Home decor

[Richard1978]

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My parents managed to find a large protective made for their new dining room table.

One of our friends of the family had a thick felted one in the 1980s.

[Kaptain_Von]

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Anybody remember those thick brown tablecloths that looked like a blanket you could put on the bed,doilies lacey things on the arms and back of chairs

Ah yes, the good old antimacassar. I always remember those in the homes of elderly great-aunts and grandparents. They were originally made to protect furniture fabric from hair oil that was popular in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Now they are mainly decorative when you see them used (albeit rarely) in homes.

The thick brown tablecloth is also something that my grandmother and great-aunts always had. The idea was that you put it under the white linen tablecloth and it protected the surface of polished or varnished real wood tables from the effects of hot dishes. A sadly forgotten invention and one I wish I could find as my dining table has a couple of marks on it where guests have not placed hot dishes on the table mats provided.

[amethyst]

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The painting and decorating shops before we had diy stores,when looking for wallpaper you had to look through books of samples of wallpaper to choose from,or the stands where you flicked over for samples,decisions decisions suprising how long we would spend in them days in these shops!

[Romany Jones.]

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Anybody remember those thick brown tablecloths that looked like a blanket you could put on the bed,doilies lacey things on the arms and back of chairs

I'm not sure of the table cloths, the only memory of tablecloths I have is getting excited at christmas when we could put our plastic tablecloth with an imprinted picture of Santa on the table......I remember the doilies on the arms and back of chairs....looking back you have to wonder what it was all about.....they were forever slipping off anyway......and god help you if you got beetroot juice anywhere near them or Vimto for that matter.

[Romany Jones.]

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As featured in Abigail's Party.

The house set for that couldn't be more 1970s if it tried.

Correct and one of my favourite plays.....I remember watching it when it was first transmitted.....long before everyone suddenly remembered it as a classic.

[amethyst]

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Anybody remember those thick brown tablecloths that looked like a blanket you could put on the bed,doilies lacey things on the arms and back of chairs

[Richard1978]

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Mind you......we were spared this one.

As featured in Abigail's Party.

The house set for that couldn't be more 1970s if it tried.

[Romany Jones.]

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Mind you......we were spared this one.

[Romany Jones.]

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We eventually progressed to The Crying Boy picture.

Bit depressing.....but what can you do.

[sweep]

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My parents repainted my brother's old bedroom with textured paint when they turned it into a guest room.

Almost right away they wished they hadn't, especially after my sister's then boyfriend caught a bad against a wall & made a mark.

It's still up, I'm not sure how they are doing to rid of it.

Had my bedroom done the same way, lost a chunk of flesh every time I brushed against it.

[sweep]

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We had this one in the front room.....I can't tell you how much I studied that woman's face.
http://artodyssey1.blogspot.co.uk/20...-vladimir.html

Must admit we didn't have one but she featured in quite a few of my mates homes usually the oriental one, seemed very exotic at the time and I was a little bit fascinated by them.

[Romany Jones.]

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No 70s home would be complete without the Green Lady hanging on the wall.

We had this one in the front room.....I can't tell you how much I studied that woman's face.
http://artodyssey1.blogspot.co.uk/20...-vladimir.html

[Richard1978]

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My parents repainted my brother's old bedroom with textured paint when they turned it into a guest room.

Almost right away they wished they hadn't, especially after my sister's then boyfriend caught a bad against a wall & made a mark.

It's still up, I'm not sure how they are doing to rid of it.

[catflap]

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I remember during the 70s my parents got a load of sawdust and mixed it in with white paint and did the hall with it.

Result was a wall that was rough when touched. No idea how they managed to get it off again.

I remember they knocked the wall through to get a bigger living room - maybe that was the reason!

[Richard1978]

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The original of that was auctioned recently. IIRC the same artist did an African woman in the same style.