House decoration at the time. ..

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seemed lovely but looking back makes you cringe? I remember putting a peach carpet on my bathroom floor in my first flat and loving it and now think OMG!!😂😂

Those 'chicken in a storm' tiles that came in a variety of colours.

We had yellow, duck egg and salmon pink.

I chose a peach bathroom suite for my first house in 95. Peach. The hilarious thing is I’m the least peach person in the world. I was pregnant, in my defence.

I'm loving that coloured bathroom suites are coming back but so sad of getting rid of the gorgeous huge cast iron pink set in my last house.

I'm also in love with the dark colours coming back, it feels so cosy and warm, especially when paired with a little bit of gold or brass detailing.

I work in interiors and hate with a passion the trend for rose copper and rose gold everything.
It doesn't tie in with anything else.

The grey trend can work very well but the wrong grey can be a disaster and far worse than any magnolia.

Metro tiles can be fine but they are so cheap that if it is a trend you wouldn't feel bad about replacing them in 5 years.

The travertine bathrooms of the noughties seems to have died a death thankfully.

Along with feature walls.

There's nothing that's going to make your room look awkward quite like a feature wall.

I think the fact that Conran and other people of his ilk are still designing furniture that doesn't look out of place 50 / 60 years on says a lot for good quality design though.

Everything doesn't have to be a trend

Analyglypta.

Paper with a raised pattern, that when painted, formed the decoration on the wall, below the dado rail.

www.google.co.uk/search?q=anaglypta+wallpaper&tbm=isch&chips=q:anaglypta+wallpaper,g_1:vintage&client=ms-android-samsung&prmd=isvn&biw=360&bih=616&hl=en-GB&ved=2ahUKEwi426_0jpjeAhVCrhoKHf7XCkAQ4lZ6BAgAECI

Usually painted a lighter, complementary colour to some raucous number above the dado.

I had a peach and green lounge many years ago.
Likewise a Navy and yellow bedroom with sun moon and stars accessories.

I remember getting stroppey with dh because he did not have the style and good taste to want to put in a dado rail with stripey wall paper under it and plain paint job above it!!

Bedroom wallpaper in the mid eighties. Emerald green wide stripes on a white background. In every walls. I get a headache thinking about it

The previous owners of our flat bought the whole flat for less than it has cost us to remove all the artex ceilings and textured wallpaper. They also put clapboard panels in the bathroom and kitchen. Tasteless Bastards.

My mother still has wallpaper in every room that's divided half way up each wall by a slimish, contrasting strip with pattern / flowers / animals on it

@WineGummyBear I best save to redecorate *looks fearfully at metro tiles, grey and ochre sofa, industrial lighting and bifold doors...

@SimplyPut the alternative to decorating is magnolia! I'd rather enjoy it now and take the chance.

Just the other day I was finding myself slightly nostalgic for the days of peach bathroom suites - often with shell-shaped detailing around the suite, with soft peach carpet and a whiff of Imperial Leather - I find them quite cosy and homely. 90s decor in general.

I remember spending lots of time reading my parents catalogues and planning my ideal bottom and top wallpaper combinations (usually striped wallpaper on the bottom), tastefully set off with a border.

I loved stencilling borders at the top of walls. I thought they looked great. Cringe now.

The matching lilac paint and lilac carpet in the bedroom of my first flat. I loved it at the time, and the lilac plastic flowers I nailed to the beams on the ceiling.

Curtains with swags and tails and tie backs..... I'm surprised anyone could see out of windows with so much fabric blocking the light.

I also think that metro tiles look like the tiles you'd find in a grotty council run toilet block.

I like a feature wall!

But today’s Instagram grey houses? Fuckinghell its boring. All for show and too shiny.

Sorry, why are those tiles called chicken in a storm?

We recently found a diy magazine in the loft from 1991. It had these gems inside...

I loathe the current trend for grey everything. So bloody depressing. I can't imagine anything worse than living inside an industrial grey home.

It all comes around again eventually. ...
I think those green walls above look ok...cheery anyway

I remember house hunting in the mid 80’s & my friend refusing to live in a house that had a white bathroom suite. We still laugh about that now.

I’ve got feature walls here but they in my defence I quite like them.

I used to use Dulux tester pots to stencil anything that stood still long enough.

Anaglypta- what a funny word (did I spell it right, probably not) as highlighted by a previous poster. I can’t stand it and it always reminds me of cheap student places or people who don’t have a lot of money (thinking of family) who used it because it ‘covered the bumps in the walls’ so it makes me think of miserable times.

I had another family member who had a carpeted bathroom with a step in it like one of the above pictures and that was the height of luxury to me.

Wallpaper borders - do people still use them? Are words on walls the new version of stencilling (from when we all used to watch those home improvement programmes with the likes of Lawrence Llewelyn Bowen and co?)

BillywilliamV

I badly stencilled ivy all over a bathroom
When DS was born his nursery had a wallpaper freeze border that didn't quite stick. The walls were blue below and egg yolk yellow above.

Then there was a frame for fabric bows on pictures 

Peach wall to wall bathroom carpet, with frilly lacy shower curtain held back like drapes.