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Idk, this has more personality to it than the beige nightmare a lot of folks live in. Even if that personality smells like stale cigarettes and Cutty Sark.

Cozy as all hell though. Better than the drab gray cookie-cutter-prison aesthetic for sure.

Bring back carpet, earth tones, and separated rooms please 😭 I want a good hidey hole to curl up in.

They used brown everywhere because all the smoking would have eventually made it brown anyway. If they start there they could pretend nothing was wrong.

Meanwhile millennial having everything greyscale, definitely not going to be a sign of the times lol

These colors and the vibe felt the best. I was too poor in one way or the other to have this. I’d love to have this now.

Back in the 70's brown was considered neutral, neither oppressive or energetic, selected to not stand out.

This was an attempt to emulate the rich, wood-paneled, dark, rich luxury of old money.

What a wonderful way to describe that. All you've done is make it even more appealing.

It’s more than that. Those colors were chosen to hide the ever-present, persistent glaze of nicotine stain over everything. There were no white walls back then, only shades of “cream”, “ecru”, and “off-white” because no shade of true white could exist in that persistent haze of cigarette smoke.

If you ever took over a house from the 70s you’d note the amber brown drips down the kitchen wall after making spaghetti or heating a tradition tea kettle on the stove. Or after a shower in the bathroom. Scrubbing, priming, and painting would help, and then you’d make another pot of spaghetti and see another amber sludge nicotine drip from somewhere on that wall.

To this day I cannot abide beige, any rendition of off-white, or pale yellow. They’re all shades on the nicotine glaze color palette.

It was a reaction to the artificial colors that got popular in the 60s.

"Ahh yes, this will hide the cigarette stains."

I can smell this picture. Mildew, thousands of cigarettes, and whatever gas-soaked disaster grandpa has on his basement workbench around the corner. It's the same era that brought us matching ceramic ash-trays for the coffee table, and bi-centennial themed kitsch like pewter minutemen that are actually cigarette lighters in disguise.

Wow, I can smell that. Musty basement with a Tyco slot car race track in it.

These colours were chosen specifically so we wouldn't notice the nicotine coating everything.

I kinda like it, feels cozy :)

Design and style changes throughout the decades. The style now is basically to keep a blank slate for eventually re-sale. That's why everything is beige and white. If you alter your colors or style too much, then you'll be reverting back to beige/white when you go to sell.

So sure, throw in that shag carpet, brown walls, and wood paneling. But lose about 50k-100k value on your home.

I recently bought a house that had used that '70s paneling as a sort of wainscoting in the kitchen; the panels had been cut to 4' and applied in various ways (everything except just fucking nails) around the base of the walls. It had been painted white so it wasn't quite as hideous as its original state and I didn't feel like replacing it all, but I did have to repair one section of it that had been badly water-damaged. I was surprised to find that Lowe's still has that shit in stock so I bought a piece of it and brought it home ... and discovered that it wasn't really like the original stuff. It looked the same but the grooves between the alleged "boards" were not recessed, they were just printed on the surface, so once it was painted it would have just looked like flat board. So I ended up having to rip that shit into fake planks and nail them up separately with small grooves between them. All that work just to simulate '70s hideousness.

Thank god there was no shag carpet in that house.

I miss it

I remember looking at estate agent photos of my parents home when they first bought it back in the 1980s. It looked very much like this. I remember when I was very young they had a carpet with a similar sort of dead plant motif, I remember crawling along and following the plant stems.

That's just how everybody seemed to decorate things back then, people used to wear a lot of brown as well. Perhaps we all depressed or something

I have lived with that carpet. It was horrible and thin.

That first step is a doozy.

"Earth tones"

I like dark wood but it does make rooms looks smaller if it is all dark colours

This looks like it'd be alot of fun whole tripping lol