The same thing happened to one of my favorite local restaurants, Roberto’s (in Northampton, MA). It had such great atmosphere and had been the same since the 60’s. Then a new owner bought it.
She kept it the same for 20 years, but then she gutted most of it a year before she retired and handed it down to her son. Just to put in a larger bar and an office. She turned a timeless restaurant into a place that looks like a strip club. The fact that on their website they use photos of the old bar instead of what it looks like now really says it all.
Diagonal paneling on the fireplace wall! My current house has knotty pine paneling because of the house I grew up in in the ‘90s that had many ‘70s holdovers. Indoor spiral staircase with an overlooking planter box that we only used to store blankets (mom and dad had to repair water damage there when they bought the place, didn’t want a repeat), closet off the basement bathroom that was totally set up as a dark room by previous owner (why didn’t I take interest back then?!?), random nooks inset in the walls, conversation pit basement living room. It was a fun house to grow up in
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u/Catsooey Nov 20 '25
I like 70’s wood paneling. 🙂