Yes. Lots of wall paper along with mauve and country blue. I recall lots of draperies and curtains even in areas without windows. It seemed to be a time of fabrics and texture. Later it gave way to simpler lines of southwestern decor along with mini blinds and vertical blinds.

When we moved into this house 2 years ago, in a 55+ community in west central Florida, we discovered that most of the houses in this large community (3400+ units begun in 1982) had way, way, too many mirrors. Huge mirrors in the bathrooms. I removed seven 6' tall mirrors in the living room. Most of the houses also had huge mirrors in the dining rooms.

All gone! Yes!

White walls everywhere. Wall-to-wall carpet (even in the kitchen).

All gone! Yes!

Single pane windows.

All gone! Yes!

Drapes and swags forever. What's it called when the fabric is puddled? Oh. Puddled drapes. I just took my frou-frou swags down and am replacing with something very simple! Still, a part of me will miss them!

Uhmm, florals. Floral wallpaper, floral bedding. Floral area rugs. And mauve. Ivory and mauve everywhere in my other house! Looked like a woman's home. Well, it was! Have to admit, I also still like mauve.

Burgundy, green, and pink chintz. Had that too. And it was floral.

Were glass tables still a thing in the 80's? I dunno. I got rid of mine by that time.

Big fake flowers and peacock feathers. Giant vases. Ok, I still like a big vase though!

Kinda fun going down memory lane, thanks Scott!

Hunter green and burgundy!!

I am sure I was not in style. I was too busy with yard work, a big garden, canning and raising, Amber.

Sue

How about the ORANGE that preceded this? I had an orange kitchen floor, cabinets, wall paper. Orange threads through the brown wood window shades. E-Yow!

Country Living Magazine! LOL!

I wallpapered our bedroom and bathroom in cream with small burgundy flowers that looked like peonies, with a border of huge burgundy peonies.... What a busy space that was!

:) yep...country blue, burgundy and hunter green. Wallpaper in kitchen and

baths with country borders. :) Actually, I still like those colors. I think that

remodel was when the shag carpet had to go, too. (Thank the Lord).

"Country look" was in, I guess.

I actually miss the decor of the 80's...call me old fashioned, but I did like it.

Floral. Everything looked like Laura Ashley. I seem to remember a lot of tables with skirts and scarves.

Plants - fake and real - Check

Wallpaper borders - Check

Peach Walls - Check

Swags and Tails - Check

ragrolling and sponge painted walls - OMG No

Oh my... so much floral or stripes wallpaper and borders...mauve and country blue, as well as hunter green and burgundy! Round table with tablecloth to the floor. Of course I had the fake silk plants and arrangements that gathered dust. That nasty shag carpet... and some had carpet in the bathroom! It makes me wonder in 20 years what our grandkids will think about what we have now.

Poofy curtain valances.

Makes me sneeze just thinking about it!

OMG, the fake flowers and foliage....fake ficus trees and long English ivy vines along the drapery rods and shower curtains. Voluminous window treatments. Matchy matchy fabrics in every room. All the furniture had a skirt or flounce.

Fruit, farm animal (rooster), and grape vine themes in the kitchen.....on everything!

Chickens. The house we bought had wallpaper in the kitchen with some sort of fowl on it. And it had country curtains. I left the wallpaper but took down the country curtains.

My sister referred to that decor as "pineapple on a stick". Mostly likely it said "welcome" or some other goopy sentiment.

In the 1980's my decor was more 1890's--wooden dough bowls, butter molds, crocks, pie safes, earth tones, but most of you have described my mother's house. She loved floral, fruity wallpaper with borders, and big poofy curtains. When I was a kid she made me wear big, poofy dresses. :P

Thank you blfenton!...for reminding me of sponge painting. I went through that crazy sponge painting craze for at least a couple of years. I'd be staring at a wall (any wall-any room) and thinking boy that'd be so much better looking if I sponge painted it! I don't think there was a room in our house that escaped the sea sponge...

Polished brass. Oak roll top desks. Hot tubs. Duck decoys. Sleigh beds. Beanie Babies. Popcorn ceilings. Butcher block formica counter tops. Cardboard windshield shades. Baby On Board signs suctioned on car windows. Garfield butts hanging out of cars. Shoulder pads in womens jackets, blouses...

Never could tolerate peach, pink, blue or burgundy. Always have worked around greens, never kitschy. But I have always loved vintage oak, even then. I remember when my mother-in-law wanted me to sponge paint one of her bathrooms. Well, I did but hardly knew when to stop and what a mess! She was so kind, she tried to seem pleased. I said, 'Well, you asked for it!' I really miss her.

Wicker furniture!!

I forgot about sponge, rag-rolling, veining, trompe l'oeil, and all those methods of wall glazing! I admit, I loved it, and tackled it like a woman on a mission! Most of my walls were very pale and subtle, but I did a couple rooms of pale rag-rolling with a pale gray over ivory, and one of a very dark burgundy sponge/smudge over ivory with gold veining... it was off-putting after a while! I'm actually considering doing a very pale technique on our bedroom walls.

My office now has a sponge/smudge, but it's so pale and is barely perceptible, and my furnishings are old world and French, so it fits.

Loved sponge painting! That is, until we moved into this house. One of the bedrooms was painted hunter green with, of course, a wallpaper border around the middle. Above the border, they had used several different sponging techniques, using several different colors. This also included the fantastic technique of flinging gold paint from a brush - to add texture, you know. What a nightmare. I had to take a sander to the walls. Wish I had taken a picture of it to share.

This also included the fantastic technique of flinging gold paint from a brush - to add texture, you know.

I had to take a sander to the walls.

LMAO! I spewed water on my keyboard! Wish you had taken a photo!

Never tried the feather duster technique!

Big light bulbs... I still have those in the baths. We will be changing them out... someday.

All that you all have described is what happens when a trend at the very top end of interior design (done beautifully!), finally ends up at the Big Box stores or at Waverly (I'm not being a snob - have Waverly fabric on two chairs in my LR, but they did do some unfortunate colors in the past).

I actually still have some wallpaper border on my 2nd floor, and in the back hall on the 1st floor. In the two bedrooms, I used Jane Churchill very subtle small print paper (same in both rooms - different colors and look totally different), with narrow (2") Jane Churchill borders at the ceiling. The borders are different in the two rooms - in mine, it is a rope effect; in DD's old room, linked bows in the same blue/white as the paper. DD's bathroom has an antique footed tub we painted the same deep raspberry as the bows on the Jane Churchill paper, and we used matching border in there, and used the matching fabric for the dust ruffle on her bed. It still looks SO pretty. My upstairs hall/landing, has a dark green border at the ceiling with greige on white ground small print paper. The green picks up the color in the Colefax & Fowler print chintz (berries and leaves). I still love, it, too.

There is no crown molding on the 2nd floor as this is a 1 1/2 story house with a full dormer on the back but a dormer window in my bath and in DD's bedroom. The front walls slope so molding would be very awkward.

I did have Laura Ashley paper and border in a guest room until about 7 years ago - loved it but it and the matching fabric had aged poorly so off it went.

Many lovers of Farrow & Ball paints and papers are not aware that in their early days, they did very narrow little borders. I have that above a chair rail and at just under the crown molding. It's used with their famous Bees paper that has a shadow and just finished it off perfectly. It's only about 1" wide. It looks like ribbon with nail heads on it - great stuff.

Ok, Anglo, you got me cornered and I 'fess up... still have mauve in the bedroom, and still have some swags that are very swaggy there as well... but tiny pinstripe in mauve and ivory - although I now call is "salmon". Keeping it too! It's all very pale and it is the "she-shed" while the tv room will be the man-cave. I sewed a very drapey Waverly bedspread way back when, and though I loved it dearly then, it'd keep me awake at night now!

I escaped the 80's because we bought our 1840 farmhouse in '83, painted all walls white, large wood trim original colors and furnished all the rooms with antiques of the period of the house. The beauty is antiques are never dated, the downside is when you have too many. If I were doing it over, I'd mix modern with my folk art.