It’s 1990. What does your living room look like?

[JandamiHash]

Mine was:

• China plates on the wall sitting on little hooks
• a burgeoning amount of creepy Royal Doulton ornaments lining every available surface
• Maroon corduroy sofas that you had to perch on otherwise you’d fall down the back never to return
• Scalloped net curtains at the window that were black with dust at the hem
• This gas fire

Very Laura Ashley, with a side serving of Changjng Rooms.

Swirly carpet, my mum had a mink coloured Draylon suite. They had orangey teak shelving when it was just old and not retro. Tv and video but it was a big chunky thing and in the dining room we still had a black and white tv 📺 with a wire Aerial

Embarrassing... it looks pretty much the same as now. Maroon leather sofas, teal carpet and curtains, magnolia walls, same mirror, same artwork.

We have a bigger telly, and a coffee table now the kids are grown.

Full Laura Ashley (wallpaper and pencil pleat curtains), with a brass surround wood burning stove in a brick fireplace (that my dad built), brass candle bulb sconces with dimmers. I think the sofas at that point were floral, or maybe brown corduroy.

Our whole house at that time looked like the Laura Ashley catalogue - neo-Victorian. It was all gorgeous, I miss 80s and 90s interiors.

I bought my house in 1990, I rag rolled most of the walls, and the living room was shades of peach. We un-sixtified most of the house, pulled off corrugated coverings from the doors, and fake panelling off the bath, exposing a Victorian roll- top underneath. Ripped up brown swirly carpets and sanded floor boards. I think I stencilled various walls around that time.

Telly, Video player, lots of albums, large speakers on wall, hifi stack system, two sofas, velvet curtains, gas fire. Anaglypta wallpaper

We had dark green pattern carpet, mahogany furniture, a tiny tv that wasn’t flatscreen. The chimney Breast was red. I think even my mum didn’t “do” magnolia, but another creams with a yellow tone

Oh yes, a video player and a video collection

Not that different to now... but with chargers and a WiFi router. Oh, and an Alexa rather than a HiFi

I mean, it's been decorated and the carpet has been replaced , but it's not radically different. Its a victorian house with victoria fireplaces and it suits a particular style

Very tidy ! Had young children , but exh was ocd about keeping everything super neat & tidy so everything was tidied away every evening.
Decor wise , white leather 3 piece , glass & chrome dining table , pine tv unit , pine corner unit .
Flowery wallpaper top half , stripey wallpaper bottom divided by dado rail burgundy in colour .

Messy and dirty, my mum still has a filthy house. Mine is kept near and clean.

Mine was beautiful striped and floral wallpaper in hues of blue, black paintwork (skirting etc), black Venetians and upcycled furniture lovingly painted in pale blue chalk paint, and reupholstered, by me. I had 3 under 5 too!!

Exactly the same, except the sofa was green and no gas fire. My parents whole house could be a 1980s museum piece. Literally nothing has changed in 40 years 😂

Bright walls, terracotta and yellow I think. Rag rolled ceiling. Sun moon and stars blanket, or ex libris print. DFS sofas, petrol blue leather with scrolled arms that you might have found in Alice in Wonderland. Roman blinds.

Mexican colours in the kitchen, bright and clashing, the china from The Pier, chipped really easily. Orange and yellow checked voiles.

No Laura Ashely, I had gone off frills and bows and pouffy pelmets.

A lot of brown... furniture, curtains, sofa... carpet?
Tv in a cabinet. Tiny by todays standards
Gas fire.

And toys put away in the corner every night (I was 4, brother 6)

Shades of pale green and peach curtains, pale peach sofas, a dark green carpet. Pine furniture. Monet prints on the wall. I loved that house and my sitting room.

I don't remember but a 32'' tv seemed big enough.

A daedo? Rail! floral wallpaper at the top and plain at the bottom....this was every room in my house growing up
A very fussy Grey floral sofa and an awful rectangle brick fire

I was still living in the family home in 1990. We had magnolia walls, a cream carpet and a big Persian rug. Three piece suite in a pattern. Old framed tapestries. It was an old house and my parents furnished it and decorated it in a traditional style, which, looking back, hasn’t really dated. We did have a deep-backed tv with a video player underneath though! And a stereo system with record player, cd (I think) and cassette.

Pretty empty. We bought a flat then had very little left for anything much after getting essentials like carpets, a bed and a fridge. There were a couple of secondhand armchairs in the living room, and a rather swish hifi and coffee table that had been given as presents. I don't think there were any decorative features that would date it. A pleated bedside lamp, perhaps.

Much the same as it does now ( different house) aside from no fire fitted . We lived in a new build so walls were painted and not much on the walls as we are minimalist . We do have pictures but mainly on the stairs / upstairs . Patio doors at one end that had curtains . Carpet on the floor - we have wood and rugs now . G- plan modern 3 piece suite which would still look ok today and our current settees are similar .

I don't remember much. I rember an artex ceiling.and 3 seat sofa but they were smaller back then. With matching arm chairs. And feather seat cushion were feather and my mum /dad would pump them up ever day . We did have central heating and also a gas fire in the living room . We had sliding doors onto the garden and a crazing paving drive way. We had carpet but I can't remember the colour. I remember us all piling on the living room to watch the soaps younger kids on the floor adults on the sofas /chairs . Dad in his arm chair doing his cross word .

I remember maroon chesterfield fake sofa. I was so embarrassed when friends came round as I lived in a council house and my mum got it from the catalogue and thought she was posh!

Definitely either terracotta or yellow walls.

The TV was on legs with wheels and had a faux wood case. No remote, so much arguing about who should get up to change the channel or volume.

Faded blue velvet 3 piece suite (very comfy!) with a spinning armchair! Fun for us kids, until someone flew off and hurt themselves.

Radiator covers with criss cross fronts, these might have been later 90s perhaps

Otherwise various wooden furniture, stripped pine floorboards (Victorian house), stripped pine doors. I expect there was a rug but can’t remember it.

Magnolia paint on everything it was possible to paint, weird brown carpet tiles, overly flouncy curtains with matching pelmets and a good old G-plan suite in a weird patchwork brown fabric. The suite was the comfiest sofa and chairs ever, I actually miss it