Seriously tacky and grim...

[TornFromTheInside]

Inspired by a thread about hygiene - carpets in kitchens and toilets, I thought it could be interesting to recall some of the diabolical tat from the past.

I present to you, Onyx furniture. Green onyx everywhere! We had table, nest, plant stand, telephone stand, you name it we had it, and very ouchy if you knocked against it.

Omg Earslaps we had those tiles in our downstairs toilet! I used to sit there picking out all the different animals faces I could see! (Gorilla, lion, eagle, chicken, snake, dog... can you spot them all?!)

80s child here, early 80s though so there were plenty of 70s trends hanging around for much of my childhood.
I don't think anyone's mentioned borders on wallpaper in every room, including up the stairwell at a careful angle. Also something called Coving which seemed to be shaped polystyrene wedges, the intention of which seemed to be to conceal the fact that your wall joined the ceiling. Also swirly patterns in ceiling plaster and woodchoppers wallpaper, I used to pick the woodchips out in secret.

*wood chip, not woodchoppers

Strangely I like that green onyx!
Shoot me, I think I've developed bad taste!

@FlyingMonkeys I can remember taking empty canisters back to Tesco and getting a free refill. Miss soda streams, the modern ones just aren't the same

I recognise loads of these things and had a fair few of them in the late 90s when I had my first place, all hand me downs from my granny.
I loved those striped sheets, they were so cosy. I remember getting my first duvet and not having scratchy blankets and being tucked in so tightly you could barely roll over.

I want a globe cocktail bar!

You can still get camp coffee op grim as it is lol.
Im off to read this full thread now and hope none of my stuff shows up

Been howling at all of these. And actually swear we had everything that has been pictured

I give you these creepy wee fuckers

Blimey, so many of these things!

The house we bought 4 years ago had.....
Carpet in the kitchen
Carpet in the bathroom
Carpet in the downstairs loo
Downstairs loo was avacado
Bathroom had green and yellow tiles
Woodchip everywhere (and a lot of it painted purple!)
Beige kitchen cupboards with the wooden trim ( still popping up on Rightmove now)

All of the above has now gone thankfully. However, there's loads of things on this thread that I fondly remember; burgundy bathrooms, teasmade, chicken tiles, we had all of them!

We had just about everything mentioned on this thread in my 70s childhood home. Dad's ashtray was on a stand by his chair, I used to wait for him to flick a nice big piece of ash in and press the button to make it twirl away. Also had a telephone table in the hall, phone calls to friends couldn't be made before 6pm on a weekday though. Who remembers these pecking birds, and growing hyacinth bulbs in a vase of water?

I remember scraps - also in Scotland.
In these days of plastic pollution, soda streams are making a comeback. We bought one in January and it is used every day. Massively reduces our plastic bottle recycling!

i remember fringed lampshades on the "standard lamp", string pictures, a hose shower thingy on the bath taps and pulling the threads out of the candlewick bedspreads to make a hole pattern.

Those chicken tiles, we had them (together with the avacado suites) at home, I found a big chunk of tile in the garden at my Dads the other week, must have been from builders and we moved in as a new build when I was tiny, so getting on for 50 years. Dug it up whilst weeding and it looked bloody brand new!

I take your Camp coffee and raise you Mellow Birds (to make you ). Coffee with chicory.

Mellow Birds - a shocker from Shockers!

'Mellow Birds will make you smile'. No it bloody won't.

oh it will... if someone's else has just taken a swig and you're laughing at their expression!

I thought of something else, package holidays had just got popular and I ended up with a few of these, complete dust traps and useless when you're 7

Just remembered the macramé plant pot holders and the cork tiles in the bathroom....

I want to post a spanish donkey! but MN have declared my images too tacky

I remember the pecking birds!! My granny had one and I used to spend ages playing with it (there wasn't a whole lot of excitement in her house...)

My Grandma brought me a Spanish dancer doll back from her holiday one year. She didn’t like package Spain much and went back to Switzerland the year after.

Grandma wasn’t a fan of the hoi polloi .

I love Spain btw... and Switzerland!

Oh yeah icklboo candlewick is what I meant! I picked at them too.

And another good thing for picking was the beads of these purses.

We had that same clock posted above, and I want the multi-coloured coffee table.

My Mum decorated one wall with hessian wallpaper but it also had a tree design in the background made of thin slivers of wood. On the other walls she had soemthing thta was basically a fluff you mixed with water then spread on the walls. Only we had beige in the centre and a border of dark brown.