Celebrating crazy 1970′s decor
image from: http://www.retronaut.co/2012/02/encylopedia-of-home-improvement-1970/
I was born in the 1970′s, but I have to admit, that is the one decade that I find absolutely putrid in terms of interior design.
image from: http://1950satomicranchhouse.blogspot.com/2010/12/1970s-design-is-not-mid-century.html
Brown, orange, avocado, and yellow in god-awful, screaming loud patterns - YUCK!
image from: http://1950satomicranchhouse.blogspot.com/2010/12/1970s-design-is-not-mid-century.html
What were they thinking back then?
image from: http://w5ran.com/2010/07/vintage-70s-shag/
Pretty hideous stuff, even for us here at House Crazy. But if nothing else, the style of the ’70′s celebrated and embraced pure, outrageous F-U-N.
image from: http://www.retronaut.co/2012/02/encylopedia-of-home-improvement-1970/
So what the heck, let’s celebrate the decade of my birth - in design!
image from: http://www.retronaut.co/2012/02/encylopedia-of-home-improvement-1970/
The 1970′s gave us The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Clockwork Orange, and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. What do all those iconic films have in common?
Crazy.
image from: http://www.skyscrapercity.com
Yes, they were all hugely focused on crazy.
(I was going to throw The Shining in there, but that didn’t come out until 1980. Jack Nicholson did crazy well.)
So it makes perfect sense that House Crazy Sarah was born in the decade of neurosis!
image from: http://www.retronaut.co/2012/02/encylopedia-of-home-improvement-1970/
I may as well just embrace it.
Gotta love those ever popular faux wood panel walls:
Chunky, colorful carpet was the bomb…
Heck, even in the bathroom…
image from: http://blog.hippiecouture.com/2009/05/that-70s-style-part-one.html
Yep, that is brown carpet in the loo!
Carpet, carpet everywhere…
And loud, obnoxious wallpaper…
image from: http://www.retronaut.co/2012/02/encylopedia-of-home-improvement-1970/
But how about those kitchens…
image from: http://uglyhousephotos.com/wordpress/
image from: http://realestate.msn.com/slideshow
What’s not to love?
Of course, we’ll probably look back in 30 years and say of today’s design trends:
‘What were we thinking? Turquoise walls, straw rugs, and ceramic animal heads?!’
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Sources:
http://1950satomicranchhouse.blogspot.com/2010/12/1970s-design-is-not-mid-century.html
http://www.retronaut.co/2012/02/encylopedia-of-home-improvement-1970/
http://blog.hippiecouture.com/2009/05/that-70s-style-part-one.html
http://my-retrospace.blogspot.com/2010/03/invasion-of-1970s-recreational-vehicles.html
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/look-70s-rock-musicians-and-th-70419
http://freshquince.blogspot.com/2011/03/color-recall-1970s.html
http://uglyhousephotos.com/wordpress/
http://realestate.msn.com/slideshow
[Thanks to Marie for sending me some of the above sources!]
5 Responses to Celebrating crazy 1970′s decor
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Sarah,
I was a teen in those days. Shag carpet everywhere! haha. We thought it was so cool. The only thing I take away from those days is the early american furniture and the brick on the walls with the built in ovens, which I love.
i remember where I took piano lessons as a kid – there was orange shag carpet all over the walls!
Why am I looking for Austin Powers.lol
They were drug crazed back then. Anything that would add to the effects of acid. So the regular folks that weren’t in the drug induced media and fashion industry could still only buy what they felt looked OK. The putrid vomit colored 70s were just like the vomit burnt colored 90s that had no color in it at all. But decades were burnt colored mute tones with no life in color. BLAH!
Both decades I mean. Sorry, learning to type on this laptop.