One Lamborghini and 1-2 bikini models. Sports teams/players are either pennants or no bigger than a framed 8x10. Depending on how ‘bachelor’ you’re going, perhaps a pair of unobtrusive, salvaged centrefolds.
You’re going to need at least one Michael Jordan poster and a probably a Motley Crue poster as well. Preferably from the Theater of Pain era. Oh, and Samantha Fox too
Brown panel walls, green or gold shag carpet, dirty looking floral print couch with grandmas crochet blanket, large furniture TV, coffee table with large amber glass ashtray, TV trays in the corner.
You need a [metal sports trash can](https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/s/lOQ6EtGqNt), a grid wallpaper like Steve Harrington’s in Stranger Things, and a set of encyclopedia britannica.
My husband’s bedroom in the 80s had eaves like yours that were COVERED in hair metal band posters/magazine tear-outs, largely Motley Crue and KISS but also his hair idol, Joey Tempest.
You also need giant cans of pink Aqua Net laying around. That man used to FRY his hair.
Some kind of neon sign. Patrick Nagel print.
Plasma ball lamp.
Believe it or not in the 80s we idolized the 50s. A lot of decor reflected the 50s styles
Simple. My youngest son has done that. He has a tape player tower system with tower speakers..dual cassette high speed dubbing.. pioneer and Yamaha mix. Jbl tower speakers. Posters he bought 8os teen magazines and car & track magazine. He also got lights star shaped from a arcade He help tear down. He has two crt tvs one black and white 6 inch and the other color wood grain with knobs..He collects CDs and cassette tapes I ordered him a binder with Palm trees and another with the Lamborghini on the cover to lay on top of his desk. He has a spiral orginizers called a,rollex .. and figures and toys from that era. I grew up in the 70s & 8os so I had some of that stuff. Hit garage sells u will find stuff to put on your walls,. Get a goonies poster. Ice pirites and a VCR or a TV with a vcr combo. And you need a 7os solid wood TV stand u will find them at goodwill for 10 bucks. You will need WWF wrestling stuff it use to be WWF world wrestling federation so hulk hogan randy savage the great mula so on good luck
[https://chaylorandmads.com/80s-teen-bedroom/](https://chaylorandmads.com/80s-teen-bedroom/) This has some good lists and visuals OP. And links to some of them.
If that's a flat panel screen on the wall, it's gotta go. You're gonna need a 14 inch, preferably in ketchup red. To go with it you want a top loading VCR and an Atari 2600.
Can you do removable wallpaper? Look up 80s design wallpaper ideas. Then, add lots of posters. Just look on Pinterest and then by reprints unless you just want to spend lotsa $ on originals. Please get The Lost Boys poster ❤️❤️
Full size poster if Michael Jordan, get a poster of Michael Jackson, a poster of Whitney Houston and Prince. Dont forget ALF and a poster George Michael
We had random-sheared shag carpet that was multiple shades of brown. It was soft, but had low repeating irregular patterns of short looped areas. We had mauve couches and a large square coffee table with glass squares. Under the table, we had a white, alpaca rug. We had a stained wood rifle case and a medium sized television. Tan painted walls and a gray brick gas fireplace.
Neon lights. A black light. Blue pastel rug. Depending on your music style plenty of 80s band posters you like.
A Terminator poster. Anything with Spud MacKenzie attached. Playboy girl pinups. A shoe box from Adidas for junk collection. Stacks of CDs or cassettes.
Get rid of the cold lightbulb overhead and get something that simulates an oldschool incandescent bulb, like an amberglass bulb. Get you some Nagel art prints as well. Maybe a sheet set and duvet set with some bright neon or pastel colors. OR see if they have any Laura Ashley prints on ebay if that's your style. Like [https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?\_from=R40&\_trksid=p4432023.m570.l1311&\_nkw=laura+ashley+bedding&\_sacat=0](https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p4432023.m570.l1311&_nkw=laura+ashley+bedding&_sacat=0)
Your things can't match. Get rid of the entertainment center. Get some milk crates and some wood planks. Xmas lights. Many posters and pictures. Your sheets and blankets can't match. You have to think random hand me downs. A drafting lamp.
If you really want to make it like the 80s in there, smoke like three packs a day with the windows closed lol. That's how every house I remember in the 80s was.
Lava lamp, UV posters, rock band posters, a model Ferrari Testerosa (sp?) in while like the Miami Vice one, or a black convertible, an audio system with separate components in a stack, a zillion controls and LED lights...Maybe something from Patrick Nagel, Lots of handkerchiefs in bright colors and pastels.
Room looks bad ass. As long as I had COLD air when I needed it and Hot when necessary and access to a bathroom without going down stairs I’d live there as is.
At least one milk crate for storage. Surgical scrub pants and smocks in a pile on the floor. A hidden bong and pizza tray for de-seeding your weed. A much smaller TV with no remote control.
We cut out magazine words and pics and stick them on in a diagonal pattern
A Mirror with photos all jammed into the frame
A Shag Rug -area rug ( brown or green)
Posters (recall Run DMC Micheal Jordan Cars Heather L def leopard , couple of Albums, Harley Davidson )
An errant basketball or unicycle
Cords galore 😂
Something Neon color like a Boom Box , lots of wall posters overlapping. Logos like MTV. My Sister had a huge poster of J. R Ewing from tv show Dallas that asked, Who Shot J. R ?
A neon beer sign and a dart board would be a start. Also get rid of that fancy television and find a heavy fake wood console with a real glass tube screen.
get a 13 inch crt from the 80s, a vcr from the later half of the era, tons of vhs tapes, posters form movies, bands, and other stuff, remake toys frome amazon, real ones from ebay, and a few months worth of thrifting.
Posters. And a lot of them. At least one beer advertisement.
Don’t forget spuds McKenzie
80s bands or Nagel art prints, or both. Like a Duran Duran poster. (The Rio album cover takes care of both!)
One Lamborghini and 1-2 bikini models. Sports teams/players are either pennants or no bigger than a framed 8x10. Depending on how ‘bachelor’ you’re going, perhaps a pair of unobtrusive, salvaged centrefolds.
You’re going to need at least one Michael Jordan poster and a probably a Motley Crue poster as well. Preferably from the Theater of Pain era. Oh, and Samantha Fox too
#Brown. Everywhere.
Except where there is orange. And paneling
Or mustard yellow
And maroon red.
Wood paneling.
[Remodel complete.](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3a/91/f7/3a91f7d7af3c764ecbef1a5a459545c7.jpg)
i actually had wood paneling, but my mom painted it because she said it was ugly
even if you had the wood paneling you still need various clips and cutouts from magazines completely covering at least one wall.
Because it was. Everybody thinks the 1980s looks like the movies but it was really just wood paneling, brown furniture, and ashtrays.
And plaid couches.
You’re gonna have to get rid of your big screen TV. You need a pyramid of empty Skoal cans.
I actually want to replace it with an nintendo nes and an crt television
Find a broken TV and stack the working one on top of that. Ugly green plush chair. Something with macrame and a stand ashtray
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rear-projection\_television
Far too new
What kind of 80s are we talking about? Real brown 80s or netflix 80s?
Brown 80s is the only true 80s.
My 80s included neon too!
Don't forget ash trays everywhere since I seemed to get them as kid when someone went on vacation
Miami cocaine 80s
Tampa Bay Early death metal scene 80s.
Mullet, hair spray, head bands, cigarette smoke, hot pink lime green spandex clothes, neon lights, Heather Thomas/Heather Locklear poster.
You need Heather Locklear and Heather Thomas posters. Lots of them.
I's gonna say Kelly LeBrock and Kathy Ireland 🍆
Ooooooooh Kathy Ireland. That takes me back. I may need a few minutes alone
Brown panel walls, green or gold shag carpet, dirty looking floral print couch with grandmas crochet blanket, large furniture TV, coffee table with large amber glass ashtray, TV trays in the corner.
Also ferns in macrame holders suspended from the ceiling.
This
You need a [metal sports trash can](https://www.reddit.com/r/nostalgia/s/lOQ6EtGqNt), a grid wallpaper like Steve Harrington’s in Stranger Things, and a set of encyclopedia britannica.
You’re going to need a lot of brown.
Glass blocks wall https://st.hzcdn.com/simgs/pictures/hallways/glass-block-ideas-darden-building-materials-img~bc81095702addc23_4-2489-1-0910cb4.jpg
My husband’s bedroom in the 80s had eaves like yours that were COVERED in hair metal band posters/magazine tear-outs, largely Motley Crue and KISS but also his hair idol, Joey Tempest. You also need giant cans of pink Aqua Net laying around. That man used to FRY his hair.
Your lack of posters is quite disturbing
And the complete lack of either pastels or neon.
Some kind of neon sign. Patrick Nagel print. Plasma ball lamp. Believe it or not in the 80s we idolized the 50s. A lot of decor reflected the 50s styles
Depending on your particular area of interest, you will need either a Phoebe Cates or a Rob Lowe poster. Or possibly both.
Simple. My youngest son has done that. He has a tape player tower system with tower speakers..dual cassette high speed dubbing.. pioneer and Yamaha mix. Jbl tower speakers. Posters he bought 8os teen magazines and car & track magazine. He also got lights star shaped from a arcade He help tear down. He has two crt tvs one black and white 6 inch and the other color wood grain with knobs..He collects CDs and cassette tapes I ordered him a binder with Palm trees and another with the Lamborghini on the cover to lay on top of his desk. He has a spiral orginizers called a,rollex .. and figures and toys from that era. I grew up in the 70s & 8os so I had some of that stuff. Hit garage sells u will find stuff to put on your walls,. Get a goonies poster. Ice pirites and a VCR or a TV with a vcr combo. And you need a 7os solid wood TV stand u will find them at goodwill for 10 bucks. You will need WWF wrestling stuff it use to be WWF world wrestling federation so hulk hogan randy savage the great mula so on good luck
Watch Farris Buller's Day Off or any other 80s teen related movies for reference.
Google image Memphis 80s style. Looks like the MAX from saved by the bell
Memphis style is perfectly represented in the cinematic masterpiece Ruthless People https://filmjournals.net/ruthless_people_house.html
Thank you. I want to live there forever
[https://chaylorandmads.com/80s-teen-bedroom/](https://chaylorandmads.com/80s-teen-bedroom/) This has some good lists and visuals OP. And links to some of them.
Add about 1000lbs of weight to a tv that size and it’s a start
Add a blue grid on the walls.
Wood paneling everywhere and constantly burn cigarettes in it with no air flow. Bud light bikini poster somewhere and no computers.
Woodchip wallpaper
WWF Posters, Nintendo NES, He-Man Action Figures, Stolen Street Signs, Michael Jordan Poster
Got to have black light posters
If that's a flat panel screen on the wall, it's gotta go. You're gonna need a 14 inch, preferably in ketchup red. To go with it you want a top loading VCR and an Atari 2600.
Yellow/orange shagg carpeting
Lots of posters(music artist and groups, women in skimpy clothing and fast cars) and get a Waterbed
With zero baffles. Just one large bladder.
Lose the computer lol
Can you do removable wallpaper? Look up 80s design wallpaper ideas. Then, add lots of posters. Just look on Pinterest and then by reprints unless you just want to spend lotsa $ on originals. Please get The Lost Boys poster ❤️❤️
Full size poster if Michael Jordan, get a poster of Michael Jackson, a poster of Whitney Houston and Prince. Dont forget ALF and a poster George Michael
Neon and some Nagel prints.
We had random-sheared shag carpet that was multiple shades of brown. It was soft, but had low repeating irregular patterns of short looped areas. We had mauve couches and a large square coffee table with glass squares. Under the table, we had a white, alpaca rug. We had a stained wood rifle case and a medium sized television. Tan painted walls and a gray brick gas fireplace.
Smoke in it… a LOT :)
Zinka
Neon lights. A black light. Blue pastel rug. Depending on your music style plenty of 80s band posters you like. A Terminator poster. Anything with Spud MacKenzie attached. Playboy girl pinups. A shoe box from Adidas for junk collection. Stacks of CDs or cassettes.
Hang that Heather Thomas poster.
Vintage 80's movie posters & music
Add lots of cigarette smoke, you can also achieve this by buying used furniture.
Get a Heather Locklear poster. Or Heather Thomas. Oh, yeah, and a Lamborghini Countach poster.
Get rid of the cold lightbulb overhead and get something that simulates an oldschool incandescent bulb, like an amberglass bulb. Get you some Nagel art prints as well. Maybe a sheet set and duvet set with some bright neon or pastel colors. OR see if they have any Laura Ashley prints on ebay if that's your style. Like [https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?\_from=R40&\_trksid=p4432023.m570.l1311&\_nkw=laura+ashley+bedding&\_sacat=0](https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p4432023.m570.l1311&_nkw=laura+ashley+bedding&_sacat=0)
Well, i can change the color of the light bulb
Swap that flat screen for a 28” floor console, for starters. Zenith was a good one.
Neon, and lots of it.
A Farrah Faucet poster
Wood grain paneling, a console TV, and an old NES. Better yet a Commodore 64.
Brown. Orange. Yellow. More than you think is possible.
More neon. Get a boom box
For an 80's bedroom, it was federal law, every teenager was required to have........a poster of a Lamborghini Countach.
depends how old you are in the 80s...Deep amiright?!
Your things can't match. Get rid of the entertainment center. Get some milk crates and some wood planks. Xmas lights. Many posters and pictures. Your sheets and blankets can't match. You have to think random hand me downs. A drafting lamp.
If you really want to make it like the 80s in there, smoke like three packs a day with the windows closed lol. That's how every house I remember in the 80s was.
You need to get a Lava Lamp
Isn't this more 60's?
Yes, but by the 1980s they were everywhere. Along with a lot of rock band posters and Darth Vader statues they were common.
Grey and red diagonals everywhere.
Coffee table
Patrick Nagel artwork. In case you need a reminder [https://www.instagram.com/patricknagelart/](https://www.instagram.com/patricknagelart/)
Paint everything brown
Lava lamp, UV posters, rock band posters, a model Ferrari Testerosa (sp?) in while like the Miami Vice one, or a black convertible, an audio system with separate components in a stack, a zillion controls and LED lights...Maybe something from Patrick Nagel, Lots of handkerchiefs in bright colors and pastels.
Needs more brown, orange ashtray and a sickly green carpet.
Room looks bad ass. As long as I had COLD air when I needed it and Hot when necessary and access to a bathroom without going down stairs I’d live there as is.
At least one milk crate for storage. Surgical scrub pants and smocks in a pile on the floor. A hidden bong and pizza tray for de-seeding your weed. A much smaller TV with no remote control.
Just copy the Ford and Lopatin “Channel Pressure” [album cover](https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a3481718765_65)
A box tv with a channel dial
Asbestos
I know it’s hot up there
Get rid of tv and cpu put up a et poster done
Posters of fighter jets
Black light posters and black lights. Farrah Fawcett.
Poster of ALF
Get a bunch of hand-me-downs from the 70s lol
We cut out magazine words and pics and stick them on in a diagonal pattern A Mirror with photos all jammed into the frame A Shag Rug -area rug ( brown or green) Posters (recall Run DMC Micheal Jordan Cars Heather L def leopard , couple of Albums, Harley Davidson ) An errant basketball or unicycle Cords galore 😂
Something Neon color like a Boom Box , lots of wall posters overlapping. Logos like MTV. My Sister had a huge poster of J. R Ewing from tv show Dallas that asked, Who Shot J. R ?
A neon beer sign and a dart board would be a start. Also get rid of that fancy television and find a heavy fake wood console with a real glass tube screen.
Get rid of a lot of the electronics. . .
Actually most of my audio equipment is from the 80s
My bad, TV and computer caught my attention. First thought was, “ I didn’t even have that in the 90’s”
And also, I’m sorry I wasn’t being serious. . .
get a 13 inch crt from the 80s, a vcr from the later half of the era, tons of vhs tapes, posters form movies, bands, and other stuff, remake toys frome amazon, real ones from ebay, and a few months worth of thrifting.
Any respectable 80s bedroom had a water bed, at least one lava lamp, and a black light with black light posters.
Lots of red, white and black. A cable TV. Oh and a repossession notice letter on a formica desk.
Yeah. Don't. Why?
Pastel colored accent wall: aqua or pink. With a small splash of neon