A Room Divided

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I've never been more repulsed and oddly attracted to something at the same time, I must have had a relative with these in their apartment because they give me deja vu. It's like having a shower door right in your living room!

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[SlipperyLilSuckers]

Oh bottle glass. Yet another revolting memory from the 70's...how did I survive them

[Rallygirl]

While working at our church cleanup day last year, I found a panel of the cool stuff with yellow circles. It was laying flat under the floor of a storage shed. A little more research brought to to light the fact that this cool panel had once been installed in the church narthex. Of all the wonderful things I have missed throughout my life, I think seeing that panel in a church ranks pretty close to the top!

Even in the excitment of finding the panel, it still looked oddly familiar. Then it hit me,...I have a friend who has it in her home. She is ashamed of her house, a 1973 mobile home. I think is a wonderful step back into the wacky, tacky 70's and I think she should emphasize that! Her house has avacado appliances in the kitchen, a pleather covered bar with a shingled overhang above it, and she has these cool panels. There is a yellow panel that divides the shower stall from the main part of the bathroom. This same plastic is also found in the decorative cabinet inserts and in the living room ceiling lights!

I don't think she was real impressed when I showed up at her house with a huge sheet of the stuff! But is was truely an act of love! I would love to restore her trailer to it's former glory!

[Wee67]

I don't think she was real impressed when I showed up at her house with a huge sheet of the stuff! But is was truely an act of love! I would love to restore her trailer to it's former glory!

The only was to beat is to embrace it!


I am curious, however, if each divider causes its own, specific seizure.

[palitoy]

I don't think she was real impressed when I showed up at her house with a huge sheet of the stuff! But is was truely an act of love! I would love to restore her trailer to it's former glory!

Oh man, that is something I struggled with in my own home, I kept the wood panelling and shag for years in the downstairs. I dreamed of redoing it all, finally the wife won out and we went all tasteful.

I still have the wood panelling in my toy room and am considering shag.

[Rallygirl]

Oh man, that is something I struggled with in my own home, I kept the wood panelling and shag for years in the downstairs. I dreamed of redoing it all, finally the wife won out and we went all tasteful.

I still have the wood panelling in my toy room and am considering shag.

Before I met my husband, who is a new house guy all the way, I lived in a wonderfully outdated house.

My entryway had one of those lights that was nothing but a fused ball of yellow, red & orange plastic. My kitchen appliances were orange & brown, which went nicely with the brown plaid carpet and gold-flecked formica countertop. My living room had paneling on the walls, wooden beams on the ceiling and orange shag on the floor. But it was my bedroom that was the pièce de résistance. Green shag, string art owls on the lime walls, beaded curtain closets and an orange gas fireplace tucked in the corner. I wanted to keep it just as I found it.

However a year after I moved in, a fierce windstorm tore part of my roof off and necessitated some major remodeling. I was crushed! My house may have been cheap and ugly, but by golly, it had character! Now hubby and I live in a big, plain, beige, box that looks just like every one on the street. Sigh.

[Earth 2 Chris]

Oh man, that is something I struggled with in my own home, I kept the wood panelling and shag for years in the downstairs. I dreamed of redoing it all, finally the wife won out and we went all tasteful.

I still have the wood panelling in my toy room and am considering shag.

Several of the rooms in our house still have wood paneling. We have been slowly changing things in the house, mostly on the outside, but we really need to redecorate the interior. But even though the paneling is outdated, it doesn't bother me much. I guess I find it comforting since my parent's house was covered in it!

Chris

[toys2cool]

don't like those at all

[Adam West]

Hey, shag is back! It goes by a different name now, frizzey or something like that but it essentially a form of shag carpet with a different fancier name.

Those room dividers look like something from the 1800's that women would go behind to change their garments.

[DocDrako]

I love them. I wish I had the first one for my "pad".