re: Wtf was going on in 1970s home designs?

When we were shopping new construction was horrible. We ended up buying a house made in 1958, it is solid but the bathrooms are tiny. We are probably going to redo them since they have the original tile still, the cabinets and sinks had been updated at some point. Next house we will go new, but it will be custom. I don't know how soon I am going to be ready to jump back into a house note though.

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We live in a 1975 house that my wife preferred over most of the new construction in our price range. I'll say this, it's far better built than just about anything that's not built custom today.

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I own a 1978 contemporary. Love it. My house is bad arse.

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Was the rape dungeon in the attic, secret room or basement?

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you are a saucy flirt...

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homes built in the 1970s are fricking wild.

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I just remember a lot of mustard yellow, olive green, and brown carpet, countertops and appliances.

My grandmother’s late 60s constructed home came with thick orange and green shag carpet in the living room.

I think that shite was dated before they even finished construction.

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fondue

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that was '60's

If a lot of the ceilings weren't 8' people would still desire them. Those low ceilings in some of the bedrooms are a hard sell.

Love a 50's-70's modern/contemporary

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We have big, mature oak trees, nice sized yards etc

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my house was built in 1980.
before that it was a dairy farm

not only are the trees mature but the dirt is good. I can grow anything anywhere. There is something to be said for that, as opposed to digging up red clay and gravel everywhere

We live about 20 miles south of the fixer upper folks and have a house built in the 40s that they added on to in the 70s and then added more on in the 90s.

We’ve been updating it for 10 years and done quite a bit of construction.

It’s a really cool house but when we get underneath it or into the walls we can tell that the people doing it were high or stupid.
We have 6 levels to my house

Case in point.

Here was my front porch last fall


Notice 3 different colors on the foundation. A porch painted green. Grey concrete. Flower bed painted grey that doesn’t match the concrete. And a bright red door. To boot, they just stop the greed paint mid concrete.

Quarantine project has been updating it.







WTF

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Living rooms seemed to be built below the rest of the house, popcorn ceilings, carpet everywhere, wood panel walls, fricked up paint schemes, etc.

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This is my house to a T. I have 6 different levels in my house. Granted, 1 of those is my upstairs mother in law apartment above my garage but I have a kitchen, 2 bedrooms, and a living room on one level, a den one level lower, my bedroom one level lower off that den, then off the same den, the step down to my laundry room, and then a step down from that to my garage.

Popcorn ceiling everywhere but that’s the next project.