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Sunday, July 18th, 2010 at 10:40 PM

Watch Your Dosage

It’s late on Sunday night, and the only thing that’ll keep you awake another minute, is…well, um…winners of the retro contest?

The white floor mat in front of the toilet is a nice touch too.

Posted on Sunday, July 18th, 2010 at 10:40 PM in Interesting Houses | 13 Comments » | Print Print You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Reader Comments: 13 Responses

  1. Whoa! Flashback! Are the appliances in the kitchen avacado green or harvest gold?

    swm | July 18th, 2010 at 11:43 pm

  2. I love the 70′s, good-times with shag carpet, cottage cheese ceilings, avocado green appliances, gold fish platform shoes, etc.

    AsIS | July 19th, 2010 at 7:31 am

  3. Wow. The wallpaper appears to be in pretty good shape, considering the age and humidity.

    Jinx | July 19th, 2010 at 7:50 am

  4. Its all about the upgrades that set a house apart from the rest!! That ain’t “standard” finishes!

    doughboy | July 19th, 2010 at 9:03 am

  5. My eyes! They burn!

    François Caron | July 19th, 2010 at 11:28 am

  6. My house in Pennsylvania was like that. Marsha brady turquoise daisies in the bedroom. That same awful yellow wallpaper in another bedroom. And my favorite – a yellow, orange, green farm scene wallpaper in the kitchen.

    House was built in 1910 – but “updated” in the late 60′s – and yes, the appliances were harvest gold.

    Cosmetic stuff like that is cheap to fix.

    UCGal | July 19th, 2010 at 12:05 pm

  7. Fashion goes in cycles. This will be “in” again someday.

    redys | July 19th, 2010 at 1:09 pm

  8. Brings back some memories–I remember when I was 6, I lost a tooth in our shag carpet and took me forever to find it. I also remember my Mom used to use plastic lawn rake to rake it after vaccuming–most of our house was green shag and my parent’s master was ORANGE!!! the next generation will be talking about the granite and travertine!!!

    Local Boy | July 19th, 2010 at 1:38 pm

  9. Ah-hah! What a perfect set-up for linking to one of my favorite sites ever:

    Interior Desecrators, by James Lileks. Lileks’ accompanying snark is almost unnecessary — the photos themselves will have you busting out laughing.

    For more laughs, be sure to check out the rest of Lileks’ Institute of Official Cheer. In particular, The Gobbler is not to be missed.

    ewhac | July 19th, 2010 at 3:25 pm

  10. Ah-hah! What a perfect set-up for linking to one of my favorite sites ever:

    Interior Desecrators, by James Lileks. Lileks’ accompanying snark is almost unnecessary — the photos themselves will have you busting out laughing.

    For more laughs, be sure to check out the rest of Lileks’ Institute of Official Cheer. In particular, The Gobbler is not to be missed.

    ewhac | July 19th, 2010 at 3:25 pm
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    That was fantastic! :)

    Thanks for posting the links.

    CA renter | July 19th, 2010 at 9:41 pm

  11. Believe it or not, I viewed the entire “Gobbler” site. It was sad that it had to come to an end. :(

    I think the 70s were unique, and though the decor was a bit wild (we can definitely do without the shag-carpeted walls), there was never a time in history that was quite as groovy. There will always be a soft spot in my heart for the 70s.

    CA renter | July 20th, 2010 at 12:08 am

  12. That’s nothing. I’ve got the original shag carpets and brown linoleum from 1976 in my place. The upside is that the kids can wreck it and nobody gets too upset.

    Seppo | July 20th, 2010 at 3:17 am

  13. The Gobbler would probably have been more successful in the Las Vegas than in Wisconsin.

    François Caron | July 20th, 2010 at 3:22 pm

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