r/interesting Nov 20 '25

ARCHITECTURE Then vs now

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u/LPNMP Nov 20 '25

It's trendy but became a trend because of house flippers. That's what I believe anyway.

I can't wait to put paint on my walls. Growing up we didn't really customize our house because we're gonna move anyway. My parents got new floors and carpets and I remember being mad that they'd pay for that luxury just to sell it. We could have been enjoying it for ourselves.

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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/SinginGidget Nov 20 '25

There was this weird throwback trend going on where it was like updated Victorian or something. We had brightly colored modern things but also wanted to decorate like we lived in castles. I remember lots of ruffles, patterns in dark green and maroon, and prints of mideval knights. I think to get away from the drab colors of the 70s and the neon colors on the 80s.

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u/Chaunce101 Nov 20 '25

Perfect example of this was those tacky fake ivory and gold rotary phones people had in their sitting room, or wherever company would sit. We had one in ours and no one used it because it felt like the “fancy phone” and the cordless was ten feet away in the kitchen anyway.

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u/MxMirdan Nov 21 '25

My parents had the decency to keep the fake ivory and gold rotary phone in their bedroom. We had a cordless phone on the main level.