Grandma Core style vs. Boomer Core Style

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Anonymous wrote:Yes floral wall paper with large blooms is back on trend but it’s not the same look. I don’t have it but it’s usually done in a room with minimal other stuff.

I posted above describing my mother’s decorating. It wasn’t just the wallpaper, it was the couch, throw pillows, curtains and all the furniture. There had to be specific objects of decor on every table and there was an end table or side table next to every seat. A wall couldn’t be blank. There had to be a painting or print or a picture matt that picked an accent color. It wasn’t just visually overwhelming but overly composed for no apparent purpose other than to display stuff that was acquired to be displayed.

Some people do genuinely like that stuff. My (boomer - born 1946!) parents adored expensive glass. They'd visit Corning every few years and come home with beautiful vases, paperweights, sculptures, you name it. It's all in their curio cabinet - which however is a sleek light wood Danish design, not dark wood - and I have no idea what to do with all of it when my dad passes. I'm sure I'll keep a couple pieces that I particularly like, but I prefer paintings of trees and winter over glass and sculpture, so I won't have a use for most of them. Plus there have to be at least 50 pieces in there.

Other than the glass and curio cabinet my parents were not huge decorators, no throw pillows, sleek Danish couches. They did have curtains that were there when we moved into the house in 1989 and were never opened nor washed until my dad's new girlfriend got hold of them last year. But my dad 100% has allllll the boxes of crap. Records, books, CDs, tapes, DVDS, old junk ... all of it.

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Anonymous wrote:I think certain boomer elements will see a revival soon, like glass block windows and round furniture. Look up the "Weekend at Bernie's" house. That's what every Boomer wanted at 30. In their 40s they moved on to ersatz Tuscan.

The PoMo Miami Vice look might have had a fringe fan base in Todd and Margo, but that's not how most people were decorating their homes in '89. Movie houses with decor my parents aspired to included the Father of the Bride house (Nancy Meyers ftw), the Home Alone house, and the house from Uncle Buck. Just pick a home from any movie starring a Culkin child, and that is peak aspirational Boomer.

I was in high school when "Father of the Bride" came out. I loved that house then and I still love it now.