Harvest Gold, Avocado, or Burnt Orange?

[Liberal Veteran]

Those of you who remember the 70's know what I am talking about.

[ohiosmith]

1. I preferred avocado but the wife liked harvest gold. Guess what we had.

[Pool Hall Ace]

2. Hey, I was a keed in the 70's

and my bedroom had Burnt Orange walls and Avocado trim.

Our kitchen had turquoise appliances.

[HopeHoops]

3. E-FUCKING-GADS! Don't REMIND me!

Every damn appliance, utensil, and piece of furniture was in one of those three - or black. I've still got a leather lounging sort of chair that is black leather. But SHIT - everything else was in those colors.

[pipi_k]

4. I was always partial

to the burnt orange.


My mom had a rather...interesting...kitchen back in the 70s (and beyond).

That crappy sort of geometric flower pattern vinyl on the floor. Harvest gold stove. Avocado fridge. And another, smaller PINK fridge near the dining area (flower patterned chairs, green and white round table).

The dining area and living room were separated by one of those cheapo plastic (filagree) "walls" suspended between two brass poles that went from floor to ceiling.

Oddly enough, it all looked pretty normal to me at the time.

[Liberal Veteran]

5. When I bought my home, it had orange drapes and red shag carpet.

And the tile in kitchen could only be described and a pizza vomit splatter pattern.

[pipi_k]

8. Hah, the red shag carpet!

Back when Mr Pipi and I were thinking of selling here and buying another home, we looked at one that was straight out of the 70s.

Red shag carpeting up the stairs to the master bedroom, which was one very large room with doors in between. All red shag carpeting that looked like it hadn't been changed (or cleaned) since it was laid down.

I have no doubt that the drapes were probably orange also.

And the pizza vomit floors...that's really a good way to describe them to somebody who's never seen them.

[MiddleFingerMom]

6. I WIN!!! I had a burnt-orange Nehru jacket (luckily MFM-Sis stole it and took it away to college).

[pinboy3niner]

7. Depends on what went best with the shag carpet

[LWolf]

44. +1

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

9. Harvest gold stove and fridge inhabited my hideous kitchen

for a number of years, but they have finally been replaced as part of a remodeling project. There is still some burnt-orange shag carpeting upstairs, and that's going to go very soon.

The '70s was a dark age of interior decorating and fashion.

[Liberal Veteran]

12. Yeah. And did I mention the tub, basin, and toilet in my house at closing?

Lavender.

Really.

I'm fairly certain that the Bible says lavender as a toilet color is an abomination and makes baby Jesus and gays cry.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

17. I don't think I've ever seen lavender bathroom fixtures.

I've seen turquoise and pink ones, but not lavender. That is kind of an abomination, now that you mention it.

[Auggie]

10. We had burnt orange Formica countertops in the kitchen

[Baitball Blogger]

11. My daughter painted her room in Avocado and brown.

Not bad, actually.

[Robyn66]

13. My mom

had a refrigerator that was burnt orange and an Avocado washing machine!

[petronius]

14. Copious quantities of each, of course! If some is good, more is better...

[Iggo]

15. All three, baby!

[texanwitch]

16. The colors will become popular again.

Just wait.

I liked burnt orange.

[Liberal Veteran]

20. From your lips to the memory hole.

I don't think I could handle that color scheme coming back into fashion.

[texanwitch]

28. Younger people will not have the memory of the 70's.

It will be the new colors for them.

Granite counter tops and stainless steel sinks can only last so long.

What is old is new again.

The designers will re package the colors, calling them something else.

[geardaddy]

18. We called it Burnt Sienna, I think

but yeah, we had tons of Avocado pots and pans.

[Motown_Johnny]

19. My bedroom, as a tween, was avocado (ish)

But the carpet in the living room was Harvest Gold and I think the kitchen appliances were Burnt Orange, or close to it.

I can't pick just one.

[pipi_k]

22. I don't even remember

what color my bedroom was in the late 60s - early 70s.

Every inch of wall space plus the ceiling was covered in posters and artwork.

I had a small bedside stand that had a magazine collage under glass, and even my window shades weren't spared...I spray painted them (they were vinyl) blue and silver.

Fun...and slightly weird...times.

[Motown_Johnny]

23. I remember because when my older brother went to college I got to pick the color

of my room. I was moved into the smaller one my sister had and she got the larger room (I was/am youngest).

I went with green. I think it was a bit lighter than avocado and had a dark green carpet.

[pipi_k]

26. Hmmm....the only

other green I remember from those times was Lime. It wasn't Lime green, was it?

Seems like every decade had its own shade of green.

Remember the horrible "Institution green" they used to put on the walls in the school cafeteria and such? Horrible color.

I can't see it today without feeling slightly sick.

[Motown_Johnny]

31. No, I think my parents kept me from being to "far out".

More of a flat green, a little lighter than avocado.

Yes I do remember that "Institution green". It was in the basement of my grade school.

[NV Whino]

40. Institution green was also known as Howard Hughes green

Every wall of every building at Hughes Aircraft was that god awful, puke green. I think that's where all the other institution green came from.

As for burnt orange, that was my mother's favorite color. She painted the bathroom orange once. Not burnt orange, but true orange. Sort of got you rolling in the morning.

[Liberal Veteran]

25. That hanging lamp is just....vile.

They should jazz it up with some macrame.

[pipi_k]

27. The pattern on it

pretty much matches what was on my mom's kitchen floor back then.

Like someone shit out a kaleidoscope.

[HarveyDarkey]

21. Interior Desecrations

Love this site: http://www.lileks.com/institute/interiors/index.html

[pipi_k]

29. Hahahahha!!!

OMG.

Why did people bother taking drugs back then? Just decorate your apartment and get a 24/7 acid trip.




later...

OH NO!!!

A meat grinder lamp!

[irisblue]

24. ahhh yess

burnt orange tupperwear, avocado stove& fridge in apartment in decatur illinois, avocado bedroom walls in bedroom. I still like those colors. The kitchen is the soft green of ms wonderful eyes, orange throw pillow on beige sofa, gold and green strips o n living room chair( ...the cats chose that as a backup scratching post....wonder why?) That chair is on the list for reupolsting and a move into the grey& purple bedroom ( are those 2000 colors)

[Bertha Venation]

30. Depended on where we lived.

We moved around a lot (staying in the same city). Sometimes the appliances were gold, sometimes avocado. Never had burnt orange appliances. But we did have burnt orange shag carpet in some places.

[Arugula Latte]

32. We had all three in our kitchen when I was growing up.

Even orange counters -- take that, Brady Bunch!!

[Arugula Latte]

33. But, some of the 80s styles were equally horrific.

Forest green & salmon color schemes and fox hunting prints -- Yuck!

"Country" kitchens filled with pictures of blue geese wearing giant ribbons on their necks -- Yuck!

[zen_bohemian]

37. Being quite young, my first kitchen in the 80's was Garfield the cat decorated

towels, cookie jar, telephone, plates...it was cute...then, for some reason unbegknowst to me, I redecorated my kitchen in that horrid geese with the blue bows on their necks ACK LOL

[CrawlingChaos]

38. I remember the whole decade as slate blue and dusty rose

But you're right - there was a lot of forest green too. Like the inside of a Bombay Co. store.

At the biggest mall around these parts (Valley Fair mall in San Jose), everything that could be painted was painted dusty rose throughout the duration of the '80s. It was a long pink decade.

I think people were looking for colors that were as different as could be from the unholy trio mentioned in the OP.

[bluesbassman]

34. Yep, and two inch deep pile shag carpeting

My sister and I took turns on who had to vacuum and who had to rake it.

[zen_bohemian]

35. our appliances were fashionable, they were that dark brown, and had that fake brick linoleum

in the kitchen...ack the rest of the house had green avocado carpeting, green furniture, green hanging lamp, tin foil on the tv antenna, and some big harvest gold clear acrylic grapes in a bunch on the coffee table, the 70's were kinda cool, tho

[Yavin4]

36. Oh, Ah, So, We're Not Talking About Marijuana??

Oh, never mind.

[Bucky]

39. they were sewn all together into the fabric on mom's couch.

[Burma Jones]

41. That's what you'd see when you puked up your Mateus Rose........

[gollygee]

42. Our appliances were avocado, but the carpet, linoleum, and accessories were

harvest gold.

[femmocrat]

43. I had an entire Avocado kitchen, including the Formica countertops.

What was I thinking!

[Mopar151]

45. Still cookin' on the avacado stove ! n/t