1970s USA - Forgotten Home Décor of the 70s 

I remember everyone having a giant wooden spoon and folk in the kitchen

I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. It’s funny to hear this young guy describing things I grew up with in the same way my teachers talked about pioneer settlers.🤣🤣🤣🤣

The colors were harvest Gold, Burnt Orange, and avocado green.

When I was a kid in the early 70's, I was my father's TV remote control.

Those granny square crocheted things weren’t called blankets but afghans. I have no idea why, but I have one in a trunk that my sister crocheted for my 15th birthday in 1974.

My first apartment (I was SO proud!) had bright orange shag carpeting, space age white plastic table and chairs, and a pink and neon green couch. I had macramé plant hangers and a macramé owl hanging on the wall. I was really WITH it! Had my parents over for dinner - first apartment, first real job, independent. I felt like I was flying! Good memories.

Those console furniture Hi-Fi stereo systems were really a product of the 50s and 60s. The 1970s ushered in the component systems. I remember it well.

That kitchen with the green appliances is gorgeous. I'd take it on a heartbeat. Who wants to live in a world of gray?

conversation pits are still cool as hell

My fav was the hanging bead curtains in the doorways! The noise it made! Also, for teens, black lights and day-glo posters of Jimi Hendrix. Bookcases made from cinder blocks and boards. My room was so coool!

I believe waterbeds began as a 1970s bedroom home fad and lasted a decade into the 1980s.

My father’s house was built and still stuck in the 70s. Time travel still available.

No 70s living room was complete without an oil rain lamp, a new AT&T trimline phone and an infinity mirror.

Born 1972. Colors people used most. Brown orange green

Don't forget about all of the decoupage and "wood burnishing" on furniture and pictures! Haha!

You forgot the beaded curtain that was used in place of doorways as well as the tiktok cat clock!!! ❤🤠👍

I remember the organ shop at the malls. And yes! A guy in a suit would play the organ to get people to come inside their store. Ha... What great times it was back in the 70's/80's...

In the 1970s, Rosey Grier, actor, singer, and pro football player for the NY Giants and LA Rams, enjoyed macrame and needlepoint as a hobby.

I remember my mom’s avocado kitchen. She loved it and that’s what counted. Miss you, Mom.💕

Ah, the 70's. I remember shag carpets. People had, "carpet rakes." Used for raking shag carpet back up were foot traffic flattened it down. And crochet flower pot holders. Hard to believe it's been almost 50 years. Was a great time to be a teenager, that's for sure.

Excuse me. Harvest gold was the color of our appliances. Yes indeed, growing up in this era with avocado walls and sculpted green carpet in the bedroom was an unforgettable experience.

I had a fuzzy bedroom rug in the shape of a foot, a keep on trucking blacklight poster, and a Panasonic ball shaped radio...was a great time to be a kid :)

Oh I miss those days! I remember it all!!!

I'm a 70's kid too . I loved the 70's ! Still do ! I own a home built in 63. Love this era and its modern vibe. Won't be going back to the capet on the toilet anytime soon though. : )

I miss those crazy malls. Everything was wholesome.

A neighbor has a coppertone range, and it still works!

I remember helping my mom rake the carpets 😅

OMG!!!! The macrame owl!!!! I have the one that was my mother's !!!!!!!

All of these items can now be found in thrift stores and flea markets and are called “vintage” for very high prices! Amazing!

You forgot to mention 1976 and the celebration of the U.S.A.'s Bicentennial and how wood paneling and older style furniture,in living rooms,bedrooms,lamps,lampshades and more was a big influence on some homes.

My mom and dad bought a house in the 70’s , it had orange countertops and orange shag carpet!

Watching this video brought me back to the state of mind I was in as a child in the 70s and there was nothing my adult mind could do about it.

Born '65. Fun times as a kid then. We had some features in our house shown here, if not, somebody else did. All very familiar.

I remember ALL of this. The home I grew up in had a lot of it, and what we didn't have my friends parents had. It was a crazy decade.

I remember those sunken living rooms with the extended couches. And my grandparents always kept the plastic on the furniture for years. It was like brand new when she sold it to someone years later. Wood paneling was big also in the tv rooms especially in the basement. And waterbeds of course everyone had those as well.

The thumbnail is my dream kitchen 😩🫶🏻 I love this look

When I think of the 70's its wood paneling, shag carpet, and green appliances.

My father was ahead of his time and had component stereo system by 1970. Nothing too expensive. It lasted a long long time. I used it to death! Great music memories. Back then you really carefully listened to each track on an LP. It was never the same with digital.

...I love the 70’s forever and ever ....!! I’m proud about everything it happens ...OMG Congrats to everyone and I wish happy days ...

Dang, my parents must have been before their time. We had a super awesome stereo cabinet system with giant speakers set apart from the turntable and receiver. Man, I miss those days. Kicking up the sound and rattling the neighbor's windows!

I will take any one of those houses in a heartbeat. HATE today’s computer designed cookie cutter houses that only have detail on the front. The back and sides are plain plastic boxes. If that isn’t bad enough, they are now being painted BLACK outside and gray inside. No wonder everyone is depressed and anxious. Get some color and happiness in your life!!!!

I was born in late 77 and I remember my grandparents having a lot of things I saw here. I especially remember my grandma having an organ just like the one in this video. She played so beautifully and when I was 11 she finally taught me to play as well. Such great memories❤️

I still have my Regal avocado green crock pot! What, no mention of waterbeds? 7:38 I was talking about coloured toilet paper just the other day with a friend and I also can remember the pay toilets in public rest rooms. So glad those are a thing of the past!

Man...I LOVE THE 70S. Still!!

Bed in forest bedroom is what I want.

Great memories. Honorable mention: naugahide, beanbag chair (or gigantic pillow on floor), crock pot, giant decorative fork and spoon (as others have mentioned).

I crocheted blankets that draped across the chairs. I also did the yarn plant hangers. Wow. What a trip down memory lane.

Can't forget the ever present types and styles of cigarette ashtrays all over the house. One of the things I Remember standing out in our living room was the tension rod floor to ceiling LP rack, in the corner by the closet. We had many friends that always had the one rule: take off your shoes before you hit the carpet. We kids didn't mind but I remember adults weren't thrilled.

I made a macrame belt back in the seventies. Wish I kept it.

This is a well thought out presentation video. Since I’m an interior designer, I just started to laugh at the wild interiors that people were living with. Great memories. I saw so much that is being used now and sold as retro.( which it is) I could even name the manufactures on some of these products. During the 60’and early 70’s, I worked for Macy’s SF as their home furnishing co-ordinator. Then in ‘72, I opened my own business. Great memories. Oh, I still have my business , just a smaller practice now. Again a fun video. Carol from California

I'd take this house over any modern house any day. Literally the best decade.

Most of those rooms you showed were the ones I dreamed about in magazines. The homes I lived in were way more modest. My mother did however have furry zebra print wallpaper on one wall in her bedroom. And of course, shag carpet abounded everywhere.

Grea postt! Sixteen years ago I bought my house - built in 1970 out in the country and nothing changed since then and everything still in place. Shag carpets, walnut veneer walls, carpeted bathroom. A complete time warp museum. I was in love with the burnt-avocado kitchen appliances as I felt I was 16 again. But after a few months as winter approached they all just died. So I went to Sears and bought new ones. Then I got a bill from Maritime Electric after the first month with new everything, including washer and dryer. $65 dollars cheaper than any of the previous months. I got a heat pump and got rid of the oil burning furnace. The bill dropped by another $35 dollars. Then, I had all the old slider windows ripped out and modern thermal ones installed. Well, that lowered the bill even more.

That's pretty cool that they had Ron Jeremy selling organs

Thanks for the flashback!

Huge wall murals of scenic scenes that were applied like wallpaper were popular. Several friends had them, usually of sunsets. Sold at Spencer Gifts.

We had all midnight bronze kitchen appliances after the kitchen remodel. Looking back, it was really ugly, but on trend. The electric stove and fridge lasted well over 30 years.

The conversation pits -- where folks actually sat and talked with one another, before the age of cell phones and constant texting. A warmer, happier and more vibrant period. BTW -- with today's fancy-smancy technologies, one would think that colored toilet paper WITHOUT the objectionable chemicals could be produced while still achieving those lovely decorator colors. So, why not? Surely, this can't be difficult to figure out. There must be other dyes that are safer while still offering the same range of vivid color choices we had in the 70s. What I miss most about the 70s are: My youth and my husband's youth, our larger families with more loved ones still alive, the first-hand creation of truly beautiful artworks and crafts AND the appreciation of same. And, gorgeous colors in nearly every room, especially the kitchens. Today's stainless steel kitchens look more like they belong inside of industrial plants than inside of our homes. I'd love to see those warm colors returning -- the harvest golds, avocado greens, burnt oranges, chocolate browns -- PLUS, appliances and fixtures of the 1970s were made from better quality materials and better quality workmanship. They were built to last, and many of them did.

I am almost 55 and some of these homes look like mine lol. I like the part when you said, raking the shag carpet well done.

Ohhhhh good Lord, my worst nightmares brought back from my childhood!

The carpeted toilet-seat covers made it comfortable to sit on the toilet seat. The 3-dial weather station is useful. Still have one in my office. Tells me whether the air is dry or moist, warm or cool in the old building. Visitors love to check it out.

Born 1953 my parents' designs were so much fun.

I remember my sister getting a black light and it brought hours of entertainment! LOL!

We all had shag carpet (but sorry, I NEVER saw any as long as what you show), and we had all the avocado green appliances. Mini skirts were fading (sadly), and disco was coming (and I loved it). Compare that with today --- we did not know how fortunate we were!

Yes most of us lived in modest homes, but we still had the organ in my house, the macrame decor, and olive wall to wall carpet. And bead curtains. And day glo posters in the kids' rooms. Great videos. New subscriber. 🎉🎉🎉

Component systems were all the rage in the 70's. Mine was a Sansui system with massive tooth rattling bass speakers. Forgot Bean Bag chairs and their inflatable cousins. Lava Lamps, Disco Balls and Fiber Optic lights too.

We had a Packard/Bell stereo-TV, console, had a b/w TV in it. My parents bought it in the early 60s. Mid 70s, the TV went out, dad went and got a new, color TV, took out the old b/w TV, and put the new color in its place. He did this because the stereo/turntable, still worked just fine.

The Partridge Family, with David Cassidy is the best musical comedy show of all-time!!!! 1970-1974! I watch it everyday, now!!!!! David Cassidy, and Morten Harket, from a-ha, in 1985 and on, are the most beautiful men to ever be, and incredibly talented, too!! What gorgeous singers!!! Listen to them, everyday, also!!! So wish I had a Time Machine!!!

Some of these are extreme examples, though - probably taken from magazine pictures. I was never in any home that looked like some of these more crazy examples.

The 1970’s certainly were a colorful and optimistic time ❤🇺🇸

We had the outdoor scenes on the walls, spoons on the walls and a green and orange kitchen. And a big ole console TV

I was born in 1962 and we had most of these. My mom chose a very pretty aqua carpet for our living room and hall that was 2 inch shag. Raking it perfectly as I backed out of the room made my little OCD heart happy. Until my brothers had the nerve to walk on it - ha! And let me just say that when one of those brothers didn't make it to the bathroom in time and threw up in that carpet just outside my bedroom, well, it wasn't pretty. We had two of those console television sets, a console stereo, and an organ. In fact, my mom still has the organ. And yes, we had carpet in the bathrooms.

Oh my gosh the clocks with matching sconces, yes!

In the late 70s I purchased a Technics Amp, turntable and built my own custom speakers with Acoustic Research speaker components. Good times.

I was born in '73 and remember some of these inventions. I always thought that the 1970s were awnsome and outlandish. Fun but over the top.

We had a macrame plant holder on the porch. The squirrel would come and comb out the fuzzy bottom for it's nest. Cutest thing 😆

The good old time🥰😍. How do I always say? The “golden 70s”, how I love this wonderful time. In particular, I have been into carpets ever since. ❤❤

“Curtis Mathes” Desaturated colors. Fondue sets. Big Wheels. Polyester - everything. Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific. And a fortunate freeing of tv from the old, dirty, decrepit scenes of New York cop shows to fresh places like L.A., Minneapolis, Chicago, and Cincinnati.

Granny square blankets are back, crochet and knitting are gaining popularity again

You showed the Macrame Owl!! Loved it! My oldest brother one year, in Art Class, they had to make something from Macrame. I guess he got Bold and decided on doing the LION. It was like a Chocolate color Brown. When he finished it at school and brought it home. That thing hung on a Dark Brown Paneled wall in our Den, over our Oriental design couch for years. He actually did a good job on it and I do believe he got an "A" on the project. I miss the "70s", THE GOOD OL DAYS!!

I saw many of these trends on TV but our home was not so cutting edge. It was still a wonderful stroll down memory lane. 🙏

My folks didn't go for shag carpeting, but my sister and I were allowed to buy some boxed pink shag carpet tiles and do our bedroom floor with them. It was cheap and easy to do. That would have been late 60s/early 70s. (Bummer to not be able to find your earring backs, though). Mom didn't care for anything more modern like you showed. She stayed with Early American decor for years and was somewhat of a wallpaper nut (even in the bathroom, of all places. Dad actually agreed to remove the shower head). Can't remember when Dad bought a nice stereo/FM-AM/record player console, and we all got a lot from that. He let me join the Columbia House record club and conned me into getting him his Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison albums, so like it or not, we had to listen to them, lol. I had my babysitting/house cleaning pocket money as a teen, and he actually did help me out, lol. Thanks for the memories!

I was born in 1977 and my parents have baby photos with pure 70’s decor. I love the brash bold colours which is a wonderful contrast to today’s very bland and safe tastes these days. I’ve got a book published by the UK department store chain Marks & Spencers in 1979 and it is full of similar designs - it’s just amazing! Great video

Paneling was all the rage in the 60s and 70s. The console which you touched on here, but I remember them having everything. A color TV, stereo, record player, tape deck all in one unit. By the mid 70s they were on the way out. Clear plastic covering on furniture was big in the late 60s all through the 70s. Glad to see that go. Of course before cable, everyone had a big TV antenna on their roof to pick up broadcast TV. Most people don't realize, but before the 1980s, most people only received a handful of TV stations. If you were lucky, you got maybe 5 or 6 channels on the big color console in your living room. It was still a great time to be alive!

My cousins lived in a new-build in Denver, Colorado, in the 70s. The kitchen had brown cabinets and the appliances, the dishwasher, fridge etc were also a matching shade of brown. It was deeply depressing in retrospect, but they loved it at the time.

I missed the colored TP. YIKES!

Don't forget how well made the appliances of the homes in the 70s were. In 2017 I went to my girlfriend's grandparents' house for Thanksgiving, and they still had the same oven and refrigerator from 1973.

Uggh, we had that burnt orange and olive green floral sofa set....with matching chairs. It grossed me out then, and it boggles my mind now. Who in their right ever lovin' decorating mind puts those two colors together. Good Lord!!

Most people didn't live like that, our home built in 1960 was about 1,100 sq. ft. My grandparents has a big house designed by my grandfather, In the country. It was remolded in 1964 and had a huge living room, with a focal;l fireplace, Large organ, Piano, 5 chairs, Couch, Large TV, 4 end tables, and many lamps. 13 people lived in the house.

The candles in the sconces in my childhood home were actually made of a clear acrylic with pieces of gold floating in them like a bottle of goldschlager and completely non-functioning. Nice trip through my childhood. The funny thing is many homes that were established in the late 60s-70s weren’t really updated even into the 80s and even 90s so this stuff stuck around a lot longer than people realize!

Have a lot of this still. We have three macramé hanging tables with smoked glass with a pot holder and light. We had the shag carpet with the rake. Each room a different color and some multi colors. Stair steps were open with the shag wrapping all the way around each step. My aunt and uncle lived in Mesa Az and they had a conversation pit facing a fireplace. The house was built in 1969 so they were ahead of the game.

The conversation pits back in the day when people came over to visit and see you and not need anything nor stab you in the back after they used you up. No cell phones no internet just people talking to each other I sure miss those days.

The wall clock and green candle story omg too funny😂 I love this channel. Your commentary is top-notch! ❤😊

Don't forget the Osterizer blenders were green and gold too. 😊

LOVE THE FIRST CHARTREUSE HOME!!!

Wow! This really took me back. You did such a great job of compiling lots of 70s stuff! Some of the things I had forgotten, but you didn’t! Thanks for the memories. 😊

We had the best rec room, with a full bar, pool table, piano, large speaker and spot lights.

Spot on, from this GenXer! 🙌🏼

I like the song in living room or the pit where you sat around and talked but that's a great thing that should have kept going

On the Hide A bed . Loved the bar that ran across the middle halfway. Digging into your back. Awesome :)