[Hyacinth Bucket]

Kathie what are you looking for on ebay?

I think you will create a wonderful home, looking forward to seeing it.

Have fun making is your home.

HB

[travelstiles]

HB ~ You and Sidney are so young in spirit I can never imagine you feeling old! Now stop that kind of thinking, or I'll give you a time out!

PS - that goes for you, too, Nonie

[graciegirl]

Travel. Lights are going off!! Do you have a Mini Cooper and cats and did you sit next to me at Whiskeys????

[travelstiles]

We have a red Mini Cooper, cats, Grateful Dead sticker on our car and I believe we did sit next to you at Whiskeys! Let's get together again, Gracie...but not at Dominics, please :

[sschuler1]

Boomer,

You forgot to mention the macrame plant hangers. I had one for years, and finally got rid of it about 10 years ago. Now I am starting to see patterns for them showing up in my crochet magazines. It has to do with all this retro decorating that is coming back in style. We decorate strickly for comfort. My husband is 6'4", which severely limits our choices in furnishings because he dwarfs most typical pieces. (or I'm afraid he will break them in less than 6 months) So I guess you could say that my home is furnished in eclectic giant. Nonie, your decorating style should be whatever makes your house feel like home to you. Your pictures look like your furnishings are very pretty, and it looks comfortable and homey. Don't change a thing if this makes you feel relaxed and recharged. I don't think we need to change our home decor every time we change our hairstyle. Let the length of our skirt hems be dictated by the changing wave of fashion, but leave me my comfort in my home.

[chelsea24]

Originally Posted by Shirleevee

OMG! Horror of horrors......................Shag rugs.
I raked a Spiegel Special............gold and orange. What were they (we) thinking? I see that they are making a comeback. Should we post the warnings?

Love this thread!

Shirleevee

Post a Warning! Post a Warning! Didn't we all rake a shag at one time or another! (Or is it shag a rake! ) 1rnfl

[Boomer]

OK Girls,

I am trying to work in the yard and I just came back in and now I am all sidetracked by this thread again.

Chels, thank you so much for reminding me to order the catalog from the link in the first post. I got so carried away with all the flashbacks and the fenging and shuiing that I almost forgot to order it.

Macrame plant hangers!!! I had forgotten those. And did you ever have a print on the wall of those kids with those huge eyes? What were we thinking?! And wallpaper with prints so big, you could camouflage yourself in them. We once put some up upside down and could not even tell.

And who remembers that tacky :edit: Mediterranean :edit:? The plastic fake carvings on the doors. I left that stuff back a long time ago. The first husband got to keep it.

I just have to ask this and then I will go back outside before I really get embarrassed. But I just have to know. Did any of you ever entertain guests while wearing one of those hostess outfits? The flowing pants. The big sleeves to dip in all the food. Those enormous hoop earrings. In possession of the perfect frozen daiquiri recipe to serve with those cocktail weenies. (still love them, btw)

(IwillrunlikehellnowbecauseIknowIam probablytheonlyone!)

Boomer Stewart

[Shirleevee]

Boomer,

The prints of the girls with the hugh eyes were called Keane (sp)....I had two......OMG! wet-look wallpaper. Mine had yellow, orange and red poppies on a kitchen wall. After a month, I would get a headache looking at that wallpaper.

Shirleevee

[Hyacinth Bucket]

I am truly enjoying walking down memory lane with all of you. ;D ;D ;D :bigthumbsup: :bigthumbsup: :bigthumbsup:

My hubby macramed plant hangers for me, one even had a socket in it - so that I could light up my favorite plant, he also did an owl.

I still have some of the pieces he made. He also made me beautiful jewelry which I still wear.

S-in-law had wall paper hung upside down and I do not remember when finally someone realized it.

The wonderful painting with the children with big eyes - never thought they would go out of style. I liked them.

And Boomer I just took it for granted that this is the way you work in your garden and that is why the hibiscus is thriving -"I just have to ask this and then I will go back outside before I really get embarrassed. But I just have to know. Did any of you ever entertain guests while wearing one of those hostess outfits? The flowing pants. The big sleeves to dip in all the food. Those enormous hoop earrings. In possession of the perfect frozen daiquiri recipe to serve with those cocktail weenies. (still love them, btw)"

Isn't this why you bought the Victorian Armoire to put this outfit in.

HB

[Boomer]

I have got to stop looking at this thread every time I come back in the house. But it is too much fun. And I can see those 70's homes of ours just like it was yesterday.

Originally Posted by Shirleevee

Boomer,

The prints of the girls with the hugh eyes were called Keane (sp)....I had two......OMG! wet-look wallpaper. Mine had yellow, orange and red poppies on a kitchen wall. After a month, I would get a headache looking at that wallpaper.

Shirleevee

Shirleevee,

You and I shared the same ever so exquisite taste in wallpaper. I have a picture of my daughter sitting at the kitchen table in front of said wallpaper and truly, at first glance, you really don't see her immediately.

Originally Posted by Hyacinth Bucket

I am truly enjoying walking down memory lane with all of you. ;D ;D ;D :bigthumbsup: :bigthumbsup: :bigthumbsup:

My hubby macramed plant hangers for me, one even had a socket in it - so that I could light up my favorite plant, he also did an owl.

I still have some of the pieces he made. He also made me beautiful jewelry which I still wear.

S-in-law had wall paper hung upside down and I do not remember when finally someone realized it.
HB

HB,

Those owls! I had forgotten all about those owls! And HB, a socket so you could light your favorite plant! I think you just may be winning the groovy award for this entire thread.

And thank you HB for letting me know that there were others out there in the 70's hanging that hideous wallpaper upside down and not knowing the difference.

And thank you also for reminding me about my hibiscus. You know, maybe that whole hostess ensemble, or whatever that thing was, might just do the trick. I am trying to remember what kind of shoes I wore with it though. For some reason I am thinking? --none. I don't know why.

Aw, c'mon. Surely I was not the only one wearing one of those getups when I had very special company back in the 70's. Not every time. But sometimes.

Sometimes I was more hip and served Sangria and beer, instead of those frozen daiqueris, and that Lipton Dried Onion Soup in sour cream chip dip and chips on my very special chip and dip plate.

A Sangria story:

A few weeks ago, I had a little get-together. (No, I did not wear the lovely hostess ensemb.) Anyway, one of our longtime, good friends said to me, "Hey, Boomer, ya know ya been servin' us Sangria since the 70's."

"And how's that been workin' for ya, Bobbo?" I said.

"Good, Boomer, good."

Well, I think I am hijacking again and I really must move forward with my life. For a little while anyway. Maybe next time I come back in here, I will actually talk about decorating trends and stop reliving my hostess outfit. I would not bet the farm though.

Boomer Stewart

[Hyacinth Bucket]

Boomer I forgot about all of those casseroles and the cookbooks written about making delicious meals using Campbell's soup.

Lipton onion soup - I think every recipe called for that.

I still like Sangria and make it - hubby bought me a beautiful, yes Victorian, ladle to serve the Sangria.

I still have a chip and dip set that dates back to 1962 - yikes - I am dating myself.

Remembering colors what about the refrigerators, avocado, almond and ? can not recall the other color. As for decorating colors, until about 10 years ago, we had a freezer that was pink on the inside.

And then in came Correlle - I am still using the original Correlle set of dishes bought, once again in 1962. Now have the original pattern in blue also but gave away the avocado set. I am so tired of using that set. I keep them because I have a hard time breaking them.

I just realized I know why the economy is doing so bad - I have stuff that I bought new and it is older than my kids.

HB

[Sidney Lanier]

HB thought she felt old as she waited for me in the parking lot at the college where I took my Spanish immersion course this past weekend. I was by far the oldest person in the class; the other students thought I was nuts when I explained that I have memories of La Segunda Guerra Mundial (WWII) that came up in context. The youngest student was less than one-fourth my age.... (Sorry, Topicop!)

I'm seeing if I can post pics of our house in TV and the colors we used there. So far I managed to get them onto PhotoBucket; I'll now try the next step.... Let me just mention that I took these in the last hour before we left to come back to NY and things are a little messy. And we've only just starting hanging travel mementos on the walls. What fun we had furnishing from the clearance center, craigslist, and yard sales! Here goes:


These two walls are the same color (the medium shade), whereas the wall 'around the corner,' that you see just a little bit of on the right, is the lightest color. We use a lot of area rugs on top of the white carpeting to tie areas together.


This shows better the two shades of butterscotch (yes, the names of the colors are hilarious, something out of Madison Avenue, we think...).We did the hallway in the same color as the wall around the entry door and windows for a little contrast; there is so much light coming in the solar tube in the guest bath (that you can see a sliver of in the pic) that the hallway is not too dark.


Here you can see two shades; the longest wall is the lightest color for reflectivity purposes, while the medium shade is on the end walls around the lanai doors in the back and the living room windows and entry door on the front wall.


The entire 'big room' area is done in three shades of something like a butterscotch, and in the kitchen is the darkest shade. Can you imagine how lost these beautiful cabinets were when the walls above and below them were white? The neon coffee cup is HB's favorite piece in the house....


You can't see much of the lighter blue, just the small strip on the right side of the pic; that lighter color is the same on three walls of the bedroom, and the two different blues follow through into the master bath, with the darker blue on the three ends walls (in the walk-in shower, above the vanity, and behind the toilet in its own little room) and the lighter blue on all the other walls.


We used these same two greens in the guest bath to tie the two rooms together. We even painted the hokey glass-top end tables the lighter green. (Anything look familiar, samhass?)


HB says we need sunglasses for this room. Both walls are the same color; the other two walls (not in the pic) are a more pale yellow. The pic on the right above the sofa is not blank; it's just the way the daylight hit it.

[sschuler1]

Sidney,

I love it!! So bright and cheerful. You are definitely not afraid to use color! And I agree with HB, the neon cup is terrific!

[uujudy]

Originally Posted by Hyacinth Bucket

Remembering colors what about the refrigerators, avocado, almond and ? can not recall the other color.

Harvest Gold. I had the harvest gold fridge, stove, AND washer & dryer! It seemed so lovely at the time. LOL

[swrinfla]

Boomer's wardrobe sounds just like the one that lived in an apartment I had at college something like 50 years ago. It wasn't in the slightest way portable, and my rommate and I decided that it must have been built in place! A wonderful storage device, however.

I still have and use large (3- and 5-quart) avocado pots that I bought in the mid-60s. Got rid of my coppertone fridge more than fifteen years ago, but the washer and dryer I left when I moved to TV were Harvest Gold!

Seems like white and stainless are all the rage, these days!

SWR