The green one at 9:00 is closest from my memory….

I remember an "early American" craze and braided rugs in my childhood home. I do recall visiting friends who had a teenage daughter, and she had a really cool Peter Max poster in her room. The squiggly-lined rug at center reminds me a lot of that poster, and the year very likely was spot on 1969.

Second one from the top left (above the turquoise bar), and the one in the lower right corner. The wavy one at middle-right and the navy one at the bottom left look 1969, but would be more for a child's room than a living room.

Mine too, Springroz, the olive green colors are definitely in my mind from the late 60’s, early 70’s. We had a pair of chairs that color and a yellow sofa. Bought our first house in 1970 and the vinyl tile colors in the kitchen/breakfast room were somewhat similar to the colors ar 1:00 except more orange and yellow-gold than red, and no blue. Not that pattern either, it was a medallion.

I should add some context -- this is from my DD and relates to an art project she is working on, she wants a 69 vibe room but it is a detail and not at all central to the project so it needn't be exact

Honestly, none. hit me as really 1969 which I remember as more earth tones, burnt orange, brown, deep forest green. The pastels are for sure no. The Bargello type pattern is on point but the gray is wrong. The green at 9 o'clock is wrong but I like it the best!

To a lot of people, 1969 means pop art, bold graphics, and the like. I think of rooms like this, which is not how the apartment I grew up in was furnished, but it certainly evokes the era:

I agree that most American LRs were still braided rugs and colonial furniture at that time. But if you look at design trends, it is more avant garde.

I suppose it depends on your upbringing and neighborhood, but I don’t recall area rugs as much as I do everyone covering their hardwoods with wall to wall carpeting. Golds and greens and earthy browns.

The avocado green at 9 o’clock seems closest.

My parents furnished their new home with more traditional rugs and furniture - not at all trendy, and definitely moving away from the early American fad,

The 2 at 7 o'clock and the one at 9 seem the most like what I might have seen in my friend's houses..

I remember 1969 well. Shag wall to wall carpeting would have been popular.

Eta: People covered beautiful wood floors in houses built in the 40s. It wasn’t as easy to refinish flooring as it is now.

We had wall-to-wall low shag in our den, with grasscloth wallpaper. The rest of the apartment was hardwood floors with area rugs, including two Moroccan ones in the LR which I still own.

None? My house had thick shag carpet, not the long stringy kind. Bedrooms had wood floors but no rugs.

My bff who lived in a newly built house had wood floors with solid color area rugs, and I remember my feet sinking into one of the lush rugs like yesterday. :)

In fact, I can't recall anyone having that modern/mod vibe to their house except the Brady Bunch. lol

The larger one in the lower right corner is the only one I like.

There was no early American or braided rug in any of my parent's houses so it was not ubiquitous. Their house in 1969 (built in 1960 and the one I grew up in) had hardwood floors throughout, a room size burnt orange tight loop pile rug in the LR, and a cut loop (not shag) tweedy rug in brown, dark gold and burnt orange in the family room. Bedrooms had berber rugs in varying colors/patterns.

My husband was in grad school in 1968-9, and I hung Marimekko fabric from ceiling to floor---the iconic navy flowers with yellow and orange---to brighten our married couples housing. Our rug was a remnant we could afford, but shag was very popular. I agree that olives and browns were colors of the day so would go with the 9 o'clock olive one.

I was living in England in 1969 where the carpet, wallpaper (every wall!), and drapes had bold patterns that didn't come close to matching

My parents' house in California had wall to wall carpet. Earth tones with a lively gold shag in the living room. My mother ran the show. The only post-psychedelic patterns in her house might be a blouse she was wearing. No Early American or braided rugs for her either.

Sorry we had beige fat tight loops on head cheese linoleum.

Barbara d'Arcy was the decorator for Bloomingdale's in the '60s. Her rooms, as I recall, were orange, green and brown, or wild colors. She was the trendsetter. Here's one of her designshttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ULH3PdDmDBg/T7kCLSej78I/AAAAAAAASek/s_c3i-UUKvA/s1600/darcy_0002.jpg

These are 2 ads and editorial content from Spring 1970 Arch. Dig. which means that these originated in 1969 or so.

With the exception of two rug everything I saw was plain or variegated shag. Some of these rooms are going to look a little fashion forward for 1969 but this is the top of the market.

This abstract is V'Soske:

This David Hicks pattern is in production again. This is too establishment for your needs.

Everything else is shag, shag shag - this might be Flokati, my Grandmother had two bedrooms with these in them around that time.

This is shag, it's the photo that makes it look patterned.

This last one or the flokati are probably the most realistic sorts for her project.

Our first home that we bought in 1971 had the green carpet that springoz mentioned.

The house was about 1 1/2 years old when we bought it.. Earth tones, everything shades of brown was in big time here in the mid to later 1970's.

More from a different issue. Another flokati, two Morroccan style which might be good, and more shag.

Flokati

(Even high end magazines used to have limited color spreads)

Moroccan

VSoske shag.

I remember 1969 quite well, but wasn't too aware of home decor other than shag carpeting and pretty much only solid colors......but if I had to pick a pattern, I think the 2 round and rectangle ones at 12 or 1 o'clock are the closest.

Not in any house I was ever in; those had the solid shag or plain wall to wall. .. in blue or green.

I was a child then, but we had gold shag carpeting, linoleum in the kitchen and ceramic tile in baths. No rugs. My grandparents did have a large flokati rug that they bought on a trip-maybe when they went to Greece?

Yep - lots of shag, and earth tones too - tho it really depended on whether someone wanted mod or trad, didn't it? Earthy colors I recall were burnt orange, avocado green, harvest gold, burnt umber.

But the mod, cool people had magentas/fuschias, lime greens and other brights in their decor. My mom did our bedrooms in ca. 1972 with lime green bedspreads and mod flowered curtains in shades of green and white. At the same time, in the living and dining rooms, she always had quite a bit of Early American decor to go with her Early American antiques, and yes, I remember we had those braided rugs too. Ours were in shades of green.

None of the samples provided make me think of 1969, however the color blocked one on lower right in shades of blue seems possible - if it were shag. Maybe your daughter would want to look at some late 60s TV and movies for interior inspo? Remember Bewitched? That reflected a lot of suburban upper middle class homes, IMPE

So what type of style is she going for?

My mother had the basement decorated by a decorator in 1970 (?). That was a fantastic room and probably would still be considered current (we all still have the furniture in our various houses). There was a sleek-lined 3 seater black leather sofa, 2 black leather Westnofa chairs, 2 blue Cone Chairs, a round glass coffee table, a lamp (forget the name) with clear filaments with a pin prick of light at the end. The curtains were a dark mustardy yellow and avocado green in a diamond pattern, the diamonds outlined in black. The floor was parquet and the carpet was shag in the mustardy yellow/greenish /brownish tones - a piece of art on it’s own.

I will also go with the green with the trees at 9 o’clock.

Now that some mention similar, I should add that the big exception to traditional styles and colors (blues, not-olive greens, gold/beige) was in the bedroom I shared with my sister - the rug was a raspberry/strawberry pink shag. Oh, and the family room area rug was a beautiful patterned (pattern created by varying textures and shades) red.

The pattern in the circles in the upper left is what I remember from 1969. I had a shirt with a similar pattern, and I still have it to this day because it was a birthday present from a dear friend. However, I might want to sell it now because it is definitely vintage by this time.

Something else I recall from late 60s/early 70s was a pseudo-Spanish colonial/mission style with lots of black wrought iron, deep reds and golds and heavy dark wood.

I remember having a floral couch in the living room, an avocado green fridge, and big bright flowers on a backsplash made of contact paper. i had a green rug that i won in a bet with my husband, who was in grad school at the time. He bet me if i could name who sang The Duke of Earl ( Gene Chandler), I could buy a new rug. It was a medium green loopy thing, closest to 9 oclock but without the flowers.

Later i had a multi hued green shag rug.and harvest gold appliances.

The one in the bottom left corner with the multi-color circles screams 1969. Somewhere there is a picture of my niece wearing a pullover knitted sweater in the pattern at 1 o'clock and bell bottom jeans. 1969 was a great year. That was the year I met my husband-to-be : )

My DD is very unhappy with 1969 decor, I will say that much. LOL

Our home was built in 1969. the basement family room has dark walnut paneling and i found a remnant of the original dark avocado green lower pile shag carpet. upstairs is white oak floors, the kitchen originally had oak cabinets stained darker with avocado marble look laminate counters with gold flecks and avocado linoleum floors and of course avocado appliances. and still have the pink and blue bathrooms! 😍 the bathrooms had colorful wallpaper at some point (found behind the toilets).

@mtnrdredux_gw its ok of she doesnt like the style. as i tell my daughter, people like what they like, but you need to also be respectful at the same time of what others like.

? what

Its part of s school project on 1960s culture and socioeconomics

None of the rugs look right. In the 6 states I lived in from 1967-1970 wall-to-wall carpet was the most common floor covering. Colors were usually pinkish beige, harvest gold or avocado (not olive). Lots of shag carpet. Some of it was so long that it had to be fluffed with a plastic rake!

The rug with the circles at 07:00 reminds me a bit of the mat for the Twister game, which was extant at that point.

Yes - we got green, deep pile, wall to wall carpeting around that time. It was a new style with untwisted loops, so it was extra fuzzy and puffy - and matted down more easily too. It got pretty ugly over time. Now I recall it as a snotty green shade.

I guess if you look at source material from the period, your daughter is not seeing what she expected, because there tends to be a certain amount of romanticized revisionist history about what things looked like particularly in the media. We've seen this before with the "1950s kitchen" that really looked like a relatively limited number of Googie-style drive-ins and diners, but less like what an actual 1950s kitchen looks like.

If you want to consider what the counterculture had in the late 1960s which I do think eventually influences mass culture, the counterculture furnished with a lot of cheap (at the time) antiques, which I think influenced the design of the 1970s: Victorian furniture, old persian rugs, macrame, hanging plants and the like.

The b&w 3rd photo looks like Janis by Matisse

Matisse

FWIW, Mary's apartment in the first season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show - which started in 1970, is also an example of the ideal eclectic young person's living space, I think.

Pal,

She is done with her project and so I was not going to post further, but since you brought it up. this is 100% true:

I guess if you look at source material from the period, your daughter is not seeing what she expected, because there tends to be a certain amount of romanticized revisionist history

So even though everyone might have had brown and green very dull rooms, she has been "taught" that the 60s looked like ...Peter Max. I was trying to convey this above by saying it doesn't have to be a realistic room, it can be what AD said rooms looked like. Which, even today, are totally different things.

Since this "living room" set up was a backdrop. not required, and entirely tangential to her project, and since her choices were limited to free decorating software, she ended up choosing items that probably were not in anyone's LR!

Carol,

My DDs think sunken living rooms are TDF; apparently they are a thing on Tiktok.