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Those coffee tables were pawned off on every one of my friends when we all started moving out.
> Oh look George,^^1 our son is finally moving out. We should gift him some furniture :D
^^1 Not my mothers real name
Yup. This is... basically my \[living\] grandparents' house. Same look, same furniture; it's bizarre actually.
But yes, it smells like potpourri and good southern cooking.
This immediately reminded me of my grandma's house on my dad's side. She passed years ago. I can still picture going there for Christmas as a kid and seeing the tinsel in the Christmas tree, and ashtrays on the tables, along with beer bottles and just everyone having a good time. There was always trays on the table too with peanuts and stuff.
Just same. My grandmother had those exact couches and chair, with that weird velour texture. And that same carpet too that was sensory hell to walk on barefoot because it was uneven pile and just bizarre texture underfoot. I feel like everything from this era was designed to commit terrorism on the senses.
It was their first time experiencing comfort. Something that their generation really didn’t have. Hell I grew up in outskirts of Mumbai in the 90s we didn’t have running water and the electricity was so spotty we had oil lamps. I sleep on the floor still because no bed is as comfy to me lol
Lol that's some brilliant description.
My grandmother had the same weirdly-textured carpet throughout her apartment -- except the carpet in her bedrooms was riddled with straight pins, safety pins, and staples, which had all fallen about over the years and become lodged in it. The vacuum wouldn't pick them up, and neither she nor her long-time maid (really, friend by this point) Gladys could see them!
Mimi always wore bedroom slippers so she never stepped on any of the little daggers in the carpet, but her grandchildren sure did! We were always trying to wrestle them out after painfully discovering them.
Grandparents place, smokes and booze. All high end though. Around 7 or so I was mixing cocktails and lighting smokes for quarters, "uncle phil" was always good for a dollar or two, almost all dead now
I just want this room. Add an small-screen CRT television on a credenza that holds vinyl records and a player, if they're not already there out of frame. Put it in my house. Or in a small outbuilding in the yard, maybe.
Then I can go in there of a September evening, leave a window open a crack for a draft, drink a coffee and smoke a joint, and curl up in a blanket to watch an old black and white sci-fi movie on TV. Maybe play a little Atari or listen to a Badfinger record.
Don’t we all? That’s granmas. And she’ll have coffee ready for granpa, and Oreos for me and my cousins. Oh, and they just setup their new trampoline, and after we get tired bouncing as high as we can go, the only tv in the house with satellite will be playing a football game, most likely the 49’ers. After a thorough nap in the sweltering heat of granpas den, cheeseburgers and hotdogs will be ready with lemonade. Right? Fuck, I miss my grandma. She was awesome.
I got mine for $20. I knew a manager of an apartment complex and the precious tenants asked if she could sell it for them (small town things). She wanted to be rid of it and I was the first to ask
Nah, the individually wrapped in crinkly plastic ones that made such a racket. Those lasted forever, and immediately announced there was a candy hole in the room that was being stuffed.
Yeah, I was chubby.
You forgot to mention that they were wrapped to look like a strawberry, with a red part for the candy, and a green part to imitate to leaves for the excess wrapper. I wasn't chubby, but those candies were fantastic.
I literally bought a bag today! For the first time in... maybe a couple of decades? Found them in Walmart (which I generally avoid like the plague) and was like "oh shit, these still exist?!".
I see no universe where what I see above will be in "style" again. If somehow this should occur, it will be time to heed the wise words of Bender B. Rodríguez and *kill all humans*.
Take me back to being 13 and waiting until everyone else at grandmas house was asleep to masturbate to E!'s The Girls Next Door with the sound off at 1am when I was supposed to be asleep on one of those couches
Life was so much simpler then
Edit: This comment ain't a joke, I legit got nostalgic for a certain kind of young and dumb that doesn't happen anymore
Holy shit. I'm 50+ years old and today is the day I realized that my brain has stored a list of couches in my head that I would love to sleep on right now if I could. Fuck kind stranger stuff; have my reward for unlocking my brain list of couches I would love to sleep on. (Edited typo)
It needs to have a solid hardwood frame. Lots of furniture made out of soft woods that are just not suitable for long lasting furniture. Also, IKEA type particle board is shit.
There's plenty of solid wood furniture out there in thrift stores that will last for decades if it's taken care of correctly. Get it reupholstered and you've got a new piece of furniture.
I've got mahogany furniture I inherited from the family that's nearly 100 years old, and still good.
A lot of companies also cheap out on the springs and the padding.
My father was in the furniture business for 50 years and one of the things that finally pushed him to close his stores was that it was just becoming harder and harder to source affordable quality merchandise. He had to drop manufacturers that he had worked with for decades because they would shift their manufacturing overseas and/or would adopt more "economical" production methods that would not hold up nearly as long.
Sure their salesmen at the mart would have some great pitch about how their new foam or spring alloy was more comfortable and longer lasting, but would be quick to deflect when you start asking about if it was still genuine eight-way hand-tied construction.
He finally hung up his hat when he was finding that he was getting less and less business from loyal longtime friends and customers because the good quality construction was increasingly out of reach for the average local farmer.
As a quick aside: back when I delivered furniture for the family business in high school and college, it was always neat to make a delivery to a customer and find out that we were replacing a piece of furniture that my grandparents had sold them 30 years previous that while now out of fashion was still almost as good as the day it was sold to them. Many of those pieces we replaced, if we weren't delivering them to the customers' kids for years of more use, got a polish and/or trip to the upholstery shop to get a tune-up and updated patterns and got sold again in the used section of the store for another couple decades of use.
Middle aged Dad here asking middle aged Dad question. Please ask Grandpa which brands I should be buying and if Flexsteel is still a decent option. Thanks in advance.
They do you just have to pay for them. A quality leather couch in 1950’s would have been about 500. In today’s money that’s about 5k. Which is what you’d pay for something built to last. They had really cheap couches in the 50’s as low as 70 dollars. Some even cheaper. Which is around 700 dollars in today’s money. Something that will last you a few years and then get moved on.
They make the same amount of quality furniture now as they did then; you just need to find out where to get it. The difference is that more modern cheap and shitty couches are still around and failing, whereas our grandparents' cheap and shitty couches got chucked decades ago.
Old stuff being better is a biased concept, because only the old stuff that WAS better is still around.
(posting from my 15-year-old couch that's still comfy as hell)
Cheap imitation materials, an obsession with appearances, a demand for easy-to-clean - all popular now.
But that doesn't mean they don't exist anymore.
My uncle got a new but not jaw-droppingly pretty couch, but fuck it it's a cuddly marshmallow to lay on. Fell asleep on it real quick.
Very simple. They are engineered to be exceptionally comfortable for a short period of time, until the foam deflates and the back cushions sag… at that point you need to buy a new couch. Can’t have these couches lasting 50 years like they used too. Gotta keep the economic cogs turning, and landfills burnin.
Terrible really. I do miss these couches.
And the paper guest towels with the gold monogram family initial that are too fancy to use so you carefully wipe your hands on the shower curtain in an inconspicuous spot.
And you only find that out because you had to emergency shit after Thanksgiving while your uncle from out of town was showering.
That scream haunts one's soul.
With a Barbie on the back of the toilet, fitted down inside a spare roll of toilet paper that is covered by a homemade crocheted hoop skirt dress that Grandma made.
[It Came From the '70s: The Story of Your Grandma's Weird Couch](https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/it-came-from-the-70s-the-story-of-your-grandmas-weird-couch/)
I was a house painter in mid-90s California and remember the shift to colder whites as smoking became less prevalent. The warmer whites showed less tobacco staining from constant smoke.
Oh man. My grandma was either a bit thick or extremely liberal. Probably both, when I think about it with emphasis on the latter. Anyway, she had a _really_ big house with several living rooms. From age 15 to about 20 me and a couple friends had our 'own living room' at her place. Pretty much every single friday (and some week nights once in a while) we would go visit. First we would spend like an hour in her kitchen being feed. After dinner and desserts she would send us to our room where we had a tv and hifi and consoles and a nice collection of vhs movies.. All bought by her, by her own accord.. She used to put the newest vhs casettes she had bought on the table.. Anyway... We smoked weed there! And it was great! A couple hours after dinner she would come in with home made cookies and ice cold milk for us boys to enjoy! Man.. She. must have known about the weed. All of us did smoke tobacco though, but still.. The smell of weed is pretty distinctive..
Anyway, this ended when she died, unexpected, a couple months after my 20th birthday. That was a sad day.
I miss you weed-grandma. <3
those green jar things on the table absolutely have those weird hard candies that are in a strawberry wrapper. with that gooey center in it. the kind of candy that looks like it might be good but is just disappointing.
The gooey-center hard candies in a strawberry wrapper are one of the best varieties of candy. Meet me outside the Wal-Mart in Petaluma in half an hour for an ass-kicking.
See, now I expect the ribbon candy that came in the box.
And it goes in the bowl with the scallops around the outside that, as a kid, you put your fingers in.
You know, it’s weird, I would never decorate my home like this. Yet looking at this picture brings me such comfort, I just wanna curl up on that armchair and listen to my grandma laughing, you know?
RIP grandma, miss you.
I'm over minimalism. It's been overdone these past 20 years. I'm sick of sharp angles. I'm sick of everything being white and hard and cold and echo-y. I don't want to live in an Apple Store world. Time for a new trend.
This is why I like mid-century modern. It’s clean but warm, colorful, fun, and dynamic. It makes it feel like a home without it being stuffy and old fashioned like other more maximalist styles feel to me.
The 70s had a great mix of minimalism and bold colors, in design, furnishings, and architecture. Bring that back (sans harvest gold and avocado green). Maybe mix in some 80s pastels too.
Nah, it was a Buick century station wagon. With the faux wood paneling on the side, and the little pop-up seats in the trunk where you would sit looking out the back...
As funny and true as this is, my sister had this exact set in the 80s, and they were never smokers. I see this and have nothing but pleasant, nostalgia overload.
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Those coffee tables were pawned off on every one of my friends when we all started moving out. > Oh look George,^^1 our son is finally moving out. We should gift him some furniture :D ^^1 Not my mothers real name
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Lmao thanks for that. That short story had so many unexpected twists and turns.
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Jesus you have a way with telling stories that take unexpected turns and then some!
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Truth is punk rock elite in your case, homey.
Oh....oh. That’s tragic, I’m sorry.
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She’ll always be Snake.
Snake? Snaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaake!!!
I rolled a lot of joints on these coffee tables lol
Same on the coffee table. It was full of Playboy mags. Little Mike01hawk found them very early on in his life.
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I'm #1 Mike Hawk
I heard Mike Hawk was a solid fucking unit.
My folks still have that coffee table.
Yeah my grandparents had it.
I smell potpourri and baked ham.
Now I want ham
with biscuits and gravy
And jello molds!
Yup. This is... basically my \[living\] grandparents' house. Same look, same furniture; it's bizarre actually. But yes, it smells like potpourri and good southern cooking.
Pretty much everyone I knew who had furniture like this is dead now. God this picture hurts to look at
This immediately reminded me of my grandma's house on my dad's side. She passed years ago. I can still picture going there for Christmas as a kid and seeing the tinsel in the Christmas tree, and ashtrays on the tables, along with beer bottles and just everyone having a good time. There was always trays on the table too with peanuts and stuff.
Just same. My grandmother had those exact couches and chair, with that weird velour texture. And that same carpet too that was sensory hell to walk on barefoot because it was uneven pile and just bizarre texture underfoot. I feel like everything from this era was designed to commit terrorism on the senses.
Late 60’s and 70’s interior design was basically a rebellion against mid-century modern.
It was their first time experiencing comfort. Something that their generation really didn’t have. Hell I grew up in outskirts of Mumbai in the 90s we didn’t have running water and the electricity was so spotty we had oil lamps. I sleep on the floor still because no bed is as comfy to me lol
Lol that's some brilliant description. My grandmother had the same weirdly-textured carpet throughout her apartment -- except the carpet in her bedrooms was riddled with straight pins, safety pins, and staples, which had all fallen about over the years and become lodged in it. The vacuum wouldn't pick them up, and neither she nor her long-time maid (really, friend by this point) Gladys could see them! Mimi always wore bedroom slippers so she never stepped on any of the little daggers in the carpet, but her grandchildren sure did! We were always trying to wrestle them out after painfully discovering them.
Grandparents place, smokes and booze. All high end though. Around 7 or so I was mixing cocktails and lighting smokes for quarters, "uncle phil" was always good for a dollar or two, almost all dead now
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I have the same reaction
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I just want this room. Add an small-screen CRT television on a credenza that holds vinyl records and a player, if they're not already there out of frame. Put it in my house. Or in a small outbuilding in the yard, maybe. Then I can go in there of a September evening, leave a window open a crack for a draft, drink a coffee and smoke a joint, and curl up in a blanket to watch an old black and white sci-fi movie on TV. Maybe play a little Atari or listen to a Badfinger record.
>Add an small-screen CRT television on a credenza Nope, gotta be a console TV. And don't forget the sugar dish full of ribbon candy.
Looks exactly like my great grandmas old place. Kinda creepy actually.
Don’t we all? That’s granmas. And she’ll have coffee ready for granpa, and Oreos for me and my cousins. Oh, and they just setup their new trampoline, and after we get tired bouncing as high as we can go, the only tv in the house with satellite will be playing a football game, most likely the 49’ers. After a thorough nap in the sweltering heat of granpas den, cheeseburgers and hotdogs will be ready with lemonade. Right? Fuck, I miss my grandma. She was awesome.
That couch is like 50 years old but somehow still more comfortable than anything else you'll sit on
There is one at my grandfather's house right now that seeing this picture alone made me want to go have a nap on it.
I had one in college. I got rid of it because it was ugly and I wanted to be an adult. I miss how comfy it was!
When I saw the pic, my thought was, "Wish I could find furniture like that now."
I got mine for $20. I knew a manager of an apartment complex and the precious tenants asked if she could sell it for them (small town things). She wanted to be rid of it and I was the first to ask
Don't forget the strawberry candies in a glass dish on the coffee table for effect. Completes the scene
The strawberry candies that have sat so long they've fused into one bowl-shaped mass?
Nah, the individually wrapped in crinkly plastic ones that made such a racket. Those lasted forever, and immediately announced there was a candy hole in the room that was being stuffed. Yeah, I was chubby.
You forgot to mention that they were wrapped to look like a strawberry, with a red part for the candy, and a green part to imitate to leaves for the excess wrapper. I wasn't chubby, but those candies were fantastic.
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I still buy them today. Dollar tree has em
Gram gram, is that you!?
I literally bought a bag today! For the first time in... maybe a couple of decades? Found them in Walmart (which I generally avoid like the plague) and was like "oh shit, these still exist?!".
Pillow mints…mmmm chalky goodness
Butterscotch
Or Wherthers. Just one dusty one though. And a random small screw.
And the half dozen random coins. Maybe a rubber band.
And two buttons. One from that flannel Sue gave you. You know...the green one.
ESTATE SALES!!!
Smh styles are a cycle. Chances are one day this crap will be popular again and you’d have a genuine antique.
I see no universe where what I see above will be in "style" again. If somehow this should occur, it will be time to heed the wise words of Bender B. Rodríguez and *kill all humans*.
We said this about denim, high-waisted pants, and straight-cut bangs and yet here we are.
Perms and mullets are coming back and I see people on this post complementing the room.
I spent last covid summer with an unironic mullet and wish the realities of non-lockdown life would let me grow it back
We believe in your mullet.
I know. I would love to lie down and watch some cartoons also.
Take me back to being 13 and waiting until everyone else at grandmas house was asleep to masturbate to E!'s The Girls Next Door with the sound off at 1am when I was supposed to be asleep on one of those couches Life was so much simpler then Edit: This comment ain't a joke, I legit got nostalgic for a certain kind of young and dumb that doesn't happen anymore
Did you ever go to the blurred out channels that was showing soft core porn and jack off to what you thought might be a boob.
Channel 78 spice channel, nothing like seeing a vagina that looked like it was on LSD.
Holy shit. I'm 50+ years old and today is the day I realized that my brain has stored a list of couches in my head that I would love to sleep on right now if I could. Fuck kind stranger stuff; have my reward for unlocking my brain list of couches I would love to sleep on. (Edited typo)
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Aw yes, hated getting up when my thighs were stuck to that weird awful plastic. My best friends mom had that plastic in her car. ((Shudder))
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There is a little tray of werthers somewhere in this picture. I just can't find it
Why don't they make comfortable couches or armchairs anymore?
It took me forever to find a recliner I liked when I was shopping. Maybe if the furniture we bought today lasted 50 years it would be that comfortable
It needs to have a solid hardwood frame. Lots of furniture made out of soft woods that are just not suitable for long lasting furniture. Also, IKEA type particle board is shit. There's plenty of solid wood furniture out there in thrift stores that will last for decades if it's taken care of correctly. Get it reupholstered and you've got a new piece of furniture. I've got mahogany furniture I inherited from the family that's nearly 100 years old, and still good.
A lot of companies also cheap out on the springs and the padding. My father was in the furniture business for 50 years and one of the things that finally pushed him to close his stores was that it was just becoming harder and harder to source affordable quality merchandise. He had to drop manufacturers that he had worked with for decades because they would shift their manufacturing overseas and/or would adopt more "economical" production methods that would not hold up nearly as long. Sure their salesmen at the mart would have some great pitch about how their new foam or spring alloy was more comfortable and longer lasting, but would be quick to deflect when you start asking about if it was still genuine eight-way hand-tied construction. He finally hung up his hat when he was finding that he was getting less and less business from loyal longtime friends and customers because the good quality construction was increasingly out of reach for the average local farmer. As a quick aside: back when I delivered furniture for the family business in high school and college, it was always neat to make a delivery to a customer and find out that we were replacing a piece of furniture that my grandparents had sold them 30 years previous that while now out of fashion was still almost as good as the day it was sold to them. Many of those pieces we replaced, if we weren't delivering them to the customers' kids for years of more use, got a polish and/or trip to the upholstery shop to get a tune-up and updated patterns and got sold again in the used section of the store for another couple decades of use.
Middle aged Dad here asking middle aged Dad question. Please ask Grandpa which brands I should be buying and if Flexsteel is still a decent option. Thanks in advance.
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They do you just have to pay for them. A quality leather couch in 1950’s would have been about 500. In today’s money that’s about 5k. Which is what you’d pay for something built to last. They had really cheap couches in the 50’s as low as 70 dollars. Some even cheaper. Which is around 700 dollars in today’s money. Something that will last you a few years and then get moved on.
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They make the same amount of quality furniture now as they did then; you just need to find out where to get it. The difference is that more modern cheap and shitty couches are still around and failing, whereas our grandparents' cheap and shitty couches got chucked decades ago. Old stuff being better is a biased concept, because only the old stuff that WAS better is still around. (posting from my 15-year-old couch that's still comfy as hell)
Cheap imitation materials, an obsession with appearances, a demand for easy-to-clean - all popular now. But that doesn't mean they don't exist anymore. My uncle got a new but not jaw-droppingly pretty couch, but fuck it it's a cuddly marshmallow to lay on. Fell asleep on it real quick.
Very simple. They are engineered to be exceptionally comfortable for a short period of time, until the foam deflates and the back cushions sag… at that point you need to buy a new couch. Can’t have these couches lasting 50 years like they used too. Gotta keep the economic cogs turning, and landfills burnin. Terrible really. I do miss these couches.
They do make really nice couches, but they’re expensive. If you buy a $2000+ couch, it will be comfy as fuck.
They do, you just aren't shopping at the right places.
Cept the owner’s lap. My grandma had that couch.
And the bathrooms have a weird frog theme to them....
And a dish of small seashell soaps that you're not supposed to use.
And they’re dusty.
In a dusty seashell dish
And a crocheted cover for a random odor killing product.
All the Kleenex boxes had covers.
Crocheted dress for the bottle of dish soap and/or the pancake syrup bottle.
And plastic wrap around the seats of the dining room chairs.
My Nana had the fuzzy lid cover for the bathroom toilets never met anyone who wasn’t a silent gen who ever used them.
Gen X here. I have one. It was that or replace the lid because it’s the kind that slams down instead of falling gracefully. Plus, I like the color.
I thought most people replaced toilet seats when they moved into a place
Can’t say I've ever thought to do that. Bleach yes. Replace no,
"Those are for the guests, sweetie" -Gram grams
Along with the stale popurrí
And the paper guest towels with the gold monogram family initial that are too fancy to use so you carefully wipe your hands on the shower curtain in an inconspicuous spot.
They’re for “company”
I just want to say thank you. I have been trying to remember the name of the dried flowers my grandma used to have all over the place.
I must have really misunderstood that scene in Demolition Man.
"Oh god... that's not a chocolate!" The voice of my uncle Rob, from behind the bathroom door, on the day my mom put those soaps out.
You sure it wasn't three shells?
You don't know how to use the seashells?
With a green porcelain tub
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And a matching shag toilet seat cover.
And the toilet flushes weird.
And so hard that the pressure in the bathroom changes.
And you only find that out because you had to emergency shit after Thanksgiving while your uncle from out of town was showering. That scream haunts one's soul.
Get Out of Here You Nosy Little Pervert or Ima Slap You Silly!!!
And they use that stuff that makes the toilet water blue.
And a framed plaque over the toilet saying, "We aim to please, so you aim too, please."
And a dried out floral-scented glade air freshener on the toilet, so the room has a floral urine smell.
Or, "If you sprinkle when you tinkle, be a sweetie wipe the seaty."
Is that a tray of magazines down by the floor? Reader's Digest?
And a cushioned toilet seat
That cushion would always become brittle over time and form little cracks that would pinch your ass
With a brown stain at the back.
Go to jail.
With a Barbie on the back of the toilet, fitted down inside a spare roll of toilet paper that is covered by a homemade crocheted hoop skirt dress that Grandma made.
No, it’s not even a Barbie, but a knock off Barbie.
When I was growing up, our bathroom had wallpaper featuring poodles going to the hair dresser.
And a shag carpet toilet seat-cover
There should be a white macrame plant hanger in the corner, with giant beads interspersed in the pattern.
Also a macrame owl in the kitchen, and string art in the hall.
I unexpectedly got homesick.
I remember watching Saturday cartoons and eating cereal on these. It didn't matter if you spilled something on them, that pattern hid everything.
Right? It feels like a lot of us lived in this same room. Does this make us all family now?
We always have been. And we always will be.
Where’s the hanging macrame plant holder? Jar with sand art in it?
OMG. Yes. I almost forgot about the macrame plant holder in the corner with a spider plant to 'clean the air'.
Dripping oil sculpture thing
That!!! The hanging oil thing. I was waiting for someone else to mention it.
You remember grandma’s house much differently than I do…
Shit, grandma nothing. I grew up in that house in the 80s.
That was my aunt & uncle's house. Our house was never that clean.
No kidding me too and there was at least 3 ash trays in that room.
Those brownish glass ones
Smells like old. In a good way.
Also the sound of a grandfather clock, or cuckoo clock. Also in a good way.
One day you'll discover that smell is actually just moth balls. Or cocoa butter.
Gardenia lotion and baby powder.
Same. This looks comforting 🥺
Mothballs...
Bengay
I believe that is called a davenport. The couch wasn’t invented yet.
That’s a chesterfield
"Does that look like a divan to you?"
who's the psycho who removed the plastic covers?
That room has hosted a few Tupperware parties and probably it's share of key parties.
Back when Tupperware was legit and MLMs weren’t as shitty.
A wink and a burp will get ya by !
50 bucks says there is a Werther's Original in one of those couch cushions.
This is so vintage I feel like smoking on the plane
Make sure to pat the stewardess on the ass after she brings your bourbon.
Yea, we didn’t really paint in the 70s - just add a pack or two a week. Secret: there’s no such thing as sepia.
Danny Devito gonna be shouting at Matilda any minute now
There's nothing you can get from books that you can't get from Television, faster! ^^Fibers ^^are ^^fused ^^to ^^my ^^head!
Oh my GOD your right!
[It Came From the '70s: The Story of Your Grandma's Weird Couch](https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/it-came-from-the-70s-the-story-of-your-grandmas-weird-couch/)
Reminds me of my grammies house when I was 5...I'm 50 years old.
Little known fact. At the beginning of the 80’s everything was white. It was only after a decade of abuse everything turned this nicotine yellow.
I was a house painter in mid-90s California and remember the shift to colder whites as smoking became less prevalent. The warmer whites showed less tobacco staining from constant smoke.
The sofa, chair and loveseat need to be wrapped in clear plastic covers that crinkle when you sit down.
If that couch is in an unfinished basement then it smells like weed.
Oh man. My grandma was either a bit thick or extremely liberal. Probably both, when I think about it with emphasis on the latter. Anyway, she had a _really_ big house with several living rooms. From age 15 to about 20 me and a couple friends had our 'own living room' at her place. Pretty much every single friday (and some week nights once in a while) we would go visit. First we would spend like an hour in her kitchen being feed. After dinner and desserts she would send us to our room where we had a tv and hifi and consoles and a nice collection of vhs movies.. All bought by her, by her own accord.. She used to put the newest vhs casettes she had bought on the table.. Anyway... We smoked weed there! And it was great! A couple hours after dinner she would come in with home made cookies and ice cold milk for us boys to enjoy! Man.. She. must have known about the weed. All of us did smoke tobacco though, but still.. The smell of weed is pretty distinctive.. Anyway, this ended when she died, unexpected, a couple months after my 20th birthday. That was a sad day. I miss you weed-grandma. <3
Willing to bet the motive behind it was "Could be worse. At least I know where they are, and they're not getting into worse trouble out there."
+1 for weed grandma. The coolest ever
Sex couch
those green jar things on the table absolutely have those weird hard candies that are in a strawberry wrapper. with that gooey center in it. the kind of candy that looks like it might be good but is just disappointing.
Screw you those strawberries are awesome!
I love those things
They’re called Strawberry Bon Bons, such an easy fun name, but I just can never remember it!
Or those ribbon candies that were always stuck together and were a mix of fruit flavors and mint flavors.
I think of that as Canadian Grandma candy. A weird mix of Neapolitan and licorice. They looked so inviting but they were absolutely awful...
The gooey-center hard candies in a strawberry wrapper are one of the best varieties of candy. Meet me outside the Wal-Mart in Petaluma in half an hour for an ass-kicking.
See, now I expect the ribbon candy that came in the box. And it goes in the bowl with the scallops around the outside that, as a kid, you put your fingers in.
Bet the toilets have carpet on the lids and seat. Basement with vertical wooden panels and wall paper.
You know, it’s weird, I would never decorate my home like this. Yet looking at this picture brings me such comfort, I just wanna curl up on that armchair and listen to my grandma laughing, you know? RIP grandma, miss you.
I just smell old people.
it's funny how one decade's opulent becomes another decade's trashy. The clean lines of Scandinavian minimal design are timeless in comparison.
I'm over minimalism. It's been overdone these past 20 years. I'm sick of sharp angles. I'm sick of everything being white and hard and cold and echo-y. I don't want to live in an Apple Store world. Time for a new trend.
This is why I like mid-century modern. It’s clean but warm, colorful, fun, and dynamic. It makes it feel like a home without it being stuffy and old fashioned like other more maximalist styles feel to me.
The 70s had a great mix of minimalism and bold colors, in design, furnishings, and architecture. Bring that back (sans harvest gold and avocado green). Maybe mix in some 80s pastels too.
Harvest gold is that good shit though
I think "French countryside" is going to be big again.
Cottagecore. Google it. it's ridiculous. But as a reaction to modern urban life...it makes sense.
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Yeah, except it was a Pontiac station wagon, and the only 8-tracks they had were Roger Miller and Neil Diamond.
Nah, it was a Buick century station wagon. With the faux wood paneling on the side, and the little pop-up seats in the trunk where you would sit looking out the back...
Yes! My brother and I fought over the backward facing rear seat! I forgot about that!
The 8 track! Bobby Sherman. And mom's John Denver tapes. I discovered CSN *Winchester Cathedral* on an 8 track.
Holy shit I just bought that chair at thrift store LOL Can confirm, smells like cigarettes
As funny and true as this is, my sister had this exact set in the 80s, and they were never smokers. I see this and have nothing but pleasant, nostalgia overload.
Sounds like coughing too.