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You know, in the seventies, I hated this decor, but for some reason right now, it is looking very fresh! Spare us from neutral interiors, especially grey.
I still like grey for my walls - but it's mixed with 1989 wood wainscoting! I've always prefer an eclectic style - traditional wood furniture with some modern touches (dark wood tones, light grey walls, LVP flooring & neutral curtains with pops of blues-creams-greys & burgundy)
I have about a dozen crocheted afghans my grandmother made, mostly granny squares in bright colors put together and trimmed in black. As she got older and her eyesight failed, she accidentally used dark blue for the connecting/trim yarn in some places. I love them and use them a lot, they are very warm.
Another reason why paneling became so popular is because it was an easy way for DIYers to finish their basements, you did not have to tape, mud and paint it because it was prefinished.
We had it in the basement- and a huge zodiac dial clock. Orange plastic “bullseye” panels for the lighting. Daddy did a fantastic job! We needed the space to play on rainy days and sleep in on hot summer nights. No AC! To the basement! Great video
One of the reasons I like watching TV shows from the 70s. I enjoy seeing the interiors of homes on the sets. And the clothes, and the cars. Seeing people dressed more neatly.
I actually love the 70's look. I remember our house having every bit of this. No two rooms nor houses were the same. Homes became not as vibrant and original once everyone started going to more toned down cookie cutter looking interior and exterior. With the designs available back then you could use your creative imagination and have very exotic and bright looking home. Even with using wood paneling. The looks of yesteryear are so underrated.
This is exactly how it was in 70s! My parents built on to our house in 1969 and added a sunken living room, next to our family room along with a bed/bathroom. And he put up paneling but it was redwood with a "fuzzy" feel to it. It looked great for years and years! Never looked outdated. i had a HUGE yellow bean bag, kept it right in front of the tv.
I had a paneled bedroom in a lovely shade called Driftwood. It was very light with darker accents. I loved it and my whole room was beach themed. I loved it, had the top floor of an old house to myself.
@@chiarac3833 One could have theme rooms back then. Even today, I have one of our bathrooms in a tropical theme, complete with brightly colored resin parrots and alabaster cockatoos, and lots of leafy tropical type plants and vivid tropical flowers. Love the look, especially since I'm a native southern Californian. I can recall the Hawaiian shirt craze. Our dad had one. Colorful and breezy. People really knew how to enjoy themselves back then, and the styles and fashions showed it.
We also had wallpaper murals on several walls in my house growing up. Those were all the rage in the 1970’s. And kitchen saloon doors. Wall phones with long cords attached.
What they’re calling linoleum was actually vinyl flooring. Linoleum has been around since the 1860’s. The two most popular colors of the 1970’s were Harvest Gold and Avocado Green. Our first home was done up in Harvest Gold. Bathtub, sinks, toilet, formica counters and of course shag carpet.
Same with the architecture of todays restaurants and stores . They all look alike with a square box shape and that horrific brown/ gray color - I don’t even know how to describe the color other than depressing. Sterile and too urban inside too.
I liked the rustic print couches with woodsy scenery or water mills and the thick wooden arms. But the bland gray/white interiors all homes today seem to have...boring and lifeless
Some of the 70's decor was tacky, but...most of it was the best a home ever looked. Beautiful wood paneling, super comfortable overstuffed couches, rich earth tone colors. All whisper of simpler times. I lived it as a teen. And, if it were so bad as home decor designers say it is, tell me why these awesome nostalgic pieces sell for such exuberant prices on second hand sites? What was old is new again, still loved and sought after. Nothing is more cold and bland to me, than a house with all white interior and contemporary decor.
I agree, I really "tried" to like it and look at it through other people's eyes but I find it very sterile. I would go nuts and start painting walls a very light "color" Color makes me happy so I'm sticking to it. I love a cozy home. 😊
Large Glass grapes on a wooden stem setting on the end table, big brass table lamps with huge tubular shades, built in wooden bookshelves and kitchen hutches, macrame wall hangers or plant hangers, dark wood everywhere, the partial wall that had metal or wooden spindles going to the ceiling,
Orange shag carpeting throughout our new home- including in a sunken living room in our ranch home-wood paneling on wall- just like you mentioned!!! Mediterranean furniture!!!Chocolate wall in bedroom-orange velvet chair! Lol Harvest Gold appliances and countertops-Chuckle- shag rake! Brown linoleum too! And, orange and gold open weave draperies!!!! Macrame, bean bag chairs, and afghans too!!! TFS
Don’t forget my cinder block shelving unit! Stained the wood and spray painted the blocks myself. Held my tv and stereo. Topped off with a faux leather topped coffee table I paid $10 for at a scratch and dent sale at Sears.
When I bought my condo a few years back I went with sheet vinyl in my kitchen, bathroom and laundry room. People tried to talk me in to running my cork backed laminate through in to these areas, but 'no'. I like sheet vinyl in those rooms and I just wish manufacturers would realize the potential and re-introduce all the colours and patterns that are possible.
I thought sunken living rooms and conversation pits were two different things? What you show are conversation pits, but I think sunken living rooms are where the entire floor of the living room is a step or two down from the other rooms of the house.
How can yellow and green be depressing? Some of the brightest colors in nature, not to mention the sun itself. Sunny environment = sunny disposition. It was great! I'm waiting for it to return. I think folks have had it with all the gloom and grim of today's home decor.
Watching any episode of "The Brady Bunch" will give you the same effect. Sometimes the shag carpet came in multi-color: a blend of orange, yellow, and green. Don't ever lose an earring back or a tiny screw in there, though. The sunken living room sometimes doubled as a love nest for romantic couples enjoying a romantic evening. All in all, I miss the 70's. Those days were fun, unique, love was the theme, and the 70's were so darn cool.
Oh yes, the free spirit of the 1970s...I remember it well, whatever happened to all that freedom looking back it seems almost like it was some sort of experiment; how far can we take the human freedom, these days sadly we've gone all the way back to being ethically and mentally prude slaves like in 1950s... So much for the human spirit, cut short once again by the fascist powers that be and their uniformed drabness.
I have a 1971 all wood , modified A frame cabin. All original. Shaggy carpet, awesome fireplace, all original 70s modern furniture, funky lamps, afghans, jungle plants. Yes, it's GenX heaven.
My neighbor still had one of those in her kitchen. Fridge on top & freezer below. Only replaced it because they redecorating. We laughed about them putting it out in the garage. It still worked 😂
You have a kind, peaceful, and positive attitude towards 1970s taste. Unlike other people I know who were teenagers in the 1970s who are today resolute in denying that the 1970s ever happened.
What a great video. I live in the house I inherited from my parents, and I'm sitting in front of a wall with.... Wood paneling! Yes, when it was built it had the mint green shag carpet, bright yellow sofa, and avocado green kitchen appliances. Fond memories. Yes, other than the wall it's all different now. As always God bless you and yours and thanks again for everything you do!
"Linoleum hit the scene in the 1970s..." You're about 100 years late on that. By the 1960s vinyl was becoming the choice for new floor covering and replacing old linoleum.
Growing up late 60s 70s in the den had a green sofa, burnt orange carpeting an Afghan on the sofa and wood paneling. The rest of the house was carpeted dark green. Kitchen floor Harvest Gold linoleum. The bathroom was from the 1950s! My mother went crazy knitting afghans!
Rather than being the decade that style forgot or forgotten style, the 70s were really one of the MOST STYLISH decades in our modern history. I guess it depends on what one considers to be "style". I loved it, and wish it would come back. Everything blended well and every piece in the home complemented the overall look. The colors worked great together, and the entire environment was one of warmth, creativity, comfort and cheerfulness. Seems folks enjoyed life much more back then. Look at today's home environments -- bleak, boring, industrial looking, like living in a warehouse or factory. Grays, ecrus, beiges, maybe a little black here or there, but overall, GRIM! Matching, I must say, the spirit of our times. I can't see it lasting much longer.
I remember hanging beads as partitions and in entryways. I found them fascinating, and they lent an air of mystery when used in interior doorways, especially in entrances to dens or bedrooms. Made one wonder what was behind that beaded curtain. It aroused curiosity in a way that a solid door couldn't. And the beads themselves were visually beautiful and could be arranged in all sorts of patterns. It was a creative era. We need to recapture that spirit in more ways than one.
There is still paneling in the house i grew up in.. we had those bright floral sofas. We had a gold refrigerator too. This all brings back lots of memories.
A lot of these items designs actually came along in the Swingin' Sixties. I actually had an avocado green kitchen and wood paneling, though!! Thanks for the trip back...
"The Gay (18)Nineties", "The Roaring Twenties", the "Soaring Sixties" -- every era had an uplifting, free or freer spirited decade when norms were cast aside and people experimented. Artistic fervor flourished and creative imagination blossomed. It was a form of rebellion that started out wonderful but its excesses eventually became destructive. As with all things human, some of it eventually went too far and became more harmful than glorious. That's when the changes began to occur. Today, the bland and boring has been around for way too long, and folks are longing for something different. It's like a pendulum. Too far one way, start swinging back in the other direction. That's why the drabness of our current times can't last much longer. It has sucked the soul out of ourselves and our environments, and created a mood of dourness, anxiety and just plain blah.
@@jrnfw4060 In former times, I would have agreed with you 100%. But with the government's total crackdown on free speech in America, I doubt that any of the dramatic changes you mentioned will ever happen again. We are now living in a total police state.
I remember all of these things, but my home was mostly full of antiques. There was a lot of colonial style furniture back then also. You forgot about waterbeds!
I only remember the late 70s but wood paneling was everywhere. My aunt had it and her house was so dark. My grandparents had that floral couch that all older people seemed to have. Mustard colors were popular for everything. My mom had a bunch of Tupperware that was green and yellow mustard. I think things were tacky but so much better back then. All this technology hasn't really improved our lives much. We should have put all our brains together to advance medicine and forgot about everything else, as I sit here writing on youtube, lol.
I agree that all this fancy-smancy technology has done little to improve our lives. If anything, it has made life more complicated, more expensive, more impersonal and more than a little scary. Individuality is frowned on, today. We are being expected and in many cased forced to conform to agendas we don't like or agree with. Kids today can't tell time on an analog clock, can't do basic arithmetic without a calculator, it's smart phone everything, and social media that provides phony "friends" and a means of bullying others anonymously behind a screen with a keyboard. Moreover, it's very addictive and takes up nearly all of their precious time. Personally, I would like to see our society as a whole go off the grid for awhile and do some REAL living.
I remember the 70's decor very well. There is still wood paneling in my parents living room to this day! We had gold colored carpet throughout and I had a lime green beanbag chair in my bedroom and fake plants in a wicker hanging basket.
We had the gold yellow appliances and paneling everywhere. It never was updated from that. The hall was so dark. My parents lived there for about 50 years.
My mother honestly thought avocado green was a neutral color. My parents built a house in the late 70s with a kitchen and breakfast nook that were all in that color family: the appliances, the tile (with dark green grout) counters and backsplash, and the vinyl flooring. Then she learned how to do stained glass a few years later, and replaced the amber sidelights flanking the front door with beautiful handmade windows. They were all uncolored, with different textures for visual interest. I asked her why she didn’t use colored glass. She said she wanted to keep it neutral for when they eventually sold the house. Where you’d have to gut the kitchen to get rid of the avocado green.
I was a child in the 70's but I do remember we had the wood paneling. We had a tan sofa and brown shag carpet. Harvest gold appliances and macreme wall hangings.
I grew up in an A-Frame; orange bedroom. Open-concept kitchen to living rooms, room to deck. My parents had funny smelling wallpaper. I don't recall the color of our shag rug! Linoleum! Tupperware, S & H Green Stamps, gas lines, OPEC oil crisis, inflation, island near oven for canning or food prep. Very nice! White appliances. Turquoise paint in dining room. We had a tree-house in the "woods" outside the house. Lots of space, the loft was fabulous! Olive green mushroom containers for salt. Doors on bedrooms. We had a tv with dials; with a "tube" in the back, heavy tv. My maternal grandparents had a tv set with a radio/stereo player (inside) on top. Yellow appliances in the kitchen, yellow rotary phone, and tea-cup designed wall-paper, her sister had the same wallpaper. Fun house!!
I remember the furniture and other decor from the 60’s and 70’s very well! We had paneling, hot pink carpeting in my bedroom, orange chairs, and the weird decorative pieces that were reproductions of old decorative pieces. But, my mother decorated the living room with pastel colors, and a bit more formal than the rec room/den. We were not allowed to lay around in the living room or eat or drink. With 6 kids, my mother wanted a room that would be clean and ready for company. I was never a fan of the decor in those days, but I would go back in a second if my mom and dad, and my older siblings, were there!
Anyone remember the 1970’s wire art pictures??? Mid 70’s copper & silver wire pictures: steamboat, 2) biplanes, train & deer head.... I still own 4 of the 5! CB
Stranger Things hit the bullseye. My striped sheets were filmed! And the dishes we got when filling up the car, they were filmed too. Sunset Magazine was at its best in the 70s.
We had gold shag carpet in our new home in 1974 and my mom stayed in the house until she died about three years ago and the original carpet was still in the house. She was a clean freak OCD type of person, so it was clean but still it was gold shag carpeting! Paneling in the garage was original and never painted. I used the garage as my drum room until I went off to college but still, the garage had the original unpainted paneling until we sold her house. Memories. Oh one more- remember Peter Frampton Live? I must have played that record over and over until the grooves wore out.
1:04 I knew someone that had that awful brown, white and orange “autumn” style couch! The fabric felt like velvet and matched the colors in the shag carpet. 😂
Along with macramé came the first big tropical plant craze, but one of the biggest trends was the craft "Ceramics." I think every item that previously started out in some other material was duplicated in a mold for mass production ceramics, followed with a huge selection of glaze innovations. It almost felt like there was a Ceramic store on every block. On another thought, when did the Dick Van Dyke show set have a sunk in pit ? They had a conversation area, and a raised "step platform" along the back but no pit.
Popsicle stick crafts and string art on wood boards.. Plastic, mushroom shaped lamps. finished puzzle with backing as wall art. Painted bead work with DAS.. Bold patterned dishes ceramic dish sets. Bead curtains.
I wish I could send pictures. My parents home from the mid 70s was a dead ringer for your description. Wood paneling, orange counter tops. A textured feature wall. Macrame plant hangers and a ratan rocking chair. Big floral print upholstery with matching wall paper in the kitchen. Our first home from the late 70s was pretty close. Green shag carpet, green counter tops and appliances. Also wood paneling. Good job.
Great video! But I remember our home in the 70s... Ick. Color palette was corn, rust and of course avocado green... But then again, the earth tones of the home did compliment the bright colors that fashion was embracing then. 🧡
Floral patterns on furniture and wallpaper usage go way back to the 50's at least, as does linoleum. There was LESS USE OF linoleum in the 70's, generally, than in the late 40's and 50's. It was considered too "cold" feeling.
Some of this was way over the top even in the 70’s, my friends and I were teens, these were some of our parents homes. I still have a couple of the afghans my mom knitted.
Ah this brings back memories of my childhood. I still love wood decor in homes. I remember the bean bag. They were really comfortable to sit in. I don’t know why they went out of fashion.
We had colored bath tissue during the 70s and 80s. It was supposedly discontinued because of dyes that irritated people's skin -- but white was also available for those folks. So, why not just use white if allergic to the colors and let the rest of us enjoy our choices? I think the EPA also might have had something to do with the colors going away. With today's advanced technologies, one would think scientists and manufacturers could come up with less harmful or even totally harmless dyes that would still give us the nice colors we once enjoyed. Just because something once was a problem doesn't mean it still has to be a problem. Where there's a will, there's a way.
I was there in the 70's, and the colours & decor are spot on, but I don't remember home decor being so migraine inducing. I could not live with those designs now.
Many things in my house when I bought it were SO 70s. Shag carpet in brown gold and orange. Round Swedish stove in ombre orange to gold. Drywall with fake stone print. Linoleum with fake stone print in the kitchen. Formica countertops in faded pink with chrome facings. A bedroom with worn woolen carpet covering a beautiful wood floor. Another bedroom with a worn cork floor. Tbh, that one has *real* knotty pine paneling. And the family took the fridge but I still have the matching avocado green stove. The twin ovens no longer work, but there is space for a toaster oven next to the pushbutton stovetop, which still works perfectly.
I grew up in a bi-level built in 1969. We had an avocado kitchen with yellow and white checkered wallpaper and orange shag carpet in the bathroom. The living room carpet was gold and the rec room was wood paneled with a red and black square linoleum floor. Somehow by the early 1980’s, the whole thing turned light blue, mauve and white. Go figure.
Omg, I forgot about the bathroom carpet thing... 🤢 I also knew some people who had crocheted toilet seat covers. Not just the lid, but the actual seat. Needless to say, the old man who shared the bathroom wasn't a great aim and often got the seat or the carpet instead of the bowl. Thank goodness for washable tiles in bathrooms!
You're wrong about the flooring. Linoleum came out many decades earlier, and required frequent waxing to keep it shiny. It was made from linseed oil, hence the nsme. VINYL flooring was the no-wax miracle of the 1970s. One brand was CONGOLEUM, which even provided the Yellow Brick Road in the movie "The Wiz".
When my parents built their home, my mom wanted a "formal living room" which she got. Why yes, it did have the bright orange couch, the classic 70s' end tables ( and a phone that required an phone ajck that had to be mark in the construction plans) with lamps and of course, paneling. In the "regular living room" we had the huge console T.V. with built in turntable and speakers at either end. Freaking thing was about 9 feet long and it took 2 big guys to move it into the house and uncrate it. SMH
You know, in the seventies, I hated this decor, but for some reason right now, it is looking very fresh! Spare us from neutral interiors, especially grey.
Everything now is beige and sterile now. Meh.
I'm so over the gray trend.
I’m currently redoing my living room “modern retro” using several of my parents pieces, it’s like comfort food in there now, and very pretty 💚
Amen!
I still like grey for my walls - but it's mixed with 1989 wood wainscoting! I've always prefer an eclectic style - traditional wood furniture with some modern touches (dark wood tones, light grey walls, LVP flooring & neutral curtains with pops of blues-creams-greys & burgundy)
The oversized wooden fork and spoon wall decor was also a staple of the '70s. I still have some of the crocheted afghans my mom made. ❤
Me too.
My mom passed away and I got rid of most but kept one.
She also loved her doiliees (SP ?)
😂
@@tracylalonde4972 I have doilies that my grandmother made (natted). I don't use them but can't seem to part with them.
OMG. I wish I could have grabbed that giant teakwood fork and spoon before my relatives discarded it!
@@jodiwest23 I wish I still had them, too. I think my mom got rid of them during a move. :(
I have about a dozen crocheted afghans my grandmother made, mostly granny squares in bright colors put together and trimmed in black. As she got older and her eyesight failed, she accidentally used dark blue for the connecting/trim yarn in some places. I love them and use them a lot, they are very warm.
Another reason why paneling became so popular is because it was an easy way for DIYers to finish their basements, you did not have to tape, mud and paint it because it was prefinished.
We had it in the basement- and a huge zodiac dial clock. Orange plastic “bullseye” panels for the lighting. Daddy did a fantastic job! We needed the space to play on rainy days and sleep in on hot summer nights. No AC! To the basement!
Great video
@@Richie8a8y in my first place I lived in the basement during the summer.
One of the reasons I like watching TV shows from the 70s. I enjoy seeing the interiors of homes on the sets. And the clothes, and the cars. Seeing people dressed more neatly.
I like seeing a home with walls and separate rooms.
Good '70s shows to watch for the styles; The Streets of San Francisco, Barnaby Jones, Columbo or the UK show Thriller.
@@LarryFleetwood8675 lol i was also going to suggest Columbo. The Good Life is a UK show where you see a lot of 70s decor in all its horror.
I actually love the 70's look. I remember our house having every bit of this. No two rooms nor houses were the same. Homes became not as vibrant and original once everyone started going to more toned down cookie cutter looking interior and exterior. With the designs available back then you could use your creative imagination and have very exotic and bright looking home. Even with using wood paneling. The looks of yesteryear are so underrated.
It was the best.
Everyone wants to conform, now, while calling themselves an individual. Who, who were more individual, never really thought about it.
This is exactly how it was in 70s! My parents built on to our house in 1969 and added a sunken living room, next to our family room along with a bed/bathroom. And he put up paneling but it was redwood with a "fuzzy" feel to it. It looked great for years and years! Never looked outdated. i had a HUGE yellow bean bag, kept it right in front of the tv.
I had a paneled bedroom in a lovely shade called Driftwood. It was very light with darker accents. I loved it and my whole room was beach themed. I loved it, had the top floor of an old house to myself.
@@chiarac3833 One could have theme rooms back then. Even today, I have one of our bathrooms in a tropical theme, complete with brightly colored resin parrots and alabaster cockatoos, and lots of leafy tropical type plants and vivid tropical flowers. Love the look, especially since I'm a native southern Californian. I can recall the Hawaiian shirt craze. Our dad had one. Colorful and breezy. People really knew how to enjoy themselves back then, and the styles and fashions showed it.
We also had wallpaper murals on several walls in my house growing up. Those were all the rage in the 1970’s. And kitchen saloon doors. Wall phones with long cords attached.
I remember getting a long telephone cord being a big deal.
Ah yes, the wallpaper murals. I bought a rainforest mural from Spencer's Gifts for my bedroom. Thanks for the flashback.
I adore this aesthetic. My childhood. I want to re-do my master bedroom in this now, esp the wood paneling.
What they’re calling linoleum was actually vinyl flooring. Linoleum has been around since the 1860’s. The two most popular colors of the 1970’s were Harvest Gold and Avocado Green. Our first home was done up in Harvest Gold. Bathtub, sinks, toilet, formica counters and of course shag carpet.
I'll take any of this (except for the floral couches) over the soulless gray on gray on gray that is today
Same with the architecture of todays restaurants and stores . They all look alike with a square box shape and that horrific brown/ gray color - I don’t even know how to describe the color other than depressing. Sterile and too urban inside too.
I liked the rustic print couches with woodsy scenery or water mills and the thick wooden arms. But the bland gray/white interiors all homes today seem to have...boring and lifeless
@@cindytrayer4279 the word you are looking for is bland
I remember those styles. I got married in 1969. Our neighbors had a sunken living room. Beautiful idea…..unless your hubby is a drunk.
Some of the 70's decor was tacky, but...most of it was the best a home ever looked. Beautiful wood paneling, super comfortable overstuffed couches, rich earth tone colors. All whisper of simpler times. I lived it as a teen. And, if it were so bad as home decor designers say it is, tell me why these awesome nostalgic pieces sell for such exuberant prices on second hand sites? What was old is new again, still loved and sought after. Nothing is more cold and bland to me, than a house with all white interior and contemporary decor.
I agree!
🙂🇨🇦
Seems to me the ‘paneling’ went from the walls to the floor! 🤔
Yes, there is something more abysmal than an all white house: An all grey house.
I agree, I really "tried" to like it and look at it through other people's eyes but I find it very sterile.
I would go nuts and start painting walls a very light "color"
Color makes me happy so I'm sticking to it.
I love a cozy home. 😊
All depends on a person's taste 😊
Large Glass grapes on a wooden stem setting on the end table, big brass table lamps with huge tubular shades, built in wooden bookshelves and kitchen hutches, macrame wall hangers or plant hangers, dark wood everywhere, the partial wall that had metal or wooden spindles going to the ceiling,
Orange shag carpeting throughout our new home- including in a sunken living room in our ranch home-wood paneling on wall- just like you mentioned!!!
Mediterranean furniture!!!Chocolate wall in bedroom-orange velvet chair! Lol
Harvest Gold appliances and countertops-Chuckle- shag rake!
Brown linoleum too!
And, orange and gold open weave draperies!!!!
Macrame, bean bag chairs, and afghans too!!! TFS
HaHa!! You're a child of fashion!
We had orange shag carpet too. It had threads of red, orange and gold. We must’ve had the same house. Lol.
Lordy, lordy... I had orange shag rug with the shag rake... it was in our bedroom. Gold refrigerator and appliances. OMG!!
Don’t forget my cinder block shelving unit! Stained the wood and spray painted the blocks myself. Held my tv and stereo. Topped off with a faux leather topped coffee table I paid $10 for at a scratch and dent sale at Sears.
We had wood paneling and shag carpet. 👍🏻 Great memories.
When I bought my condo a few years back I went with sheet vinyl in my kitchen, bathroom and laundry room. People tried to talk me in to running my cork backed laminate through in to these areas, but 'no'. I like sheet vinyl in those rooms and I just wish manufacturers would realize the potential and re-introduce all the colours and patterns that are possible.
I like it in the kitchen because it's smooth under my bare feet.
When enough consumers start demanding it, those warm, bright colors and intricate patterns will return. The Almighty Dollar Bill still talks.
I thought sunken living rooms and conversation pits were two different things? What you show are conversation pits, but I think sunken living rooms are where the entire floor of the living room is a step or two down from the other rooms of the house.
Yeah.
Mary Richards had a sunken living room.
@@bigred9428…so did Ethel Higginbotham…….🤪
You're right.
I still have green paneling in my basement family room. So any old furniture it put down there blends in perfectly.
Grew up in 70s I always found the mustard yellow an avacodo green depressing. But shuffling across a shag rug and then shocking someone was fun
How can yellow and green be depressing? Some of the brightest colors in nature, not to mention the sun itself. Sunny environment = sunny disposition. It was great! I'm waiting for it to return. I think folks have had it with all the gloom and grim of today's home decor.
Watching any episode of "The Brady Bunch" will give you the same effect. Sometimes the shag carpet came in multi-color: a blend of orange, yellow, and green. Don't ever lose an earring back or a tiny screw in there, though. The sunken living room sometimes doubled as a love nest for romantic couples enjoying a romantic evening. All in all, I miss the 70's. Those days were fun, unique, love was the theme, and the 70's were so darn cool.
Oh yes, the free spirit of the 1970s...I remember it well, whatever happened to all that freedom looking back it seems almost like it was some sort of experiment; how far can we take the human freedom, these days sadly we've gone all the way back to being ethically and mentally prude slaves like in 1950s... So much for the human spirit, cut short once again by the fascist powers that be and their uniformed drabness.
I have a 1971 all wood , modified A frame cabin. All original. Shaggy carpet, awesome fireplace, all original 70s modern furniture, funky lamps, afghans, jungle plants. Yes, it's GenX heaven.
Pics please!!
That's AWESOME!! 👍👍👍
Can you upload pics?
Don'T forget the coffee brown appliances too. WE had those in the first home we bought in 1980.
My neighbor still had one of those in her kitchen. Fridge on top & freezer below. Only replaced it because they redecorating. We laughed about them putting it out in the garage. It still worked 😂
My in-laws still have a brown tub and toilet in their main bathroom. It's a bit weird... but you can't tell if they're dirty! Lol
Coppertone was the name of that brown color
You have a kind, peaceful, and positive attitude towards 1970s taste. Unlike other people I know who were teenagers in the 1970s who are today resolute in denying that the 1970s ever happened.
Maybe the naysayers were unhappy during that decade and just want to forget all about it. Disgruntled people are the biggest deniers.
Personality, colorful, cozy
What a great video. I live in the house I inherited from my parents, and I'm sitting in front of a wall with.... Wood paneling! Yes, when it was built it had the mint green shag carpet, bright yellow sofa, and avocado green kitchen appliances. Fond memories. Yes, other than the wall it's all different now. As always God bless you and yours and thanks again for everything you do!
I want a revival! After the blah of the past 90's and 2000's,we learned now that the 70's were the best.
I was born in 1970 and loved growing up in the 70s. Really miss those days - Happy Memories! 🥰
the BEST time to be alive!! CB
"Linoleum hit the scene in the 1970s..." You're about 100 years late on that. By the 1960s vinyl was becoming the choice for new floor covering and replacing old linoleum.
Linoleum had to be waxed. Vinyl doesn't.
Ahhh the 70s! Love this - So many memories! We had light blue shag carpet that we "raked" after vacuuming 😅
Growing up late 60s 70s in the den had a green sofa, burnt orange carpeting an Afghan on the sofa and wood paneling. The rest of the house was carpeted dark green. Kitchen floor Harvest Gold linoleum. The bathroom was from the 1950s! My mother went crazy knitting afghans!
That's exactly how it was..and I lived in a small African country called Swaziland.
Rather than being the decade that style forgot or forgotten style, the 70s were really one of the MOST STYLISH decades in our modern history. I guess it depends on what one considers to be "style". I loved it, and wish it would come back. Everything blended well and every piece in the home complemented the overall look. The colors worked great together, and the entire environment was one of warmth, creativity, comfort and cheerfulness. Seems folks enjoyed life much more back then.
Look at today's home environments -- bleak, boring, industrial looking, like living in a warehouse or factory. Grays, ecrus, beiges, maybe a little black here or there, but overall, GRIM! Matching, I must say, the spirit of our times.
I can't see it lasting much longer.
I was born in 1967 and my parents bought a new home in 1974. I remember shag carpets, hanging beads hanging between rooms and paneling
I remember hanging beads as partitions and in entryways. I found them fascinating, and they lent an air of mystery when used in interior doorways, especially in entrances to dens or bedrooms. Made one wonder what was behind that beaded curtain. It aroused curiosity in a way that a solid door couldn't. And the beads themselves were visually beautiful and could be arranged in all sorts of patterns. It was a creative era. We need to recapture that spirit in more ways than one.
People used linoleum LONG before the 1970's!!
Yeah, he's talking about vinyl.
@@bigred9428 there are a couple of linoleum/vinyl floors under our tile in the kitchen somewhere. A little like the ruins of Pompeii.
There is still paneling in the house i grew up in.. we had those bright floral sofas. We had a gold refrigerator too. This all brings back lots of memories.
A lot of these items designs actually came along in the Swingin' Sixties. I actually had an avocado green kitchen and wood paneling, though!! Thanks for the trip back...
I was a bridesmaid at my aunt’s wedding. The bridesmaids’ dresses were avocado.
"The Gay (18)Nineties", "The Roaring Twenties", the "Soaring Sixties" -- every era had an uplifting, free or freer spirited decade when norms were cast aside and people experimented. Artistic fervor flourished and creative imagination blossomed. It was a form of rebellion that started out wonderful but its excesses eventually became destructive. As with all things human, some of it eventually went too far and became more harmful than glorious. That's when the changes began to occur.
Today, the bland and boring has been around for way too long, and folks are longing for something different. It's like a pendulum. Too far one way, start swinging back in the other direction. That's why the drabness of our current times can't last much longer. It has sucked the soul out of ourselves and our environments, and created a mood of dourness, anxiety and just plain blah.
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In former times, I would have agreed with you 100%. But with the government's total crackdown on free speech in America, I doubt that any of the dramatic changes you mentioned will ever happen again. We are now living in a total police state.
I remember all of these things, but my home was mostly full of antiques. There was a lot of colonial style furniture back then also. You forgot about waterbeds!
It looks like it might be one at the end, but he doesn't comment on it.
I only remember the late 70s but wood paneling was everywhere. My aunt had it and her house was so dark. My grandparents had that floral couch that all older people seemed to have. Mustard colors were popular for everything. My mom had a bunch of Tupperware that was green and yellow mustard. I think things were tacky but so much better back then. All this technology hasn't really improved our lives much. We should have put all our brains together to advance medicine and forgot about everything else, as I sit here writing on youtube, lol.
I agree that all this fancy-smancy technology has done little to improve our lives. If anything, it has made life more complicated, more expensive, more impersonal and more than a little scary. Individuality is frowned on, today. We are being expected and in many cased forced to conform to agendas we don't like or agree with.
Kids today can't tell time on an analog clock, can't do basic arithmetic without a calculator, it's smart phone everything, and social media that provides phony "friends" and a means of bullying others anonymously behind a screen with a keyboard. Moreover, it's very addictive and takes up nearly all of their precious time.
Personally, I would like to see our society as a whole go off the grid for awhile and do some REAL living.
Thank you for a great video, you brought me back to my childhood, really appreciate it. Regards from WA.
Ah, the 70s' before everything became grey and walls torn down so that everyone can see the kitchen from the street door.
Good times!
I loved everything about 70s style. This video brings back wonderful memories.
This was terrific! I really enjoyed the photos you put up and commentary. The 1970's was The best.
I remember the 70's decor very well. There is still wood paneling in my parents living room to this day! We had gold colored carpet throughout and I had a lime green beanbag chair in my bedroom and fake plants in a wicker hanging basket.
We had the gold yellow appliances and paneling everywhere. It never was updated from that. The hall was so dark. My parents lived there for about 50 years.
This was excellent!
I love linoleum floors!
Gotta have that Avocado green washing machine, dryer, oven, dishwasher, fridge,, and window ac unit.😅
We had Central AC but all the other stuff matched. Harvest Gold. Even the wall phone. Push button of course
My mother honestly thought avocado green was a neutral color. My parents built a house in the late 70s with a kitchen and breakfast nook that were all in that color family: the appliances, the tile (with dark green grout) counters and backsplash, and the vinyl flooring. Then she learned how to do stained glass a few years later, and replaced the amber sidelights flanking the front door with beautiful handmade windows. They were all uncolored, with different textures for visual interest.
I asked her why she didn’t use colored glass. She said she wanted to keep it neutral for when they eventually sold the house. Where you’d have to gut the kitchen to get rid of the avocado green.
I wish there were still these home decor to find these days I loved it/them
Me too, if I ever win the big lottery prize I'll buy a nice big house somewhere and have it decorated in screaming '70s interior designs and decor.
You forgot the matching carpet on the toilet seat, the back of the toilet, and around the toilet
Now, that WAS a bit much. Never went that far.
We had a very sunshiney yellow kitchen... at least it was cheery!🌞
We had the olive green appliances, which lasted forever & the wood paneling. My grandmom had a sunken living room
I was a child in the 70's but I do remember we had the wood paneling. We had a tan sofa and brown shag carpet. Harvest gold appliances and macreme wall hangings.
I grew up in an A-Frame; orange bedroom. Open-concept kitchen to living rooms, room to deck. My parents had funny smelling wallpaper. I don't recall the color of our shag rug! Linoleum! Tupperware, S & H Green Stamps, gas lines, OPEC oil crisis, inflation, island near oven for canning or food prep. Very nice! White appliances. Turquoise paint in dining room. We had a tree-house in the "woods" outside the house. Lots of space, the loft was fabulous! Olive green mushroom containers for salt. Doors on bedrooms. We had a tv with dials; with a "tube" in the back, heavy tv. My maternal grandparents had a tv set with a radio/stereo player (inside) on top. Yellow appliances in the kitchen, yellow rotary phone, and tea-cup designed wall-paper, her sister had the same wallpaper. Fun house!!
I remember the furniture and other decor from the 60’s and 70’s very well! We had paneling, hot pink carpeting in my bedroom, orange chairs, and the weird decorative pieces that were reproductions of old decorative pieces. But, my mother decorated the living room with pastel colors, and a bit more formal than the rec room/den. We were not allowed to lay around in the living room or eat or drink. With 6 kids, my mother wanted a room that would be clean and ready for company. I was never a fan of the decor in those days, but I would go back in a second if my mom and dad, and my older siblings, were there!
Anyone remember the 1970’s wire art pictures??? Mid 70’s copper & silver wire
pictures: steamboat, 2) biplanes, train
& deer head.... I still own 4 of the 5! CB
Sailboats, bridges ...
Love the sunken lounge.
I actually like it
3:04 We had exactly the same macramé owl, ours was made out of burlap twine, though! And it was in the 80's. LOL!
Quality ! Great images. Thank you.
It was my job to rake the rug.
Our electric broom had a rake attachment
Stranger Things hit the bullseye. My striped sheets were filmed! And the dishes we got when filling up the car, they were filmed too. Sunset Magazine was at its best in the 70s.
My grandparents in the 1970s had an avocado Frigidaire refrigerator. It was cool.
I still have paneling in my living room, dining and hall but I painted it. It's much nicer than the brown
I did enjoy this video. it brought back a lot of memories, thanks! 😀
We had the paneling and the oversized spoon ! Lol.
I always thought the Harvest Gold appliances made kitchens look sunny and happy. Yeah, I still miss the Harvest Gold.
Gold and green, two of the loveliest, warmest, most delightful colors on earth. No wonder folks loved it inside of their homes.
That thumbnail is straight-up terrifying. AI strikes again.
Thank you for letting me go home again
DITTO !!!
We had gold shag carpet in our new home in 1974 and my mom stayed in the house
until she died about three years ago and the original carpet was still in the house. She
was a clean freak OCD type of person, so it was clean but still it was gold shag
carpeting! Paneling in the garage was original and never painted. I used the garage as
my drum room until I went off to college but still, the garage had the original unpainted paneling until we sold her house. Memories. Oh one more- remember Peter Frampton
Live? I must have played that record over and over until the grooves wore out.
1:04 I knew someone that had that awful brown, white and orange “autumn” style couch! The fabric felt like velvet and matched the colors in the shag carpet. 😂
Along with macramé came the first big tropical plant craze, but one of the biggest trends was the craft "Ceramics." I think every item that previously started out in some other material was duplicated in a mold for mass production ceramics, followed with a huge selection of glaze innovations. It almost felt like there was a Ceramic store on every block. On another thought, when did the Dick Van Dyke show set have a sunk in pit ? They had a conversation area, and a raised "step platform" along the back but no pit.
Popsicle stick crafts and string art on wood boards.. Plastic, mushroom shaped lamps. finished puzzle with backing as wall art. Painted bead work with DAS.. Bold patterned dishes ceramic dish sets. Bead curtains.
I wish I could send pictures. My parents home from the mid 70s was a dead ringer for your description. Wood paneling, orange counter tops. A textured feature wall. Macrame plant hangers and a ratan rocking chair. Big floral print upholstery with matching wall paper in the kitchen. Our first home from the late 70s was pretty close. Green shag carpet, green counter tops and appliances. Also wood paneling. Good job.
I was born in 1999 and i want my house to look like this so so so much
Great video! But I remember our home in the 70s... Ick.
Color palette was corn, rust and of course avocado green...
But then again, the earth tones of the home did compliment
the bright colors that fashion was embracing then. 🧡
Floral patterns on furniture and wallpaper usage go way back to the 50's at least, as does linoleum. There was LESS USE OF linoleum in the 70's, generally, than in the late 40's and 50's. It was considered too "cold" feeling.
I still have wood paneling in my kitchen and eating area. It was done in 1968. I'm keeping it. Also, the "Victorian revival" tulip ceiling light.
Some of this was way over the top even in the 70’s, my friends and I were teens, these were some of our parents homes. I still have a couple of the afghans my mom knitted.
Some major extremes going on here. If I had walked into any of those loud floral living rooms back in the 70s, I would have freaked out man!
Ah this brings back memories of my childhood. I still love wood decor in homes. I remember the bean bag. They were really comfortable to sit in. I don’t know why they went out of fashion.
Probably because they "spilled the beans."
I remember that you could buy colored toilet paper. Often they had flower prints in trendy colors.
We had colored bath tissue during the 70s and 80s. It was supposedly discontinued because of dyes that irritated people's skin -- but white was also available for those folks. So, why not just use white if allergic to the colors and let the rest of us enjoy our choices? I think the EPA also might have had something to do with the colors going away. With today's advanced technologies, one would think scientists and manufacturers could come up with less harmful or even totally harmless dyes that would still give us the nice colors we once enjoyed. Just because something once was a problem doesn't mean it still has to be a problem. Where there's a will, there's a way.
It may be dated and I don't use it today, but I love avocado green and burnt orange. Great memories.
Harvest Gold too!
At 5:29 I'm pretty certain that is Megyn's house in LA from the TV show Mad Men.
Yes! LOL I love that show!
Another piece of decor in most homes in the 70s was ashtrays.
Bright orange 🍊 and avocado 🥑 green the staple of the 1970’s! 😊
I was there in the 70's, and the colours & decor are spot on, but I don't remember home decor being so migraine inducing. I could not live with those designs now.
Many things in my house when I bought it were SO 70s.
Shag carpet in brown gold and orange. Round Swedish stove in ombre orange to gold. Drywall with fake stone print. Linoleum with fake stone print in the kitchen. Formica countertops in faded pink with chrome facings.
A bedroom with worn woolen carpet covering a beautiful wood floor.
Another bedroom with a worn cork floor. Tbh, that one has *real* knotty pine paneling. And the family took the fridge but I still have the matching avocado green stove. The twin ovens no longer work, but there is space for a toaster oven next to the pushbutton stovetop, which still works perfectly.
One thing I also remember about the 1970s: waterbeds.
There was also the sunburnt clocks, Mr Coffee and those rust colored swivel rockers.
At least someone had the good taste (and money) to have the Barcelona Chair. Around here the TVs always held the kids' senior pictures on top.
I grew up in a bi-level built in 1969. We had an avocado kitchen with yellow and white checkered wallpaper and orange shag carpet in the bathroom. The living room carpet was gold and the rec room was wood paneled with a red and black square linoleum floor. Somehow by the early 1980’s, the whole thing turned light blue, mauve and white. Go figure.
Omg, I forgot about the bathroom carpet thing... 🤢 I also knew some people who had crocheted toilet seat covers. Not just the lid, but the actual seat. Needless to say, the old man who shared the bathroom wasn't a great aim and often got the seat or the carpet instead of the bowl. Thank goodness for washable tiles in bathrooms!
Aahh my eyes. So glad these trends moved on!
Most of his pictures are actually from modern homes.
I wish it'd all come back, I bet eventually it will...
You're wrong about the flooring.
Linoleum came out many decades earlier, and required frequent waxing to keep it shiny. It was made from linseed oil, hence the nsme.
VINYL flooring was the no-wax miracle of the 1970s. One brand was CONGOLEUM, which even provided the Yellow Brick Road in the movie "The Wiz".
Shaggy carpets and wood panes ruled in the 70s…😂
Groovy video.
When my parents built their home, my mom wanted a "formal living room" which she got. Why yes, it did have the bright orange couch, the classic 70s' end tables ( and a phone that required an phone ajck that had to be mark in the construction plans) with lamps and of course, paneling. In the "regular living room" we had the huge console T.V. with built in turntable and speakers at either end. Freaking thing was about 9 feet long and it took 2 big guys to move it into the house and uncrate it. SMH
please what is the guitar music playing during the video? I have heard it in several other videos and really love the piece
I believe it is called "Twilight Train" by Dan Lebowitz.
My mother did the black & red Spanish look!
I liked the wood panelling. It was combining it with orange and brown that made it dark. 😬