Things you used to want in your home that aren't your style now!

[Echobelly]

I was just thinking earlier about some of the stuff have liked to have had in my first home (when I was 24), that aren't so much my thing now:

• a pinball machine
• a folding screen/room divider - I don't know why I liked the idea of a folding screen so much, I just did
• a gothic wrought-iron chaise-lounge upholstered in purple crushed velvet and zebra print. I saw it at an ironmongery and really wanted it at the time, OK?! 😂

Don't get me wrong, I still have no taste interiors wise but I have moved on from those things.

From about the late 90s early 2000s, I really wanted the long thin metal handles on my kitchen cupboards. For years it was all I wanted. But I've really gone off them now.

I had stencilling, did it myself, green ivy going up the stairs, and also wallpaper borders.😳

I did our dining room in orange/white, like that, in 1991. We'd just moved in and couldn't afford to have the walls skimmed (it's an old house and the walls were very bad)

Navy kitchen cabinets

A minstrels gallery

Not quite the answer you're after but in the 70s I hankered after one of those globe shaped TVs ( usually in orange or white) in the kitchen.

I still want one now.

Gold Austrian blinds. A fish tank wall.

I always wanted Delft-style wallpaper. I still think it looks lovely but just not in my home!

A round swinging waterbed.

Toile de Joie wallpaper (not sure I've spelt that right)

Dado rails with wood panelling underneath and striped wall paper above.

Fancy old-fashioned toilet with patterned pedestal, wall hung cistern and a pull chain

I'm sure there were many more!

In the 70's my mother had an affair with a builder. He built them a house to live in. The master en suite was maroon and consisted of a sunken bath with tiled surround.

The master bedroom had floor to ceiling windows and wall to wall mirrored wardrobes.

One of the family bathrooms had a burnt orange corner bath on a raised platform.

The living room was entered via double doors and a marble step set on a diagonal.

In the garage there was a door through to a bar complete with optrics and beer on tap.

I'm sure there was more stuff - at the time I thought it was the epitome of style and taste ...

Hot tub in the garden.

A conservatory.

A balcony.

Early 90s I wanted to move out of my parents and live in a city centre flat with a futon which I later discovered are the most uncomfortable items of furniture that ever existed.

Our bedroom was rag rolled in orange/white. Unfortunately, it was semi-basement and the light made it look quite acidic. Our kitchen walls were the same orange too, but there was much better light in the kitchen. Mid to late 90s.

Bean bags, id do myself an injury these days.

Not inside. But I remember I always wanted to live in a house like this. I thought they looked really modern and like a fun family like the Brady bunch with lots of kids might live in one.

Open plan kitchen diner! We had one in our last house and by the time the kids had grown up a bit, we were all fed up of being under each other’s feet. Plus, I hated watching TV looking at the dishes that needed doing!

We rebuilt downstairs to have an open plan kitchen and I was worried it'd be a bit like looking at washing up all the time but as the kitchen us up some steps from the rest of the room and round a corner a bit it does break the view up fortunately.

I do wonder if there will be a reaction against them soon, though!

I wanted a seaside-themed dark blue bathroom with white accessories and a seashell resin toilet seat. I have none of those things now I have my own bathroom and wouldn't want them either!

A feature wall.

As a teenager I used to go to sleep fantasising about a Littlewoods(?) bedroom set made of white melamine or some other nasty stuff with red knobs on the drawers and wardrobe doors. My mum had some white Laura Ashley fabric with little red flowers that would have made perfect curtains and bedspread to match. Even thinking about it now I'm still strangely drawn to the idea!

Everything in the 1995 Laura Ashley catalogue. Still love it.
Ducal pine furniture (I’ve painted it cream recently!).

and a Ford Escort XR2 in bright blue on the drive.

Fiesta XR2 or Escort XR3? Either way a stock one of those in good condition, would be worth good money now!!!

I used to long for those ruffled Austrian blinds in my bedroom when I was about 12.

Wouldn't be my thing at all now.

A seat made out of a whisky barrel

Those dormer houses often have a galleried landing, which is still one of my dreams!