Does anyone still have matching bedding, curtains and wallpaper?

[NessaCoaches]

Watching Keeping Up Appearances and of course Hyacinth has bedding that matches her bedroom wallpaper. It reminded me of my mother who had the same, as did I for a little while, my mum liked sets that had curtains and lampshades matching too. It was clearly seen as the done thing amongst the aspiring lot. Although could seem overdone.
I remember the baby’s nursery being the same too, you could get the matching towels, changing mats, baby seats etc.

I wondered if anyone still does it? Is it even an option now?

@escape Pierrott! My mind had done me a favour and forgotten that.

That looks like the interior of Queen Victoria's train carriage.

Everything comes back round.

I think this ‘look’ is definitely due to come back… it’s been too long 🤣

Lots of fabric companies have ranges where they have a plain, small, medium and large pattern in exactly the same colour ways.

@ Zebracat -
I have matching curtains and duvet cover - or I do sometimes: curtains are blue and white, and I have a duvet cover that matches them and several blue and white ones in different patterns. And some plain white ones - I can’t resist a good duvet cover. In fact, I like household textiles - I can get quite excited in a home furnishings department.

Goodness yes! The yellow and blue pattern. We had a guest room with that, pale blue walls and white bedding, the yellow and blue curtains and lampshades. It was very smart at the time! The people that bought the house kept the curtains and sold some years later with them still in place 😂

Still going strong at my parents’ house!

I worked in a home improvement trade
Sold thousands of them
4 and a quarter inch and 6x6.

That is actually rather glorious 😂

Most of the newly renovated houses I see on RightMove are all grey. So yeah, kinda?

Personally no, my sense of style is eclectic (shit).

XH used to work in tiling and they refereed to those as "budgie tiles". I believe their correct name was something like "texture vein".
It used to drive his tilers mad when clients insisted on having them put up so that all the "budgies" were facing in the right direction as they were originally meant to be a random pattern,

Back in my day a lot of us had Eternal Beau but if you were a bit better off you'd go for Royal Doulton I think it was called Old Country Roses - completely hideous!

I have matching curtains and bedthrow☺️

Happy memories of my first job working in Marks and Sparks in the 1980s. They had entire kitchen stuff designed to match (autumn flowers/harvest or something). Toasters, kettles, place mats, crockery cutlery. Curtains and blinds, you name it. I guess it made christmas present buying easier! People used to come in and order. Had to fill in some kind of triplicate order book and phone them when it arrived.

@RaraRachael yes textured vein tiles they came in a bonnie array of colours.
The brown one was quite erm..special.

God, no, not since I was a child. Thelwell curtains, bedding, wallpaper back in the day, lol. I don’t like anything matching these days.

My Nan and grandad had matching bedding, curtains and wallpaper back in the 90s.

@MajorLanceYouDontWantMeNoMoreNsoul a friend of my late mother's (in her 90s) is selling her house . It looks like there have been no improvements in the 50 years she's lived there.

Not only does it have a chocolate brown bathroom suite, but brown budgie tiles 🤣.

I was just thinking of Giles Mary off Gogglebox.
I see it’s been posted in the thread gallery.

My older sister is obsessed with matching. She insisted I couldn’t get the duvet cover I liked because there was no curtains to match. I went back on my own and bought it.

Oooo nice❤️😂

The last time I saw it was in my lovely neighbour's house, 25 years ago. That really popular Laura Ashley tulip design. Wallpaper, bedside lampshades, curtains, bedlinen. Not my taste then or now but I don't remember it being terrible. Probably because even though there was a lot of repeated pattern, it was all clean lines, no frilly edges. My bedroom at the time was F&B string with a pale blue feature wall behind the bed - so different, but just as 'of the era'.