13 Comments

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   swm on July 18, 2010 at 11:43 pm

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

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   AsIS on July 19, 2010 at 7:31 am

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

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   Jinx on July 19, 2010 at 7:50 am

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

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   doughboy on July 19, 2010 at 9:03 am

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

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   François Caron on July 19, 2010 at 11:28 am

   My eyes! They burn!

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   UCGal on July 19, 2010 at 12:05 pm

   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.

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   redys on July 19, 2010 at 1:09 pm

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

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   Local Boy on July 19, 2010 at 1:38 pm

   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!!!

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   ewhac on July 19, 2010 at 3:25 pm

   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.

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    CA renter on July 19, 2010 at 9:41 pm

    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.

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    CA renter on July 20, 2010 at 12:08 am

    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.

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    Seppo on July 20, 2010 at 3:17 am

    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.

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    François Caron on July 20, 2010 at 3:22 pm

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