80s Decor

Wearing stone-washed jeans, big hair and a pastel cardigan with a lace collar, you stood in the middle of your lovely room and admired the:

 

Flowery wallpaper and flowery dado strip

Chintz and stripes

Stencils

Pleated coolie-hat lampshades

Swagged pelmets

Tart's knicker blinds

Collectibles

Dried flowers

Miniature straw hats hung on the wall

Corn dollies

Pine, pine, pine

Art involving poppies and wheat

Navy/jade/burgundy/ochre tiles

Plastic tablecloths with kilim print

Palm-tree art

Carpet with diagonal pink and jade splashes (on grey)

Ceiling with diagonal boards.

Bathroom with diagonal tiles.

Mirrors featured largely, and prints by Patrick Nagel. On your glass/bamboo/chrome coffee table was a fibre-optic lamp or a lamp with a hand holding a globe.

The 90s obliterated all this in favour of chrome yellow with French blue, and lilac with mint. Heavy wood furniture and check curtains went with the first; muslin curtains and wrought-iron furniture with the second. And there was a rash of swirly designs with that hand-painted look.

More 80s decor here.