Hideous things you don't see in houses anymore

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Even the stuff you used to cook.
I used to get Cambell Meatballs and some sort of casserole made with fish fingers. The aul lady visibly shuddrs when I bring that up, coupled with the plastic table matts and plastic handles on the cuttlery

mightybashful

mightybashful wrote: »

Plastic donkeys with bananas on them.

mightybashful

And lights you could pull closer to the table from the ceiling! Always wondered where the cable went when they went back up again

alwaysadub

Carpet tiles! We had them in the kitchen. They never stayed stuck either.

when I was a kid I thought beauty board {who came up with that name??)
was bewdy bor.

RacoonQueen

Walls painted with gloss paint.

Or was that just my mother that thought that was a good idea? :rolleyes:

paddyandy

Linoleum was in every house in Ireland was easy to clean and could look very well if carefully chosen.I don't know what's wrong with net curtains there is a fickleness in some people who need constant change of something or other.Mercifully i don't live with these faddish types.Everything has it's time and place and i find the sight of a TV set the sign of a very empty existence..The Utter Tripe on it.

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Those fuckin Sacred Heart pictures with the electric bulb in front of tem.
There was one in my grannies in the room we had to sleep in with a particularly menacing looking jesus whose eyes would follow you everywhere

dark crystal

Velvety headboards and nylon bedspreads.

VCR's

Formica tables and counters

Boxoffrogs

Stippled ceilings, looked like massive paint drips

Yahew

Ducks flying up the wall.

starbelgrade

paddyandy wrote: »

Linoleum was in every house in Ireland was easy to clean and could look very well if carefully chosen.I don't know what's wrong with net curtains there is a fickleness in some people who need constant change of something or other.Mercifully i don't live with these faddish types.Everything has it's time and place and i find the sight of a TV set the sign of a very empty existence..The Utter Tripe on it.

I bet your cardigans all have elbow patches on them.

Unfortunately my flat has wood chipped wallpaper on all of the walls. I think it's hideous.

starbelgrade

Karsini wrote: »

Unfortunately my flat has wood chipped wallpaper on all of the walls. I think it's hideous.

I said let's all meet up in the year 2000.

mightybashful

Saila wrote: »

mightybashful wrote: »

Plastic donkeys with bananas on them. Or bulls with poxy swords through them. On the mantlepiece.....

In the olden days when foreign travel wasn't so common, souvenirs from Spain and other exotic countries were treasured and given pride of place in the house

remember the shiny bright crimbo decorations that were hung, artistically diagonally across the ceiling, with one huge large shiny globe of a thing hanging down as the centerpiece of this installation..

Nana also had big brass horse bridal things with leather hanging on the wall, we didnt have horses...

brass coal box too

dark crystal

Jake1 wrote: »

remember the shiny bright crimbo decorations that were hung, artistically diagonally across the ceiling, with one huge large shiny globe of a thing hanging down as the centerpiece of this installation..

Or those paper chains you'd spend hours licking together and putting on the walls/over mirrors etc.

starbelgrade

mightybashful wrote: »

In the olden days when foreign travel wasn't so common, souvenirs from Spain and other exotic countries were treasured and given pride of place in the house

We had about 4 plastic flamenco dancers on the mantlepiece in our house. And a couple of fur covered bulls.

deathrider

Jake1 wrote: »

brass coal box too

We had one of those in my house too, with a picture of an auld one carry a big bag of coal on it. Horrible feckin' thing!

RacoonQueen

Flowery carpet and faux marble fireplace taking pride of place in THIS thread...

starbelgrade

starbelgrade wrote: »

We had about 4 plastic flamenco dancers on the mantlepiece in our house. And a couple of fur covered bulls.

ey viva espana...:D

always an aul sombrero lurking around gaffs too

MsQuinn

starbelgrade wrote: »

Coloured toilets, sinks & baths (usually in pink or pine green)

My ma has a blue suite which I love.

starbelgrade wrote: »

Net curtains

I'm considering them. Have a psycho chav neighbour across the road (never spoke to her so she may be sane but a bit lonely) who seems to enjoy standing at her front door and pacing over and back in her tracksuit and staring over at me. Every Friday and Saturday for ever - until it gets dark sometimes. Only goes in when her husband comes home. I always have to switch seats so she can't see me. :mad:

I'm sure she's lovely though.

Spread

Lava lamps and the three flying ducks

Poutbutton

shaaane wrote: »

Wallpaper, haven't seen it in anyones house in a while!

Edit: Damn you Cill Dara!

As of this year, I live in a completely replastered/skimmed walled 60's painted semi-d. Fantastic thick walls so you cant hear your neighbours domestics nor screeching their hangers of the wardrobe pole every morning to chose their outfit of the day. Could not wait to modernise such a well built home, rip that painted on lining off the hall/stairs/landing. So layered it took 3 days to strip but so worth it. Back to the original plaster. Now everything looks fresh clean & can be cleaned never mid repainted easily. Who the heck ever invented wallpaper? Awful dust clinging stuff. Meh. dont even get me started about carpet tch

K-9

TheUsual wrote: »

3 framed pictures in the living room.

One was J.F. Kennedy, one was Pope John II, and the other one was Eammon DeVelera

He/she wins!

Connemarra Marble and Waterford Crystal.

starbelgrade

starbelgrade wrote: »

We had about 4 plastic flamenco dancers on the mantlepiece in our house. And a couple of fur covered bulls.

we were lucky to get a post card

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Well I think carpet makes a sittingroom

Jess16

Decking and those who think a few planks of wood in a Dublin semi-d is akin to Lake Garda

starbelgrade

shaaane wrote: »

we were lucky to get a post card

"Hi Everyone,

Having a great time here in Spain. The weather is fantastic & the food is great.

See you all in two weeks,

Lots of Love,

Mam & Dad".

Plastic flowers...outside. :rolleyes:

deathrider

Ray Squeaking Pizzeria wrote: »

Well I think carpet makes a sittingroom

I thought that was the tv and sofa's job. Otherwise it would just be the spare room... With a carpet.

Poutbutton

Poutbutton wrote: »

As of this year, I live in a completely replastered/skimmed walled 60's painted semi-d. Fantastic thick walls so you cant hear your neighbours domestics nor screeching their hangers of the wardrobe pole every morning to chose their outfit of the day. Could not wait to modernise such a well built home, rip that painted on lining off the hall/stairs/landing. So layered it took 3 days to strip but so worth it. Back to the original plaster. Now everything looks fresh clean & can be cleaned never mid repainted easily. Who the heck ever invented wallpaper? Awful dust clinging stuff. Meh. dont even get me started about carpet tch

Bet he/she never thought we'd use it to cover the school books!

Poutbutton

Spread wrote: »

Lava lamps and the three flying ducks

those 3 flying ducks are fetching money at auction these days, don't be too quick to discard them if you find them in your parents attic...depending on where they were manufactured some of them are antiques and valued by certain collectors. Same with the Austrian carvings by Hummel...cash in your attic!

charlemont

Mayfair, Fiesta and Club International magazines hidden under the bed.:)

epgc3fyqirnbsx

deathrider wrote: »

I thought that was the tv and sofa's job. Otherwise it would just be the spare room... With a carpet.

You need a carpet so the lady in the room can go spa when the fire spits out something or when wine is spilled

But just makes a room cosier imo, really dont ever want floorboards in my sitting room. Feckin balls of fluff and sticky if anything is spilled

Obelisk

I'm kinda struggling to think of something 'hideous' in my mind that ya dont seen in houses (anymore)

Fcuk its a toughy... Somebody sh!t on the floor, that kinda thing? All outta ideas on this one.

Valentina

I remember my neighbour's mam had that black and white poster of the man holding a baby hung up on the wall of their spare bedroom.

Poutbutton

shaaane wrote: »

Bet he/she never thought we'd use it to cover the school books!

We always used this thick waxed brown paper, brought into the local post office every August for book covering. The wall paper thing was an 80's trend I think? and always fell apart quicker than the brown paper for some reason......

Keith186

Never see SodaStream machines these days!

Not too many VCR's either but they're not that hideous.

K-9

Horses and Carriage's.

starbelgrade

starbelgrade wrote: »

"Hi Everyone,

Having a great time here in Spain. The weather is fantastic & the food is great.

See you all in two weeks,

Lots of Love,

Mam & Dad".

And you got that post card 3 weeks after they came home

later12

• Turf-bins
• Cork tiles
• Teak windows
• Those standard beige blinds that were compulsory for every bungalow in rural Ireland from 1980-1995
• Frilly lampshades
• Crockery celebrating royal weddings (typically Charles & Di)
• Those horrible brown fitted kitchens that everybody had installed in the 1980s/ 1990s

K-9

K-9 wrote: »

Horses and Carriage's.

to go with the brass and leather strappy things on the wall

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Those scratchy itchy foxford woolen blankets.
Didn't have a quilt till I was about 12, just these things with a sheet between to protect you from scratching your skin raw

slimjimmc

Aerial photos of the house.
Plastic holy water fonts that some auld biddy relative brought back from her trip to Lourdes.
Snow globes.
Ship in a bottle.

Poutbutton

Poutbutton wrote: »

We always used this thick waxed brown paper, brought into the local post office every August for book covering. The wall paper thing was an 80's trend I think? and always fell apart quicker than the brown paper for some reason......

Oh la de da! Ha! Our wall paper trend stretched to the mid 90's anyway!

any one have those nail pictures, a board with nails all over it criss crossed with wool

Boxoffrogs

long plastic 'runners' in hallways

mightybashful

ThurstonWhore wrote: »

I remember my neighbour's mam had that black and white poster of the man holding a baby hung up on the wall of their spare bedroom.

And what about the picture of that bird scratching her arse on the tennis court?