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What colours remind you of your childhood home?

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crazyH Tue 14-Jul-26 23:15:06

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

valdali Tue 14-Jul-26 23:13:02

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

winterwhite Tue 14-Jul-26 23:06:54

Yes, dark green outside paintwork.

BlueBelle Tue 14-Jul-26 23:02:59

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

Witzend Tue 14-Jul-26 22:35:47

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.

BoggledMind Tue 14-Jul-26 22:35:04

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.

MT62 Tue 14-Jul-26 22:32:58

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

polomint Tue 14-Jul-26 22:32:15

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

MT62 Tue 14-Jul-26 22:30:24

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

Bukkie Tue 14-Jul-26 22:22:57

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

Cossy Tue 14-Jul-26 21:23:04

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.

Cossy Tue 14-Jul-26 21:19:45

I actually lived in 7 homes prior to reaching 12!

So many different memories and colours.

paddyann54 Tue 14-Jul-26 21:15:26

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

Fallingstar Tue 14-Jul-26 21:10:11

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.

Oldnproud Tue 14-Jul-26 21:01:49

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!

Whitewavemark2 Tue 14-Jul-26 21:01:00

I can’t remember😮. Perhaps my memory will be jogged. I can remember the colour of the piano stool, but that doesn’t count. I can remember the bed cover colours, and colours of various clothes.

CrazyUSA Tue 14-Jul-26 20:56:49

Blue due to the wallpaper on the staircase