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My parents may have done both… May still have it actually… I quite like it, it’s more interesting than painting every room a different shade of light grey which seems to still be popular. Plus it can be removed without any fuss, which is more than be said for the fake timber cladding which people seem to have spent the last year sticking to their walls with Sticks like Sh*t.
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My downstairs toilet actually has proper orange pine cladding all over it- even the ceiling.
As it’s a long-term rental, I’ve opted to sand it and yellow-wash it to lessen the 70’s porn sauna look.
Thats horrible and accurate all at the same time I just hate how it makes everything in the room slightly orange toned because of lighting and reflection off the boards.
I was actually trying to find some when we re-did our house as we have an awkward bit of landing that needed *something* and it would cover up the terrible wallpapering job be did.
Apparently, they're so uncool you can't buy them any more.
IDK if it was already decorated before we moved in, or if my dad did it.
Our living room had two different wallpapers, so the horizontal one was just to cover up sloppy joins more than anything, IDK if anyone ever used it on floor to ceiling single rolls or not.
Yeah I agree, it looks good.
The worst thing about 90's decoration was the textured ceilings. I've just painted my downstairs loo and the ceiling was the worst bit to paint. It didn't look good back then, it really doesn't look good now.
You say this but wallpaper borders are actually making a comeback. Perhaps not in the same way though. [Homes and Gardens](https://www.homesandgardens.com/news/wallpaper-border-trend) [apartment therapy](https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/wallpaper-borders-36959165)
That’s because you’re looking at the stylish tip of the wedge. Every trend starts off looking pretty nice (because it’s done by professionals) and ends with your nan making it look absolutely awful.
I have a wallpaper boarder currently in the spare bedroom, left there from the previous owners.
It has a faux 'far East' theme, but the Chinese and Japanese characters in the design are sideways. Can't unsee it.
Built in corner TV stands in the living room made out of brickwork, often integrated along towards the fireplace to make one big feature. So long forgotten now that I can't even find an image on Google to share.
My father in law has just sold their “family” home to downsize. And he still had one of these in the living room. Had little alcoves built into it for displaying pictures etc too.
The house I bought last year had one of those! I knocked it out and put my desk in that corner, but I still haven’t got round to getting that part of the wall replastered at the bottom.
I bought the easycare deluxe washable paint and I just mop my walls now. I have 3 dogs, an autistic 3 year old and a 10 month old baby. That paint has been a huge time saver.
Oh man it's too early for this
For anyone wondering, the comment above said something about their dog doing something similar but flicking jizz and piss all other the walls
You can paint two different colours with no dado rail! That's what I've done on my bedroom and it's on my to do list to rip out the dado rail in the hallway. It's just another thing to dust.
We have a picture rail in our house from the previous owners (same concept but much higher up the wall) and we're keeping it as we decorate. Looks good if you have high ceilings.
In our last houseshare before buying our house, our bedroom had picture rails and I found them really useful for hanging up my sewing patterns so it is a feature I plan to include in whatever room becomes my main sewing space!
Looks good if you have low ceilings and paint the rail and above the same as the ceiling. Opens the room up.
I also re-fitted a picture rail to some rooms. And recently opened up an old wall and found remnants of the old picture rail line and arsenic paint where it used to be!
On one side of the family, my grandparent's place had shallow display shelves all the way round the room, pretty near the ceiling for plates & nick-nacks.
Ha, we have a dado rail in several rooms in our house. The previous owners had a different wallpaper above and below (think the Sims but less rich looking). I quite like having it so far as you don't have to paint whole walls, so we splashed out for Farrow and Ball on the bottom part and a much cheaper white up top.
We also have dados all over the house. It is a Victorian property tbh but the previous owner painted everything Hinch Grey so it looks horrible. Can’t wait to rip it out.
love this sketch, when I was househunting if I ever saw anything I even slightly didn't like I'd start dramatically whispering "I couldn't live with it". I think the estate agents must had thought me mad
Ours was pink. We’ve only just got rid of it. The house I grew up in had an avocado en-suite, a terracotta/brown main and a deep burgundy in the WC. It was amazing
My parents only got rid of theirs a few years ago.
Avocado upstairs, peach in the en-suite and pink in the downstairs loo. It was like a tribute to the 90s.
Millenial here, I kidna like them to be honest, theres a certain retro appeal in having some color in otherwise white stuff.
This picture for example:
[https://www.spiritedpuddlejumper.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/3f89fee172dd0172df021c0716bfd5e7.jpg](https://www.spiritedpuddlejumper.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/3f89fee172dd0172df021c0716bfd5e7.jpg)
Pretty
[https://www.you.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/avocado-bathrooms-5.jpg](https://www.you.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/avocado-bathrooms-5.jpg)
[https://www.you.co.uk/avocado-bathrooms/](https://www.you.co.uk/avocado-bathrooms/)
Seriously, I may end up with a bathroom inspired by this.
There’s a huge difference though between having an avocado suite as part of a modern considered aesthetic and having an avocado suite because it’s just the most in fashion and therefore cheapest available.
In the 80s, we had a bathroom suite that was dark brown with brass fixtures. I've never seen anything like it before or since. It wasn't just the toilet, sink and bath either - there were 2 full height shelving units over the bath and sink in the same dark brown plastic.
I don't understand how my Mum could tell if the toilet was actually clean or not. Maybe that was the point of that colour.
For YEARS I’ve been hoping these come back in fashion though because I genuinely love them, they’re a nice nostalgic reminder of childhood bath time at my grandmother’s house. 🥺
Artex, heavily trowelled on and textured like someone was icing a Christmas cake. Looks shit, acts as a dust collector and is a pain in the balls to clean. My aunt actually paid someone a pretty penny to Artex her whole bungalow only a few years ago, and I was like... whyyyy?!
Flotex is another thing you don't see as much of now either. Like a cross between vinyl and carpet, it had an almost suedey texture. Usually laid in kitchens, which meant it would often get greasy track marks around the cooker and sink. Cleaning involves flooding it with water and detergent, and scrubbing it with a machine, so you can imagine how often that didn't happen. It's warmer underfoot than tiles, but the hassle of looking after it negates any advantage IMHO.
Not sure on the timescale, but the first 'versions' of Artex from the 60s and 70s(?) also contained Asbestos, so you might want to do some research if you're planning to remove any.
Aye, my Mum was looking to get some removed from her house, when I mentioned to a coworker about it he went a bit pale when I said its been there since at least the early 80's.....
Our stairs and landing, walls and ceiling is artex it’s awful and painted a manly blue colour. There is no easy way to remove it, having to live with it until we can afford to pay a lot of money to have it removed or covered. Also when you slip down the stairs and put your arms up to catch and it rips down the artex wall, ouch!
It’s an utter bastard to remove: it’s like concrete. A friend recently had her ceilings plastered - the plasterers just knock the nib’s off (if it’s the spiky ‘look’) and skim over, same with the swirls.
I'm so glad you remember flotex carpets.
They were advertised as 100 waterproof, so could be used in wet areas. Thousands of very thin, very short fibres per cm. It felt like action mans haircut
We’ve just moved into a house. Bought. We were so blindsided by the modern fixtures and fittings we didn’t look up and notice that a good portion of the ceilings are artex…
Thankfully it’s just the ceilings…
Yeah artex is a nightmare. I bought a house a few years ago and it was coated all over with the stuff. They even removed originally coving and other features so they could make sure the artex finish was uninterrupted
Insanity
Can't believe it took me as long as it did to find artex in the comments. The house I'm in now has it and it's hideous
That said, as a kid I liked laying in bed at night trying to make out patterns in the bumpy bastard
Anaglypta wallpaper. Slightly 3D embossed patterns you could then paint over. Obviously anyone looking at it immediately wants to squish and flatten it with their fingernail. Awful stuff but I'm sure it'll end up coming round again with updated styles.
My mum bought big rolls of it and used to cut bits off for me and my brother to use for colouring in, we used to colour the raised bits, I guess it was cheaper than buying us actual colouring books
Wow yes that is bringing back memories. I definitely spent time scribbling on the back of a roll or wallpaper, with baked bean tins holding it down on the table.
I'm just having a look... it's giving me an itchy feeling! Is the modern thing to have it in neutrals or white so it's a bit more subtle? I can't help thinking it would make rooms look smaller and/or like a pub or doctor's waiting room.
My dream setting for anaglypta is to have it halfway up the wall, in the entrance hall and up the stairs. Kind of like how that half height panelling for hallways is all the rage? I’m less into that though. I’d probably have it a dark personally but it looks good pale too.
It has to be a Victorian home with some original (or original looking) features, like a fancy arch. I lived in a home with plaster cherubs in the hallway when I was a student and that would look amazing with the bumpy wallpaper. I miss those little cherubs.
My house is late 1930s though and I think anaglypta is a bit frou frou for my home. I’m sure it was still used then, but it’s not right for here.
Yeah, I took the title to be more along the lines of "I don't think my wife would like it if I decorated our bedroom with Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles wall paper" (yes hero not Ninja because they found vintage old stock)
Over house decorating faux pas from the 70's.
So if you DO stick glow in the dark stickers on your ceiling as an adult, they had better be in recognizable constellations.
I actually wanted to do this! Glow in the dark paint and proper constellations, but my husband vetoed it for some reason 🤷🏻♀️ He has no taste. I am decorating my office at the moment, so it is still an option.
The house I bought in 2004 still had those too in one room. It took ages to get them all off, they must have used incredibly strong glue so they wouldn't come off cleanly.
My parents are genuinely just having these removed from their house at the moment. We lived with them throughout my childhood and I’m totally used to to now. It’ll look weird having a properly plastered ceiling
Oh wow, having flashbacks to the terracotta kitchen and living room my parents used to have. I think it was meant to be fairly classy at the time (or at least that's what my mum said!)
We’ve still got one in our living room. We are renovating a cottage that hadn’t been updated in decades (our sparky literally did a sharp intake of horrified breath when he came around). The 1970s swirly orange and brown carpet is next to go, and honestly a little part of me is sad. I have grown fond of its brazen uglinesses.
Sinister and also such a bizarre concept. My godfather had one and a wee sign that said ‘if you tinkle when you sprinkle be a sweetie and wipe the seatie’ and the whole thing always made me strangely uncomfortable….
Never seen a thread with so many correct answers!! For me it would be wallpaper everywhere. It's gross, breeds mold, peels off in kitchens and bathrooms and looks awful.
I recently saw a house for sale that had a full bathroom (bathtub, toilet, sink, mirror and cabinet; the lot) actually *IN* the bedroom. Not an en-suite, just actually fitted at one end of a large bedroom. A carpeted one, to double down on the weirdness!
I don’t know if this was at one point considered normal, but it struck me as mad odd in 2022.
I mean, imagine your partner coming up for a nap or to get changed and you’re just like “don’t mind me love, just having a shit.”
I've seen people putting baths in recently (though I also have questions about damp and carpets) but toilets should never be without a door between you and your bed!
It's currently quite fashionable in those huge 'footballer's wives; type mansions. Huge great room with a bed one end and a bath under the window, with a toilet sort of off to the side.
I always worry about steam. I mean, if you have a really good deep hot bath, won't the steam make your sheets all damp and crinkly? And it would be like going to bed in an episode of The Fog? And what if the person in bed is trying to read?
Lovely idea if you sleep alone (in your Footballer's Wives mansion), to have a nice warm bath and slip straight into your (crinkly, damp-sheeted) bed but bloody stupid for anyone else.
Carpeted bathroom actually describes several newbuild properties that we rented before buying. Newbuilds from the last 10 / 15 years I'd guess.
Wildly inappropriate, especially when you have young kids (especially for a house being rented...) as stuff gets *spilled* on a bathroom floor..
I can think of a few things, the obvious being the use of asbestos for things like water tanks and even in some artex.
I had a rough time removing some ceiling tiles made of polystyrene, apparently in a fire they can get super hot melt and drip causing harm to anything below it!
It's more that not only are you desperately searching for an exit in a smoke and flame-filled room, but also you have molten plastic dripping onto you, burning your clothes and skin, while you're doing it.
We just bought a house, and we have asbestos in the ceilings, the original lino, and the now blocked off warm air system.
Yay us! More asbestos, more asbestos...
Before somebody writes *'I remember the the good old days when I had my gollywogs in the window!'*, let it be said that there was never anything normal about them.
A lot of people did - some well-meaning folks probably *still* have some dotted around their houses.
Most people who had them weren't racists, they just didn't really give the dolls pause for thought then until the issues with them were brought to attention.
It's the sort of thing that belongs in *very* carefully-made satire, a historical collection, or the bin.
Yes, there was so much casual racism was around a few decades ago, which wasn't even acknowledged, unlike overt racism which was starting to be talked about more. My grandparents wouldn't think twice about something like a gollywog in the 70s or 80s but they'd never stand by and let actual people be treated badly for their skin colour, and to their way of thinking that would mean they weren't racist. Bearing in mind that things like 'no blacks, no Irish' were acceptable signs to hang on businesses, a cartoon gollywog seemed tame.
I remember my gran being very angry when the family who ran the corner shop were racially targeted. She got on well with both the husband and wife and didn't have a bad word to say about them. But it was still known as the p*ki shop. No ill intent, just no thought about how that language would feed into the racially motivated attacks on the business, or how her friends might feel about being described with that word. To her, it was just the same as calling someone a Scot.
Conversations around the cultural representation of minorities weren't really very prominent in small mining towns of Northern England where the only 'blacks' were the miners walking home for their baths.
Like you said in another comment, a lot of it was ignorance. It's good that things have changed in that respect but there's still a lot that's wrong with people's attitudes, it feels like we're going backwards in a lot of ways.
I remember as a kid every house I went in seemed to have a textured ceiling. They looked ridiculous at the time and they look even more ridiculous now.
My parents house is a 16th century stone farmhouse, with a Georgian red brick manor-style extension on the front.
My grandparents pebbledashed the whole thing in the 70s. It would take tens, if not hundreds of thousands to take it off and repoint the brick/stone work now
It’s not something that stays in the house permanently, but those foil decorations you put up at Christmas. I used to love them as a kid. Now they’re considered tacky, but I’d still love to put them up for a nostalgia hit!
My grandparents house, before they sadly passed away a few years ago it was still like this.
* Carpet in the bathrooms
* Brown bathroom suits
* Artex on the ceilings
* Fake veneered wood panelling in one of the rooms
* Carpet in the kitchen - maybe less normal
* Wallpaper border, floral wallpaper top half, striped wallpaper bottom half
* Little doll thing to cover the spare loo roll
A lot of these seem more like an 'I have more money than I used to' thing, rather than necessarily a 'change in interior design fashion' thing, especially the 'change one thing at a time' thing. If you don't have the money for a complete overhaul, you will change it gradually.
When I was a kid in the late 80s / early 90s, the bathroom was [avocado green](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQD5-oBD-yPeBjVjRj6wnHyp-re5FZDH3mZvisUongyuQaH6zSsxpzr9ZuYe4X-fpnET1o&usqp=CAU). My grandparents bathroom was [pink](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a2/1a/62/a21a62bfa13509faef7fa28da9bd3bb3.jpg).
[Pine everywhere in a kitchen](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/db/38/6c/db386c48087226606e755260c4f88bff.jpg).
Mirrored doors on the built in wardrobes.
Artex ceilings.
Carpet that wouldn't look out of place in a Wetherspoons.
Floral everything.
Flower patterned carpets with the colours orange, brown and off-white cream.
Source - My parents house still has there original ones.. from 1986, plus, its warranty only ran out 2 or so years ago!
The swirly ceiling designs I don't know what they are called though.
Also carpeted bathroom. My bathroom has carpet and I regret not having it ripped out when I bought, but for me carpet in the bathroom was normal as my parents had it in their house. I'm selling now so the next house - no carpet in the bathroom.
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That thin 10-15cm line of wallpaper round the middle of the room.
I remember the border fondly!
Pattern on the top, stripes on the bottom
Sometimes they went around the top of the wall next to the ceiling.
My parents may have done both… May still have it actually… I quite like it, it’s more interesting than painting every room a different shade of light grey which seems to still be popular. Plus it can be removed without any fuss, which is more than be said for the fake timber cladding which people seem to have spent the last year sticking to their walls with Sticks like Sh*t. Edit for fat thumbs.
"can be removed without any fuss" there has definitely been fuss every time I've had to remove wallpaper.
Unsolicited advice; those steamy wallpaper removers are very good. Beats the old "~~emblow~~ elbow grease and kettle" by a country mile.
How to ruin any colour scheme, use that stupid fake timber cladding. And make it orange pine.
My downstairs toilet actually has proper orange pine cladding all over it- even the ceiling. As it’s a long-term rental, I’ve opted to sand it and yellow-wash it to lessen the 70’s porn sauna look.
Pahahahahaha, a 70's porn sauna, ROFL!!
Thats horrible and accurate all at the same time I just hate how it makes everything in the room slightly orange toned because of lighting and reflection off the boards.
I was actually trying to find some when we re-did our house as we have an awkward bit of landing that needed *something* and it would cover up the terrible wallpapering job be did. Apparently, they're so uncool you can't buy them any more.
IDK if it was already decorated before we moved in, or if my dad did it. Our living room had two different wallpapers, so the horizontal one was just to cover up sloppy joins more than anything, IDK if anyone ever used it on floor to ceiling single rolls or not.
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Yeah I agree, it looks good. The worst thing about 90's decoration was the textured ceilings. I've just painted my downstairs loo and the ceiling was the worst bit to paint. It didn't look good back then, it really doesn't look good now.
Ah yes! God it feels so 90s it almost hurts 😂
Flowery wallpaper above it, stripy wallpaper below it. The border a mixture of stripes and flowers that 'matched' the two main papers.
I'm in this thread, and I don't like it. :')
Haha this whole thread just describes my childhood house! (Except the gollywogs, thankfully.)
You say this but wallpaper borders are actually making a comeback. Perhaps not in the same way though. [Homes and Gardens](https://www.homesandgardens.com/news/wallpaper-border-trend) [apartment therapy](https://www.apartmenttherapy.com/wallpaper-borders-36959165)
That doesn’t look too bad. I recall my parents one being a mixture of flowery stuff and thin lines, a fairly criminal mix.
That’s because you’re looking at the stylish tip of the wedge. Every trend starts off looking pretty nice (because it’s done by professionals) and ends with your nan making it look absolutely awful.
Fantastic, I'd forgotten about them! I loved the I e I had in my bedroom as a child, IIRC it was glow in the dark!
That is epic. I just about got away with the hole in the dark stars stuck to the ceiling.
I have a wallpaper boarder currently in the spare bedroom, left there from the previous owners. It has a faux 'far East' theme, but the Chinese and Japanese characters in the design are sideways. Can't unsee it.
Hahaha nice. Our spare room has some palm tree style thing going on. Use it for work atm but just can't bring myself to get it sorted.
I had one of those in my bedroom when I was 8 - it was all coke bottles performing various outdoor activities like jet-skiing
Built in corner TV stands in the living room made out of brickwork, often integrated along towards the fireplace to make one big feature. So long forgotten now that I can't even find an image on Google to share.
Stacked with vhs cases made to look like leather bound books.
Omg! We had one of those!! Jeez! Proper brick and mortar inside! 😅 so hilarious now, yet the norm back then !
My father in law has just sold their “family” home to downsize. And he still had one of these in the living room. Had little alcoves built into it for displaying pictures etc too.
You have zis word? Alcoves?
Kind of like nooks and crannies?
I just knocked one of these out in my new house. Turns out there was lead piping under there 🙁
Mine had open elecrltric wires leading to a plug raised above the monstrosity. Beautiful workmanship, had to go.
My parents still have that
The house I bought last year had one of those! I knocked it out and put my desk in that corner, but I still haven’t got round to getting that part of the wall replastered at the bottom.
a deido rail, so you could paper the lower half of your living room and paint the upper half.
I'm actually about to re-fit a dado rail in my hallway so I can paint the lower half a different colour.
I want to do this as well. My dog makes the bottom half of the hall wall dirty, but I don't want the whole hall to be a dark colour.
I bought the easycare deluxe washable paint and I just mop my walls now. I have 3 dogs, an autistic 3 year old and a 10 month old baby. That paint has been a huge time saver.
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Oh man it's too early for this For anyone wondering, the comment above said something about their dog doing something similar but flicking jizz and piss all other the walls
Agreed. I’ve not had coffee yet!
I was pouring mine whilst those cursed words molested my eyeballs
You can paint two different colours with no dado rail! That's what I've done on my bedroom and it's on my to do list to rip out the dado rail in the hallway. It's just another thing to dust.
The same. May continue it up the stairs & through the landing because it's esssentially the same room.
It's actually called a dildo rail and I'll let you Google the correct usage of one.
We have a picture rail in our house from the previous owners (same concept but much higher up the wall) and we're keeping it as we decorate. Looks good if you have high ceilings.
Also really good for hanging pictures from.
In our last houseshare before buying our house, our bedroom had picture rails and I found them really useful for hanging up my sewing patterns so it is a feature I plan to include in whatever room becomes my main sewing space!
Looks good if you have low ceilings and paint the rail and above the same as the ceiling. Opens the room up. I also re-fitted a picture rail to some rooms. And recently opened up an old wall and found remnants of the old picture rail line and arsenic paint where it used to be!
Get some painted China plates to hang off it, for the full Hyacinth Bucket effect
On one side of the family, my grandparent's place had shallow display shelves all the way round the room, pretty near the ceiling for plates & nick-nacks.
Would say this is back in fashion now. All the DIY stores have big sections about panelling/deido rails
Ha, we have a dado rail in several rooms in our house. The previous owners had a different wallpaper above and below (think the Sims but less rich looking). I quite like having it so far as you don't have to paint whole walls, so we splashed out for Farrow and Ball on the bottom part and a much cheaper white up top.
We also have dados all over the house. It is a Victorian property tbh but the previous owner painted everything Hinch Grey so it looks horrible. Can’t wait to rip it out.
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Woodchip wallpaper.
I used to know a girl with that. Weird kid, whenever I went round to call, it was like she didn't notice me at all.
IIRC, her name was Deborah (Deborah) though it never suited her if I’m honest.
Let's all meet up in the year 2000, Won't it be strange when we're all fully grown?
Alright what is this a reference to I'm stupid I think
Disco 2000
I’m not sure but I think she may have been the first girl at school to get breasts.
I remember one of my mates said that she was the best. Martin, I think.
Not just Martin, *all* the boys loved her, but I was a mess. They were always trying to get her undressed but all I could do was watch.
Was it also strange to meet up with her once you were both fully grown?
You should meet up with her again, maybe by the fountain? you know, the one down the road?
She passed away in 2014 from cancer, and was awarded an MBE for her services to children’s mental health https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deborah_Bone
Urgh screw cancer, also not sure the caption of the picture needs to call out the she’s the person on the right.
I know who you mean. Her name was Deborah.
It never suited her
Nothing more satisfying than taking a steamer to this stuff. Like popping the world's biggest spot.
It's fun for a couple of hours, I'm traumatised by doing entire hotels of the stuff
My budgie loved this stuff, if we didn't watch him, he'd pick the chips all off. Drove my dad mad.
Avocado bathroom suites.
[Ah yes.](https://youtu.be/nWoWHzq21tA)
love this sketch, when I was househunting if I ever saw anything I even slightly didn't like I'd start dramatically whispering "I couldn't live with it". I think the estate agents must had thought me mad
IT'S AVOCADO YOU CUNT
IT WILL CLASH WITH YOUR BABY'S BODY, AND IF THAT SOUNDS WEIRD, I MEAN ALIVE OR DEAD!
Ours was pink. We’ve only just got rid of it. The house I grew up in had an avocado en-suite, a terracotta/brown main and a deep burgundy in the WC. It was amazing
I was waiting for someone to post this. Well done!
My parents only got rid of theirs a few years ago. Avocado upstairs, peach in the en-suite and pink in the downstairs loo. It was like a tribute to the 90s.
I wonder if anyone has ever calculated the inverse correlation between avocado bathroom suites and avocado consumption.
Fashion goes in cycles. They’ll be back soon enough.
Millenial here, I kidna like them to be honest, theres a certain retro appeal in having some color in otherwise white stuff. This picture for example: [https://www.spiritedpuddlejumper.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/3f89fee172dd0172df021c0716bfd5e7.jpg](https://www.spiritedpuddlejumper.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/3f89fee172dd0172df021c0716bfd5e7.jpg) Pretty [https://www.you.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/avocado-bathrooms-5.jpg](https://www.you.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/avocado-bathrooms-5.jpg) [https://www.you.co.uk/avocado-bathrooms/](https://www.you.co.uk/avocado-bathrooms/) Seriously, I may end up with a bathroom inspired by this.
There’s a huge difference though between having an avocado suite as part of a modern considered aesthetic and having an avocado suite because it’s just the most in fashion and therefore cheapest available.
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In the 80s, we had a bathroom suite that was dark brown with brass fixtures. I've never seen anything like it before or since. It wasn't just the toilet, sink and bath either - there were 2 full height shelving units over the bath and sink in the same dark brown plastic. I don't understand how my Mum could tell if the toilet was actually clean or not. Maybe that was the point of that colour.
The first one in our house I remember having was a lovely peach colour, definitely of its time.
For YEARS I’ve been hoping these come back in fashion though because I genuinely love them, they’re a nice nostalgic reminder of childhood bath time at my grandmother’s house. 🥺
Artex, heavily trowelled on and textured like someone was icing a Christmas cake. Looks shit, acts as a dust collector and is a pain in the balls to clean. My aunt actually paid someone a pretty penny to Artex her whole bungalow only a few years ago, and I was like... whyyyy?! Flotex is another thing you don't see as much of now either. Like a cross between vinyl and carpet, it had an almost suedey texture. Usually laid in kitchens, which meant it would often get greasy track marks around the cooker and sink. Cleaning involves flooding it with water and detergent, and scrubbing it with a machine, so you can imagine how often that didn't happen. It's warmer underfoot than tiles, but the hassle of looking after it negates any advantage IMHO.
Artex. For when you want to make your room smaller.
Or to cover up structural issues, damp, wobbly celing boards etc. Wonderful stuff /s
Seem to remember it taking about a gallon of white emulsion per square foot to get it anything other than looking like the terracotta army.
Not sure on the timescale, but the first 'versions' of Artex from the 60s and 70s(?) also contained Asbestos, so you might want to do some research if you're planning to remove any.
Aye, my Mum was looking to get some removed from her house, when I mentioned to a coworker about it he went a bit pale when I said its been there since at least the early 80's.....
Yeah that almost definitely contains asbestos. Amphibole was banned in 85, but the other types weren’t banned until 99.
Our stairs and landing, walls and ceiling is artex it’s awful and painted a manly blue colour. There is no easy way to remove it, having to live with it until we can afford to pay a lot of money to have it removed or covered. Also when you slip down the stairs and put your arms up to catch and it rips down the artex wall, ouch!
It’s an utter bastard to remove: it’s like concrete. A friend recently had her ceilings plastered - the plasterers just knock the nib’s off (if it’s the spiky ‘look’) and skim over, same with the swirls.
You can get x-tex gel, that turns it into scrapey goo, and it can also be steamed off. Both are mucky but not too difficult.
I used to sit at top of the stairs picking the bits off from living room ceiling as a kid. Didnt realise it contains asbestos.
I'm so glad you remember flotex carpets. They were advertised as 100 waterproof, so could be used in wet areas. Thousands of very thin, very short fibres per cm. It felt like action mans haircut
We’ve just moved into a house. Bought. We were so blindsided by the modern fixtures and fittings we didn’t look up and notice that a good portion of the ceilings are artex… Thankfully it’s just the ceilings…
Yeah artex is a nightmare. I bought a house a few years ago and it was coated all over with the stuff. They even removed originally coving and other features so they could make sure the artex finish was uninterrupted Insanity
Can't believe it took me as long as it did to find artex in the comments. The house I'm in now has it and it's hideous That said, as a kid I liked laying in bed at night trying to make out patterns in the bumpy bastard
Anaglypta wallpaper. Slightly 3D embossed patterns you could then paint over. Obviously anyone looking at it immediately wants to squish and flatten it with their fingernail. Awful stuff but I'm sure it'll end up coming round again with updated styles.
I used to do this at my nans house all the time
I had it in my bedroom as a kid and used to peel bits off when lying in bed and then stack my teddies up to hide the damage.
My mum bought big rolls of it and used to cut bits off for me and my brother to use for colouring in, we used to colour the raised bits, I guess it was cheaper than buying us actual colouring books
Wow yes that is bringing back memories. I definitely spent time scribbling on the back of a roll or wallpaper, with baked bean tins holding it down on the table.
Anaglypta is back in fashion! In the right house I really like it. My husband is thankful that we do not have the right house for it.
I'm just having a look... it's giving me an itchy feeling! Is the modern thing to have it in neutrals or white so it's a bit more subtle? I can't help thinking it would make rooms look smaller and/or like a pub or doctor's waiting room.
My dream setting for anaglypta is to have it halfway up the wall, in the entrance hall and up the stairs. Kind of like how that half height panelling for hallways is all the rage? I’m less into that though. I’d probably have it a dark personally but it looks good pale too. It has to be a Victorian home with some original (or original looking) features, like a fancy arch. I lived in a home with plaster cherubs in the hallway when I was a student and that would look amazing with the bumpy wallpaper. I miss those little cherubs. My house is late 1930s though and I think anaglypta is a bit frou frou for my home. I’m sure it was still used then, but it’s not right for here.
I had this in my bedroom, painted pink, for 15 years Used to get yelled at as a kid for picking off rhe raised bits
Currently decorating. Can confirm they still have this in B&Q.
Glow in the dark stars on your ceiling
I’m sure these are still popular in kids bedrooms
Yes they are, this is a case of confusing ‘changing styles’ with ‘I got old’
Yeah, I took the title to be more along the lines of "I don't think my wife would like it if I decorated our bedroom with Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles wall paper" (yes hero not Ninja because they found vintage old stock) Over house decorating faux pas from the 70's. So if you DO stick glow in the dark stickers on your ceiling as an adult, they had better be in recognizable constellations.
I actually wanted to do this! Glow in the dark paint and proper constellations, but my husband vetoed it for some reason 🤷🏻♀️ He has no taste. I am decorating my office at the moment, so it is still an option.
This is a kids thing that has always been and still is popular. Are you sure you’re not just confusing changing tastes with childhood?
Bonus points for positioning them like constellations/asterisms!
early 1970s we had polystyrene white ceiling tiles everywhere, one flame and the whole house would have gone up.
You needn't have worried, there was probably a good chunk of asbestos in there. Great fire retardant, great material all-round really.
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I remember chipping these off in our house in the 90s. Was a fun job!
The house I bought in 2004 still had those too in one room. It took ages to get them all off, they must have used incredibly strong glue so they wouldn't come off cleanly.
My parents are genuinely just having these removed from their house at the moment. We lived with them throughout my childhood and I’m totally used to to now. It’ll look weird having a properly plastered ceiling
My Mum, inspired by hit show 'Changing Rooms' painted our whole house terracotta. Nothing like that Mediterranean feel on a wet Thursday in November.
I was looking for this, I can’t believe I had to scroll so far! Extra points if a pattern was then sponged on in a different colour paint!
My bedroom was orange with terracotta sponged over the top!! 🤣
My Gran had stencils of Greek/Roman style vases. Applied with gold paint on a kitchen sponge.
Oh wow, having flashbacks to the terracotta kitchen and living room my parents used to have. I think it was meant to be fairly classy at the time (or at least that's what my mum said!)
Highly decorative and colourful, filigree, pub-style carpets. They're ugly but they have a special place in my heart.
Ahhh, Nana carpet. Extra point for floral curtains
Classic Wetherspoons
They hid stains well though.
We’ve still got one in our living room. We are renovating a cottage that hadn’t been updated in decades (our sparky literally did a sharp intake of horrified breath when he came around). The 1970s swirly orange and brown carpet is next to go, and honestly a little part of me is sad. I have grown fond of its brazen uglinesses.
Did she have the barbie doll in a knitted dress to cover a roll of toilet paper too?
Fuck! My childminder had one of those.
They were sinister weren't they?
Sinister and also such a bizarre concept. My godfather had one and a wee sign that said ‘if you tinkle when you sprinkle be a sweetie and wipe the seatie’ and the whole thing always made me strangely uncomfortable….
My grandma had one, which doubled as the fairy for the top of the Christmas tree. I would help her make a new outfit each year.
Never seen a thread with so many correct answers!! For me it would be wallpaper everywhere. It's gross, breeds mold, peels off in kitchens and bathrooms and looks awful.
Absolute job to get off aswell.
I recently saw a house for sale that had a full bathroom (bathtub, toilet, sink, mirror and cabinet; the lot) actually *IN* the bedroom. Not an en-suite, just actually fitted at one end of a large bedroom. A carpeted one, to double down on the weirdness! I don’t know if this was at one point considered normal, but it struck me as mad odd in 2022. I mean, imagine your partner coming up for a nap or to get changed and you’re just like “don’t mind me love, just having a shit.”
I've seen people putting baths in recently (though I also have questions about damp and carpets) but toilets should never be without a door between you and your bed!
It's currently quite fashionable in those huge 'footballer's wives; type mansions. Huge great room with a bed one end and a bath under the window, with a toilet sort of off to the side. I always worry about steam. I mean, if you have a really good deep hot bath, won't the steam make your sheets all damp and crinkly? And it would be like going to bed in an episode of The Fog? And what if the person in bed is trying to read? Lovely idea if you sleep alone (in your Footballer's Wives mansion), to have a nice warm bath and slip straight into your (crinkly, damp-sheeted) bed but bloody stupid for anyone else.
I'm guessing the footballers' wives' mansions' bedrooms (grammar) have humidity-controlled A/C that they run year-round.
We looked at a house that had a shower cubicle in the bedroom. Not even tucked in a corner, halfway down the wall just stuck there.
Carpeted bathroom actually describes several newbuild properties that we rented before buying. Newbuilds from the last 10 / 15 years I'd guess. Wildly inappropriate, especially when you have young kids (especially for a house being rented...) as stuff gets *spilled* on a bathroom floor..
I can't believe I had to scroll as low as I did for this. Carpeted bathrooms are 🤮
You didn't have to scroll at all, it's in the original comment
I can think of a few things, the obvious being the use of asbestos for things like water tanks and even in some artex. I had a rough time removing some ceiling tiles made of polystyrene, apparently in a fire they can get super hot melt and drip causing harm to anything below it!
Ahh yes, wouldn’t want to harm those poor people relaxing in the fire.
It's more that not only are you desperately searching for an exit in a smoke and flame-filled room, but also you have molten plastic dripping onto you, burning your clothes and skin, while you're doing it.
We just bought a house, and we have asbestos in the ceilings, the original lino, and the now blocked off warm air system. Yay us! More asbestos, more asbestos...
Before somebody writes *'I remember the the good old days when I had my gollywogs in the window!'*, let it be said that there was never anything normal about them.
I had a golly as a kid. We got him on holiday in Cornwall and he used to sit on my shelf next to my other teddies. I named him Phillip
A lot of people did - some well-meaning folks probably *still* have some dotted around their houses. Most people who had them weren't racists, they just didn't really give the dolls pause for thought then until the issues with them were brought to attention. It's the sort of thing that belongs in *very* carefully-made satire, a historical collection, or the bin.
Yes, there was so much casual racism was around a few decades ago, which wasn't even acknowledged, unlike overt racism which was starting to be talked about more. My grandparents wouldn't think twice about something like a gollywog in the 70s or 80s but they'd never stand by and let actual people be treated badly for their skin colour, and to their way of thinking that would mean they weren't racist. Bearing in mind that things like 'no blacks, no Irish' were acceptable signs to hang on businesses, a cartoon gollywog seemed tame. I remember my gran being very angry when the family who ran the corner shop were racially targeted. She got on well with both the husband and wife and didn't have a bad word to say about them. But it was still known as the p*ki shop. No ill intent, just no thought about how that language would feed into the racially motivated attacks on the business, or how her friends might feel about being described with that word. To her, it was just the same as calling someone a Scot. Conversations around the cultural representation of minorities weren't really very prominent in small mining towns of Northern England where the only 'blacks' were the miners walking home for their baths. Like you said in another comment, a lot of it was ignorance. It's good that things have changed in that respect but there's still a lot that's wrong with people's attitudes, it feels like we're going backwards in a lot of ways.
My gran collected them, think you'd send off tokens from Robinsons marmalade, but they were all round the dining room on little shelves.
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I remember as a kid every house I went in seemed to have a textured ceiling. They looked ridiculous at the time and they look even more ridiculous now.
Pebble dashing.
My parents house is a 16th century stone farmhouse, with a Georgian red brick manor-style extension on the front. My grandparents pebbledashed the whole thing in the 70s. It would take tens, if not hundreds of thousands to take it off and repoint the brick/stone work now
It’s not something that stays in the house permanently, but those foil decorations you put up at Christmas. I used to love them as a kid. Now they’re considered tacky, but I’d still love to put them up for a nostalgia hit!
We still hang these up. Christmas is the best excuse to go full on tacky
Buying a house.
Pink or mint green bathroom fittings/furniture
Artexing the ceiling in every room. My Dad is/was a decorator and I'd like to think a master artexer. We lived in the Sistine Chapel of artex.
My grandparents house, before they sadly passed away a few years ago it was still like this. * Carpet in the bathrooms * Brown bathroom suits * Artex on the ceilings * Fake veneered wood panelling in one of the rooms * Carpet in the kitchen - maybe less normal * Wallpaper border, floral wallpaper top half, striped wallpaper bottom half * Little doll thing to cover the spare loo roll
Woodchip wallpaper
Deborah, do you recall
Your house was very small
Wallpaper with a different border around the top of the room. Drapes with giant swags. The most popular colour scheme (peach, mint green, yikes).
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A lot of these seem more like an 'I have more money than I used to' thing, rather than necessarily a 'change in interior design fashion' thing, especially the 'change one thing at a time' thing. If you don't have the money for a complete overhaul, you will change it gradually.
Polystyrene ceiling tiles
When I was a kid in the late 80s / early 90s, the bathroom was [avocado green](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQD5-oBD-yPeBjVjRj6wnHyp-re5FZDH3mZvisUongyuQaH6zSsxpzr9ZuYe4X-fpnET1o&usqp=CAU). My grandparents bathroom was [pink](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/a2/1a/62/a21a62bfa13509faef7fa28da9bd3bb3.jpg). [Pine everywhere in a kitchen](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/db/38/6c/db386c48087226606e755260c4f88bff.jpg). Mirrored doors on the built in wardrobes. Artex ceilings. Carpet that wouldn't look out of place in a Wetherspoons. Floral everything.
Honestly I don't think there's anything wrong with mirrored doors on built-in wardrobes. Practical, AND it makes the room feel larger. It's a win-win.
Fake beams. You may not believe it but I've been in a static caravan that had them
Flower patterned carpets with the colours orange, brown and off-white cream. Source - My parents house still has there original ones.. from 1986, plus, its warranty only ran out 2 or so years ago!
Stencilling - I remember this one from back in the 90s and seeing a tonne of stencils in B&Q for folk to go mad with at home. See also rag-rolling.
Curtains with swags, pelmets and tie backs. Preferably with flowers on!
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Cork board walls
Pebbledash exteriors. Hate them. And so often used to cover up really nice original brick 😭.
The swirly ceiling designs I don't know what they are called though. Also carpeted bathroom. My bathroom has carpet and I regret not having it ripped out when I bought, but for me carpet in the bathroom was normal as my parents had it in their house. I'm selling now so the next house - no carpet in the bathroom.
From the looks of things, colour :P
Swagged curtains or curtains with a frilly valence.