What style of objects--furniture, appliances, decor would you find in a 70s house? I have to admit I made a macrame owl,

[debm55]

some string art and granny square blanket. What about you?

[Deep State Witch]

1. Avocado Green Appliances

Refrigerator, stove, and (if you were lucky) a dishwasher.

[debm55]

3. HAHAHAHAHAHAH, Thank you very much, Deep State Witch.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

103. Gods, yes!

Avocado, brown, and baby shit gold were the ‘70s in a nutshell.

My first place after college was a 10 x 50 mobile home with TURQUOISE appliances, sinks, and bathtub. Yikes, that was weird. I think that was more a ‘60s or even late ‘50s travesty, though. I suppose that could be why the ‘70s went the opposite direction.

[DBoon]

2. cheap wood paneling

[debm55]

4. You got that right. Thank you DBoon.

[Coolgoober]

5. Bed

Water Bed

[debm55]

7. I forgot about those. Thank you very much, Coolgoober.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

101. Hey, I resemble that remark!

I’ve had a full-motion waterbed for eons. My cats support me in the fact it’s the best sleep ever—especially with cool weather coming, though I think last winter was the only time in the last couple decades I've had the heat on for more than two weeks (Florida).

[Ocelot II]

6. When I bought my 1885-vintage house in 1990 it came with a "Harvest Gold" refrigerator

and orange shag carpeting in the upstairs bedrooms and hallway. Needless to say, those things are gone now. Never had any macrame. We did have a hanging spider plant for awhile in the '70s but that was because if we hadn't hung it up the cat would have eaten it.

[debm55]

9. Yes, the shag carpet and the Harvest Gold refrigerator. Thank you very much. Ocelot II

[Coolgoober]

8. Ash Trays

We can fill this up real fast

[debm55]

10. Forgot about those. Thank you Coolgoober.

[get the red out]

12. Everywhere

My Dad smoked 4 packs of Viceroy cigs a day. Mom didn't smoke. (He died at 72 she died at 89.)

[debm55]

13. So sorry, get the red out. May their memories be a blessing to you.

[get the red out]

11. Wallpaper

Wallpaper with BIG FLOWERS! It would match either the gold or avacado green appliances. I remember that in our kitchen, with those puke gold appliances.

[debm55]

14. Oh the wallpaper. Yes, Thank you, get the red out.

[SWBTATTReg]

15. Lava Lights, although they seem to be making a comeback...

[debm55]

20. Yes, Thank you very much SWBTATTreg. I did most of my shopping as a teen at Spencers.

[ProfessorGAC]

93. I Have One!

An 18" version.
It's modern so it doesn't have the toxic carbon tetrachloride in it.

[debm55]

95. Thank you ProfessorGAC. I suppose you didn't it at Spencers then.

[ProfessorGAC]

96. No. My Wife Found It In A Catalog

I didn't test the fluid. I had read that the old composition can't be sold in the US. For quite a long time.
So, I looked up the new formula.
Way less dangerous than they used to be.

[SWBTATTReg]

106. Neat! I always thought they were so neat! Nice to know that they aren't so toxic anymore.

[ProfessorGAC]

107. I Had One Of The Old Ones

I never took it when I got married, so my sister kept it.
It got knocked off the dresser & the odor was bad.
So, my parents called me.
I went over there (about a half hour drive). I walked in and knew instantly it was either chloroform or carbon tet.
I told my sister to stay a out of her room.
Went to work, (my labs were inside of a large manufacturing facility), talked to the off-shift safety gut and he gave me a spill kit and a respirator. Went back and soaked everything up with activated carbon & silica gel. Jarred it, took it back to work, and put it in the hazardous disposal overpack.
What a hassle over a lava lamp.
BTW: My new & improved one is on about 5 feet from where I'm sitting right now!
talked to

[buzzycrumbhunger]

104. I've still got several...

[Bluestocking]

16. Clear plastic couch covers.

[debm55]

23. Oh, I hated those, Thank you Blusestocking. I never understoood why they were used. Did we have germs????

[Eugene]

17. Console TV and stereo as living room furniture in wooden cabinets.

Our kitchen appliances were brown instead of avocado green.

Also had a sphere-shaped Panasonic transistor radio. That was avocado green.

[Coolgoober]

22. Hey Eugene

My wife still has her old avocado green sphere transistor radio, and it works

[Eugene]

28. impressive - mine started to fall apart in a few years

[debm55]

24. Same here, Eugene, Brown kitchen appliances. Yuk. Thank you very much, Eugene.

[Endlessmike56]

18. Crocheted orange and brown afghan on the back of the couch

The couch would have wooden accents and the pattern would have been some type of gaudy print fabric

[debm55]

25. And it was scratchy. Yes, the wooden accents. Thank you Endlessmike 56. HAHAHAHAHHAH the afghan.

[arkielib]

26. I still have one of those!

My grandmother made it for me - along with several others. It's not on the couch anymore. I've stored them in a cedar chest. They'll probably stay there until I die and my son can do whatever he wants with them. (I expect he'll just throw them away.)

My husband was into macrame in the 70's (we were in high school and college that decade). He made several plant hangers and a hanging table with a glass top. I still have the plant hangers and am using one now for a spider plant.

[debm55]

109. That's great you still have his plant hangers. As you noticed from my OP I made one of the owls

[pansypoo53219]

122. i found my AWESOME avacado/cream crocheted hoody sweater in the late 90's. it + a brown twin were almost thrown out

at the resale shop back room. i should have saved both. carrot man at the farmer's market grabbed my sleeve w/ a smile. i save granny afghans at estate sales. ebayed a few.

[debm55]

123. They are vey easy to make, pansypoo53219,, Go to You Tube and look up the directions.

[Coolgoober]

19. Peace Signs

I really wish they would make a comeback. How many times can I post? This is fun.

[debm55]

27. And the smiley faces. You can post as much as you want. Thank you, Coolgoober.

[CrispyQ]

54. Oh, they have made a comeback! ☮️

Go to Etsy & search for peace signs. I bought a pack of peace sign buttons. Ebay probably has them, too.

[surfered]

21. Lava lamp, black light, Che Guevara poster

[debm55]

29. HAHAHAHAHHAHAHA. Did you do your shopping at Spencers in the mall???? thank you surfered.

[surfered]

74. Can't remember. I just know they were groovy.

[debm55]

75. That's way cool, man.

[surfered]

116. Right on!

[Orrex]

30. My aunt had a big shag rug that always evokes the 70s for me.

[debm55]

31. Oh yes, the shag carpet, even in the bathroom. Yuk. Thank you Orrex.

[Polly Hennessey]

32. Green shag rug. At the time we thought it was great.

Now, oh, the horror.

[debm55]

33. You got that right. Yuk. Thank you Polly Hennessey

[debm55]

34. Dad's chair--the recliner. Lazy Boy.

[DBoon]

35. posters

[debm55]

36. HAHAHAHAHAHAHH. Thank you very much, DBoon.

[pandr32]

37. Plaid couches.

[debm55]

38. Yes, and sometimes they came with a loveseat and chair. As if you didn't have enough plaid.Thank you pandr32.

[pandr32]

44. Yes, and in dingy colors.

They were everywhere.

[debm55]

46. HAHAHAHAH. agree. Thank you pandr32.

[Niagara]

39. String or wire art, especially framed hanging on the wall 🎨

And....


Egg/pod/globe chairs!

[debm55]

41. Yes, the pod chairs. HAHAHAHAAHHAAHH. Thank you, Niagara.

[Niagara]

48. lol, Debbie!

[CanonRay]

40. Harvest Goldl shag carpeting

or that crap green color. Ugh.

[debm55]

43. HAHAHAHHAHAHA. I agree with you. Thanks CanonRay.

[CrispyQ]

42. My friend's parents turned their basement into the kid's room & filled it with several bean bag chairs.

I always hated those. They're ugly & not comfortable.

My mother made me a stark white macrame hanging table with a glass top & was hurt when I rejected it. I hated but I told her my landlord would never let me put a hook in the ceiling & that was true, but she was still hurt.

[debm55]

45. Bean bag chairs were ugly. And lord forbid you get a hole in it. That table sounds 70s unique. Thank you, CrispyQ.

[multigraincracker]

47. Do a search "Mid Century Modern furnishings, image".

[debm55]

49. Thank you multigraincracker.for the suggestion. Would a fondue be in it?

[Keepthesoulalive]

51. Avocado

To this day my kids hate that color.

[debm55]

53. I hate that color and we had Harvest Gold, Thank you Keepthesoulalive.

[Harker]

52. The leftover console stereo.

[debm55]

57. Thank you , Harker, We had a console that had a TV and a stereo in it.

[Harker]

58. Wow. The old horizontal entertainment center.

[flor-de-jasmim]

55. Avocado green here, too. Shag carpets. Strobe lights. Indian bedspreads.

[debm55]

59. Yep you got them . Do you remember the beaded doors? HHAHAHA. Thank you flor-de-jasmin.

[Jilly_in_VA]

56. Y'all are forgetting the other dominant kitchen/appliance color

Harvest Gold

[debm55]

60. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHH. Thank you very much, Jilly_in _VA

[Aristus]

61. A "conversation pit" in the middle of the living room.

Lined with shag carpeting, and usually with throw pillows all around. Bonus points if you also had one of those funnel-shaped fireplace-and-chimney combos.

[debm55]

62. HAHHAHHAHAHAHAH. My cousin had one of those set ups. I forgot to step down into the pit and my drink went flying. His

had sectional sofas all the way around. No orgy pit for him. Thank you Aristus.

[Goonch]

63. :-{) Family Games

[debm55]

64. Thank you very much, Goonch. I miss playing those games.

[gladium et scutum]

65. Western Electric rotary dial telephone n/t

[debm55]

66. Thank you very much, gladium et scutum. And the curly wire that gave you little or no privacy.

[madamesilverspurs]

67. Carpet rakes.

Them shag rugs don't arrange theyselfs, y'know!

[debm55]

68. HAHAHAHHHAHAHAH. That's funny, Thank you very much, madamesilverspurs.

[debm55]

69. Did anyone have a fondue or an air popper for popcorn? I remember those.

[msongs]

70. sand candlesnt

[debm55]

71. Thank you very much msongs.

[LudwigPastorius]

72. Patterned mirror tiles or mylar wallpaper in the bathroom

LOVE tchotchke



Green Naugahyde couch



The ubiquitous hanging chair

[debm55]

76. HAHHAHHAHHHAH. Thank you very much, LudwigPastorius. Way cool. I had the hanging chair, As for the others , YUK.

[electric_blue68]

73. I definitely did Macrame! But not an owl.

[debm55]

77. Oh I did other things too with macrame. I just wanted to include the owl. Did you do string art? The owl was "cool" back

then. Thanks electric_blue68.

[3catwoman3]

85. It may have been the ubiquitous macrame owls that gave rise to the term...

..."artsy-crapsy."

[debm55]

91. Well, my macrame owl was a piece of art. LMAO. Thank you, 3catwoman3 , Looking back, I thought it was,

[electric_blue68]

117. Oh, noes! 😄 I never heard the term!

[SARose]

78. Fondue pots and wooden fruit bowls

Yes I still have my avocado fondue pot. The grandkids love having chocolate fondue Christmas Eve.

My niece cut her teeth on the wooden fruit in the bowl. Too cute!

[debm55]

83. Thank you SARose. We had these "wooden" salad bowl set and some little bowls. I loved fondue.

[The Blue Flower]

79. Harvest gold and avocado green everywhere

Macrame, framed crewel and pillows, counted cross-stitch thingies.

[debm55]

82. You got it, The Blue Flower. And the doll crochet cover for the TP. Thank you

[GP6971]

80. Formica kitchen table tops.

[debm55]

81. Thank you very much for the Formica table tops. and the cheap seats that went with them. Thanks, GP6971

[poli-junkie]

84. Fondue set

[debm55]

87. I agreee and thank you very much poli-junkie

[surrealAmerican]

86. Those flower-shaped non slip stickers in the bathtub ...

... also maybe "shocking pink" bath towels and a shag toilet seat cover.

Oh, and tinted toilet paper.

[debm55]

89. The pink bathroom and the pink tank and toilet cover and pink TP. Thank you so much surrealAmerican.

[3catwoman3]

88. When my Air Force husband was transferred to Andrews AFB in 1986, we bought...

...a house from another Air Force family that was leaving for a new assignment. They had purchased the house when mortgage rates were 18%, and had not been able to do anything to update the then-18 yr old house. The kitchen had appliances in all 3 of the autumn colors - one harvest gold, one avocado green and one in whatever the coppery color was called. I no longer remember which appliance was which color, just how awful it was. We replaced them all with plain old white as soon as we could.

Our current next-door neighbors have been in their house for at least almost 3 years. They are the 3rd owners. They have a semicircular window in the first floor en suite bathroom, which we can see from the side window in our primary bedroom. It is covered with a bright orange and yellow afghan knitted in that common zigzag pattern. It's really ugly, and to make matters worse, it appears to be held up just by thumbtacks or the like, so it hangs in a very droopy, uneven, scalloped fashion that makes it look extra fugly. I see it every time I pull into our driveway, or go to the backyard to fill the bird feeder, or walk down the driveway to the mailbox. It's really annoying.

I've resisted the temptation to anonymously leave one of those fan-type paper window shades on their front door step, mostly because I'm sure they'd know it was me, seeing as it's only from our house that this tacky, makeshift window covering can be seen.

[debm55]

98. Yep , those zig zag ones were butt fugly.Thank you 3catwoman3

[pansypoo53219]

90. console teevee. maybe a big hi-fi. BIG TECH.

ROTARY PHONE! i have a rotary phone.

[debm55]

92. HAHAHAHHAHAHAHA. Was it a princess phone. Thank you pansypoo.

[pansypoo53219]

121. no. i have a black one from an estate sale, but i got a yellow wall rotary for $4 at a rummage sale + we were

using it in the kitchen. but it didn't work w/ the new digital land line. : (

the princess touchtone died

[debm55]

124. Thank you very much, pansypoo53219, I always wanted a Princess phone.

[pansypoo53219]

125. older style better for long shoulder calls. hold tag.

[debm55]

127. Thank you

[pansypoo53219]

126. oh. i have 3 att/wis bell in the family.

[ProfessorGAC]

94. Haven't Seen It Listed Yet, But...

...I thought of beanbag chairs.

[debm55]

97. Thank you ProfessorGAC. I got mine in college when someone was throwing it out. Half the mini Styrofoam beans were

missing. So I threw it out and the next day it was gone. Did you have one?

[ProfessorGAC]

100. My Little Sister Did

Probably around '75 so she was about 8. (She's nearly 11 years younger than me)
She was a little bitty thing, so for her, it was more like a beanbag bed.
My parents threw it out when it started leaking.

[Sedona]

99. Beaded curtins!

[debm55]

111. I remember them. Thank you Sedona

[Shermann]

102. The Atari Video Computer System (VCS)

That was better known as the Atari 2600, but it didn't get that name until 1982.

[debm55]

112. Thank you Shermann. We had one that played on the TV screen.

[Shermann]

136. Game consoles mostly connect to TVs

The 2600 had the cartridges with different games, and that console ran from 1979-1992. The earlier Atari was Home Pong which played only the one game and was released in 1975. I played that at a neighbor's house a few times, it was cool at the time. There is retro interest in the 2600, but only the really hardcore retro gamers will have any interest in pong. We had a whole TV devoted to Atari in the basement, but that was the early 80s by then.

[debm55]

137. Thank you Shermann. We played pong on ours.

[Diamond_Dog]

105. Sedona beat me to it. Beaded curtains.

When I was in college it was popular to use an old wooden electrical spool as a coffee table. I think telephone companies used them to wrap cable.

Also this poster

[debm55]

113. I remember. that spool, We made a cat scratching pole from ours. Thank you Diamond_Dog.

[applegrove]

108. Flowers printed on fabric where the flower itself is the size

of a large pizza.

[debm55]

115. HaHAHAHA. . Yep, right about that, applegrove.

[SaveOurDemocracy]

110. Linoleum floors, popcorn ceilings and...

Lots of hanging 🪴’s

[debm55]

114. Thank you very much SaveOurDemocracy. I finished the ceiling in our bathroom with popcorn paint

[DBoon]

119. I remeber this poster was popular among some college students

The burning of the Bank of America Isla Vista branch, right by University of California Santa Barbara, as a protest against the Vietnam War

[debm55]

120. Thank you very much. DBoon

[SheltieLover]

128. Forest green sculptured carpet.

I always thought it was fugly... LOL

[lark]

129. Water bed, India print everything- bed cover, curtains, ceiling covers; macrame plant holders, incense holders.

bongs.

[DBoon]

138. I remember a bong hanging from the ceiling

So you could just swing it to the next person and not have to go through the trouble of walking it over

[debm55]

141. HAHAHAHAHA. Oh you. Thank you DBoon.

[virgdem]

130. We had bean bad chairs and plastic Parsons tables

for furniture to go along with the green shag carpeting and Avocado appliances.
Real high brow furnishings. Lol

[debm55]

133. Yes, but back then it was the rage. Thank you. virgdem.

[choie]

131. A platform bed

A shag rug, and mustard yellow dishwasher. Oh and an 8 track tape deck.

[debm55]

134. Great, choie. I remember those. And you are the first to mention the 8 track tape deck. Congratulations

[calguy]

132. The biggest stereo system you could afford

And huge speakers, the bigger the better. It was a major status symbol.

[debm55]

135. Thank you calguy. I remember carting them to college. They were huge speakers.

[Tree Lady]

139. My black lights, posters, lid of Acapulco Gold

In my drawer, peace sign hanger, macrame plant hanger with piggyback plant in it. Have to add forgot my waterbed with fur bedspread my cat loved it, slept there all day.

Formica table in kitchen.

Manual typewriter and sewing machine. My pink princess phone with long cord, gold one on wall in kitchen.

Plastic stero with speakers radio & record player.

Wood furniture for radio & records in living room.

Tv in big wood console.

[debm55]

140. Wonderful memories. Thank you very much, Tree Lady for sharing.

[area51]

142. k&r n/t