Croak couture
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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.
Of note. The paneling from this era is actually wood, not Masonite. You can flip it over and use it as 1/8” smooth ply, depending, for those of you into recycling materials.
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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.wrote last edited by [email protected]It’s manufacturing shades, beige and grey. Color costs extra in the age of squeezing working class out of anything but the daily grind. You’ll have a colorless domicile you do not own and you’ll like it.
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I'm a school bus driver now and about half of my coworkers smoke. It's just fucking revolting because they always stink of that shit.
I know of someone who has seizures, and recently gave themselves a stay in the burn unit because they lit a cigarette after a seizure when they were postictal (meaning they are recovering from the seizure but still have no awareness). That was bad news bears as my friend likes to say. Just the risk of falling asleep with a lit cigarette would be enough to keep me from it, not to mention the way you stink, the cost, the way people avoid you, and the inevitable damage to your health. You can have quit cigarettes decades beforehand, and still end up with emphysema.
But just plain stinking would be enough for me! Ugh that's awful for you.
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Of note. The paneling from this era is actually wood, not Masonite. You can flip it over and use it as 1/8” smooth ply, depending, for those of you into recycling materials.
If it was used in a smokers house, it will always reek unless heavily treated. At which point you've probably spent more than just buying new wood.
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In this example image, those be some "earth" colors. Used to be a big thing. Lots of dark green, dark yellows, oranges and browns.
And they liked that.
It's a whole vibe. I don't know who vibes with that, but it definitely has a vibe.
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I remember the wood paneling from when I was a wee lad.
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use oil-based paint
Oh dear god no. I'd rather have a root canal without anesthetic.
I don't blame you. Stuff is terrible.
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My grandma had that same couch.
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"And the brown and the beige and the brown and the beige and the brown!"
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Mid-century Modern is a style that's still popular for a reason.
Amen, sibling.
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Looks cozy af
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As a guy who grew up in the 70s - this looks perfect. I'll take it
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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.
The were saving all the pea soup green, salmon pink and sunflower yellow for the kitchen and bathrroms.
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In this example image, those be some "earth" colors. Used to be a big thing. Lots of dark green, dark yellows, oranges and browns.
And they liked that.
It's a whole vibe. I don't know who vibes with that, but it definitely has a vibe.
I can definitely get down with some earth tones, but not every single one next to each other
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In this example image, those be some "earth" colors. Used to be a big thing. Lots of dark green, dark yellows, oranges and browns.
And they liked that.
It's a whole vibe. I don't know who vibes with that, but it definitely has a vibe.
Covered up cigarette smoke.
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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.
That's a great band name, "Nicotine Glaze."
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It's the time - of the season... When love runs high
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As a guy who grew up in the 70s - this looks perfect. I'll take it
Just roll in some labatts stubbies and shitty weed oil in a beer cap and we're locked in for life
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In this example image, those be some "earth" colors. Used to be a big thing. Lots of dark green, dark yellows, oranges and browns.
And they liked that.
It's a whole vibe. I don't know who vibes with that, but it definitely has a vibe.
I don't know, seems like every era has it's own overwhelming monotonic style. There was the mint green of the '50s. Harvest Gold of the '70s. Shitty pastels of the '90s. Living in a white box is extremely popular now.
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I remember the wood paneling from when I was a wee lad.
Remember how it smelled?
