Rather subdued for the 70's

[misstia]

Women's Day May 1973...

cross posted to 70s_stuff

Comments

[soupdupcosmogrl.livejournal.com]

I love that room, actually. Minus the tie-dyed sheet on the wall. That woman doesn't really look like the groovy, tiedye type.

[kokosbolla.livejournal.com]

nice fat cat

[nosyparker.livejournal.com]

Well, that wall hanging really does tie something together.

[inkytwist.livejournal.com]

Wow, I love that house. Minus the tie-dye. Amazing. +10 points for basket chair.

[albear.livejournal.com]

Nooooooooooo! that decor is vomit inducing!

[kartusch.livejournal.com]

so what happened to all the painted brick interior walls in houses? I have seen so many in old ads but never one in real life. Really funny is if you take out all the things the ad is advertising that room is really nice.

[mwittier.livejournal.com]

A lot of it was "Z-Brick", especially in the '70s heyday of plywood paneling and mod wallpaper. It was a brand-name wallcovering of fake bricks that were maybe 1/4" thick, and glued on one at a time. I'm guessing a lot of it has been pried off and dumpstered over the last 30 years. Growing up, we endured enjoyed it in a couple of kitchens, both painted and 'natural'. Along with macrame plant hangers and spider plants.

I think a similar fake-brick treatment is still available as a 4X8 panel. Dunno why.

[kartusch.livejournal.com]

Wow, I had no idea that is truly fascinating. Fake brick veneer, that is a concept that is sort of blowing my mind. Thank you for the info.

[misstia]

they also had some contact paper that rolled out with raised bricks too....yes, it looked as bad as it sounds....

[kartusch.livejournal.com]

Wow is an understatement. "Brick-like" contact paper: that is a horrifying concept. One that I have the total urge to seek out and use completely inappropriately like a console TV covered in it... I scare myself.

[rella.livejournal.com]

We had a wall of fake brick in a house we rented a few years ago. It was horribly fabulous.

I also once lived in a basement apartment that had a decorative brick "wall" between the dining room and living room. It was painted beige and we strung Christmas lights through it. Disco!

[kartusch.livejournal.com]

that is awesome. I think me may have the same perverse love of tacky.

[misstia]

i think tacky is an art form...i love it!

[tvini.livejournal.com]

Those curtains have got to go.

[my-arienette.livejournal.com]

Why hello you fat and sassy minx.










(I mean the cat.)

[tanwen.livejournal.com]

I love that window seat so much. That and the sofa.

[outsdr.livejournal.com]

It took me awhile to even see the cat... I thought it was a tie-dyed couch pillow!

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

This, my children, is what tie-dye actually looked like in the 1960s and '70s. Not that Ben and Jerry rainbow business. It drives me crazy when historical films show people wearing modern tie-dye. We put Hanes T-shirts in the spaghetti pot with Rit dye and got maybe two or three colors at most. Note the instruction to boil for 30 minutes? You had to soak it in the dye and it still never got that dark.

[linderooni.livejournal.com]

I was born in '79 and I still remember boiling fabric, my mom did it a lot.