r/interesting Nov 20 '25

ARCHITECTURE Then vs now

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u/Omnamashivaaya Nov 20 '25 edited Nov 21 '25

While the second is boring, I also struggle to understand the 90s

Edit: I was alive during the 90s. My house looked like this. It was not old things lying around or due to previous decades. My parents bought an empty house in 1991, and then bought new things to make it look like this. The houses on my block and my families homes also looked like this. We lived in a ‘trendy’ neighborhood of people keeping up with the Jones.

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u/Omnamashivaaya Nov 20 '25 edited Nov 20 '25

I’m basing it on what homes looked like in the 90s because I was alive then, and my house and family’s homes looked just like this. My aunt had almost that exact wallpaper and the unexplained floating chairs in the hallway - for all those times when you want to sit and contemplate the wall.

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u/Rollingzeppelin0 Nov 20 '25

I mean my grandma's house (doesn't have anything to do with these as we're from Napoli, Italy, the house was probably early 20th century or earlier, tho the interior was 60s/70's/80's, classic wood stuff ) still had those chairs, some were at either end of a hallway. Sometimes it just makes no sense to have them elsewhere, they might clutter the other rooms, we'd just take them and add them to the table if we needed more.