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Jason I'm surprised, too...

It's a really nice red on the right appliance provided you've got some good chrome/aluminum trim. I never did understand the fascination with Harvest Gold...or why it was saleable forever and ever.
 
The worst are HG bathroom fixtures. Blech.

I like most of the trends from the 70s, but you're right. Harvest Gold was for sale forever. And then there came almond. Which always looks dirty.
 
You haven't lived until...

You had to sit for lunch at a friends' house which had HG faux brick linoleum floors, HG Kitchen sink and appliances and MATCHING WALLPAPER. His mom was truly on a gold kick back then. Unforgettably BAD taste...
 
My aunt had that kitchen, but with avocado appliances and burnt umber floors and the fake wood Formica.

An all HG kitchen? Yikes. The 70s interpretation of 'Follow the Yellow Brick Road.'
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It was a vomit-inducing era...

right? Yeah...that burnt umber stuff was undoubtedly the worst of it all. What is the saying..."all things in moderation"....but no one knew how to "moderate".
 
I'm not sure what changed, as stuff in the early 70s is cool, but starting around 75 it seems people gave up on design. The furniture gets really chunky. It's that really heavy pseudo-Mediterranean stuff. I've been reading a book on that era and I suspect the issues of the day influenced the design (or lack of).
 
You're lucky to not have been raised...

in the heyday of that stuff. I remember all the game shows on TV hocking that stuff as "prizes". Along with a years' supply of Rice a Roni, you might luck out and go home with a full dining room suite of Broyhill mediterranean plus an entire room of wall-to-wall shag carpeting to show it all off :)
 
We lived in New Mexico in the early 80s and I just remember beige.  Lots of beige, undercut with some pastels.  Then my mom got into the folksy geese and country decor when we moved to Maryland.  I'm not sure that's really much better.
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Blechhh....

You have my sympathy. I remember New Mexico still being like that in the late 90s. Albuquerque struck me as beige--period. EVERYTHING looked the same. Variations on beige. House paint, dirt, mountains, fields. Kinda depressing.
But the ducks and geese thing is somehow worse. My mom did the same thing. Took her a good 10 years to get over it.
 
The best was our living room that was done up in full country style, complete with painted Amish end tables (with honey oak stained tops) and lamps that looked like upcycled kitchen objects from the early 1900s. There was a sausage press lamp and the faux stoneware jug lamp (which they still have).
 
Haha! Sorry. They were (and are) awful. Mercifully, that trend ended.

 

I've been trying to get them to go vintage; my mom loves our stove. It's sort of worked on my dad; he's gotten into vintage vending machines (although it's probably more American Restoration's influence than mine).
 
Gan..I can't believe you said~

"jewelry"! That is exactly how I described my line to a Bev. Hills showroom that represented them for me. It's true...that's what they are. Tell ya what....I'm off to bed right now, but I'll gather some pics and magazine ads and post. Some are from Elle Decor and Architectural Digest circa 2006/7.
 

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