Where did you find a picture of my grandparents house?
Smells like Bengay
Smells like 1975
And those drapes, lamp shade, and walls used to be white.
Those curtains aren’t beige naturally. They started out snow white, but 17 years of 2 people smoking 3 packs a day with all the doors and windows tightly shut will do that.
I want to come home to this place. This time. I recognize no era was perfect but this kind of place was so much more than the sum of its parts. A home that was comforting in its existence, unlike the bland gray/brown/beige rectangles that comprise every business and apartment now. Thick carpet that hid untold amounts of pet hair and cigarette ash. Wallpaper that, while gaudy, was so durable it could remove the Sheetrock under it if you were careless. A TV that, while shit, was a family gathering after dinner.
But others may have a different experience and I wouldn’t fault them.
This is what the 80s really looked like. Not like stranger things at all.
The 80s were loaded with 70s, even some 60s, furniture that wasn’t worn out because it was made of real wood. Them we toted that crap off to college in the 90s.
In the 2000s our basement furniture was all 70s furniture that looked basically new but was very out of style.
My 3 year old couch cushions are sagging and the stuffing leaks out. Modern couches are priced as luxuries with quality worse than IKEA.
My dad’s best friend had a house in the 80s that looked almost exactly like this picture. It’s eerie.
My great aunts looked like this until she died.
It was a lot more pink and less yellow because she didn’t smoke. Actually was a cool house with the old wood panelling and well kept furniture.
Something weirdly comforting about this pic
“Chillin at grandmas house at the age of 5 eating the best cookies you will ever get.” vibe
How long ago did you quit?
Like cigarettes and potpourri. Maybe also stale perfume.
Where’s the ashtrays?
Also, this room looks like boredom. It’s all the nice furniture at a parent’s friend’s house that I would have to sit on as a kid while they chatted and I had nothing to do.
Shift the furniture, add a Christmas tree, all your relatives sitting around talking and laughing, drinking eggnog and eating sugar cookies.
Reminds me of a long time ago, went to my aunts reeks of nicotine shes smoked for 60 years, havent been there in a long time. The carpet is a dark brown from the cigs and crunchy like snow from all the tar. Dont miss it a bit
Luckily I don’t have that memory.
This is the room I imagine when reading the scene in The Great Gatsby where the characters all hang out in a hotel room because one of the dudes is cheating on his wife with a gas station attendant’s wife.
this is far too modern to fit the setting of The Great Gatsby.
It even has the bowl of hard candy on the coffee table!
Or glass
Hey! I have a bowl of hard candy on my coffee table! What, you don’t like hard candy‽
If it was good enough for grandma, it’s good enough for me. 😤