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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.  [/quote]

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. [/quote]
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.[/quote]

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