For example, vintage Pyrex dishes in solid primary colors or the pink “Gooseberry” pattern are hot, while the brown Pyrex pattern my mom has is not. These trends obviously influence the current market for vintage wares. Thanks in part to IKEA and Target, young people today are enamored with Mid-Century Modern furnishings and home goods with their clean lines, dainty teak toothpick legs, bright colors, and quirky-cute Space Age patterns. The Grandma’s Couch meme got me thinking about all the mid-century styles that design-conscious people would like to forget, from the low popcorn ceilings to wall-to-wall shag carpeting. These types of couches are sometimes billed as “Retro Gauche” or “Coloniawful.”(Via Reddit) (Via Coffeesnob) Above: The picture pattern of this wood-frame sofa may be closer to the actual print of Grandma’s couch. Top: This sofa’s shape, structure, and colors are almost identical to my grandmother’s couch.
#Rust and patina crossword tv
One of my earliest memories of the house is my cousin, Bryan, then 10 years old, eating cereal on his Spider-Man TV tray, watching “Dukes of Hazzard” next to the floor furnace, while Grandma sat on the couch, asking for help with “TV Guide” crossword-puzzle clues, nibbling on a frozen home-made oatmeal cookie she had retrieved from a Country Crock container. Her tiny kitchen had a Formica table and roosters on trivets and tea towels. When the TV was off, she loved to play country music, whether on the radio, vinyl, or cassette tape-from Hank Williams to the Oak Ridge Boys and Alabama to Randy Travis and Garth Brooks. On side tables, she kept a Sooner slag-glass swan bowl and a pressed-glass candy jar always filled with Starlite Mints in both peppermint and spearmint. The couch was perfectly set among the wood-paneling on the wall, the dense, rust orange carpet on the floor, the cuckoo clock, the dark-wood furniture, and the heavy, wood-frame TV set that never knew cable. And the arms, made out of scrolling dark wood covered in more of that fabric, were hard and unfriendly for leaning against. The fabric also had a fuzzy velour-type texture, but it was scratchy against the skin. But the couch was a part of her home as long as I could remember: It was printed with a repeating image that might have been a rustic barn with a wagon wheel perched outside or an old mill with a water wheel, surrounded by reddish orange and gold flowers, and possibly wild fowl like pheasants or turkeys. Grandpa died when I was age 5 in 1980, so my memories of him are hazy. When I was growing up, Grandma lived in a small prefabricated Lustron house built for World War II vets on the northwest side of Tulsa. “The good news was that fabric was going to last forever-but the bad news was that fabric was going to last forever.” The list nailed Grandma’s house in other ways: “Bonzana” on the old TV, lace doilies, tomato pin cushions, hard candies, crossword puzzles, transferware, shag-rug toilet covers, and leftovers in Country Crock tubs. The site TipHero took the meme further in a list associating this couch style with an “ancient” television very similar to my grandma’s large floor model with turned wood in the frame. Everyone’s.” I paused, because my grandmother did, in fact, have this exact type of couch.
Over a picture-patterned sofa in an autumnal-colored velour with scrolling dark wood trim, it declared, “Everyone’s grandparents had this couch. Futzing around on social media, as one does, I recently stumbled upon a meme that hit close to home.
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