water cylinders that restricted the water's movement. I preferred a little more motion in mine. Don't knock the waterbed until you do it right! 😊 Great, fun video. You nailed so many things. I skipped the etched glass, maybe because I'm a younger boomer. Oh, you could buy certain kinds of essential oils to refresh the smell of your potpourri. I didn't because I was at the end of the trend, but I think Patouli oil and orange oil were fan favorites. 😊
P.S. I think my bed had a warming pad under the bladder or somewhere . . . My bed was never cold. I remember plugging it in, but the details are fuzzy now.
Yes, waterbeds all had heaters. The water was always warm, the bed was always warm, they cost real money for all eternity. But boy, did we ever become experts at keeping them covered, i.e., making the bed the second you get up, lol. No such thing as an unmade waterbed. You'd cover your place in bed even when you got up in the middle of the night to pee! In Wisconsin it was -- okay I guess, but in AZ or FL?! wow NO.
You see? Nick needs to take back what he said about Gen X being responsible for this trend! You comment has made the point so much better than all the Gen X denials. But ultimately I'm not so different . . . I made a long comment in defense of shabby chic.
Loved my 80s waterbed and the king I have now. I didn’t get baffles in either and just have an eggshell foam and cooling matt on top which are nicer than the baffles. It’s so good for my back, shoulders and hips too and I get a much better sleep on it. Mine doesn’t make much noise due to the matts and I don’t have air bubbles in mine.
@@HappyHarryX5 You have one now?! That's awesome! I shall live vicariously through you, 😄. You don't look old in your picture (like I am kinda getting over here). Do you mind telling your age?
I am a millennial, I have a theory to light bulb. We had the good old incandescent bulbs and then we saw the arrival of compact fluorescent bulbs, which were supposedly better, but had a questionable look and really not beautiful. When a new bulb arrived, which was aesthetic and everything, we hurried to forget our horrible compact fluorescents. I have 8 plants, I am resonable because I love clean and a bit minimalist style 😆 it’s probably why! Very nice video, I always love see design with year’s 💛
I agree a little with the lightbulb theory. BUT , what I want to talk about is that fluorescent lightbulbs are way too stark and cold looking when compared to the incandescent bulbs. 😂
My thoughts exactly!
@@lpsftw8572 True! I think it's worse than 5000K led 😆 and the light is different, I don't know how to describe, but it hurts my eyes 😅
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Seriously. I'll never forget when my grandmother replaced the light bulbs in her kitchen with CFLs. It was disturbing how a space that had been so warm and inviting then looked so cold and clinical. Like, I helped her make cookies at that table (I was little so when I say help I mean I made it take longer) and then she put the CFLs in and it looked like a doctor's office.
This is 100% true. I hate how obnoxiously bright and clinical fluorescent bulbs are. Also the cold bright white LED bulbs that some influencers still used today, but a lot more did in the 2010s made their homes look like a store in the mall or like they were living in a dentist’s office. It was definitely overexposure to the type of lighting that really shouldn’t exist anywhere but a hospital. They need that lighting to literally see what they’re doing properly, I get it. I mean, schools and prisons have that kind of lighting too, but they seriously shouldn’t. I mean, sorry if that’s anyone’s taste, but like…it’s just too cold and uninviting for me personally.
My mom (87 years old) STILL has a waterbed, and swears by it, therapeutically. I had one when i was in junior high and high school (mid and late 80s, yes) and it was definitely comfortable.
Gen Z Celestial Art Deco is my home and I’m happy as a clam living like I’m in my wizard castle. My partner is happy to be the dragon 😂❤
My thoughts....
Waterbeds were at least late Boomer/early Gen-X but I think most of us associate them with our Boomer parents, not our generational group. Gen-X is futons! Those glorious, cheap, college dorm staples of poor sleep and back aches!
Further proof I'm Gen-X (born in '83 so usually classed otherwise): not a single plant but I certainly had a celestial pattern phase. Bed sheets and beanbag with the print in my first college dorm.
My grandmother had a formal room used for special gatherings. My Boomer parents did have a second family room in their basement but I actually wound up using it the most for reading while the family was watching TV upstairs. It wasn't formal or forbidden in the least.
Fascinating comparing trends over generations; love this series, Nick!
I'm early GenX and no, we didn't buy waterbeds, that was our parents
Oh lord- my gen x sister was OBSESSED with the celestial decor!!!
Spending Father’s Day at the in-laws tomorrow and can’t wait to gingerly walk through the powder blue 90s floral “sitting room” that hasn’t been used in 30 years.
the museum room!!
My mom in law had a formal living room that had white shag carpeting. The couches were white with pink and blue flowers and one wall was all mirrors. You can imagine. But one Christmas my brother in law and myself made snow Angel prints in her carpet. Later the next day she called our house and my brother in laws house wanting to know who went in that room !!! She was not happy. I just laughed.
@@cjhoward409 LOL that’s hilarious!
A lot of the design stuff (like shiplap!) was an attempt to give 80s, 90s- built generic suburban tract homes some personality. We couldn’t afford the homes with charm and character so compensated with the trends that seem out of context.
Your videos are so fun!
Plants, celestial decor & potpourri forever.
I like the Edison bulb but I also agree that lights are nicer on the eye when defused.
Lol. And don't forget the 80's/90's southwest pastels trend. So glad that is over and done. The formal living room in our house was straight from the southwest in every pastel color.
And yes... We never entered the living room except for holiday pictures and special occasions.
Wow, I had completely forgotten that trend. And yes, I participated.
I lived in Arizona at that time, so at first I didn't realize it was a trend. The first time I went back to the east coast and saw all that stuff I was so confused!
Southwest is still used, but has been updated for this century.
@@snowmonster42 That is quintessential Arizona style.
@@vaderladyl That's what I meant. In Arizona it all seemed pretty normal, but then I went to different places and saw the same decor. Then I realized that it was also a trend. Unlike Tuscan kitchens, Southwest Decor had some basis in reality.
Haha. Anne Geddes: Baby as Pumpkin. Baby as cabbage 😂
As an older millennial architect/designer, I'm so glad i happened into your channel. I appreciate your takes on different design elements even when you're wrong, lol. You never make it seem like you're judging anyone for making design choices for themselves, despite your personal feeling about it, which is quite refreshing. It honestly seems rare in this industry.
Gen x was into craft fair decor, candles, twig wreaths, swags, berry garland, and country/colonial furniture a la Ethan Allen and Yield House. 😱
that is not a bad thing, though.
Nailed it. Dried flowers!!!!
Yes some folks had "thou shalt not pass" rooms. Baby boomers in blue collar neighbourhoods grew up in "war-time homes" with 3 small bedrooms, a tiny kitchen and one small bath shared between @ 5 to upwards of 9 people. People just made it work but it may've created in many a craving for space. An extra room?! Wow🤩
I’m a gen x and loved my waterbed for years.Mine had a waveless mattress.I could control the temperature settings.So it helped to keep me cool in the summer and cozy warm in the winter.And after I was done with the waterbed I converted it with a memory foam mattress.We did some beautiful hand painting on the wood and faux stone tops to the furniture.It’s got built in drawers under the bed,shelves on the headboard and even shelves covered with stainglass.And it’s a California king size with canopy.We put gorgeous heavy velvet curtains we can open to enclose the bed inside, or draw back and our bedroom has a modern castle feel to it.I love it.And it’s still in such amazing condition after 40 years!!!Furniture is so expensive so save yourself money and purchase an antique item that you won’t have to keep replacing.
I’m a Gen X and my boomer aunts and uncles had the waterbeds and potpourri. I never used them.
Yep - not us. Boomers for sure!
Mine too, My Aunt & Uncle had a huge king sized waterbed & also potpourri, it was 1979.
You are always practical about decor and help people to see the folly of trends but the fun of them too! Nick, you are really fun to watch!
Fun US fact: Joanna Gaines is from Waco, Texas. A lot of those old historic homes in Waco (and some other lucky parts of Texas) actually had walls made of shiplap. Real shiplap not 2x2s painted and distressed. 😂 So as she was restoring these old homes they uncovered this architectural element to the home and celebrated it as such. So here’s your context. It’s a Texas thing yall. ❤😂
Not the vacuum lines ratting us all out! I forgot about that!
Monster teeth! We usually avoided them even in rooms we were allowed in, just because we liked the look. My mother was probably pretty amused by that. I still find a freshly vacuumed room or mowed lawn satisfying.
I laughed out loud when he showed that photo!
I'm an older millennial and remember the celestial decor. Everyone I knew that was into it, was also into pot and shrooms. They also had those little resin dragon and goblin/wizard statuettes all over, and fake resin wood candle holders.
Because celestial decor is full of ~magic-
That blue and yellow sun pattern is on a blanket that was my favorite in childhood. I didn't know that pattern was so popular. The blanket also has that shaggy carpet like edging to it too, which I agree is so hard to keep clean!
I’m a mid-boomer born in 1955, and truly believe we need to be a sub-genre. Everything associated with boomers in this video are things I grew up with NOT anything I would ever have had in my home. Formal living rooms, shag carpeting, and potpourri were things my friends and cousins made fun of our parents over.
Those of us born in the middle of the 50s were the bulge of the boom, classes of 40+, double up lockers, going to school in shifts, were what we dealt with.
Almost every job I had after graduation, I was told that it used to be busier, more people worked there, everything seemed to be in decline. Our older brothers and sisters were the ones that had the great jobs and were buying houses, I wouldn’t buy a house until I was almost 40 and in a downmarket.
Same here. There was an article about us awhile ago, calling us Generation Jones ". We were the Led Zeppelin generation, not the Beatles generation. The economy sucked and inflation was insane. We actually had more in common with Gen X and even Gen Z, I think.
As a fellow 55er, I agree that we did not indulge in many of these 'boomer' trends. I have never had potpourri, shag carpets, etched mirrors, a formal living room, and I positively detest florals as decor - couches or curtains etc. I have actually liked more of the Gen X trends over the years. A lot of stuff attributed to Boomers is actually stuff our parents had, not us.
I agree, I'm a late Boomer (1959), and nothing about their generation applies to me, I have nothing in common with someone born just after the war, because by the time I was 18, in 1977, the world was a completely different place. Plus if paper lampshades belonged to anyone, they were ours 😅
Another 1955 baby here. I agree with you about us being smack in the middle of the Boomer Generation (born 1945-1965). Many of the things that Nick attributed to us, actually were from our parent's generation. Formal living rooms, shag carpet, potpourri, floral everything, etched glass and mirrors are things that I saw but never purchased for myself. Last year was my 50 year high school reunion, and I very well remember attending classes in the auditorium and portable trailers, and being on either day shift or afternoon shift for classes that year. Fortunately, we didn't have to share lockers. After graduation, at age 17, I got my first (part time) job working as a civil servant, and after college graduation continued to work full time for the same city government. I only had 3 jobs over the course of 36 years with the city, and I was always busy. Can't personally relate to a job where the boss said that it used to be busier, but I believe you. I bought a condo when I was 27, and it was small and it was mine. I feel sorry for the young adults and teens today, it looks like very few of them will be able to afford home ownership or even afford much in the way of furnishings. Nick has his work cut out for him, figuring out ways to discuss room size or decor that his viewers cannot begin to pay for.
I totally agree. 1954 born, I grew up with the living room we seldom used. Shag rugs when I was in high school. Carpet in the kitchen and bathroom. Yuck. The trends Nick thought were Boomers wasn’t what we wanted or had. The house my husband and I lived in had both the formal dining room and living room but the dining room ad become the TV room and the living room was basically a walk through unless we had family or friends over. I never had a bit of potpourri in my house. It’s just a bunch of leaves and sticks that are always covered in dust.