I just know you want to see more eyeball hemorrhaging Euro home designs circa 1974. I wonder what it says that this was from the era of Nixon, the beginnings of disco, platform shoes and bell bottoms. For those too young to reminisce, feel yourself lucky.
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Your pony died… cuz you kitchen.. wasn’t pretty enough?
Haha. That’s… well, instant classic for a 20yo like myself.
Is it bad I didn’t find some of those pics that terrible? Or does that mean the 70’s are back? Some of those I might just change the color scheme a little. Although there were one that made thing the 70’s where still high from the 60’s.
So what’s the longest someone lasted in that yellow room before killing themselves? 12? 15 minutes?
No avocado appliances?
Being born in 66 myself, I grew up with this sort of decoration. I remember a lot of color from my younger days, something that’s missing in today’s ‘more elegant’ decoration. At least in the 70’s people dared to try something radically different 🙂
“Bye Mom, I’m off to school. Oh nice panties by the way.”
What a creapy picture that is.
Ah, yes the 70’s– the Vomit Age. Th3 70s was a tough transition in America. We gave liberties to women and the negroes and America went through a rough time to reposition itself. But we did a great job! Look at America today! NO OTHER COUNTRY in the world has provided ALL with the same rights. NO OTHER COUNTRY has dared FREEDOM to ALL.
That’s Groovy man!
And let’s not forget the acres and acres of burnt orange shag carpeting and mustard-yellow hallways in office buildings!
Having survived that era, I can say that it was ALL a bit over-done…as opposed to now, when its ALL being totally under-done with little, if any, color (no color is so PC…”We don’t want to offend anybody with offensive color schemes!”)
My work area is awash with endless walls of plain yellowish-off-off-white…gonna shoot myself if no color shows up soon!
Clearly whomever decided to put a horse that close to the kitchen never owned a horse. Well, ceramic tile where the horse walks is another clue.
I don’t think I would want my stable to open directly into my kitchen.. NOR would I want my bathroom sink to look exactly like my toilet. I don’t think these requests are unreasonable, does anyone??
Fantastic! I want them to decorate my house!
#6
“At least in the 70’s people dared to try something radically different :)”
Curiously enough though, is that the european interior designers are using the same furniture but with monochrome colouring scheme.
Uh, yeah. A walkway for horses and no sanitary break between it and the kitchen. No screen doors, either.
That looks like arsenic treated wood. In a food preperation area.
Pic 1 Couch:”Please, someone pour lighter fluid on me and throw a match over here.”
Pic 2 “I’m still looking for second can of fly spray”
Pic 3 “How about knocking before you bring in a photographer to show off your new bathroom?”
Pic 4 “Again, Mom, you really ought to start dressing your age.”
When looking for a house, in 2002, my wife & I toured one of those “70’s museum” homes…
Shag carpet in the living room. The rake was in the hall closet…
One bathroom was day-glo green/black color scheme, another was day-glo orange/black…
Oh.. My.. God…
Console “HiFi” with record-player & those crappy, boxy speakers with the drab-colored cloth facing…
Bean-bag chairs.
Horrible/fascinating 🙂
16 Pic 2 “I’m still looking for second can of fly spray”
Is she on tip-toe, or wearing spike-heels with her peasant dress?
Anyone bothered by the lack of overhead lighting?? With a darkly-painted ceiling and walls??
Cooking in an unlighted tunnel?
Eeewwww. I’ve seen these before and had managed to erase them from memory. Now they’re back again. Damn.
The third one reminds me of Time Tunnel. Yes, I’m that damn old.
My mother-in-law has a kitchen that is similar to the one shown in pic #2. Sort of a shotgun kitchen design. It is one of the worst designs for a kitchen I’ve ever had the displeasure of cooking in. Especially when there are two cooks and a few observers or children. What a hell hole. The 50’s through the 70’s were defined by houses that were chopped into segments (rooms), as to increase the value (The more rooms the more $$). This led to small kitchens, bathrooms, bedrooms and closets (if there were any at all). Closets were not considered living areas so closet space was minimized. The two colors that remind me of the 70’s was avacodo green and burnt orange. I get nausea flashbacks whenever I see either color. Watching the Brady Bunch nearly puts me in a coma.
Wow, fond memories.
Remember when toilet paper came in colors, to match the colored toilets? (it’s back!!)
I doubt many real people lived in rooms designed/decorated like that
just as most people don’t live in the types of highly designed spaces you see in magazines today.
Elements of the styles certainly could be found.
Oh, and if you don’t think that people in 2037 won’t be making fun of today’s fashions, you’re seriously mistaken. I remember sitting in my bellbottoms laughing at home movies from the 50’s where people wore straight leg jeans
Keeping your horses right off the kitchen? Naked female slave always perched on the bathtub? Helpful flower-shirted midget in the washroom? I pioneered ALL of these concepts! I want my cut from John.
Actually, seriously, I was a kid in the 1970’s, and I don’t remember any of that. Or disco, for that matter.
#25 – You pothead! 🙂
I missed the lack of overhead lighting in the kitchen. Eyestrain headaches for sure, especially with those white counters.
That last picture looks like the little girl wants her dress back. The big girl’s Olive Oyle legs are a good advertisement for pants.
At least they didn’t have to worry about HIV…
#29 – I know, but we should have.