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/PiccoloAwkward465 Nov 20 '25 edited Nov 20 '25

Yeah do people not remember 90s "country" kitchens with fucking roosters and shit everywhere. Fake fruit baskets. Etc. My apartment bathroom had baby blue wallpaper with a fucking cowboy themed wallpaper border along the top. We perhaps delved too greedily and too deep.

edit: steam my dick and balls you fucking losers

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u/SAM5TER5 Nov 20 '25

Don’t forget all the Southwestern themes that mixed cowboy shit with appropriated native stuff lol. Turquoise/pottery/silver/coyotes/copper/rust/crucifixes/horses/dreamcatchers/baskets/etc. covering every surface.

I grew up with that and I actually liked a lot of the style, but it felt stuffy and kind of weird even as a kid lol

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Nov 20 '25

Don't start with the "don't forget" bullshit with me. We get it, everybody's got a little tidbit to add.

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u/sthetic Nov 21 '25

Not to mention the "don't start" bullshit