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What colours remind you of your childhood home?

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CrazyUSA Tue 14-Jul-26 20:56:49

Blue due to the wallpaper on the staircase

Esmay Wed 15-Jul-26 07:38:22

We started off with a different colour for each room as the decorating bug seized my mother-magnolia walls and beige carpets replaced the bright colours .
Later, when she moved house green became her favourite colour .
It's my favourite colour too .

Gingster Wed 15-Jul-26 07:43:31

Grandma and grannys houses were both dark brown,and ours seemed quite modern in comparison.,
Embossed cream wallpaper, red fabric seated sofa and armchairs which were so cosy to curl up on.
Swirly patterned carpets and diamond patterned Lino in the kitchen .

I remember the sun shining in and a happy , atmosphere.

Mamie Wed 15-Jul-26 07:47:25

Green and cream. Very 1930s, but still around in the 50s in our home.

M0nica Wed 15-Jul-26 07:49:34

21 homes by the time I was 21 (forces family). A childhood lived in army quarters or hirings, so probably magnolia.

Oreo Wed 15-Jul-26 09:35:11

Have been giving this subject a lot of thought this morning 😄as so many of you recall so much furnishings.I honestly can’t remember much at all, not even about my own room let alone the living room, called the front room at the time.
I do recall that wooden furniture was dark and that it was all inherited so massive wardrobes and downstairs a strange dark sideboard thing that also had an oval mirror and wooden surround on it, probably all Victorian.
We moved house when I was around 7 but before that I vaguely remember a three piece suite which was burgundy in colour with a small cream pattern on it, but that may have been left behind or sold or given away later.
After much memory searching the sofa and chairs in the front room of the house we moved to was more modern looking like a tweed pattern and a bit bobbly, moquette? Not sure that’s the right spelling.And that, surprisingly is all I remember of my childhood homes😲
Either others have marvellous memories or children/ teenagers didn’t think a lot about the homes they lived in.

Witzend Wed 15-Jul-26 09:49:50

‘Porridge’ coloured wallpaper everywhere, and brown paint. That was in the house we moved to in 1959. My folks didn’t waste much time getting rid of the ‘porridge’ and brown!