There’s this meme from a while ago that observes the fact that the 80’s and early 90’s weren’t as colourful and flashy as most media make them out to be. In fact almost everything ranging from clothing to furniture to advertising was a drab shade ranging between dark brown to orange.
Every once in a while you’d get a toy or a household appliance that would be a bright neon colour and it would be considered hi tech advanced fancy stuff (until it broke the next day).
Nowadays you’d have to look hard for dark brown/orange drab stuff. They make dark brown/orange stuff but it usually is made of a veneer of fancy wood and it’ll cost you an arm and a leg. (And then it breaks the very next day)
Good for Trump for when he shits himself again
My grandparents had this exact couch and 2 chairs with the same pattern.
Ugh this was my mom’s furniture
i was going to say, this is the worst representative couch. i remember a lot of stripey couches with oranges.
It’s a random picture I found.
I mostly remember brown green velvety material with lots of oak. A sort of mocka colour like the picture.
After that during the 90’s I had the luxury of growing up with fancy black leather couches. ❤️
I can smell the potpourri.
I can smell stale smoke
No, that’s fondue.
That’s what you think about in the shower?
If your family had this couch, one or more of your parents was really into anal sex.
The sky was yellow and the sun was blue
I thought leaves were brown and the sky was gray
Depends on what drugs you took
Lasagna couch
*Davenport
*Davenport
Chesterfield actually. “Davenport” was a name brand of chesterfiled-style-sofa that became popular enough to become synonymous (Like Kleenex became synonymous with tissues, or Chapagne became synonymous with almost any bubbly wine)
I wore shit like this out of the house, because of how amazingly fucking cool I was
Holy shit, don’t tell me, you had a powerglove?
You always knew houses with smokers and without. Hit you walking in the door and put a sepia tint on reality - walls, popcorn ceiling, all kinds of shit. But what kids today will never know:
Plastic covered furniture. People covered their couches and easy chairs with plastic. it was wild.
Google it, people had fitted plastic covers made for all their furniture. I don’t know if anyone ever took the covers off “oh the pope is coming over let’s go all out” attitude but it was a distinct thing.
yeah that makes sense, my grandma only ever uses the good china for christmas and that’s it. the only reason she’d whip it out twice in a year would indeed be if the pope came to visit her
at least with the china she’s already getting out the dishes. with the plastic, I have no idea how long it would take to strip the furniture, but it’s not a quick process lol. it was so strange.
i sat on this exact couch
Ngl i saw the thumbnail and thought it was like dinner rolls or some kind of bread
Wood paneling. Everywhere.
Brown carpet. Everywhere.Anything that had been white was stained by cigarette smoke.
60’s Paisley, tie dye & macrame 70’s Brown, orange & golden yellow. Plus a little beige. 80’s Neon, black, sparkly, & hairspray. 90’s pastel colors plus burgundy and forest green.
Turns out I grew up among hand down materials from the previous decade.
they’re remembering what was at the tail of the decades, so hey
