1970s USA - Forgotten Home Décor of the 70s

Join me for a trip back in time to remember how we lived back in the 1970s!
By the 1970s, suburban expansion had subdivisions moved further out onto former farmland and natural areas, far from the downtown cores. These neighborhoods were no longer bound by the street grid of the city, and new subdivisions were drawn up with curving streets, large lots, as well as bigger and more unique home designs.
The expansion into larger and more natural spaces, coincided perfectly with the overall trends in American society.
The 1970s saw a shift towards more organic, comfortable, and personalized interior spaces. This reflected the changing cultural landscape from the forward-looking attitude of the 1960s to a more reflective and individualistic approach in the 1970s.
Homes in the 1970s were designed to be sanctuaries of comfort, offering a retreat from the outside world. This desire for comfort was manifested in plush furnishings, warm colors, and personalized decor.
Join me as we explore some of the 1970s trends when it came to homes and decorating!
#1970s #nostalgia #lifeinamerica

[@jetg2059]

I remember everyone having a giant wooden spoon and folk in the kitchen

[@buckeyefangirl1976]

Yep

[@lovly2cu725]

Not us

[@AngelAPAVLOVSCornDog]

Yup😂

[@markrichards6863]

Me too. My mom is crafty. Our giant wooden fork and spoon was covered in fake flowers.

[@AngelAPAVLOVSCornDog]

@@markrichards6863 😭👍

[@videointercepter]

When I was a kid in the early 70's, I was my father's TV remote control.

[@Queenmebonnie]

😂😂😂😂

[@lynnschnekenburger7270]

Same here, so was my sister. And tin foil on the rabbit ears!!!! 🤣🤣

[@xenuburger7924]

I had to climb through 12 feet of shag carpet to change the channel! At least we had Lidsville and H.R.Pufnstuff to warp our young minds.

[@ArtsyPhartsy123]

The colors were harvest Gold, Burnt Orange, and avocado green.

[@nocturnaldruid2191]

Don't forget Almond.

[@here_we_go_again2571]

@@nocturnaldruid2191 Almond came along after the others Then for awhile black appliances were very popular. Colors aren't new. There were colored stoves and refrigerators in the 1930's but those were very expensive The 1950'/'60's had pink and aqua for kitchen appliance colors. "Coppertone" (burnished brown) was popular too by the end of the 1960's

[@chiarac3833]

Copper, don't forget copper. That's what we had and I think that 1970 refrigerator is still running in my parents' basement!

[@bannol1]

There was also poppy red

[@here_we_go_again2571]

@@chiarac3833 Are you from Elmira, NY? I had one of those (GE?) Coppertone Ref/Freezer that (a year or so before I sold the house) I had spent a whole lot of money on to fix the gas defrost. The mechanic told me it would last another 30 years. The people who bought my house moved it to the basement.

[@Therealtruthsocial]

I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. It’s funny to hear this young guy describing things I grew up with in the same way my teachers talked about pioneer settlers.🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@judydenver5362]

🤣

[@FGN666]

🍌

[@k.g.1259]

Ditto !! 🤣👍

[@samanthab1923]

Right? How about them calling stuff from the 80’s vintage?

[@bobblowhard8823]

@@samanthab1923 Actually, they're calling stuff from the 90's and 2000's vintage. Go figure.

[@rosezingleman5007]

Those granny square crocheted things weren’t called blankets but afghans. I have no idea why, but I have one in a trunk that my sister crocheted for my 15th birthday in 1974.

[@sandrareynolds6619]

Granny squares are popular again in 2024.

[@mdaze9753]

Thanks to Harry Styles crochet is back in fashion 😊

[@samanthab1923]

My best friend in 7th grade had a vest her gran made for her of the black background granny squares. I was very jealous 😂

[@Lightsngear]

My God you're the same age as me!!

[@LoveLunaFam]

Yes and they were draped on the Davenport

[@mwbillups]

Those console furniture Hi-Fi stereo systems were really a product of the 50s and 60s. The 1970s ushered in the component systems. I remember it well.

[@heru-deshet359]

Yes, but since they had cost so much initially and still worked well, many people hung onto them, including my parents, lol.

[@mwbillups]

@@heru-deshet359 No question about them still being around in the 70s but your commentary said the component systems did not come along until the 80s.😉

[@steves9905]

yes, i had my first Pioneer receiver in the mid 70's, as I vividly recall listening to Pink Floyd album Wish You Were Here on headphones plugged into that receiver after it came out in 75. components were so much cooler than grandpa's lowfi console i had inherited.

[@mwbillups]

@@steves9905 Right on right on! My freshman year in college was 1970 and I remember so well how everybody's dream for their dorm room was to get a box (that's what we called the receiver), some bad speakers (bad as in good), and a mean (you know) turntable! 1970!😆🎶

[@thomasschreiber9559]

The console stereo was usually the only FM radio in the house, all other radios were AM only.

[@SMtWalkerS]

My first apartment (I was SO proud!) had bright orange shag carpeting, space age white plastic table and chairs, and a pink and neon green couch. I had macramé plant hangers and a macramé owl hanging on the wall. I was really WITH it! Had my parents over for dinner - first apartment, first real job, independent. I felt like I was flying! Good memories.

[@Therealtruthsocial]

I remember it so well. You probably had your bell bottoms on and either platform shoes or earth shoes!🤣🤣

[@SMtWalkerS]

@@Therealtruthsocial Yes, I did! Bell bottoms and platforms! And so slender and in-shape. Yes, those were the days.

[@sharoncrawford7192]

Whoa!

[@sharoncrawford7192]

I weighed a 100 pounds at 5 ft 2 in. Now at 67 I'm 180 pounds. What happened!?😢

[@gidget8717]

​@@sharoncrawford7192life sharon, life. It happened to us all. 🤣👵🏻

[@Gamesso1slO0l]

conversation pits are still cool as hell

[@BwInNewJersey]

Right? Its on my list

[@traceysimmons4913]

Oh they are but I am clumsy I would fall or trip lol

[@anthonybelyea1964]

​@@traceysimmons4913that's called natural selection as my son says👍🏼😎🇨🇦

[@leslielutz6140]

They are the ultimate cool. If you could drunk navigate one you became famous.

[@judydenver5362]

I LOVE those!!!!!

[@kirbywaite1586]

That kitchen with the green appliances is gorgeous. I'd take it on a heartbeat. Who wants to live in a world of gray?

[@Paul_Wetor]

I disagree about the green, but I recently ranted on Facebook about gray cars, gray buildings, and gray interiors. So dull.

[@kirbywaite1586]

@Paul_Wetor You seem to have left out gray kitchens.

[@smorgasbroad1132]

Really, the gray should be passé by now. Mind numbingly boring.

[@peskylisa]

@@Paul_Wetor I thought I was the only one who was sick of gray!

[@akrenwinkle]

Everything is cookie-cutter white and grey now, right down to the countertops. Bland is the new exciting.

[@newdefsys]

No 70s living room was complete without an oil rain lamp, a new AT&T trimline phone and an infinity mirror.

[@j.g.007]

Omg yes, the rain oil lamp! I was just asking someone if they remembered these, the other day ❤😊

[@janicepalesch9221]

I just got rid of my oil rain lamp. I accidentally broke one of the "strings" down which the oil lowed. My hands were sticky with the oil as I placed it in a trash bag. I had a trimline phone, too. Later, I got a French phone. Now I have a landline, but a different system.

[@brendasnow8255]

Not in my house.

[@mdaze9753]

That's fancy! We had a metal black - rented - party line phone from Ma Bell. AT&T didn't take over until 82 or 83?

[@samanthab1923]

@@brendasnow8255Same here. Not over my parents dead bodies. They were both highly impressed with Williamsburg reproductions.

[@college388]

I believe waterbeds began as a 1970s bedroom home fad and lasted a decade into the 1980s.

[@cynthiacarter532]

We went through 3 king size waterbed mattresses from 1972-1997 all in a hand built wood frame.

[@jennifermorris833]

If you farted in a water bed it was like a tsunami, the ripples threatened to bounce you right out of the bed.

[@vivaldi1948]

I had one and loved it. I got the best sleep ever. Wish I still had it.

[@gigistoner8004]

I believe you are correct. Sidenote, watch the 2021 movie Licorice Pizza. Part of the plot is in 1973 San Fernando Valley, 15-year-old child actor Gary Valentine meets Alana, a 25-year-old photographer's assistant. Gary and Alana begin selling waterbeds after Gary comes across one at a wig shop. The waterbed was a new unknown item that Gary jumped on as the next big thing. Odd, but cute, romantic comedy-drama movie. It even has Bradley Cooper and Sean Penn in it.

[@frankvolz7021]

I have to agree, I have never slept as good as I did on my waterbed. Later models had baffles so they didn’t have quite as much movement, but they still floated your body so well! I sure do miss my old waterbed.

[@lynndupree1205]

My fav was the hanging bead curtains in the doorways! The noise it made! Also, for teens, black lights and day-glo posters of Jimi Hendrix. Bookcases made from cinder blocks and boards. My room was so coool!

[@GothGuy885]

my older sister had door beads that were these large red transparent beads. she gave then to me after she moved out. I grew up watching Dark Shadows, and developed a kind of vampire thing, and the beads reminded me of blood. wish I had kept them 🙁

[@Therealtruthsocial]

@@GothGuy885 Loved Dark Shadows it scared the crap out of me.

[@brendasnow8255]

I made a bead curtain, of course. I had green appliances; the choices were that, brown, or gold. “Eat in” kitchen. I had a big shag area rug in the living room area, over oak floors. The LR/DR was 32 feet long. No tv in the living room. My husband and his dad made a huge stereo cabinet, walnut, but we didn’t have components in it until the 80s. The house was built in 1961; we bought it in 1971. It was bigger than most tract houses, and cost $32,000. I think a lot of the things in this video are from the 50s. Oops. I made macrame plant hangers in the 70s too.

[@samanthab1923]

The last video store we belonged to had those beads on the doorway leading into the adult section 😮

[@judydenver5362]

..I have a hanging bead curtain on my bedroom doorway! It has the Grateful Dead dancing bear on it! I bought it at Claires!!

[@something2chewon]

Born 1972. Colors people used most. Brown orange green

[@sandrap6321]

Forgot Harvest Gold

[@larryhunter2026]

same here. I love those colors now, miss those times. My sis born in 66.

[@wandacarr668]

And poppy red

[@Therealtruthsocial]

I was born in 1961. Let me translate for you, it's Buffalo, Harvest gold and avocado. LOL!

[@CapriciousCapricrn]

You are so spot on.

[@co6308]

I remember the organ shop at the malls. And yes! A guy in a suit would play the organ to get people to come inside their store. Ha... What great times it was back in the 70's/80's...

[@valerielock2374]

My son played them there lol in the 90s

[@peggyl2849]

Yes, and hanging at the mall with friends was an all-day activity, even if you didn't buy anything.

[@melindasmith3713]

​@@peggyl2849why ?

[@peggyl2849]

@@melindasmith3713 looking at stuff, looking at boys, maybe see a movie

[@maxben565]

My father’s house was built and still stuck in the 70s. Time travel still available.

[@georgescott4505]

Please tell me how its available. I want to go back to Panama City Beach, FL in 1975 and live out the rest of my life from there. I'll have 3 years to save up for a 1978 Mercury Gran Marquis, and will pass away long before the New World Order closes in. Plus my mother will be alive again and I can tell her how sorry I am about my dumbass stuff and how she was right. 🙂

[@rdred8693]

@@georgescott4505 I'm ready to join you. I'm sick of this time line

[@georgescott4505]

@@rdred8693 Let's go! 😃

[@samanthab1923]

That made me laugh. My brothers dropped his sons off at the basketball camp we all went to in the 70’s. I asked him how it was? Without missing a beat he said it was like driving thru a portal to the past. Same dirt road & everything else. Exactly the same 😂

[@georgescott4505]

@@samanthab1923 I like things that don't change. Architecture aside, when buildings started getting remodeled on the inside back in the mid 90s, everything went from a cozy environment to bright and in your face.

[@jons.6216]

Don't forget about all of the decoupage and "wood burnishing" on furniture and pictures! Haha!

[@Therealtruthsocial]

We decoupaged everything! LOL!

[@samanthab1923]

I love those vintage decoupage handbags. Very preppy.

[@sharonsparks900]

I remember my mom’s avocado kitchen. She loved it and that’s what counted. Miss you, Mom.💕

[@joachimgoethe7864]

Ah, the 70's. I remember shag carpets. People had, "carpet rakes." Used for raking shag carpet back up were foot traffic flattened it down. And crochet flower pot holders. Hard to believe it's been almost 50 years. Was a great time to be a teenager, that's for sure.

[@janicepalesch9221]

My romance with shag carpeting faded quickly. Raking carpeting.... Not the best use of my time.

[@samanthab1923]

My sister & I got to choose our shag carpet color in our rooms. I chose pale yellow. She went for hot pink! We had an Electric Broom with a rake attachment. No shoes upstairs.

[@safffff1000]

I liked walking bare foot on those carpets. My brother just bought a house that has that old carpet in the basement, and it is still in mint condition.

[@jrnfw4060]

My experience with shag carpet came when I worked as a motel maid in the 70s. I had this room to clean that was a check-out. Some kid had crumbled up uncooked spaghetti into tiny pieces and left it all over that carpet. Of course, it sank down into it and was a real pain to deal with. Our clunky old Kirby upright vacs were a joke in the best of situations -- and useless in this one. I had to get down on my hands and knees and pick up as much of that crumbled uncooked spaghetti as I could, and some of those pieces were so tiny, they were almost powder. Very inconsiderate kid and even more inconsiderate parents!

[@worldtraveler930]

You forgot the beaded curtain that was used in place of doorways as well as the tiktok cat clock!!! ❤🤠👍

[@kh3612]

Kit kat clocks were from the 1950's.

[@theangriestcatintheworld]

​@@kh3612 I still have one and it's one of my favourite things!

[@macnchessplz]

I still love the beaded curtains.I used those in the 90’s .Liked them in the 70’s too (including the beaded curtains and the style they used in earlier decades. My Grandmother had a couple of pair in a couple of doorways in her house.They looked different than the 60’s -70’s style. More of a 1940’s ,solid color style instead of the multicolored.

[@worldtraveler930]

@@macnchessplz I have the "All Seeing Eye" curtain at my place!!! 🤠👍

[@macnchessplz]

@@worldtraveler930 Oh,I bet you do….

[@simplemanlovetocanoe6274]

Oh I miss those days! I remember it all!!!

[@worldtraveler930]

I second that motion!!! 🤠👍

[@AnneECannon]

I had a fuzzy bedroom rug in the shape of a foot, a keep on trucking blacklight poster, and a Panasonic ball shaped radio...was a great time to be a kid :)

[@marthasimons7940]

I had a hot pink shag rug in my bedroom which was decorated spring green and hot pink. I had that Panasonic Globe Transistor Radio. It was green. Yes, we had the shag rug rake. My brother had the black light and the Super Chicken poster as well as Mr. Natural. I still have the granny square afghan my Grandma made in 1969. It's a treasure

[@slarkey4594]

The foot gas pedal and all the big brown vans 😂

[@TheSeedsower107]

I'm a 70's kid too . I loved the 70's ! Still do ! I own a home built in 63. Love this era and its modern vibe. Won't be going back to the capet on the toilet anytime soon though. : )

[@walterbrunswick]

Maybe you loved the style, but not-so-much the technology, otherwise you would still be using typewriters and postal, and not be on the Internet 😊

[@TheSeedsower107]

@walterbrunswick I can love both friend .

[@davidpar2]

@@walterbrunswickyou can’t miss something you never experienced.

[@melanievando2040]

I remember helping my mom rake the carpets 😅

[@Therealtruthsocial]

Too funny!

[@thetroytroycan]

I miss those crazy malls. Everything was wholesome.

[@madonnahagedorn5649]

Excuse me. Harvest gold was the color of our appliances. Yes indeed, growing up in this era with avocado walls and sculpted green carpet in the bedroom was an unforgettable experience.

[@marthaduncan7694]

we had that colour for bathtub and sink...kitchen appliances were avocado green :)

[@marko7843]

I would go back there in a minute! I actually liked all the geometric prints, smoked glass, oak and glass, and AIDS had not yet reared its ugly head before 1982...

[@mtngrl5859]

I believe Avocado green was late 60's-early 70's. I believe Harvest Gold was mid-late 1970's. I love the pink & black of the early 1950's and the turquoise in the late 1950's. I'm so over all this white and cool gray colors, love the color of the 1970's

[@sovietonion72]

​@@marko7843Bring back the pit! Awesome idea that looks good even in a modern house.

[@mdaze9753]

@@mtngrl5859 My parents had avocado green appliances with matching Corelle dishes LOL

[@wandacarr668]

A neighbor has a coppertone range, and it still works!

[@samanthab1923]

Mine had the refrigerator! Me & her hubby said what a shame it was we had no garage to keep it in! 😂

[@carolsuepope2837]

OMG!!!! The macrame owl!!!! I have the one that was my mother's !!!!!!!

[@vidform]

In the 1970s, Rosey Grier, actor, singer, and pro football player for the NY Giants and LA Rams, enjoyed macrame and needlepoint as a hobby.

[@mph1ish]

That was his other head.

[@Therealtruthsocial]

LOL! So funny!

[@marciloni12]

Lol, my grandmother taught my brother and I hand sewing (cross stitch and embroidery mainly). He was far more skilled than I.😅 His profession is mechanical engineering.😊

[@chiarac3833]

Yes, and Lynn Swann took ballet for balance and movement.

[@jackiemartin4864]

All of these items can now be found in thrift stores and flea markets and are called “vintage” for very high prices! Amazing!

[@samanthab1923]

Insane all those patterned mixing bowls 😮

[@lolawaara9132]

My mom and dad bought a house in the 70’s , it had orange countertops and orange shag carpet!

[@theangriestcatintheworld]

My sister's room had orange and pink shag carpet, lol

[@johnnywalker4857]

Watching this video brought me back to the state of mind I was in as a child in the 70s and there was nothing my adult mind could do about it.

[@JorgeGonzalez-uh7wy]

...I love the 70’s forever and ever ....!! I’m proud about everything it happens ...OMG Congrats to everyone and I wish happy days ...

[@judydenver5362]

The Partridge Family, with David Cassidy is the best musical comedy show of all-time!!!! I watch it everyday, now!!!!!

[@original.intent.bitcoin]

Man...I LOVE THE 70S. Still!!

[@peacelover3612]

You forgot to mention 1976 and the celebration of the U.S.A.'s Bicentennial and how wood paneling and older style furniture,in living rooms,bedrooms,lamps,lampshades and more was a big influence on some homes.

[@beth1627]

Yes, even clothing a couple years before was affected by this. There's a family photo taken in 1973 while we were on vacation and I'm wearing a red, white and blue sleeveless sweater top and my mom has a red, white and blue sun hat on. I also had a pair of red, white and blue tennis shoes at that time. Obviously, the bicentennial was right around the corner and affecting fashion.

[@fudgicle1427]

Hell yeah. One of my strongest memories of the 70's is having U.S. Flag EVERYTHING in the late 70's. Bicentennial mania.

[@SMtWalkerS]

Yes! My mom collected Bicentennial commemorative stuff and I still have a lot of it. Calendars, decorative plates. Log Cabin Syrup came in special Bicentennial glass bottles. T-shirts, dolls - SO much Bicentennials stuff!

[@eliseintheattic9697]

I remember ALL of this. The home I grew up in had a lot of it, and what we didn't have my friends parents had. It was a crazy decade.

[@charlesb7019]

I will take any one of those houses in a heartbeat. HATE today’s computer designed cookie cutter houses that only have detail on the front. The back and sides are plain plastic boxes. If that isn’t bad enough, they are now being painted BLACK outside and gray inside. No wonder everyone is depressed and anxious. Get some color and happiness in your life!!!!

[@MrTroySinister]

Me too

[@rochelle..]

I’m with you 100% it’s all just bottom line profit blah blah boring now -cheaper, more efficient (what does that mean anyway?).

[@janetduncan87]

I've noticed a lot of Grey in many structures. It's intentional. They're Turing cities into Gotham...

[@rochelle..]

@@janetduncan87 hahhahahahaha I like your sense of humour

[@annsalty5615]

My father was ahead of his time and had component stereo system by 1970. Nothing too expensive. It lasted a long long time. I used it to death! Great music memories. Back then you really carefully listened to each track on an LP. It was never the same with digital.

[@lauramitchell6725]

My husband bought his own Fisher component system when he was fifteen years old in 1971. It still works!🙌🏻

[@shelleyharris7912]

Love the colors and shag carpets. We had the Curtis-MATHIS stereo console. My granny still plays records on it.

[@chiarac3833]

​@@lauramitchell6725I have a 90s Fisher system that still works too!

[@lauramitchell6725]

@@chiarac3833 👍

[@consciouspi]

Bed in forest bedroom is what I want.

[@reneecarter6702]

The thumbnail is my dream kitchen 😩🫶🏻 I love this look

[@estherwijnbeek8072]

I have friends who live in a house that still has such a kitchen; the old woman who lived before them in that house never changed anything. Every time I visit their house I am going back in time...

[@mikem6384]

Great memories. Honorable mention: naugahide, beanbag chair (or gigantic pillow on floor), crock pot, giant decorative fork and spoon (as others have mentioned).

[@LoveLunaFam]

I was born in 79 and I have a huge wooden spoon fork and knife that I painted on my kitchen wall to this day lol

[@scratchdog2216]

Born '65. Fun times as a kid then. We had some features in our house shown here, if not, somebody else did. All very familiar.

[@stephanieyvonne9436]

I was born in late 77 and I remember my grandparents having a lot of things I saw here. I especially remember my grandma having an organ just like the one in this video. She played so beautifully and when I was 11 she finally taught me to play as well. Such great memories❤️

[@splender88]

When I think of the 70's its wood paneling, shag carpet, and green appliances.

[@frankrizzo4460]

I remember those sunken living rooms with the extended couches. And my grandparents always kept the plastic on the furniture for years. It was like brand new when she sold it to someone years later. Wood paneling was big also in the tv rooms especially in the basement. And waterbeds of course everyone had those as well.

[@samanthab1923]

My Nan kept the plastic on her living room lampshades

[@Sparky-ww5re]

​@@samanthab1923my grandparents also kept the plastic on their lampshades as well. Except on the floor lamp they got as a wedding gift in 1948, it was a 3 way and had a mogul base 100 - 200 - 300 watt bulb, that lamp put off some serious heat on the 300 watt setting, although grandma almost always ran the lamp at 100 watts. Then during her last 5 or 6 years before she passed 2 years ago, got her a mogul to medium adaptor for Christmas so she could use regular sized bulbs dispite losing the 3 way function, and saved her a lot on her electric bill by using a 75 or 100 watt equivalent LED, not to mention those large 3-way bulbs were becoming hard to find in the stores nearby, but regardless Grandma was never going to give up her old lamp as it had too much sentimental value.

[@samanthab1923]

@@Sparky-ww5re I watch a reseller who loves stuff from the 40’s. Those lamps are still out there. He’s found some & rewired them. Some with the original shades.

[@Sparky-ww5re]

@@samanthab1923, the particular floor lamp my grandparents had used a large frosted glass shade with a single bulb, the trim holding the shade, pole and bottom of lamp was bronze, very elegant. Never found out if it was the original shade, but having raised 8 children and moved several times, it was likely broken and replaced at least once. Sadly the lamp among a few other belongings, all the copper pipes and some of the wiring was stolen in the weeks following grandma's passing, as the house was in the process of going through probate, and her closest neighbors who lived about a quarter mile down the road were on vacation at the time of the break in, and my heart sank when I went along with my mother to check on the house. None of the belongings were ever recovered, and once everything was settled after almost a year, the house was deemed unfit for occupancy and torn down. Satco now makes a LED version of the 100-200-300 watt tri-light, 10-22-34 watt, 1300-2900-4100 lumens, PS-25, E39 base.

[@fudgicle1427]

LOL, re the plastic on the furniture Our neighbor had plastic on ALL her furniture, and long sheets of plastic on the carpet. There were all these paths thru the house and God help you if you left the plastic path! Once at the dinnertable I asked my Mom if she wanted to have plastic at our house - she rolled her eyes and said "um, no" with disgust.

[@kenpullig1652]

Can't forget the ever present types and styles of cigarette ashtrays all over the house. One of the things I Remember standing out in our living room was the tension rod floor to ceiling LP rack, in the corner by the closet. We had many friends that always had the one rule: take off your shoes before you hit the carpet. We kids didn't mind but I remember adults weren't thrilled.

[@samanthab1923]

Shoes off was the rule in our house. Even my dad who worked construction took his workboots off in the garage

[@chiarac3833]

We always removed the shoes in the house, grandparents, parents and now me.

[@impalamama7302]

Yup and they were big enough to be pig troughs....usually done by someone who did ceramics as a hobby and given as gift to friends and family who didn't

[@lottamiles5510]

I made a macrame belt back in the seventies. Wish I kept it.

[@user-bn8mj9no6f]

Make another one!😊

[@lottamiles5510]

@@user-bn8mj9no6f You inspired me to find my old macrame books and make another belt.

[@FlourishingLove]

@@lottamiles5510 I made a granny square sweater. It came out gorgeous! But, it is heavy compared to sweaters that are available in stores.

[@lottamiles5510]

@@FlourishingLove Marvelous. Was it a sweater vest? They were very popular.

[@FlourishingLove]

@@lottamiles5510 No, its a full sweater. I'll go get the link of the pattern. It's here on YT.

[@Fair-to-Middling]

Dang, my parents must have been before their time. We had a super awesome stereo cabinet system with giant speakers set apart from the turntable and receiver. Man, I miss those days. Kicking up the sound and rattling the neighbor's windows!

[@sonjagatto9981]

😨🤣🤣

[@chiarac3833]

My friend's dad took the speakers and hooked them to the TV. He used it at 6 AM on a weekend to wake up neighbours who didn't seem to understand that loud music late at night wasn't really acceptable, especially on a weeknight. He actually put the speakers in the windows on a nice summer morning for full effect. What did he play? The Bugs Bunny theme of course!

[@nicole-uo9cd]

I still have my Regal avocado green crock pot! What, no mention of waterbeds? 7:38 I was talking about coloured toilet paper just the other day with a friend and I also can remember the pay toilets in public rest rooms. So glad those are a thing of the past!

[@user-wm8no6kz6s]

Ohhhhh good Lord, my worst nightmares brought back from my childhood!

[@CapriciousCapricrn]

Yes; thought this stuff was hideous too. Am thankful I never had any of such ugliness in my life.

[@samanthab1923]

A lot of that was especially jarring.

[@gidget8717]

I love the 70s. Best times of my life, my husband and I were young, happy and in love. These pictures swell my heart with happiness.

[@cerberus6654]

Grea postt! Sixteen years ago I bought my house - built in 1970 out in the country and nothing changed since then and everything still in place. Shag carpets, walnut veneer walls, carpeted bathroom. A complete time warp museum. I was in love with the burnt-avocado kitchen appliances as I felt I was 16 again. But after a few months as winter approached they all just died. So I went to Sears and bought new ones. Then I got a bill from Maritime Electric after the first month with new everything, including washer and dryer. $65 dollars cheaper than any of the previous months. I got a heat pump and got rid of the oil burning furnace. The bill dropped by another $35 dollars. Then, I had all the old slider windows ripped out and modern thermal ones installed. Well, that lowered the bill even more.

[@Fair-to-Middling]

Most of those rooms you showed were the ones I dreamed about in magazines. The homes I lived in were way more modest. My mother did however have furry zebra print wallpaper on one wall in her bedroom. And of course, shag carpet abounded everywhere.

[@CapriciousCapricrn]

Can't help but feel that I'm glad that I lived in more modest homes than these! Think the ones shown are hideous. Yep; I was in my teens to twenties in '70s and guilty of having a lot of '70s stuff back then, but this stuff takes it to a level of hideous the likes I've never seen!

[@williamwelch7]

Thanks for the flashback!

[@madonnahagedorn5649]

I crocheted blankets that draped across the chairs. I also did the yarn plant hangers. Wow. What a trip down memory lane.

[@B-ch6uk]

macramé was big

[@judydenver5362]

The Partridge Family, with David Cassidy is the best musical comedy show of all-time!!!! 1970-1974! I watch it everyday, now!!!!! David Cassidy, and Morten Harket, from a-ha, in 1985 and on, are the most beautiful men to ever be, and incredibly talented, too!! What gorgeous singers!!! Listen to them, everyday, also!!! So wish I had a Time Machine!!!

[@macnchessplz]

Agree about Morten Harket….

[@joankuehn4479]

Born 1953 my parents' designs were so much fun.

[@caroltanzi29]

This is a well thought out presentation video. Since I’m an interior designer, I just started to laugh at the wild interiors that people were living with. Great memories. I saw so much that is being used now and sold as retro.( which it is) I could even name the manufactures on some of these products. During the 60’and early 70’s, I worked for Macy’s SF as their home furnishing co-ordinator. Then in ‘72, I opened my own business. Great memories. Oh, I still have my business , just a smaller practice now. Again a fun video. Carol from California

[@jrnfw4060]

The conversation pits -- where folks actually sat and talked with one another, before the age of cell phones and constant texting. A warmer, happier and more vibrant period. BTW -- with today's fancy-smancy technologies, one would think that colored toilet paper WITHOUT the objectionable chemicals could be produced while still achieving those lovely decorator colors. So, why not? Surely, this can't be difficult to figure out. There must be other dyes that are safer while still offering the same range of vivid color choices we had in the 70s. What I miss most about the 70s are: My youth and my husband's youth, our larger families with more loved ones still alive, the first-hand creation of truly beautiful artworks and crafts AND the appreciation of same. And, gorgeous colors in nearly every room, especially the kitchens. Today's stainless steel kitchens look more like they belong inside of industrial plants than inside of our homes. I'd love to see those warm colors returning -- the harvest golds, avocado greens, burnt oranges, chocolate browns -- PLUS, appliances and fixtures of the 1970s were made from better quality materials and better quality workmanship. They were built to last, and many of them did.

[@Therealtruthsocial]

I remember my sister getting a black light and it brought hours of entertainment! LOL!

[@markrichards6863]

We had all midnight bronze kitchen appliances after the kitchen remodel. Looking back, it was really ugly, but on trend. The electric stove and fridge lasted well over 30 years.

[@ColeYounger16]

I am almost 55 and some of these homes look like mine lol. I like the part when you said, raking the shag carpet well done.

[@chuckdacon4797]

Huge wall murals of scenic scenes that were applied like wallpaper were popular. Several friends had them, usually of sunsets. Sold at Spencer Gifts.

[@audreymartin2515]

Oh my gosh the clocks with matching sconces, yes!

[@rachelrangel6325]

I'd take this house over any modern house any day. Literally the best decade.

[@equesfuscus]

The carpeted toilet-seat covers made it comfortable to sit on the toilet seat. The 3-dial weather station is useful. Still have one in my office. Tells me whether the air is dry or moist, warm or cool in the old building. Visitors love to check it out.

[@peterjeffery8495]

Component systems were all the rage in the 70's. Mine was a Sansui system with massive tooth rattling bass speakers. Forgot Bean Bag chairs and their inflatable cousins. Lava Lamps, Disco Balls and Fiber Optic lights too.

[@worldtraveler930]

I forgot about those fiberoptic lamps!!! 🤠👍

[@PCAGA2298]

The 1970’s certainly were a colorful and optimistic time ❤🇺🇸

[@1954shadow]

We had a Packard/Bell stereo-TV, console, had a b/w TV in it. My parents bought it in the early 60s. Mid 70s, the TV went out, dad went and got a new, color TV, took out the old b/w TV, and put the new color in its place. He did this because the stereo/turntable, still worked just fine.

[@mosslandia]

Yes most of us lived in modest homes, but we still had the organ in my house, the macrame decor, and olive wall to wall carpet. And bead curtains. And day glo posters in the kids' rooms. Great videos. New subscriber. 🎉🎉🎉

[@timward3116]

Some of these are extreme examples, though - probably taken from magazine pictures. I was never in any home that looked like some of these more crazy examples.

[@DeannaPiercy]

I was born in 1962 and we had most of these. My mom chose a very pretty aqua carpet for our living room and hall that was 2 inch shag. Raking it perfectly as I backed out of the room made my little OCD heart happy. Until my brothers had the nerve to walk on it - ha! And let me just say that when one of those brothers didn't make it to the bathroom in time and threw up in that carpet just outside my bedroom, well, it wasn't pretty. We had two of those console television sets, a console stereo, and an organ. In fact, my mom still has the organ. And yes, we had carpet in the bathrooms.

[@chiarac3833]

I bought a house with carpeted bathrooms. First thing I tore up when I moved in omg yuck...

[@ceasarandrepont1243]

I was born in '73 and remember some of these inventions. I always thought that the 1970s were awnsome and outlandish. Fun but over the top.

[@berjaboy]

Paneling was all the rage in the 60s and 70s. The console which you touched on here, but I remember them having everything. A color TV, stereo, record player, tape deck all in one unit. By the mid 70s they were on the way out. Clear plastic covering on furniture was big in the late 60s all through the 70s. Glad to see that go. Of course before cable, everyone had a big TV antenna on their roof to pick up broadcast TV. Most people don't realize, but before the 1980s, most people only received a handful of TV stations. If you were lucky, you got maybe 5 or 6 channels on the big color console in your living room. It was still a great time to be alive!

[@embreeja]

We all had shag carpet (but sorry, I NEVER saw any as long as what you show), and we had all the avocado green appliances. Mini skirts were fading (sadly), and disco was coming (and I loved it). Compare that with today --- we did not know how fortunate we were!

[@zackdemundo]

“Curtis Mathes” Desaturated colors. Fondue sets. Big Wheels. Polyester - everything. Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific. And a fortunate freeing of tv from the old, dirty, decrepit scenes of New York cop shows to fresh places like L.A., Minneapolis, Chicago, and Cincinnati.

[@Scriptorsilentum]

the rockford files!

[@heru-deshet359]

In the late 70s I purchased a Technics Amp, turntable and built my own custom speakers with Acoustic Research speaker components. Good times.

[@truckingwithtobee]

We had the outdoor scenes on the walls, spoons on the walls and a green and orange kitchen. And a big ole console TV

[@kasparsuppe862]

The good old time🥰😍. How do I always say? The “golden 70s”, how I love this wonderful time. In particular, I have been into carpets ever since. ❤❤

[@TinaRobinson-qf1dh]

I agree the 70s was so colorful the furniture the appliances everything now is drab and colorless

[@lindalarsson1436]

Best music !

[@audrey5941]

I saw many of these trends on TV but our home was not so cutting edge. It was still a wonderful stroll down memory lane. 🙏

[@billofrightsamend4]

We had a macrame plant holder on the porch. The squirrel would come and comb out the fuzzy bottom for it's nest. Cutest thing 😆

[@manda322]

Granny square blankets are back, crochet and knitting are gaining popularity again

[@Andrew-vo9tg]

I missed the colored TP. YIKES!

[@johnvonundzu2170]

My grandmother, when patterned TP came in, said she preferred to decorate it herself.

[@CM73878]

My cousins lived in a new-build in Denver, Colorado, in the 70s. The kitchen had brown cabinets and the appliances, the dishwasher, fridge etc were also a matching shade of brown. It was deeply depressing in retrospect, but they loved it at the time.

[@crystalcloud5065]

You showed the Macrame Owl!! Loved it! My oldest brother one year, in Art Class, they had to make something from Macrame. I guess he got Bold and decided on doing the LION. It was like a Chocolate color Brown. When he finished it at school and brought it home. That thing hung on a Dark Brown Paneled wall in our Den, over our Oriental design couch for years. He actually did a good job on it and I do believe he got an "A" on the project. I miss the "70s", THE GOOD OL DAYS!!

[@dawnsstar5918]

Uggh, we had that burnt orange and olive green floral sofa set....with matching chairs. It grossed me out then, and it boggles my mind now. Who in their right ever lovin' decorating mind puts those two colors together. Good Lord!!

[@cynthiamurphy3669]

My folks didn't go for shag carpeting, but my sister and I were allowed to buy some boxed pink shag carpet tiles and do our bedroom floor with them. It was cheap and easy to do. That would have been late 60s/early 70s. (Bummer to not be able to find your earring backs, though). Mom didn't care for anything more modern like you showed. She stayed with Early American decor for years and was somewhat of a wallpaper nut (even in the bathroom, of all places. Dad actually agreed to remove the shower head). Can't remember when Dad bought a nice stereo/FM-AM/record player console, and we all got a lot from that. He let me join the Columbia House record club and conned me into getting him his Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison albums, so like it or not, we had to listen to them, lol. I had my babysitting/house cleaning pocket money as a teen, and he actually did help me out, lol. Thanks for the memories!

[@GothGuy885]

yup that was my mom And dad also, they had early American furniture from back in the 1950's and refused to budge from that time period. anything of the 70's was too MOD. they never changed anything. one time they went somewhere for the day, and I rearranged the furniture to surprise them. they were surprised alright, and not happy so I had to move it all back again. 🙁

[@mdaze9753]

We had smiley face "scatter rugs" in our bedrooms

[@user-zx8de8op9l]

Most people didn't live like that, our home built in 1960 was about 1,100 sq. ft. My grandparents has a big house designed by my grandfather, In the country. It was remolded in 1964 and had a huge living room, with a focal;l fireplace, Large organ, Piano, 5 chairs, Couch, Large TV, 4 end tables, and many lamps. 13 people lived in the house.

[@samanthab1923]

That’s quite a living room 😮

[@madmanmechanic8847]

The conversation pits back in the day when people came over to visit and see you and not need anything nor stab you in the back after they used you up. No cell phones no internet just people talking to each other I sure miss those days.

[@RichieRouge206]

I was born in 1977 and my parents have baby photos with pure 70’s decor. I love the brash bold colours which is a wonderful contrast to today’s very bland and safe tastes these days. I’ve got a book published by the UK department store chain Marks & Spencers in 1979 and it is full of similar designs - it’s just amazing! Great video

[@j.g.007]

The wall clock and green candle story omg too funny😂 I love this channel. Your commentary is top-notch! ❤😊

[@QuelquefoisFois]

Don't forget the Osterizer blenders were green and gold too. 😊

[@ThePatriots010304]

Don't forget how well made the appliances of the homes in the 70s were. In 2017 I went to my girlfriend's grandparents' house for Thanksgiving, and they still had the same oven and refrigerator from 1973.

[@livinglife8333]

LOVE THE FIRST CHARTREUSE HOME!!!

[@traylorillo]

The candles in the sconces in my childhood home were actually made of a clear acrylic with pieces of gold floating in them like a bottle of goldschlager and completely non-functioning. Nice trip through my childhood. The funny thing is many homes that were established in the late 60s-70s weren’t really updated even into the 80s and even 90s so this stuff stuck around a lot longer than people realize!

[@chiarac3833]

My grandmother rocked those acrylic candles on her dining room table. I have the candle holders now.

[@davidpar2]

We had a pair of those decorative tapers, too. I think they’re still around somewhere

[@ajourney50]

We had the best rec room, with a full bar, pool table, piano, large speaker and spot lights.

[@DeannaPiercy]

There were some great rec rooms in that era. Ours had a full second kitchen with built-in soda fountain. And of course, Pong on the console television.

[@samanthab1923]

My BF from school had a kick ass basement. Completely redone. Bar, dance floor w/jukebox. Full kitchen & real arcade video games. Asteroids & PacMan

[@stormypuurl]

I think this is more the late 60s, maybe the early 70s. I was there, lots of happy memories.

[@shawnmeyer2788]

Have a lot of this still. We have three macramé hanging tables with smoked glass with a pot holder and light. We had the shag carpet with the rake. Each room a different color and some multi colors. Stair steps were open with the shag wrapping all the way around each step. My aunt and uncle lived in Mesa Az and they had a conversation pit facing a fireplace. The house was built in 1969 so they were ahead of the game.

[@chiarac3833]

My neighbourhood was built early 70s and many sunken living rooms. I love that look!

[@LauraTuller]

Spot on, from this GenXer! 🙌🏼

[@TheHistoryLounge]

Haha - Thanks, @LauraTuller!!

[@chiarac3833]

This was the best time to be a little kid, life was like an acid trip!

[@TheHistoryLounge]

@@chiarac3833 😂

[@jdm1505]

Enjoyed the video, but the console stereos, and a few other things shown, such as the last three clock and sconce sets, are definitely from the early to mid 60s. Of course people still had them in the 70s because they were only about ten years old, but they really do not belong in a video about 70s design. And, I will add, my parents bought a component stereo system in 1972. This comment might be nitpicky, but it seems to me that if one is going to the trouble of making a video, they should do their homework.

[@dmcr8171]

LO VE THE 70's !

[@rosetealatte9282]

Ah the good ole days. When I was the TV remote control.