Grandma Core style vs. Boomer Core Style

[Anonymous]

It’s millennials’ grandmothers, but fictional. Boomers are their mothers.

[Anonymous]

The only boomer decorating era I care about is Tuscan kitchens with roosters and maybe those pigs with hats.

[Anonymous]

My mother completely redecorated in the 80s. Every house and vacation condo she owned was given the same treatment. Custom upholstery with floral patterns to match the custom drapes, large floral wall paper, green carpet or white carpet, pickled oak cabinets that looked pinkish with dark green marble counters, fancy window treatments, dark wood Georgian court Ethan Allan furniture everywhere, curio cabinets mixing random crystal, figurines and actually valuable glass, a collection of Limoges, collection of crystal bells (why?), grandfather clocks, a bar area stocked with more crystal ….in spaces for my father it was ducks everywhere, wooden decoy ducks, little ducks on the wallpaper, big leather couches and big leather chairs, pine green carpet. To me this is the 80s.

The Tuscan stuff was more in the early 90s so younger boomers. I hate this too. No one thinks you are in Tuscany and the dark yellowish beiges just look like aged paper.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every Boomer house I've been in is stuffed to the gills with just crap. DVDs, unused china and crystal, board games from 30 years ago, boxes of unsorted photos and jumbled negatives, cabinets full of expired RXs...certainly aspirational.

Hahaha, you will too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My mother completely redecorated in the 80s. Every house and vacation condo she owned was given the same treatment. Custom upholstery with floral patterns to match the custom drapes, large floral wall paper, green carpet or white carpet, pickled oak cabinets that looked pinkish with dark green marble counters, fancy window treatments, dark wood Georgian court Ethan Allan furniture everywhere, curio cabinets mixing random crystal, figurines and actually valuable glass, a collection of Limoges, collection of crystal bells (why?), grandfather clocks, a bar area stocked with more crystal ….in spaces for my father it was ducks everywhere, wooden decoy ducks, little ducks on the wallpaper, big leather couches and big leather chairs, pine green carpet. To me this is the 80s.

The Tuscan stuff was more in the early 90s so younger boomers. I hate this too. No one thinks you are in Tuscany and the dark yellowish beiges just look like aged paper.

This is an excellent description of WASP decorating in the 1980s. Takes me back!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grandma is the style of the boomer's mothers (the grandmothers of Gen X). All lace doilies and such, sort of like cottage core.

I haven't heard of boomer core before. Boomers were decorating homes mostly in the 60's - 80's, so I'm not sure which decade that would draw from.

Either way it's brown, green and orange

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every Boomer house I've been in is stuffed to the gills with just crap. DVDs, unused china and crystal, board games from 30 years ago, boxes of unsorted photos and jumbled negatives, cabinets full of expired RXs...certainly aspirational.

Your social circle is very limited.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What is the difference? Is the nostalgia the same esthetic?

Grandmacore style -

https://simplysoutherncottage.com/2024/07/07/grandmacore-style-is-in-heres-why/

Boomercore style -

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Grandma is the style of the boomer's mothers (the grandmothers of Gen X). All lace doilies and such, sort of like cottage core.

I haven't heard of boomer core before. Boomers were decorating homes mostly in the 60's - 80's, so I'm not sure which decade that would draw from.

I think your timing is off. I’m a boomer and was BORN in the 60s. Maybe I was decorating Barbie’s dream house? My silent gen parents were maybe decorating a house but not really until the 70s because we were in an apartment before then. Even in the 80s I was just out of grad school and in an apartment with basic furniture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What is the difference? Is the nostalgia the same esthetic?

Grandmacore style -

https://simplysoutherncottage.com/2024/07/07/grandmacore-style-is-in-heres-why/

Boomercore style -

Grandma core looks more Silent Gen.

[Anonymous]

wut?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grandma is the style of the boomer's mothers (the grandmothers of Gen X). All lace doilies and such, sort of like cottage core.

I haven't heard of boomer core before. Boomers were decorating homes mostly in the 60's - 80's, so I'm not sure which decade that would draw from.

I think your timing is off. I’m a boomer and was BORN in the 60s. Maybe I was decorating Barbie’s dream house? My silent gen parents were maybe decorating a house but not really until the 70s because we were in an apartment before then. Even in the 80s I was just out of grad school and in an apartment with basic furniture.

This. Boomerd didn’t have houses and money to decorate with until mid-80s to aughts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Grandma is the style of the boomer's mothers (the grandmothers of Gen X). All lace doilies and such, sort of like cottage core.

I haven't heard of boomer core before. Boomers were decorating homes mostly in the 60's - 80's, so I'm not sure which decade that would draw from.

I think your timing is off. I’m a boomer and was BORN in the 60s. Maybe I was decorating Barbie’s dream house? My silent gen parents were maybe decorating a house but not really until the 70s because we were in an apartment before then. Even in the 80s I was just out of grad school and in an apartment with basic furniture.

Same here. I'm on the tail end of being a boomer and got a starter home around 1990 and just used whatever I had to decorate.

Then we built a home in 2001 that was my first real decorating project. I loved mixing fabrics and using Oil Rubbed Bronze fixtures.

Now my retirement house has a natural stone fireplace, huge vertical windows in every room and I am thrilled to have not one cloth valance or curtain. We're on a few acres in the woods, so we don't even worry about blinds, except for a few rooms. It's a lodge feel with wood beams across the ceiling that I let do the "decorating".

So I wasn't really decorating in the 80s and I don't think I have Boomer style. I hate those curio cabinets with a hundred trinkets that people bought for $20-$50 each because they didn't know what else to get Grandma/Mom for a gift. When I see them in someone's home, I picture all those items going in a box to Goodwill to be sold for $5 after the person dies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My mother completely redecorated in the 80s. Every house and vacation condo she owned was given the same treatment. Custom upholstery with floral patterns to match the custom drapes, large floral wall paper, green carpet or white carpet, pickled oak cabinets that looked pinkish with dark green marble counters, fancy window treatments, dark wood Georgian court Ethan Allan furniture everywhere, curio cabinets mixing random crystal, figurines and actually valuable glass, a collection of Limoges, collection of crystal bells (why?), grandfather clocks, a bar area stocked with more crystal ….in spaces for my father it was ducks everywhere, wooden decoy ducks, little ducks on the wallpaper, big leather couches and big leather chairs, pine green carpet. To me this is the 80s.

The Tuscan stuff was more in the early 90s so younger boomers. I hate this too. No one thinks you are in Tuscany and the dark yellowish beiges just look like aged paper.

This is an excellent description of WASP decorating in the 1980s. Takes me back!

This was spot on! i chuckled as this is the way my parents decorated when they remodeled in the early 90s.

[Anonymous]

The person above gets it. That is peak aspirational boomer.
My mom and dad still have their nautical decor. Ships wheel clock, heron wall art, lamp made out of a boat lantern, end table with rope wrapped around the base, ducks ducks ducks. They haven't lived near water since 1995.