Old fashioned things you have in your home

[Kittyteaa]

Had a friend up for a catch up today, I am redecorating and I had asked what she thought of my home beforehand, she said “well it was a bit old fashioned wasn’t it?!” So I am genuinely interested what things in a house makes it old fashioned!

Since the last few years. And yes, many people seem to do exactly that!

This sounds awful to me, not something I would aspire to at all.

I think the ultra white, glossy kitchens with the huge chrome taps look like abattoirs.

Some of it is just showing off, more like saying what they have.

How can an bookcase be old fashioned indeed. Ikea does them for goodness sake.

I can understand styles being old fashioned.

Funnily, I'm perusing a farmhouse interiors book and there's this bookshelf. I see a beautiful bookcase with old books. Can be adapted to suit.
I guess to someone else, it would be a horror that needs to be ripped out instantly.

Yes, it needs to be ripped out and replaced with a glossy white monolith!

@Treesandsheepeverywhere that is lovely.

Ne, neither.

I've ordered one!

I was gifted a vintage-tearoom style teapot and absolutely adore it so have ordered matching cups and saucers

Pot pourri

Re books there was an Instagram trend. You bought hardbacks from charity shops in bulk. Sprayed them grey and put them into a book case as a display. Titles etc obliterated. I had a problem with that I'll admit.

🤯

I would buy that house purely for the bookcase. Beautiful.

WTAF? These people should be shot!

This makes me want to cry.

It would probably be quicker for me to list the things in my house that aren’t old fashioned. That’s how I like it.

I have over a thousand books, some are on IKEA white bookcases , some in a fairly large oak case, some in a six foot pine bookcase, and there are two metal/ ash bookcases. Some are by beds or in piles in bedrooms!
I think my home is fairly modern, it’s certainly not the soulless grey that’s been fashionable the last few years.

when I used to get the bus into work, from the top deck you could see into peoples gardens, and one of them still has an Anderson Shelter in it!

My aunt used to live opposite someone who had an Anderson shelter in their garden.

She also had lovely leaded light windows and whoever bought her house after she moved out replaced them with uPVC. Awful. Modern is not always better!

Magnolia walls
Toilet roll cover with big skirt and dolly sticking out
Brass fireplace set (but electric fire!)
Shower curtains with frilly edges
Those fluffy mats around toilet bases
Cabinets with glass sliding doors to house collections of ornaments, or thimbles
Clear plastic runner mats across carpets
Mish-mash of similar colour patterns (curtains, carpets and cushions)
Tired matted rugs in front of the fireplace
Paintings of sad children with big eyes, usually accompanied by a loyal dog looking up at them.
Love spoons, 2/3 brass horseshoes on a strap hanging on the wall
Peach or coral anything (bathrooms usually)
Definitely the 2 wallpaper combo with boarder across the middle.
My friends mums house, as was.

Ooh. I got carried away in the past then 😄

I'm not saying these things are 'wrong', just what a consider old fashioned. Each to their own. All things in moderation etc xx

I bet I would prefer your slobs with dogs house.