Oddments in the living room

[W1 Rover]

A 70s room would be so cool. No entry unless you dress in the correct attire.
more for the list?..
on the wall
chalkware heads
horse brasses

next to the chair, a wire magazine rack

in the hall, a telephone table / seat combo

Superb!
The question of attire could be interesting.
I'd need to source a couple of authentic 70's long syrups to compensate for my lack of hair, one on and one in the wash.
Anybody else brings their own

[Semi42]

A 70s room would be so cool. No entry unless you dress in the correct attire.
more for the list?..
on the wall
chalkware heads
horse brasses

next to the chair, a wire magazine rack

in the hall, a telephone table / seat combo

[W1 Rover]

Faux glass fishing floats hanging on the wall
Ravenshead glass on the coffee table
Those badly cast brass effect flintlock pistols...also hanging on the wall
mfp records proudly displayed in the K-tel record selector
A couple of Pan books of horror stories (lurid covers) lying around

Love it...If I had the time and money I'd have a dedicated 70's room.
Having a spare room would also be a bonus.

[Semi42]

Not just furnishings but I also recall all the awful ornaments that were common back in the 70s
porcelain shire horse with a dray cart
glass clowns
glass fish
benidorm / Spanish Donkey
old man and woman figurines

[NervHQ]

Yeah, I think most of us did not have a well-organized living room as kids. It's a recent trend to have everything bought together and look coherent. I'm not against new trends though, when it comes to unique ideas for home design as I have used a lot of ideas found online to decorate my newly built house. It's always great to see how many optimizations you can implement and add comfort to your house. There is nothing better than having a cozy place that you always look forward to coming back to.

[Arran]

Not many people know this. It was quite hard to buy individual pieces of furniture back in the 1930s. Manufacturers and retailers strongly preferred to sell an entire suite of furniture for a room because there was more profit than selling individual pieces.

In 1953, G Plan started to manufacture a range of furniture which could be bought one piece at a time according to customer's requirements. This initiated a movement in the industry towards selling individual pieces of furniture.

[Semi42]

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We did get a new 3 piece suite one time and my dad insisted we kept the pouffe even though it never matched anything in the house ever

[amethyst]

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Thick velvet curtains to keep the winter draughts out,draught excluders behind doors,or door stoppers

[Calculator_Watch_Dude]

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My aunt and uncle had their formal living room sofas covered in protective clear plastic zipper covers for at least the entire decades of the 80s and 90s. I remember visiting on Sundays, Christmas, Easter whenever and never, ever seeing anyone ever actually sit on that fabric. Not sure if it was to preserve resale value or in case the pope ever came over to visit them they would have pristine new sofas for him to sit on.

[Richard1978]

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I remember my Aunt & Uncle weren't so well off, and when my Grandad retired and downsized they took on a lot of his furniture. They still had some items from the 1950s-60s into the 1990s.

[Mulletino]

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I remember our furniture being made up of a few different elements when I was a young kid, we had these horrible itchy black fabric chairs and a radiogramme. Then i remember my parents doing up the house, with an extension built, although for a while we had a concrete floor with a tiny rug on, then they replaced the radiogramme with a G Plan wall unit with an inbuilt "bar" and smoked glass doors for the glasses/knickknacks and a real stereo system with touch buttons. They also replaced the furniture with a lovely comfy beige suede one with wooden ends with some form of cane meshing in the middle, we had coasters that matched these and a corner table with a big luxurious lamp, the one with the pumpkin style base and tall slender shade. This was my favourite era of our lounge, so many happy memories of it like this.

[amethyst]

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Back in them days families from poor backgrounds did have to make do with what they had,not like the must haves from today.In my house growing up I remember the 1940s 50s dining furniture it was horrible dark colour wood but were well built and heavy meant to last,the polished dining table & chairs my dad had a radio gram
Everything was so old fashioned,even the TV was a wooden box lol

[Richard1978]

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My lounge is a bit like this as I was given some spare furniture when I moved in & have mostly kept it.

[Danniella]

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We had second hand furniture when we we small, i remember the couch was cloth with wool woven through it to create patterns, the armchairs didn't match, we had a brown coffee table in the middle of the living room and 2 small wooden cabinets. We lived in Toxteth at the time, we didn't have much money so made do the best we could.

[battyrat]

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I can not remember anything matching in our house as a kid.Even now its a real higgledy piggledy of odds and bods.