The predictability of your comments make me chuckle, Elmer. The issue is never with you - you always foist it off onto someone else. How many others here, including myself, get into similar back and forth conflicts with anyone other than yourself? The pattern is obvious, even if you do not or choose not to see it.

And it's not like this is just my personal opinion and not shared by anyone else. My comments expressing concerns with your responses often tend to get multiple 'likes', indicating there are others that share my opinions/feelings (even if they do not feel brave enough to express them in view of your constant reciprocating displeasure), whereas you seem to be a party of one............

Garden, he just proved your point. Unfortunately it is intentional. I for one would not want him to go away. I find his bazaar comments funny. I know I shouldn't laugh at people, but sometimes you can't help it.

He can kill a thread faster than anyone I know though and contribute the least amount of advice.

1. Elmer is never wrong. 2. If you think Elmer is wrong, refer back to number 1. He will tell you that until H**L freezes over.

I thought of this thread (trends in general) today as I was looking up local real estate.

We have a couple here who flip houses. Every single house, no matter the style, the architecture, the exterior brick or stone colors, the age, etc, gets done up exactly the same:

Multi-color wood floors planks, mainly dark colors.

Light gray walls in every room with blindingly white molding/trimwork.

One shiplap wall.

One room with sliding barn doors.

Subway tile (gray) in kitchen, with a gray/black glass tile band in the middle of it.

^^ Ditto shower and tub surrounds.

Staged with a huge cow face canvas, antlers, word signs (such as “Farmhouse”, “Market”, or “EAT”), and at least one gray and white trellis shag rug.

Realtor photos very whitewashed and sort of skewed wide, so you feel like you took some Modern Farmhouse LSD.

Every. Single. House. And I’m not saying all of those things are terrible-don’t-do-it. I’m not putting them down. The couple seriously does a nice job of fixing up some really run-down houses. But, man! No variety at all! I just can’t believe how many houses in my little ‘burb are going to look like the Gaines’ came through, circa 2015. What if these people happen to meet? And are invited to visit the other? It’ll be like walking into a mirrored version of their own house. 😄

Hey this is what sells. I know, my sister's partner does the same thing, with the same stuff. And people fall in love with it because they watch the shows and buy it.

Well, in almost any bathroom or kitchen thread here, someone will say to use white subway tile....

ritaweeda, they definitely do sell! They don’t last long on the market here at all.

My only real complaint is when they whitewash an old Craftsman. Beautiful woodwork, painted white. I know, some love that, but let me have my vent. 😉

Function, that pic is awesome! Lol I don’t remember birds at all, what years were birds popular in decorating? I remember roosters...

Also I remember around 2003, all of my neighbors were passing around a painter who was painting the Tuscan scenery on their dining room walls. Funny when I look at online pics from houses for sale I still see those murals! They just seem so outdated now, but at the time it was all the rage!

There's a difference between "trends" and "fads," I think. Some things are trendy right now (subway tiles, granite counters, stainless steel appliances, gallery walls, open concept) but are also going to be long-lived, albeit no longer trendy. They are practical (albeit not for everyone's lifestyle), they look good, they function. They are simply overdone. On the other hand, shag carpets, sponge walls, hanging beads and those mindless inspirational word signs are fads, soon to be forgotten and never revived. They will go the way of lava lamps (my personal fad favorite!).

Great points, jmm.

K R, ahh, yes. Those had a run in my town, too. Texas Tuscan. 😁

For those of you who missed the bird trend (still a trend as far as I know, but I love birds and have a few bird decor items, inside and out). THIS was totally on point and so funny as birds appeared on every.single.thing a few years ago:

Portlandia, Put a Bird on It!

Built in 2005...and it's a wallpaper wall mural!

If anyone is handing out “Tacky” awards then I win. Bathroom in the laundry room is bright yellow with a border of “Outhouses”. It’s not the bathroom to use if you have a hangover. I was going to take that border down years ago but it’s the laundry room and I’m not about to get up on the ladder at my age. I just imagine the conversation in the emergency room. “Yes doctor the patient broke her hip while removing outhouses from her bathroom.”

I don't care about subway tiles one way or another; and laugh at the idea that in the future it might look like cooking in a subway station. But granite counters always remind me of cooking on grave stones. Maybe in the future people will talk about those kitchens looking like cemeteries. I want a nice solid light colored counter that you can tell is clean. Heavily patterned kitchen counters always look dirty to me.

Just wanted to say that this is a fun post. Thanks for sharing.

jalarse, you need my special Santa ornament set for that room:

Jinx, call HGTV and tell them we are available. I could put your set on the toilet tank lid. Better Homes and Gardens here we come.

Jalarse, just wait a little. It will come back in style. In fact it is back in style. Farmhouse.

Talk about tacky! In our first home back in 1971, when avocado green was the rage, mushrooms and owls were also huge. I loved the color purple. So I painted the walls in the bedroom a medium purple, made some drapes for the window out of a purple printed cotton bedspread made in India, had a deep purple crushed velvet (that was also big) bedspread and had a purple plastic mushroom-shaped lamp. All accompanied the really cheap but trendy dark Mediterranean-style bedroom furniture, the whole shebang, two bedside tables, headboard, huge dresser with mirror. We didn't have any living room furniture for over a year...SIL just couldn't stand it. Someone moved into a mobile home next to her and set the furniture out in the yard. She phoned us and demanded that we come and get it - couch, loveseat and a corner table - all for $35! It was way back in the day when if you bought a mobile home it came with all the furnishings - the cheapest, tackiest that you can dream of but hey we weren't picky - at least SIL had a place to sit instead of the floor when she visited.

" My comments expressing concerns with your responses often tend to get multiple 'likes', "

Like being back in high school, you're in the most popular clique. Important to you now as then? Your clique members are consistent and predictable, just like your comments regarding just about anything I say.

Okay Ritaweeda you and your purple and the mobile home furniture can come with us when we hit the big time on HGTV. Your comments were classic. I laughed so hard. We got married in 1974, my husband had just gotten out of the Air Force. We had one hideous lime green couch and a coffee table which was actually a hatch from a boat on cement blocks, and a table saw. We thought we were so up town.

Built in 2005...and it's a wallpaper wall mural!

Nicole, a member of my family who had very, very good taste put a wallpaper mural in a house she was building -- but that was in 1960.

“Yes doctor the patient broke her hip while removing outhouses from her bathroom.”

A few years ago I suddenly became accident-prone and seemed to be always in the ER, trying to explain how an accident occurred. The circumstances were mostly so strange that no one could understand them even after I explained. But that is one that they probably haven't heard.

Ok, you people .... which is worse:

The dusty rose and blue flowered wallpaper I had in my first ever house (master bath) with pink jetted tub, pink shower tiles, and BEIGE WALL TO WALL CARPET.

~Or~

When, during the Tuscan heavily plastered wall phase, I troweled over the wallpaper with said very heavy plaster? And then rubbed mocha glaze over all that? With the pink elements still and BEIGE WALL TO WALL CARPET?

Not one of my finer moments. 😬

Maybe they don't *mean it*, but people *say* they love my home decor. I like 'traditional', including polished brass fixtures (not shiny lacquered tin), dark oak floors with Orientals, upholstered chairs and sofas, polished wood casegoods, off-white kitchen w/green granite counters. Linen white doors, wide door and window casings, deep baseboards.

You've seen my Traditional decor in magazines a thousand times over the years. It's certainly not 'trendy'. It's what I grew up admiring in the traditional homes of my mother's friends in New England. I don't have all the antiques, but the look is similar.

Oh dear...you are so confused! I am an independent thinker, always have been, and never have been part of any clique, either in high school or here. I know no one here on this forum, am not aware of any cliques, nor would I care about being part of one if they even exist and have only recently been posting to this forum as the gardening ones have slowed radically.

Do you not get it that people are 'liking' my comments because they agree with me? It is that simple. No need to go looking for 'cliques' or conspiracies where none exist.

Cliques!! What utter nonsense! This is becoming pitiful.

I would love a pink jetted tub and pink tiles....just sayin.

I don't think any of you are in as sad a shape as the poor couple functionthenlook posted above. The ones who matched their clothes and makeup to their drapes?

That reminds me, in the 80s, I wallpapered a whirlpool tub nook with fake stone paper in that reddish shade. I was going for early Roman, I think, and paired it with a green and rose wallpaper border that imitated swagged silk fabric in the adjacent bedroom.

Kind of like the upper right paper from wallpaper safari.com. Apparently I was ahead of my time!

My only real complaint is when they whitewash an old Craftsman. Beautiful woodwork, painted white. I know, some love that, but let me have my vent. 😉

Jinx I'm with you 100%. DH and I looked for over 2 years for a craftsman house in our neighborhood. (There are lots of them mostly built in the 20s with some built in the 30's). Maybe one or two of them didn't work because of layout or size, but every other one had been "updated" to whatever was the latest and greatest fad at the time. So some houses had interiors stuck in the 70's, some 80's, and some of course had everything white washed with gray walls.

Those that weren't "updated" had been added onto and/or "opened" up so it completely ruined the flow of the house and/or the overall feel.

We wound up building a new craftsman inspired house. And the only trends in my house are "trends" that would have also been trendy for the style of the house. Cement floors in the mudroom area, shaker cabinets in the kitchen, wood floors (although I couldn't find them as narrow as I would have liked and wound up with 5" wide planks) and yes, subway tile in the bathrooms and the kitchen backsplash (although back then they didn't put tile backsplashes in.) Everything I put in suits the style of my house, so long after these trends are dated, they'll still work with the style of my house.

How about 60's trendy?

My mother, who was always a trend setter in her social circle, put this wallpaper (not my photo - found this example online) up in our dining room when I was a kid - we thought it was awesome then and I still think it's kinda cool. Very bright and busy, but kinda cool. Although, it may have been more fitting in a room other than the dining room. :-)

Dawn, I could see that in the 60s. Sorry, no insult intended, but it reminds me of a TV test pattern. In the 60s my parents got their first color TV . It was a big deal then.

Ha, Ha! You're right, function, it does.

I remember when friend's of my parents were the first in their social group to get a color tv. We'd all gather around to watch the vividly red and green actors as those were pretty much the only two colors the color tv had. Color tv has come a long way since then!

My parent's first color tv came in a large console that included a state of the art (for those days) radio on one side and a turn table on the other side - similar to this one:

The turn table side had a slot about 4-5 inches wide for holding the record albums. The console also had built in speakers. No remote for the tv though - my sister and I were the channel changers. Some of the best interactions I had with my dad were when he told me to get up and change the channel to whatever station.

My dad loved that thing - it was the precursor of those massive entertainment centers of the 80's!

Glass block, like subway tile, has been in style for decades. There are trends and there are fads. Don't mix them please.

I really dislike the glass tile kitchen backsplash. I think this is going to look very dated very soon. https://www.wayfair.com/home-improvement/pdx/shaw-floors-neptune-1-x-4-glass-mosaic-tile-tcgo1012.html?piid=44217110

This thread tripled over night!! Came to find it to add "Pot fillers" to the trends but not sure what decade I would put them in!!!

Those console TV's were like a piece of furniture. In my area everyone had to have a "TV lamp" on top of it. From what I remember, the function of the lamp was not to be able to see in the dark because it was just a night light, but supposedly it was bad for the eyes to only have the TV on. They were ceramic figures such as cats, rearing horses, ballet dancers or sailing ships, etc. I found a photo of several, here's one I found on Collector's Weekly:

Oh my - good morning all. Really enjoying the thread. (and now, the console tv bit-- the massive piece of furniture - is making me think to today with the tv stands/buffet/sideboard/cabinet/console that I am searching for in my very own living room....you know that piece that will just complete my room? that everyone and his brother seems to have?? hmmmm I think none of us is immune.:)

salonva, I love my vintage buffet for our TV. Last house, our TV was on the wall above it, this house, it’s sitting right on the buffet. We like the latter best — perfect height. I’ll keep my buffet forever. :)

I so remember the big consoles when I was a kid! Curtis Mathis was the popular brand here. My grandparents had the French Provençal style, with pretty legs, my parents had the behemoth that sat directly on the floor and took up an entire wall. My mother had a lamp on it, that kind that had a stiff, ruffle shade and milk glass base.

I just had a flashback to the sound the TV made when turned on or off, as well as the distinctive (good) smell inside the record player section. My parents had lots of albums — Hendrix, Zeppelin, Stones, Joplin, Free, etc, etc. :)

We all have nostalgic memories of these types of things — wonder what kids nowadays will look back fondly on?

ETA: The lamp! Almost exactly like this one —

Hmm, this thread has been a hoot for me. In my eighties have seen all the trends you mention. To copy Bob Hope, "thanks for the memories". Would envision when my home had some of trends , and friends homes.

Might as well go all the way - how many of you remember these clocks?

The smoke or gold veined mirror tile covering a whole wall. My hubby's aunt and uncle had their bedroom ceiling all mirror tiles. Thank goodness we don't have earthquakes. Ouch

I always think of this plastic rock when someone on here suggests painting a stone fireplace ....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HI9cWk2xmA

Is there a "best trends we loved and miss" list?

Several years ago we were moving back into our house and we had some stuff in storage one of which was one of those giant tv entertainment centers. The movers were moving it back in and I stopped them and said that it's not coming back into the house and so leave it outside and we'll get rid of it. One of the movers asked if he could have it and how much was it. I told him it was free and yes, he could have it. He was so excited. I did not ask him what he was going to do with it. He was young and perhaps just looking for some storage.

OMgosh! What a trip down memory lane. I remember the lamps, the figurines, the clock and that coffee table too!

This table sold for $2.9 million a couple years ago. Just sayin’

M miller, there is a sucker born every minute. Lol. Looks like slugs coming out of and wrapping around the table.

Somehow they forgot metal cabinets. This has been a fun thread to read! I have a very gaudy style and love rich lavish finishes. I think if I had the money I would probably try to put some sort of fabric wallpaper on the wall :)

I'm not sure what decade is the correct one to list for this, but I cringe when I see turrets on current construction and not on castles. I was looking for a good (bad) example and saw this website....lots of trends here to compete with turrets:
https://www.businessinsider.com/ugliest-mcmansions-in-america-2017-6

eta: oops, I now realize this was a thread more about decor than exteriors.