Croak couture
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I have lived with that carpet. It was horrible and thin.
That carpet was my parent's basement rug for the majority of my life. Maybe my standards are low, but I thought it was fine. Not excellent but fine.
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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.
Apparently Cutty Sark is a whiskey, which presumably is what you meant, but the first DDG result is a British naval ship which ... Also kinda makes sense?
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That 60s one looks awesome
I'm partial to the 50's. They figured out the sleek Nordic cabinet look early - they just painted everything bright colors.
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This was an attempt to emulate the rich, wood-paneled, dark, rich luxury of old money.
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Having one room like this is enough tbh. I love my concrete walls and ceramic tile.
I don't want to live in a parking garage
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Apparently Cutty Sark is a whiskey, which presumably is what you meant, but the first DDG result is a British naval ship which ... Also kinda makes sense?
The scotch is named after the ship
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As a young child, that is exactly how I felt about that style. I knew I really hated it. There was no openness to rooms and everything felt drab. It was a style that felt outdated even before I knew what "outdated" even meant.
The smell is the biggest thing I remember. The wood paneling and those types of carpets always had that smell. Well, it was either that smell or the lingering odor of old cigarette smoke and spilled scotch.
By the time I started becoming truly self-aware, the 90's hit and I was awakened with a blast of neon colors. (My brain doesn't want to remember anything much from the late 80's other than my Velcro shoes and jean jacket.)
Rooms don't need to be open. My parents have an open concept modern home in Texas and it sucks. You can't hear the TV if someone is soing anything in the kitchen, but anyone upstairs hears EVERYTHING that goes on downstairs. Having dedicated spaces for different activities is nice
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This was an attempt to emulate the rich, wood-paneled, dark, rich luxury of old money.
I think it also somewhat closely matched a lot of the clothing being worn at the time too.
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I don't want to live in a parking garage
I don't want to live in an allergen trap.
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Is that a fucking problem, Nicholas?
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That carpet was my parent's basement rug for the majority of my life. Maybe my standards are low, but I thought it was fine. Not excellent but fine.
We had it in a kitchen.
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This was an attempt to emulate the rich, wood-paneled, dark, rich luxury of old money.
wrote last edited by [email protected]I visited Konopiste castle in the Czech Republic that had a moat with a bear living in it. Inside, most of the place was covered in beautiful walnut. Hand carved patterning, and filigree. It was actually beautiful. And the ceilings were like 20 feet tall. A bunch of animal busts, linens, and furs. They even had the real white and blue fine China that Boomers are so obsessed with.
I remember thinking as I walked through there: "Wow, this is what it's supposed to look like"
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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.No, we must open-concept everything! That way, when people come over, you have to clean one giant room (instead of just whatever small rooms people are likely to be in.)
I wish I could just tidy up the living room without needing to tidy up the kitchen and the computer room, but with my apartment floor plan the only inside doors I have are for the bedroom and the bathroom. So all the excess crap I have no space for gets shoved into the bedroom, every time.
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Wow, I can smell that. Musty basement with a Tyco slot car race track in it.
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We had it in a kitchen.
wrote last edited by [email protected]My parent's kitchen floor was a similar design but a. linoleum and b. way, way more yellow.
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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.Bring back the '70s babes with it like Joyce DeWitt or Jan Smithers.
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I visited Konopiste castle in the Czech Republic that had a moat with a bear living in it. Inside, most of the place was covered in beautiful walnut. Hand carved patterning, and filigree. It was actually beautiful. And the ceilings were like 20 feet tall. A bunch of animal busts, linens, and furs. They even had the real white and blue fine China that Boomers are so obsessed with.
I remember thinking as I walked through there: "Wow, this is what it's supposed to look like"
Exactly!
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Wow, I can smell that. Musty basement with a Tyco slot car race track in it.
And years of stale cigarette smoke baked into every surface in the house.
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other then the carpet I like it
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It's...so....drab
