UK dad literally lives in the past after spending THOUSANDS decorating home in 70s designs | SWNS
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- Опубликовано: 12 июл 2021
- A madcap dad is living in the past after spending thousands of pounds transforming his home into a shrine to the 1970s.
Martin Aylett, 51, spends hours attending vintage fairs searching for 70s treasures for his modest two-bedroom semi.
He’s laid garish brown and orange kitchen tiles to go with his 1974 Russell Hobbs toaster and orange kitchen units.
The divorced dad-of-two even bought original 70s Fairy liquid bottles, Persil washing powder and Woolworths dish cloths to clean his custard-yellow crockery.
His living room also boasts an orange and brown swirly Axminster carpet along with a 1960s three-piece leatherette suite and Rowe AMI juke box.
Martin even drives a 1972 VW Campervan which he parks outside his £140,000 home in Windsor Road, Linton, Swadlincote, Derbys.
He said: “It all started about four years ago when I bought the property and had a blank canvas to decorate, carpet and get the house into ship shape.
“I thought that would be ideal opportunity to give it that 70s vibe, I've always been interested in the 70s, I grew up in the 70s and it seemed a nice time when things had that design and flare to them.
“I like taking things back to that time which was my childhood when life was a lot simpler and it is not like now when everything is instant.
“I must’ve spent around £5,000 so far getting it into the state it is in, it’s become something of an obsession.
“I’ve got 1970s carpets, curtains, furniture everything, is original there is no reproduction stuff.
“One of prize possessions is a juke box, that is the one thing that takes pride of place in
the living room and lounge come diner.
“The juke box, a Rowe AMI, is at the far end with a 70s stereo system and quite a lot of the room is taken up with vinyl records.
“The carpets are 1970s Axminster and quite heavily patterned, the curtains are from the seventies and there are a lot of orange and browns in there as you’d expect from that period of time.
“The cream leatherette sofa with orange cushions is totally original.
“The juke box was £2,000, the carpets a couple of hundred pounds and the same for furniture.”
Martin admits he has installed some mod-cons into his home including the internet so he can run his retro business and search online for 70s décor as well as modern fridge freezer and flatscreen TV.
This video was filmed on the 6th July 2021.
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He doesn’t ‘literally’ live in the past. He enjoys surrounding himself with things of the past.
You would have to be doing pretty well for yourself for your house to look like that in the 70's. It would all have been brand new stuff then. In the 90's, mine and most of my friends houses still looked like it was the mid 80's with hints of the 70's. My house today still mostly looks like it did ten years ago.
Well done👍👍👍Absolutely brilliant
Fabulous! Bright, vibrant and retro vintage at it's finest. What a beautiful living room and kitchen. Love to see the rest of the house. Takes me back to my youth! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Wow so much orange my eyes!! I love it !!!!
I like it too but maybe it's a bit much of one thing, I'd add some more different colours like green and yellow.
Would love to see the rest of the house.
Its very 70s apart from the Nirvana poster and flat screen TV
So many cool items ❤👏🏼
Wonderful. I was a kid in the 70s,, however I have taken my decor back a few more decades to the late 50s and early 60s. Lover the orange. My mother had burnt orange counter tops in the kitchen because she wanted a kitchen like Carol Brady.
I am also a child of the seventies,living in the lovely city of San Francisco ,California then.Now,I retired and spending most of the time at home,just wonderful to surround with bygone era things.
Great to see and hear i'm not alone 😊
I love orange! This is "groovy"!
I had an orange bedroom in our family's A-Frame, which was built in the 1960s. I grew up in the 1970s
Looks cozy!
Love this style, you need a peacock chair 😊 ❤❤
YES!
love it,, my era too.
I wish I could decorate my place like that and buy me 1970 cuda rt.
Or a 1972 or 73 roadrunner.
And have me a turntable and a bunch of records as well as those similar decorations. He's got in his house I would also have like a Fog machine and disco ball and Is disco lights in my house. If anyone's going back to
1970 take me with you
Good chap
Very cool
Memories
almost perfect..the washing machine :)
Love it
I love this ❤ but it’s a little bit too busy , even for the 70’s .
fantastic best decade ever raleigh chopper bond bug cars great days better music better sport
I was a child of the 60s, yet he is a decade younger than me but looks old enough to be my dad. This is unrepresentative. In the 1970s, a typical home would have some of these elements, yet a lot of furnishings, fixtures and fittings would be from the 1930s to the 1960s. This is overkill.0
The Nivana poster is unacceptable.
I came here to see your house in its glory, not to see you sit on the couch talking about it…….
You are rude
No it’s not rude, it’s a statement.
It did show you around the room🙄🤐
super cute ❤ that's why Orla kiely is my favourite brand ❤🏵️🟠🏵️🟡🏵️🏵️🟠🏵️🟡🏵️❤️