In my mid-teens and hanging out with skaters, I loved ransacking the second hand store for 70’s/80’s old man cords and collared shirts in those colours. Worn with a baby backpack, barrettes in my hair and skate shoes. I miss those days! My house now has very 70’s/80’s vibes now, I just always liked it.
Absofucknlutely! The aesthetic is perfection. I wish I could rewatch it anew. Much like how I feel about wanting to rewatch The Matrix anew.
Capturing that kind of magic is so rare.
From my recollection, the neon became a thing in the late 80s and carried over to the early 90s. Which I think is funny because I remember looking back at some early 90s pictures and it too had lots of brown. I laughed because I remembered how ugly all of my relatives houses were back then, all the brown. I still love brown colors but it was like they chose the ugliest of the bunch.
Yeah, and I remember for a while in the early '90s, all the neon gave way to lots of teal green and purple. It seemed like half of the new cars made between 1990 - 1993 were teal green!
Yeah, its kind of mind blowing to look at the teal and purple themes now and actually think it looks a little old and clunky - it was the height of light and airy and sophisticated at the time.
That is more of a hold over from the 70s I thought. The 80s brought in a lot of pastels, at least when my dad built our house in '85. Pastel blue-green carpet, pastel yellow walls in the hallway, peachy pastel walls in the master bedroom. The kitchen, though, had hardwood floors and cabinets were dark stain with brass hardware.
Those are my childhood memories at least for "new" decor at the time.
The tacky neon stuff didn't really pop up until the very end of the decade and into the early 90s. Id say 89-92 was peak neon .
Oh god the preachy pastel bathroom of my childhood. All frilly curtains and lace. I hated it with a mad passion, then mom re-did it in the early 90s, to pepto pink with teal and dolphins everywhere!!!
Exactly. Lots of remnant decor from the 70’s. Wood cladding on the walls everywhere, brown cabinets, brown linoleum tiles, brown carpet, brown or sometimes orange glassware, white countertops. All the cool, retro, neon looks didn’t really show up until the 90’s. Then I remember tons of homes and apartments with 90’s decor. The black, glossy, sleek furniture, the edgy art, the monochrome rooms of homes or apartments.
Neon was peak in the 90s. Yes, people don’t really remember it that way. I once showed a teen a rollerblading video from circa ‘93 and their reaction: that’s what it looked like in the 90s!?
Soooo many colors! Even I was taken aback some, not fully recalling just how bright 90s was. Sidenote, brands like Cotopaxi and Patagonia are fully bringing the bright color schemes back. And I’m “totally” here for it!
I can hear it smacking against the glue underneath. My house and my cousin's house had this exact tile.
I don't know why we ever had to clean it, it's designed to blend in with kitchen grease stains.
I'm saying we didn't get new furniture every year. If a show or movie is set in 1983, you don't fill the house with 1983 furniture. You fill it with 1973 furniture. The set decorations are like if every year people get decor from that specific year.
The linoleum that looks like tile but comes in a continuous roll like carpet!!! My grandma's house had very similar flooring.
Did you get any Rain-Blo gum?
Funny I was just thinking how much more practical the ugly old tiles were. I have a wood floor in my kitchen and it’s warped to hell because of my kids spilling shit and occasional leaky dishwater etc.
Linoleum definitely has its place. My parents had wood floors put in years ago in the downstairs part of the house that's not carpeted. It's fine in the kitchen and hall, but why in the name of Nonexisto would you put it in the bathroom?
Aside from which, Sears fucked up the installation, but it's really bad around the toilet. That bathroom is the only thing in the house that hasn't been completely redone since we moved in in 1993, and I think it's got to go along with the straight out of the '70s vanity.
70s-80s orange and brown linoleum. Synonymous with Easter egg hunts, one piece pj’s with slippery footies that would have wiped out the entire millennial and gen z, lunch boxes, quality fast food, actual Halloween trick or treating en masse, solid wood furniture and the last generation of children raised to thrive playing outside only to return to replenish our reserves from the garden hose.
Lunch boxes are still a thing but they are insulated and have special compartments for ice packs to keep your stuff chilled. We could never fathom such a luxury back in the day.
Is it just me or does no one ‘79 and earlier claim to be an xennial. There’s just a few years 80-84 that don’t feel comfortable claiming 100% millennial.
I feel like if you are on the cusp but have older siblings you are more likely to claim X/Xennial influence, but if you’re born 80 or later with no older siblings you’re more likely to be hard millennial.
Could be. I don't know though as I'm an only child. I never felt connected to the millennials at all.
I mainly believe that 1976 to 1978 were the best years to be born American. Maybe to be born in human history period.
Dec 77. Gen X and Xennial - Have a 5 years older sister who is much more solidly Gen X than me though. Also, coming from rural Scotland, it felt like we were often several years behind the rest of the world culturally.
That makes sense. I grew up in the suburbs of a major city and we used to go on holiday in the countryside and the radio station was like 3 years behind it seemed.
Even at 84 I highly disagree to side with millennial stuff and ok being down voted if it doesn't fit the "established norm criteria" but it's why I'm subbed to this personally. There's a threshold imo, I remember the vast majority of things people post here, it sparks extreme nostalgia. Visiting the millennial subreddit, I don't have an overall connection with stuff posted there especially as a child.
This flooring motif/style were my first cognitive memories as a kid, even down to the kitchen tile aspect or [simple bowl and plate designs](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRyznIifOfaG02NXBDnox41EK2S1sLmfHT11fbdZ0e6wg&s), lots of brown/auburn/fall colours everywhere growing up, even carpet.
*you’re. Free to hate on the horrible grammar. You incorrectly used your, which is possessive and did not use you’re which is a contraction for you are. Gosh come get your ham Tina.
That floor brings back memories... Uncomfortable sticky memories, like a half eaten tootsie pop sticky. I'm pretty sure that floor was mandatory in the late 70's early 80's .
This is how most of us lived. Reaganomics didn't work and our shit was from the 70s - likely the last time our hard-working families had the extra cash to upgrade the house.
This linoleum gave me an immediate and visceral flashback to my Mammaw’s kitchen in rural West Virginia—and I haven’t thought about that place in years.
Look at that white fridge. Fancy, fancy! We didn’t get a white fridge until the mid-90s. Ours was harvest gold. Matched the oven and went so well with the brown, fake-wood paneling.
I am close in age to you. Nah, not going to hate on the kitchen floor, I grew up in a rented house and a single wide trailer both with a very similar color palette and pattern.
Looks like it was going to be a fun day for you. I miss Easter from back then. I loved both coloring eggs, but also those awesome plastic wrap things (with Easter themed decor) that you put around the boiled egg, and you dip the egg with the plastic thing around it on a spoon into hot (boiling, but idk because I was little and the adults were the ones reading the instructions) water and it would shrink wrap the plastic tightly around the egg. I can't remember what they were called. I think it could have been a Paas product, or other companies probably did it, too. I loved the old school Easter decorations.
I think we had better holiday decorations (all holidays) and stuff back then then kids get now. Plus they actually sold the _correct_ holiday stuff up until that very day. I'm over it with how stores put out Christmas stuff in the beginning of October, and start shrinking the Halloween merchandise more. I loved it as a kid that Halloween decor was up until the day after Halloween. It really made each holiday feel like it meant something, rather than trying to kick it to the curb before it even arrives.
This is what the '80s actually looked like. People act like it was all neon colors. It was actually a lot of brown.
This. My upbringing looked like all hand-me-down 70s shit. We didn't look '80s' until like 88. Earth tones and corduroy pants, man.
In my mid-teens and hanging out with skaters, I loved ransacking the second hand store for 70’s/80’s old man cords and collared shirts in those colours. Worn with a baby backpack, barrettes in my hair and skate shoes. I miss those days! My house now has very 70’s/80’s vibes now, I just always liked it.
Yeah I totally thrifted for “old man pants” and cardigans back then!
Yup, the Kurt Cobain wool cardigans!
Yesss I still remember my favorite yellow wool cardigan fondly!
Browns, mustard yellow and mustard green.
*harvest gold *avocado
All of it made browner by indoor smoking.
That was our kitchen! Anyone else have the large “wood” spoon and fork decorations?
My wife always compares the 80’s color palette to the Burger King logo.
This is actually how I think of it as well! And the brown McDonald’s uniforms!
Stranger Things gets the 80s vibe perfect. SOOOOO much brown
Absofucknlutely! The aesthetic is perfection. I wish I could rewatch it anew. Much like how I feel about wanting to rewatch The Matrix anew. Capturing that kind of magic is so rare.
From my recollection, the neon became a thing in the late 80s and carried over to the early 90s. Which I think is funny because I remember looking back at some early 90s pictures and it too had lots of brown. I laughed because I remembered how ugly all of my relatives houses were back then, all the brown. I still love brown colors but it was like they chose the ugliest of the bunch.
Yeah, and I remember for a while in the early '90s, all the neon gave way to lots of teal green and purple. It seemed like half of the new cars made between 1990 - 1993 were teal green!
Man! I remember thinking about how cool those teal colors were. They peaked in the late 90s with the translucent iMacs.
Yeah, its kind of mind blowing to look at the teal and purple themes now and actually think it looks a little old and clunky - it was the height of light and airy and sophisticated at the time.
Teal and purple linger as my two favorite colors. It’s my secret shame.
Oh yes! White, with teal and royal purple accents - sometimes with a splash of hot pink - looked so fresh back then lol
Late '80s/early '90s was lots of mauve, dusty blue, seafoam green, brass fixtures, and honey-stained oak and pine. Plus wicker tables with glass tops.
The cars and the coats, hehe. George Costanza's coat comes to mind, as well as other TV and movie characters.
And brown cars. What the fuck was that about? Like not beige or tan, literally shit brown.
Brown, brass n glass and wicker furniture
Fake wood panels, texture carpet, popcorn ceilings, afghan blankets, oil lamps, feathered roach clips hanging from lamp shades.
I *loathe* wood paneling to this day 😅
The neon came from the crt screen babysitters.
I was so confused the first time I heard the term “white goods” cause all of ours were brown.
My parents’ kitchen still looks like that
The 80’s didn’t look like the 80’s until the late 00’s 😂
I was just looking at some family and friend pics from 85/86 and thinking wow it really looks more like the 70s.
That is more of a hold over from the 70s I thought. The 80s brought in a lot of pastels, at least when my dad built our house in '85. Pastel blue-green carpet, pastel yellow walls in the hallway, peachy pastel walls in the master bedroom. The kitchen, though, had hardwood floors and cabinets were dark stain with brass hardware. Those are my childhood memories at least for "new" decor at the time. The tacky neon stuff didn't really pop up until the very end of the decade and into the early 90s. Id say 89-92 was peak neon .
Oh god the preachy pastel bathroom of my childhood. All frilly curtains and lace. I hated it with a mad passion, then mom re-did it in the early 90s, to pepto pink with teal and dolphins everywhere!!!
Exactly. Lots of remnant decor from the 70’s. Wood cladding on the walls everywhere, brown cabinets, brown linoleum tiles, brown carpet, brown or sometimes orange glassware, white countertops. All the cool, retro, neon looks didn’t really show up until the 90’s. Then I remember tons of homes and apartments with 90’s decor. The black, glossy, sleek furniture, the edgy art, the monochrome rooms of homes or apartments.
Probably because a lot of the ‘70’s stuff was wearing out by the 90’s and needed replaced.
Neon I was late 80's, but mostly early 90's.
Lots of brown spillover from the 70s.
Covered up all the cigarette smoke stains
Beige
Neon was peak in the 90s. Yes, people don’t really remember it that way. I once showed a teen a rollerblading video from circa ‘93 and their reaction: that’s what it looked like in the 90s!? Soooo many colors! Even I was taken aback some, not fully recalling just how bright 90s was. Sidenote, brands like Cotopaxi and Patagonia are fully bringing the bright color schemes back. And I’m “totally” here for it!
It was the *early 90’s* that were neon. All the colors now remind me of my trapper keepers, shoes, biking shorts, super soakers, et al.
Oh wow, I didn't remember we had that tile until I saw this pic.
Same!
We had this pattern in the kitchen, but it was carpet.
Carpet in the kitchen?!
Yes! Ours was green though.
We also had a carpeted kitchen for some of my childhood.
Good old linoleum!
Definitely had this tile.
Jesus, me too! Virginia Beach, Tanglewood. 🤢
I can feel how sticky that floor is
I can hear it smacking against the glue underneath. My house and my cousin's house had this exact tile. I don't know why we ever had to clean it, it's designed to blend in with kitchen grease stains.
Yep, to be barefoot on it….. you can feel it
https://preview.redd.it/zwoqaxomvtoc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1a6f8bb01b378422a0a2694c16ea825c458a54f4
My current kitchen floor. Look, the place is cheap. But more importantly, it's clean and cozy. No hate here.
No need to explain that floor, shit is dope!!!
I think looks great! Honestly I might just do something like that in my kitchen
That wood paneling with linoleum is a classic combo
Everything so was so brown in the 80s
Why did boomers love this brown look so much? I gotta look into this
It does a good job of covering up nicotine stains. Back then everyone was smoking cigarettes everywhere.
Long winded, but interesting answer https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/s/BCGU6vWrF4
That did not disappoint
83 represent - our house had the wood paneling in the living room
83 as well, I’m used to calling myself an older millennial, younger xennial has a nice ring to it.
Same here
83 club as well.
That was 50% of kitchens in 88
That's why I hate Stranger Things. The furniture and decor we had back then was from the 70's, not the 80's.
They're poor yo. I was poor and always has decades old stuff from thrift shops. I thought it added authenticity lol.
I'm saying we didn't get new furniture every year. If a show or movie is set in 1983, you don't fill the house with 1983 furniture. You fill it with 1973 furniture. The set decorations are like if every year people get decor from that specific year.
Exactly.
That's the only reason you don't like that show? I can think of a couple more reasons as to why I agree with you...
It's the most distracting. Oh, and how every single tv has HD clarity.
Totally! I have a lot of fond memories of all of the 70s stuff that was still around in the 80s — furniture, decor, reruns...
Cabinet tvs. When they quit working, you put the new tv on top of the old tv because the cabinet was too damn heavy to want to move.
Our couch lived from 1978 to 1994. Nothing 80's about it.
Then go to your grandmas and you get some 50’s and 60’s dish washers and ovens 🤣
Grandparents hiding the money in a brown egg..
Grandma had the same floor. We all had that basket
The linoleum that looks like tile but comes in a continuous roll like carpet!!! My grandma's house had very similar flooring. Did you get any Rain-Blo gum?
why in gods name our parents thought that looked better than a wood floor is beyond me.
Not better but cheaper
Funny I was just thinking how much more practical the ugly old tiles were. I have a wood floor in my kitchen and it’s warped to hell because of my kids spilling shit and occasional leaky dishwater etc.
Linoleum definitely has its place. My parents had wood floors put in years ago in the downstairs part of the house that's not carpeted. It's fine in the kitchen and hall, but why in the name of Nonexisto would you put it in the bathroom? Aside from which, Sears fucked up the installation, but it's really bad around the toilet. That bathroom is the only thing in the house that hasn't been completely redone since we moved in in 1993, and I think it's got to go along with the straight out of the '70s vanity.
I live in the house my mom grew up in, and this exact laminate flooring is still in the laundry room to this day.
As a fellow '83'er, pretty sure almost everyone had that exact kitchen in 1988
Awwww
At a certain point we just stopped having shit like orange cabinets, green carpet, & yellow linoleum floors. Ugly as it was I kind of miss it.
This is the current floor in my basement... Under the carpet.
70s-80s orange and brown linoleum. Synonymous with Easter egg hunts, one piece pj’s with slippery footies that would have wiped out the entire millennial and gen z, lunch boxes, quality fast food, actual Halloween trick or treating en masse, solid wood furniture and the last generation of children raised to thrive playing outside only to return to replenish our reserves from the garden hose.
Wait… are egg hunts and lunch boxes not a thing anymore??
Lunch boxes are still a thing but they are insulated and have special compartments for ice packs to keep your stuff chilled. We could never fathom such a luxury back in the day.
‘83 represent!
Why? It’s the same as the kitchen all we Gen Xers grew up in.
Hahaha I have an Easter pic of me in ‘83 with very similar linoleum and wood paneling. The fridge was avocado green.
The kitchen looks awesome! I love it!
I loved those kitchens
Yooo I was born in 83 and my house had that exact flooring for years lolz
I think my Grandma had the same or very similar kitchen flooring.
That linoleum gives me serious nostalgia for my grandma's house.
Pretty sure my Memaw had that floor. Mop n glo!!
I thought 83 was millennial?
I am also an 83’r I’m always on the fence on if I’m an older millennial or a young x’r That’s all 
83 baybeeee best year everrrr
Is it just me or does no one ‘79 and earlier claim to be an xennial. There’s just a few years 80-84 that don’t feel comfortable claiming 100% millennial.
^ There are lots of us.
I do. 77 baby here, and while I'm still very gen X, I'm also quite xennial too.
I feel like if you are on the cusp but have older siblings you are more likely to claim X/Xennial influence, but if you’re born 80 or later with no older siblings you’re more likely to be hard millennial.
Could be. I don't know though as I'm an only child. I never felt connected to the millennials at all. I mainly believe that 1976 to 1978 were the best years to be born American. Maybe to be born in human history period.
Agree - I am Dec 77 and my sister is five years older and leans hard into a lot of 80s nostalgia that I don't quite get.
Dec 77. Gen X and Xennial - Have a 5 years older sister who is much more solidly Gen X than me though. Also, coming from rural Scotland, it felt like we were often several years behind the rest of the world culturally.
That makes sense. I grew up in the suburbs of a major city and we used to go on holiday in the countryside and the radio station was like 3 years behind it seemed.
I completely agree, I’m a millennial, but I reckon I’m not a typical millennial
Even at 84 I highly disagree to side with millennial stuff and ok being down voted if it doesn't fit the "established norm criteria" but it's why I'm subbed to this personally. There's a threshold imo, I remember the vast majority of things people post here, it sparks extreme nostalgia. Visiting the millennial subreddit, I don't have an overall connection with stuff posted there especially as a child. This flooring motif/style were my first cognitive memories as a kid, even down to the kitchen tile aspect or [simple bowl and plate designs](https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRyznIifOfaG02NXBDnox41EK2S1sLmfHT11fbdZ0e6wg&s), lots of brown/auburn/fall colours everywhere growing up, even carpet.
I’m from ‘85 and I feel exactly how u described there.
Only the kitchen?
Well I guess I’m dressed kinda funny to haha
You dressed like you're about to go pro as an egg gatherer and I approve!
*you’re. Free to hate on the horrible grammar. You incorrectly used your, which is possessive and did not use you’re which is a contraction for you are. Gosh come get your ham Tina.
Grandma had that tile. We had carpet in our kitchen.
i dont remember the late 80s being so beige but all the photo evidence contradicts that
My kitchen had the same flooring growing up!
We had that same flooring in I think the kitchen and laundry room.
Shit, my house had the same flooring
I love that linoleum and wish I could find it !
I somehow know exactly what the floor feels like and what my feet on it sound like
My family had that tile 👍
I can smell that kitchen.
I remember that kitchen floor but I’m not sure who had it. It may have been at my grandmas house.
That floor brings back memories... Uncomfortable sticky memories, like a half eaten tootsie pop sticky. I'm pretty sure that floor was mandatory in the late 70's early 80's .
Hey. I recognize that floor. What are you doing in my grandparents kitchen? LOL
I showed my son some old pictures the other day and he wanted to know why they were yellow :)
We’re distracted by the floor, but let’s not forget how much you are rocking that outfit. White singlet with dark brown edges. What a look!
That flooring reminds me of long telephone cords and people smoking indoors.
This is how most of us lived. Reaganomics didn't work and our shit was from the 70s - likely the last time our hard-working families had the extra cash to upgrade the house.
Had same linoleum tiles, can still feel the ripple texture on my bare feet if I think about it.
Our whole house was brown orange and yellow back then lol I think it looks like every other kitchen in the 80s!
That’s either the same flooring we had in our kitchen or it’s very close!
Yeah 83! Happy Easter 😂 https://preview.redd.it/5nvw7te1vvoc1.jpeg?width=720&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2813f76a0271e022dad24fad2ce647096115d706
I know that floor 💜
We had that tile or similar in the trailer I lived until until like 3rd grade. And a big green fridge from the 70s
looks almost identical to a pic of me in 78. (born 73)
I miss those kinds of floors. Modern is so boring
This picture could be me at my grandparents house
I think we had that same floor. 😂
At *least* five of my friends' grandma's had that exact linoleum on their kitchen floor.
I'm also an 83' xennial. I can't possibly hate that kitchen tile when I'm pretty sure we had that exact same pattern at our house.
I “hate” that we had those same kitchen floors, LOL!
I still have that kitchen floor! Oh the memories.
This linoleum gave me an immediate and visceral flashback to my Mammaw’s kitchen in rural West Virginia—and I haven’t thought about that place in years.
Every one of us was in that kitchen at some point.
https://preview.redd.it/1dp46n72lwoc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=79d77c17f92e121a64e8a5ee31b2fd92643428bd Did someone say old kitchen 😂
I don’t think my grandparents had the same sort of flooring, but this definitely gave me grandma and grandpa’s house vibes.
Look at that white fridge. Fancy, fancy! We didn’t get a white fridge until the mid-90s. Ours was harvest gold. Matched the oven and went so well with the brown, fake-wood paneling.
Had that linoleum floor growing up, lol
I think we had the exact same kitchen floor. It was practically the law that you had to have this pattern and colour back then
no hate — thought it was my kitchen in 88
I was born the tail end of 82’ and all of my late 80’s photos look the same! Blurry Polaroids with questionable 80’s decor.
I am close in age to you. Nah, not going to hate on the kitchen floor, I grew up in a rented house and a single wide trailer both with a very similar color palette and pattern. Looks like it was going to be a fun day for you. I miss Easter from back then. I loved both coloring eggs, but also those awesome plastic wrap things (with Easter themed decor) that you put around the boiled egg, and you dip the egg with the plastic thing around it on a spoon into hot (boiling, but idk because I was little and the adults were the ones reading the instructions) water and it would shrink wrap the plastic tightly around the egg. I can't remember what they were called. I think it could have been a Paas product, or other companies probably did it, too. I loved the old school Easter decorations. I think we had better holiday decorations (all holidays) and stuff back then then kids get now. Plus they actually sold the _correct_ holiday stuff up until that very day. I'm over it with how stores put out Christmas stuff in the beginning of October, and start shrinking the Halloween merchandise more. I loved it as a kid that Halloween decor was up until the day after Halloween. It really made each holiday feel like it meant something, rather than trying to kick it to the curb before it even arrives.
That was my floors as a kid
no hate, we relate
Dude! That is literally the tile in my kitchen now! I hate it soooo much but we haven’t been able to renovate the kitchen yet 😭
Looks like my kitchen in the 80s.
That kitchen looks like home!
My parents house have the same linoleum kitchen floor.
Standard 80’s kitchen dawg, my aunt had the same pattern at her old house.
TIL that I am younger xennial (also ‘83). Damn, we are 40 now 😂
knew i was old when i showed my adopted daughter a large print photo & she put her finger on it & tried to *”swipe”* it.
“You went PAAS, or you FUCKED OFF! That was their slogan!”
You’re. Back then kids were actually taught about homophones.
Then why is it that Boomers make this mistake the most?
Had the same floor when I was that age