What colours remind you of your childhood home?

Grandma and grannys houses were both dark brown,and ours seemed quite modern in comparison.,
Embossed cream wallpaper, red fabric seated sofa and armchairs which were so cosy to curl up on.
Swirly patterned carpets and diamond patterned Lino in the kitchen .

I remember the sun shining in and a happy , atmosphere.

We started off with a different colour for each room as the decorating bug seized my mother-magnolia walls and beige carpets replaced the bright colours .
Later, when she moved house green became her favourite colour .
It's my favourite colour too .

Green, gold, brown.

Brown lino on hall floor.

Cardinal red on the old quarry tiles in the scullery. When dad decorated and painted them once, how lovely and shiny they were for a while.

My mother was very proud of the living room curtains. I thought they were light brown , but she always said ‘mushroom’. But brown did feature a lot in the furnishings in the 50s.

A light grey called “silver birch” with which my father painted every room. So sophisticated!

Bright Emerald Green - dreadful!

Dad once bought several rolls of bright emeral green embossed wallpaper which had a faux William Morris design.

It was 'going cheap' in one of those (fake) Closing Down sales.

I might have known.

He plastered the appalling stuff on all four walls of the living room but even he couldn't stand it in the end and Mum ordered him to get rid of it.

Yes, emerald green reminds me of that childhood episode and Dad's sodding obsession with "it's a bargain" hunting. Unfortunately.

My mum liked pale mauve so we had a room with a pale mauve ceiling. Very trendy in the 60s in London. She also had a couple of chairs upholstered in mauve. It a colour I particularly like but still.

I forgot to mention we all had candlewick bedspreads? Lino on the bedroom floors.

Orange and brown bizarre curtains carpet all colours that didn't match neither did the wallpaper. Black and white tiles on kitchen floor gloss paint over woodchip paper. Net curtains in every room with horrendous patterns.

White with a red tiled roof - remember every bit of it.

Harvest Gold carpet and car when I was a teenager.
Grandparent's houses I remember as dim, grey and green with yellowed white paintwork.

Yes, dark green outside paintwork.

I don’t remember any colours of rooms or wallpaper or carpets, bed covers, no nothing comes to mind or front door paint or anything really I can’t imagine how see the layout of the house just but that’s all

A certain shade of turquoise - the colour of our new bathroom suite in the 60s. I wouldn’t have known then, but it was the colour of gorgeous shallow tropical seas.

I’ve never seen any other bathroom suite the same - it was so much nicer than the once ubiquitous avocado.

Bright orange as the house was in that colour when we moved in (early 70s). In fact, the front bedroom's woodwork was in the same colour. The house was later painted in bright green (caterpillar green) and black.

Bukkie

Brown! Everything was brown in a 70s home, carpet, curtains, furniture, kitchen units.

I have to say our living room walls were a dark chocolate colour. I really hope that never becomes fashionable again as it was awful

Embossed cream wallpaper, brown linoleum, home made rag rugs in shades or red and black. Long dark curtains. Dark cream pull down blinds with cords

Our Cottage was painted in Buckingham green, I did love that colour.

Brown! Everything was brown in a 70s home, carpet, curtains, furniture, kitchen units.

When we moved to house number 7 when twelve, we had a huge modern kitchen with (awful) bright orange units, burgundy sofas and velvety curtains and embossed wallpaper.

I do remember in one of my bedrooms (cannot remember which one) I had horsey wallpaper (I was horse obsessed), l never owned one, but rode from age 8 to late teens.

I actually lived in 7 homes prior to reaching 12!

So many different memories and colours.

Burgundy on the hall and stairs with cream walls ,the living room brown and gold boucle sofas and gold velvet curtains .
My folks got all new furniture each of the three homes we lived in .
I have done the same , it I loved their brown amd gold curved sofas and that were custom made.Haven,t seen another like it in over 50 years

Dark green and brown from the early days, everything seemed to be those colours in my home and other people’s.
I remember we had brown Lino in the hallway with dark green skirting boards.

Bright orange, yellow and brown - those were the colours my mum used for the curtains in our new house in 1967!
The carpet had those colours in it too- great for hiding dirt, not that my mum would ever have let anything get dirty!