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.

OMG my friend's sister had this exact bedroom!! The red and white bedcovers h little frills around them

In about 1995 I wanted eveything navy blue with yellow moons and suns on. Bedsheets, rug, random candlesticks, bookends etc. thought it was all so classy. Till it wasn't

Mirrored chest of drawers and crushed velvet and grey!

A round water bed

Omg @OhBuggerandArse and @obladeeobladah i had both of these bedrooms in my teens. Red chintz huge red roses on my duvet cover. Red carpet and white walls. Then I had the navy blue and gold with suns moons and dream catchers everywhere. I thought it was tres boho chic 🤣
lately I’ve become obsessed with wood panelling! But I’m getting fed up with it already.

Tv in bedroom

always wanted to live in a city centre lofty apartment with vaulted ceilings… still think I do some days

I never wanted one, DH made me. I love it! DD still sneaks into bed ages 13 for a weekend morning watch of a cheesy programme.

@Ladybird69 I had a brown and white chintzy bedroom with white melamine furniture, I was about 12. I later had a purply grey bedroom, that I also thought was very boho chic. I would have loved the navy with gold suns and moons, I had a poster like that.

I wanted a high rise double bed made of scaffolding, that was on the front page of a short lived house style magazine called “Inhabit” in the seventies.
Never did get that, but we did make the standard lamp out of a stoneware drainage pipe with a bend.

I also had a kitchen in the early eighties with a cream Rayburn, beige and brown kitchen units, brown paintwork and beige wall paper with tiny brown flowers on it and a cream tiled floor.

When I was living at home with my mum (around 20/21) I bought a silver crushed velvet bed 🤢

I honestly cannot think of anything worse now😂

Ruched white nylon bedding
Austrian blinds
Shag Pile bedroom carpet
Eternal Beau Dinner Service
All from the Grattan catalogue
A hatch between kitchen and 'lounge'
Bare floorboards in downstairs rooms.
Brown bathroom suite - with carpet

A burgundy kidney shaped bath with gold taps! - Imagine the mess toothpaste would make

Open shelves in kitchen/dining room - too much dusting

I loved those ruffled blinds too ,soo pretty.

I just wanted to make a home cosy that was my dream.

@quirkychick thank you MFI for all the white melamine 🤣

@Ladybird69 definitely! Iirc the edges used to peel off eventually.

@Giggorata omg you just reminded me of my kitchen in my first house! We chose dark burgundy worktops and pink and grey washed effect cupboards! And grey flotex floor tiles 🤣

Open plan - it’s just constantly messy and noisy. Sometimes I just want to be left alone to cook a lasagne in peace, or do some work in peace, or sit and pick my belly button in peace. But no - people always want to watch the telly or have a chat, or watch the telly AND have a chat. I’m so over the ‘heart of the home’ crap. I want a couple of buttocks and a few elbows of a home. I tiny kitchen that only one person can get into at a time is FINE BY ME!

@quirkychick oh yeah it was only stuck on with bit of glue. Must have cost pennies. Mind you we had a huge chintz three piece suite from there and it was the best we’ve ever had! The kids used it as a trampoline! Boy was it loud!

😂

A juke box! But I've moved on :)

I remember admiring adult's stereo systems.

OP, i also liked those room divider things. I still do and when i see s nice one i have to remind myself that i do not need it!

I ached for a sunken jacuzzi bath, now I imagine the agony cleaning it.

Ragrolling was actually not too bad. Gave a wall texture and depth. I've been stripping back old walls and the lowest layer of plaster looks a bit like ragrolling (though it's not). Soft, broken colour.
For those who are younger, Dulux used to do a 2-part paint for those not confident about rag-rolling by hand. You painted on one coat of one of the paints from the 2-pack, then overpainted it with the other, and went over it with a special roller while it was still wet and it just became a ragrolled finish. Magic. They did 2 types, and several colours. They don't do it any more- at least, not in the UK.

A woodburning stove, until I realised how terrible they are for your health :(

@PieAndLattes 1 tiny kitchen that only one person can get into at a time is FINE BY ME!

I obviously have your dream kitchen! 😁

Most of our neighbours have knocked the wall down to create an open plan kitchen / diner but I knew I couldn't bear to have the TV warbling on all the time and people and mess. I like hiding away in my little unfashionable kitchen with my radio on then close the door to messy pots and pans. Ditto open plan living room.

Like others, I hankered after a big squashy beanbag and a futon bed but I had a young body then...😁