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

Magnolia paint, beige carpet, a 3-seater sofa with a pattern that was mostly terracotta, black laminate stand for the CD player etc to match the speakers (on stands). Black ash dining table and chairs. There was also a TV on a black unit, plus a wing-back armchair that didn't go with anything. It all belonged to my flatmate.

I think the blind or curtain had a zig-zag grey and black pattern.

There was't much in that flat, we were all just starting out. But it was very much of its era.

Wood chip on the walls. Brown tiles around the gas fire. A tv with push buttons that clicked to change the channel and was in a fake wood case. VHS machine. A record player.

Can we do bedrooms? I was 8 and sharing a room with my 6 year old sister. I recall matching pink snoopy duvets, one of those china nightlights in the shape of a little house with a family of cats living in it, and a massive wooden chest of drawers which would probably be seen as a health and safety risk now in case we pulled it over and got squashed! My side of the room was always much tidier than my sister’s - I was so happy when we moved house a few years later and got my own room.

Duck egg blue with peach highlights. Lovely suite which was a wedding present, and peach linings on the curtains. Big lamps. Peach painted wall lamps Pride of place to our tv/ vcr combo.
1960s fireplace which had a bunch of dried flowers in it most of the time. I fancied a more elegant life than I lived.

Biggest was 26" in 1990!

Not all that much different from what it looks like now.

Same fireplace, same clock over it, same picture on the wall, many of the same books on the bookshelf. Same candlestick and vase. Different furniture but all similar in style and in the same places as previous incarnations. Various cat toys scattered over the floor.

Different husband though. 😂😂

Same as now. Good taste never dies.
Neutral carpet, colourful boho decor, nice rugs cushions throws and curtains. Woodburning stove.
Minus the massive tv of course. It's all flat tvs now.

At my dad’s: white walls, brown carpets covered with very old tapestry rugs, french window and heavy full length red velvet curtains. Open fire built my my dad. Late Victorian antique furniture and oil paintings in ornate guilt frames. Comfy three piece suite with cream loose covers. One whole wall lined floor to ceiling with books. 20 inch colour tv on wheels, no video player. Phone attached to the wall in the hall with a telephone table and Yellow Pages and the phone book. Turquoise bathroom suite, no shower.

Mum on the other hand, had discovered Ikea in Purley Way Croydon. So grey carpets, cream walls, modern art, white Billy bookcases, sofa that looked stylish but was seriously uncomfortable, roller blinds. 14 inch telly hidden away and only moved into the living room if there was something worth watching on. Apparently, Eastenders did not cut the mustard!

My dad’s house was much comfier!

I was at uni then and I remember coming home and my parents had had their sitting room decorated with a dado rail added. Laura Ashley stripes below and a floral border on the top. It was quite hideous, even then.

I was nine. No central heating, so working fireplace in the front room and one of those wheely gas fires with the orange gas bottles that mum put on for us to get changed in front of on cold mornings. Wooden floors with rugs. Floral sofa and matching chair which was really comfy. Small, old TV (even then) with annoying aerial you had to adjust ALL the time. Loved it all.

Songs of Praise on a Sunday night whilst mum sat there with her pink hairdryer propped up on a stand with a tube going from it to a shower cap type of thing on her head.

All after having a roast dinner followed by a salad for tea which included pickled cucumber.

And of course, the day before (Saturday) we had had watched Tiswas, had a fry up for lunch whilst watching Giant Haystacks wrestling.

This is probably very pre 1990!!! But that was my childhood weekend.

And the tv remote control was me!!!!

I had a three-piece sweet with curly Arms and a high back covered in pink flowery chintz. I also had a massive Kenwood stack system which cost me over a month's salary , topped off with a turntable of course and alongside that a shelf with hundreds of vinyl LP's.

Oh I just remembered we had cork floor tiles in the kitchen and dining room

Yellow walls. Like a sunny ☀️ daffodil yellow with a blue swirly border along the top. And a red sofa with tassels and gold stitching.

I can’t remember anything else 🤣

Same fire as OP. Green corduroy sofas. A teak unit for the TV which was floor to ceiling with loads of shelves/boxes/drawers. Huge hifi unit / record player. Fluffy brown carpet. Teak sideboard. Brown corduroy curtains. Same fire as OP.

I stayed with my aunt a lot, then lived with her from 1995. Hers was older, flowery and full of china birds and figures, and random crafts like painted eggshells and dough ornaments. I preferred her house.

We also had that electric fire, a horrible Pierrot ornament on the mantle piece, a big stack hifi system.

oh and lots of black ash furniture

A mahogany unit with glass doors for displaying the good crystal glasses.

A dado rail with a peach colour on the bottom of the wall and off white on top

mahogany nest of tables

a a mahogany newspaper rack

Painted boards with a hearth rug
Coal fire in 1940s fireplace
Mismatched furniture, mostly from dead relatives
Record player (cd player didn't get there till 99)
A table down one side of the room, 9 chairs
William Morris style paper on the chimney-piece
Rose white paint on everything else.

Very old house and very bloody cold.

Lots of very dark wood units by MFI and a matching table and chairs, a three piece suite in minky-coloured velvet with tassels everywhere, Van Gogh prints on the walls, a rag rug that my mum made herself in the 60s in front of the gas fire. Small TV in the corner with video underneath, a stack hifi behind an armchair. Absolutely all the furniture came from Haskins in Shepton Mallet - my mum was obsessed with that shop.

My mum was very much into home decoration. Everything was Laura Ashley, including my room which I hated with a passion. Sponging was heavily involved, and dado rails. I think the Hi Fi had gone by the 90s.

Mahogany dining table and chairs
Mahogany corner display units for glass wear
Huge canteen of cutlery, you guessed it, mahogany case
Hostess Trolley
Pine kitchen

Big grey corduroy sofa and arm chair, peach swirl wallpaper (it sounds worse than it was)
Black furniture from habitat and framed Italian film posters. My parents thought they were very cool.

Fireplace the same as yours OP.
Brown corduroy sofa.
Coffee table with red inset tiles on top.
Beige and beigy-re strip curtains.
Net curtains.
Creepy ornaments, a whale a dolphin and a horse.
A lady ornament wearing a pouffy dress and a delicate umbrella.
A 1970s ashtray of the queens silver jubilee (on display, not used).
Ceiling yellowed by cigarette smoke stains.

Smoked glass and chrome dining set. Super Fresco grey and pink wallpaper. Whisper grey kitchen, first house loved it.