Today is Day 22 of a 31 day series on creating and cultivating an eclectic home. For some crazy reason, I have accepted The Nester’s challenge to write on the same theme every day for the month of October. This may end up killing me. Or you. But, I appreciate you reading and welcome your comments.
Today, I bought a few new-to-me light fixtures (imagine that!) at a vintage show. My parents are in town visiting, and we started reminiscing about some of the decor they had in their childhood homes.
They told me about Cypress Knee lamps (my mom’s parents had one; my dad’s parents did not), and I had no choice but to find them online. These lamp bases were made from the roots of the cypress tree.
Sometimes, it’s okay not to bring back certain vintage trends. I’m going to go out on a “limb” and say that Cypress Knee lamps would be a good one to skip.
Am I right or am I right? What other decor trends do you think should be skipped?
Maybe another tree would look cute, but I’m just not getting that one. It actually looks more like ginger sprouts, lol.
Yes, I’d say skip the tree lamps. Also skip the “painted saw” trend…when people painted circular saw blades and hung them on their wall… 🙂 On the other hand, we all have different tastes! Just don’t give me one for Christmas…
Some things are timeless and some are fads. I say this is firmly in the fad category LOL!
anything that is painted ‘Smurf blue’ can go.
I actually think that sunburst mirrors should’ve stayed LONG gone. And orange carpet. Actually, orange flooring in general…
We had and so did so many of my friends families…a Lava Lamp. Yeah, for me that is a vintage look I would not want to re-live!
I agree, but the shade looked pretty cool!
Do you remember those tall side table like lighters and ashtrays…..My grandpa had one in the 70’s….It was a 60’s Rat Pack decor item……I think those should be SKIPPED! Great post!
My grandparents had one and I loved it!! I have no idea which uncle got away with it, but I would love to have one.
I think acrylic grapes should be skipped. They were everywhere in the sixties, in everyone’s living room someplace and really they were just strange.
I wouldn’t want one of the cypress lamps, but to me it isn’t too much different than people using tree stumps as tables. There are certain bloggers who can put a wad of toilet paper in the middle of a table and everybody has to follow along. I am sure that there are some talented bloggers out there who could take one of those lamps change it some way and everyone would go nuts over it. As far as dead trends that can stay dead… anything orange. I really do not like orange…now crimson is a different story. Love crimson as in THE Crimson Tide.
Avocado green is my least favorite color ever. In the sixties and seventies that color was “COOL”. Harvest gold and whatever the brown was called are also on my list of “ugly”. White and ALMOND were such a relief after years of those three shades.
Now pink and turquoise… AHHH!
Bahaha, I am reading the other comments, and what some think they should skip, I’m thinking….could be really cool about now? I think I will just “listen” on this one.
And pink and turquoise were the colors of “my” era!!
haha–they remind me of giant termite mounds. I recently found a dusty brass tension rod lamp at a yard sale for $4–it has cool hanging lanterns on it with a quatrefoil pattern. Definitely vintage, and I’ve always thought that the tension rod lamps should not be revisited, but the lanterns on it really grabbed my attention. I’m spray painting it white as we speak. I figure if I end up not liking it, it was only $4. 🙂
I don’t think carpet will ever make it in a kitchen of mine… Eeeeewwww!
Always skip the 1970’s faux wood panel walls.
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We had one of these. I always thought it was the ugliest thing ever. Thank God my mom left it with her last house when she moved.
My mom got one at a garage sale and gave it to my husband for Christmas. She said it was a “major award” like in the movie, “A Christmas Story”.
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