It’s time to dig out any pictures you’ve got of your house in the 70s, 80s, and 90s, so we can see exactly how brown it is. Here’s my dad in our wood-paneled living room, seemingly trying to feed me some pumpkin gunk:
Followed in by those hideous dusty pastels which depress the hell out of me. We had a bathroom shower redone with blue and white Mexican bird tiles and I made my poor husband drive me all over this county looking for dark orange towels, for a kind of adobe look. But NO, nothing but dreary dusty peach.
You’d think someone would have some orange left over from the previous era but apparently not.
I like riotous color, myself.
i was out somewhere a few months ago, eating lunch, and there was a couple of women, appeared to be mother and daughter. My guess is the mother was in her 80s and she was wearing righteous colors. I walked over and told her it was awesome she was wearing bright colors and how good it looked on her.
This was early 70’s. And is in black and white. But I’m pretty sure you can use your imagination to see all the brown. And my hair is actually longer now
In early 90’s was shopping for RVs, new or used. The brown/orange was everywhere! Oh yeah some avocado. Was very hard to find ones that didn’t.
Also looking at houses in Houston; these would have been built in 1950s-60s. Everything was dark walnut and most had a downstairs “bar” in rich brown pub colors. Luckily plans changed and moved to PNW to an almost-new house with white/neutral theme and I think birch cabinets.
No pics, not my thing
But I remember brown, orange, yellow and avocado green all going together.
@Cerridwyn Ugh, yes.
Followed in by those hideous dusty pastels which depress the hell out of me. We had a bathroom shower redone with blue and white Mexican bird tiles and I made my poor husband drive me all over this county looking for dark orange towels, for a kind of adobe look. But NO, nothing but dreary dusty peach.
You’d think someone would have some orange left over from the previous era but apparently not.
I like riotous color, myself.
@Kyeh go color
i was out somewhere a few months ago, eating lunch, and there was a couple of women, appeared to be mother and daughter. My guess is the mother was in her 80s and she was wearing righteous colors. I walked over and told her it was awesome she was wearing bright colors and how good it looked on her.
MEALS! DEALS! EELS! AWESOME!
@Cerridwyn AbsOLUTEly!
How I hope to be dressed in my 80s (Iris Apfel)
@Kyeh you go girl I love red. I love her pants. I don’t think I’d wear them because of the texture and the tightness but they’re pretty awesome.
POPSOCKETS! COURT DOCKETS! FOLK ROCK HITS! AWESOME!
This was early 70’s. And is in black and white. But I’m pretty sure you can use your imagination to see all the brown. And my hair is actually longer now
@capnjb Something like this?
@dave Very yes.
@dave I love this so much, thank you. Lost my dad last year and this has me wiping my eyes. Be good.
@capnjb I’m sorry to hear that. Even from this one photo you can see a lot of joy and fun
Me with the most amazing human to walk the earth, in my eyes of course.
In early 90’s was shopping for RVs, new or used. The brown/orange was everywhere! Oh yeah some avocado. Was very hard to find ones that didn’t.
Also looking at houses in Houston; these would have been built in 1950s-60s. Everything was dark walnut and most had a downstairs “bar” in rich brown pub colors. Luckily plans changed and moved to PNW to an almost-new house with white/neutral theme and I think birch cabinets.