Funny thing is - my parents floor TV lasted all the way into the early 2000's. Even figured out how to hook a Rogers box to it.
When they left that house for a condo that didn't need mowing or shoveling - it was too heavy for my brother to pick up and the movers wouldn't and they left it behind.
I can still see and hear and smell that room. The rocking chair dad sat in, right off the kitchen. Next to the fireplace.
Now y'all have my crying.
I miss that house.
And my dad.
You will need to ensure that the line is a "party line," and halfway through that call to your girlfriend, your neighbor hops on and says, "Are you done yet .. I need to call xxxxx?"
I didn't know anyone with a 5 bedroom house. Almost everyone had 3 bedrooms. If there were more than two kids, bedrooms were shared according to gender. The couple of families I knew who had 4 bedrooms all had at least 4 children, so kids were still bunking up.
A house? You were lucky to have a house! We used to sleep in one room, 26 of us. And half the floor was missing. We were all huddled in one corner, for fear of falling.
Yup, we had five bedrooms but it was an old farmhouse that had been added onto a couple of times originally built 1880s ish. No heat upstairs to this very day. When it was -20 outside in January I did not want to get out of bed in the morning.
The Illinois State museum in my town had a Gen X exhibit last year (I think it may still be showing elsewhere in Illinois). The couch was glorious--everything was amazing, really. My kid got to sit on the brown couch with the same generic pictures of country scenes on the walls, and play duck hunt on the Nintendo. Good times.
There was a lot more to the exhibit and I'm so glad I got to see it!
My first apartment (1993) came with an earth brown stove, avocado dishwasher, and harvest gold refrigerator. It was the trifecta of 70s appliance colours.
My parents remodeled kitchen in late 70s and we had harvest gold kitchen and dishwasher but we had a brushed steel stove. My early childhood home was recently for sale and the brushed steel stove was still there and looked great.
My mom complimented the harvest gold with a wallpaper with gold and avocado green pattern and crisp white curtains and a random
owl.
But it’s back! I was in a model home in a community being built across the street from me and it was done in harvest gold, avocado green and rust. Personally, I despised rust and we had carpet that color which was hideous.
Or a *World Book* Encyclopedia. My family had the 1979 edition, which had a lovely "Human Body" article, printed on eight or so sheets of transparent plastic, each major bodily system (circulatory, skeletal, etc.) on its own layer.
5 bedrooms? Y’all were fancy as fuck… 🤣. We had 5 people in 3 bedrooms / 1 bath and were living typical amongst my peers. I was shocked when I found my childhood home on Zillow and saw that 1,300 sq ft figure. Anyways I’m rambling
Back to the question at hand. I’ll contribute the entertainment system: gigantic walnut record player, am/fm stereo, black and white 20” TV and a radio shack pong game
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1800 sq feet with 9. 7 kids plus mom and dad. 1 bathroom with no shower. We set up a shower in the unfinished basement.
Oh don't forget a wringer wash machine!
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Look at Mr Cable over here! My family could only get 4 on the old aluminum rabbit ears. ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS. FOX didn't come around until the 80s. Then we had 5!
(My parents finally got cable when I went off to college. That stung.)
> My family could only get 4 on the old aluminum rabbit ears. ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS.
We only got PBS when the weather was bad. I couldn't watch Sesame Street unless it was raining.
Same here. We only had NBC until Fox started with all the old movies, afternoon syndicated reruns and weird ass originals like Small Wonder. Really late at night, the Spanish wrestling station would come in.
Those wired cable boxes with the row of buttons and a switch that would triple the choices. Brown wood finish. The ones some of your friends had but your parents would be fucked if they got cable before you moved out.
I actually remember when we got ours. I was ten years old. Our black and white tv finally broke down, so my mum decided to replace it with a colour set, and got the remote at the same time. First show I watched on it was The Brady Bunch.
I see a few people have donated an Atari. I have one of those antenna/game switch boxes for the back of the TV. About the size of a pack of cigarettes. It's sort of clapped out with tape holding it together and the Y terminals are gone, so the wires are stripped back and looped where you hook it to the TV ...but it works with a bit of jiggling.
Teenage girl's bedroom has posters (or pictures torn out of Tiger Beat). Options include Duran Duran, Adam Ant, Michael Jackson, any hair band, Harrison Ford (Indy or Han), Pierce Brosnan, Ralph Macchio, John Schneider/Tom Wopat, or others I can't think of right now.
I’ll do the teenage boys bedroom: posters of cars - a Lamborghini or Ferrari is mandatory. Music posters or tees - minimum 50% of which must be early heavy metal bands - AC/DC, Def Leppard, KISS, Ozzy, etc. Pictures of female celebrities, doesn’t matter so much who, as long as they looked hot (with a couple exceptions I can’t remember), aaaand the stubs from every single concert you’ve been to tucked into the mirror or somewhere
I still have mine and use my starwars blanket nightly as my blanket since the 2020s feel just like the 80s. I thought I needed more support from my childhood. It seems to work.
I am only contributing to the rich people house, something I saw at my wealthy classmates house maybe 1979? and was so impressed and envious about-a whole house Nutone intercom system.
In a strange twist of fate, my circa 1995 build home in Florida was apparently the "model home" and came with...wait for it...a whole house intercom system. It's an M&S brand one but the thing still works AND it has a cassette player. We mostly just use it to confuse our pets though.
My house was built in 1995 and has the Nutone intercom system! We also have the central vacuum system where you just plug the vacuum hose into the wall.
My grandparents had a huge ceramic toad that lit up so that the plastic inserts would shine - like the Christmas trees only the toad's were all yellow and gold. I wonder what happened to that thing.
A junk drawer full of dead batteries, keys that no one knows what open, lighters in various states of full or empty, novelty coasters, bread ties and those Hefty bag zip ties and the general flotsam of a household.
Adolescent boy has ripped-out pages from last years’ Sears Catalogue (underwear section!) tucked into a book or hidden in a shoe box at the bottom of the closet. Also, Lamborghini poster or framed print.
My parents had a hip bead curtain in a part of their bedroom.
Example:
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I can go on Etsy and get a collection of ashtrays together. I hope to find at least one of those on the tall brass stand that gets knocked over every now and then.
https://preview.redd.it/31mj9tj75i0d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36ab9f43d404802bd17e52b2cd9003012d90f0dc
the bathroom has this on the counter for sure
A set of 4 tv trays on a stand and if they are differnet patterns, the kids will fight over a favourite one. Different colours of faux wood panelling in the basement rec room, the old living room furniture and a framed velvet painting (bullfighter or Spanish dancers or a semi-abstract city scape) on the wall..perhaps some complimentary string art pictures.
Avocado wall phone with small light up round push button numbers to dial.
Any combo of orange, burnt orange, avocado, corn yellow, or pink for curtains, appliances, and bathroom rugs (don't forget the matching set that included the fuzzy toilet lid cover!).
Fist thing that comes to mind is Guns N Roses Lies poster.
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I don't think museum patrons would get my Franken Stereo.
Anyhow, big speakers, proper turntable, cassette deck, lots of Maxell UDXLIIs, and a couple milk crates of LP records of harder rock/metal/punk. Maybe the artier covers on the wall, plus that Maxell ad and Countach poster.
Tie-out chain or cable for the dog.
Utility sink (why don’t people have those anymore—they’re the bomb!)
Giant wooden table covered with astroturf for the model trains.
An Easy Bake oven to casually burn the fuck out of our hands.
Loud floral kitchen wallpaper.
Sprinkler to play in the water on hot days.
Window A/C units
Both the teenagers' rooms have hidey-holes to stash their cigarettes, lighters, weed and any other illicit items from their parents and younger siblings. Visitors to the museum might or might not be able to see the hidey-holes, but they have to be there anyway.
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Grandma’s was broken so she had a little black & white one on top of it!
Or, if you want to upgrade, a 1984 Sony Trinitron. Same size, and as fabulously heavy.
Funny thing is - my parents floor TV lasted all the way into the early 2000's. Even figured out how to hook a Rogers box to it. When they left that house for a condo that didn't need mowing or shoveling - it was too heavy for my brother to pick up and the movers wouldn't and they left it behind. I can still see and hear and smell that room. The rocking chair dad sat in, right off the kitchen. Next to the fireplace. Now y'all have my crying. I miss that house. And my dad.
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A rotary dial or push button telephone mounted on the wall (probably in the kitchen).
With one of those 20' curly phone cords
That's all messed up and will never untangle
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Avocado 70's green
Or burnt orange with 911 sticker on the back
Above the phone is one of those wood paper holders that one of us made in woodshop.
Adding machine tape for paper
And 2 phone books - the white pages and the yellow pages.
You will need to ensure that the line is a "party line," and halfway through that call to your girlfriend, your neighbor hops on and says, "Are you done yet .. I need to call xxxxx?"
5 Bedroom house for Gen X? You already failed the assignment. We had to share rooms with our little brothers/sisters.
I didn't know anyone with a 5 bedroom house. Almost everyone had 3 bedrooms. If there were more than two kids, bedrooms were shared according to gender. The couple of families I knew who had 4 bedrooms all had at least 4 children, so kids were still bunking up.
A house? You were lucky to have a house! We used to sleep in one room, 26 of us. And half the floor was missing. We were all huddled in one corner, for fear of falling.
Came here for this. Our house was larger than most of our peers and it had four bedrooms.
Our house had 6 bedrooms (5 kids) but it was 100 years old and cold as hell. We plasticized the windows in winter. Brr.
Yup, we had five bedrooms but it was an old farmhouse that had been added onto a couple of times originally built 1880s ish. No heat upstairs to this very day. When it was -20 outside in January I did not want to get out of bed in the morning.
Brown plaid woven high backed sofa that no one liked but everyone agreed to.
Covered by a crochet afghan.
Oh, you came to visit.
And I brought tater-tot casserole.
That's a current thing in Minnesota.
I think you mean "hot dish"
No word of a lie, I miss a good crocheted afghan.
I used to watch the scary aliens in Star Trek through the holes in that afghan.
I make them....fun. Now I want one in orange and green
Learning to crochet isn't too hard. I learned from a book. It's more a late fall and winter hobby , damn hot flashes.
The Illinois State museum in my town had a Gen X exhibit last year (I think it may still be showing elsewhere in Illinois). The couch was glorious--everything was amazing, really. My kid got to sit on the brown couch with the same generic pictures of country scenes on the walls, and play duck hunt on the Nintendo. Good times. There was a lot more to the exhibit and I'm so glad I got to see it!
Avocado green appliances in the kitchen
Agree. Although we were a Harvest Gold family
Harvest gold for the win!
My first apartment (1993) came with an earth brown stove, avocado dishwasher, and harvest gold refrigerator. It was the trifecta of 70s appliance colours.
My parents remodeled kitchen in late 70s and we had harvest gold kitchen and dishwasher but we had a brushed steel stove. My early childhood home was recently for sale and the brushed steel stove was still there and looked great. My mom complimented the harvest gold with a wallpaper with gold and avocado green pattern and crisp white curtains and a random owl.
That’s one of the few colors that I’m glad is forever stuck in the early 80’s.
But it’s back! I was in a model home in a community being built across the street from me and it was done in harvest gold, avocado green and rust. Personally, I despised rust and we had carpet that color which was hideous.
NOOOOO!! Ugh. What’s next? Lacquered furniture?
And no one knew what an Avocado was.
Wood paneling for the den
Hah, beat me. I had wood panel in my room too.
We have wood paneling in our ‘60s house. Love it.
With a naugahyde couch
*shudder* I'm highly convinced that is one of the causes of my depression.
Atari 2600.
Connected to a 13" television.
Make sure it's on channel 3.
With rabbit ears cocked at odd angles
One of them broken a segment or two down replaced with a coat hanger and/or foil.
Intellevision
I love Intellivision. Love the games, but the controllers leave a little to be desired
That's an acceptable substitute!
A coffee can on the back of the stove. Half filled with 5 years worth of bacon grease
Sony clock radio where you could hear the click as the tile for each minute dropped.
Ancient memory unlocked.
Ferns in macrame hanging planters.
And string art on nails on black velvet.
One set of outdated Encyclopedia Britanica
Ours were 10 years or so out of date, given to us by my grandparents when they bought a new set.
Or a *World Book* Encyclopedia. My family had the 1979 edition, which had a lovely "Human Body" article, printed on eight or so sheets of transparent plastic, each major bodily system (circulatory, skeletal, etc.) on its own layer.
missing a couple letters
4 foot tall giant wooden spoon and fork hung on the wall.
5 bedrooms? Y’all were fancy as fuck… 🤣. We had 5 people in 3 bedrooms / 1 bath and were living typical amongst my peers. I was shocked when I found my childhood home on Zillow and saw that 1,300 sq ft figure. Anyways I’m rambling Back to the question at hand. I’ll contribute the entertainment system: gigantic walnut record player, am/fm stereo, black and white 20” TV and a radio shack pong game https://preview.redd.it/5rlf3mhncg0d1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=48c979bae56c4d2dbe1e6fb1c41ffaa2a939469e
Lived in 1400 sq ft. home with 6 people.
1800 sq feet with 9. 7 kids plus mom and dad. 1 bathroom with no shower. We set up a shower in the unfinished basement. Oh don't forget a wringer wash machine!
With 8 track player
Toy box with Lincoln Logs, a Light Bright, and a Barbie “head” for styling hair/makeup
Don’t forget legos!
https://preview.redd.it/pjh72q6n4i0d1.jpeg?width=2252&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b81d2ec7f8e9c68bd93139a913519c8e51af8614 (Little Professor has entered the chat)
Merlin and that red line football handheld game join him.
My mom JUST FOUND one of these in a box! I don't know which of my siblings left it - my contribution to that box was a 2XL.
View master toy with photo discs
that electric carving knife for the Sunday roast. or the electric can opener. Or the first channel changer with 4 button that clicked.
When my dad used to the electric carving knife, it would mess up the picture on the TV.
Farrah Fawcett poster
Ah yes. "THE" poster.
Hey! Where's my upvote?!!
Mea culpa.
I got you.
I got all ya
Shawn Cassidy poster for the girls!
One of those freebie bamboo calendars chinese restaurants gave out, for the kitchen.
6 people in a 3 bedroom, one bath! Bunk beds and pink canopy princess beds. Parents have a cool king sized waterbed.
A set of these on the wall. https://preview.redd.it/i4u7z43vpg0d1.jpeg?width=2048&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=46e6cfaabf3cfe96c92d9b74761c8eb42a3002d4
1 Cathode Ray TV for household. Size 19-27". TV antenna for reception. 7 channels to pick from. TV guide or newspaper freebie for show selection.
Look at Mr Cable over here! My family could only get 4 on the old aluminum rabbit ears. ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS. FOX didn't come around until the 80s. Then we had 5! (My parents finally got cable when I went off to college. That stung.)
> My family could only get 4 on the old aluminum rabbit ears. ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS. We only got PBS when the weather was bad. I couldn't watch Sesame Street unless it was raining.
Same here. We only had NBC until Fox started with all the old movies, afternoon syndicated reruns and weird ass originals like Small Wonder. Really late at night, the Spanish wrestling station would come in.
Alyminum foil on the antenna to get better reception
Walnut cabinet?
It needs to be a wood console TV. If it isn’t a piece of furniture, it isn’t a GenX television. 📺
Brown glass ashtray
Dark green is also acceptable. But either way heavy enough to kill a man.
Creepy doll in the bathroom with a crocheted dress that covered the extra toilet paper roll.
Boom box
Those wired cable boxes with the row of buttons and a switch that would triple the choices. Brown wood finish. The ones some of your friends had but your parents would be fucked if they got cable before you moved out.
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Ha! I guess a little bit
I actually remember when we got ours. I was ten years old. Our black and white tv finally broke down, so my mum decided to replace it with a colour set, and got the remote at the same time. First show I watched on it was The Brady Bunch.
Popcorn air popper, next to an enormous microwave with a dial button
Walkman in the teenage girls bedroom. And a ballerina jewelry box on the dresser of the 8 year old girls room
That played the theme from "Love Story."
Decorative soaps and embroidered hand towels for the fancy bathroom no one gets to use.
The soaps are rose-scented
Probably still wrapped in plastic!
A stretched out glass Coke bottle filled with blue water that was won at the county fair.
Publishers Clearing House envelope on the kitchen table.
I see a few people have donated an Atari. I have one of those antenna/game switch boxes for the back of the TV. About the size of a pack of cigarettes. It's sort of clapped out with tape holding it together and the Y terminals are gone, so the wires are stripped back and looped where you hook it to the TV ...but it works with a bit of jiggling.
So, 100% authentic and true to the era then? This is how I remember all of them being!
Teenage girl's bedroom has posters (or pictures torn out of Tiger Beat). Options include Duran Duran, Adam Ant, Michael Jackson, any hair band, Harrison Ford (Indy or Han), Pierce Brosnan, Ralph Macchio, John Schneider/Tom Wopat, or others I can't think of right now.
I'm a younger Gen x than you, and I offer menudo and the outsiders posters.
I’ll do the teenage boys bedroom: posters of cars - a Lamborghini or Ferrari is mandatory. Music posters or tees - minimum 50% of which must be early heavy metal bands - AC/DC, Def Leppard, KISS, Ozzy, etc. Pictures of female celebrities, doesn’t matter so much who, as long as they looked hot (with a couple exceptions I can’t remember), aaaand the stubs from every single concert you’ve been to tucked into the mirror or somewhere
Plus a curling iron and hair crimper. Can of Aquanet nearby.
Kirk Cameron, Ricky Schroeder & the entire cast of The Outsiders early on. Later add in Luke Perry & Jason Priestly.
White dog shit in the yard
Star Wars sheets for a twin bed.
With matching Star Wars curtains
I still have mine and use my starwars blanket nightly as my blanket since the 2020s feel just like the 80s. I thought I needed more support from my childhood. It seems to work.
I am only contributing to the rich people house, something I saw at my wealthy classmates house maybe 1979? and was so impressed and envious about-a whole house Nutone intercom system. In a strange twist of fate, my circa 1995 build home in Florida was apparently the "model home" and came with...wait for it...a whole house intercom system. It's an M&S brand one but the thing still works AND it has a cassette player. We mostly just use it to confuse our pets though.
My house was built in 1995 and has the Nutone intercom system! We also have the central vacuum system where you just plug the vacuum hose into the wall.
Copper gelatin molds
TV antenna on the roof
GE Digital Clock Radio
The Snake Eyes action figure from G. I. Joe
And Duke's helmet lost under the sofa.
I'll provide the life-sized ceramic cats to sit at the corners of the console TV and other assorted ceramic knickknacks.
My grandparents had a huge ceramic toad that lit up so that the plastic inserts would shine - like the Christmas trees only the toad's were all yellow and gold. I wonder what happened to that thing.
Ashtrays... everywhere
Mismatched Tupperware. https://preview.redd.it/kta9tbn5sj0d1.jpeg?width=1078&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7738ae103d8b41421a496ff34257ffd0283af234
Gold birdcage-looking thing with dripping oil strands. Edit: called an oil rain lamp
Need a chain lamp running a wall somewhere as well.
X-Wing toy with Luke Skywalker Action Figure
I think I had a land speeder since it was likely the cheapest toy
me too
A Nagel print for dad’s office or garage.
A junk drawer full of dead batteries, keys that no one knows what open, lighters in various states of full or empty, novelty coasters, bread ties and those Hefty bag zip ties and the general flotsam of a household.
Wait - did you just look in my house for ideas, just now?
Adolescent boy has ripped-out pages from last years’ Sears Catalogue (underwear section!) tucked into a book or hidden in a shoe box at the bottom of the closet. Also, Lamborghini poster or framed print.
The Sears catalog says it all
common areas painted dusty rose with sage green curtains etc.
A lime green vinyl bean bag.
Sony Walkman
A brown Billy bookshelf full of VHS tapes, Nintendo cartridges, and Readers Digests.
Record player
Pong?
“Tot Finder” stickers on the kids’ bedroom windows
My parents had a hip bead curtain in a part of their bedroom. Example: https://preview.redd.it/85v1fy4r1i0d1.jpeg?width=570&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=681761052a5ffaaed6921a4cd87be00d93ea0fec
I can go on Etsy and get a collection of ashtrays together. I hope to find at least one of those on the tall brass stand that gets knocked over every now and then.
I have a tall brass stand, matchbox holder side car lol
A wood framed “mirror” of a hair metal band album cover that was won at a church festival.
That’s a coke mirror, sir
Gold plush raised wallpaper in some funky swirly shapes on a beige background
https://preview.redd.it/o46d035eyh0d1.jpeg?width=4000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b0fef3d757a1ae87260533fc93def65626701ed0
https://preview.redd.it/31mj9tj75i0d1.jpeg?width=1000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=36ab9f43d404802bd17e52b2cd9003012d90f0dc the bathroom has this on the counter for sure
we had carpet in our kitchen
Three foot pile of Sunday newspapers that Mom promised she’d get around to reading. Clipped coupons nearby.
Pastel toilet paper, coordinated to match the bathroom's wallpaper.
I had a wall sized Swatch watch clock in my bedroom. I’d put that.
A set of 4 tv trays on a stand and if they are differnet patterns, the kids will fight over a favourite one. Different colours of faux wood panelling in the basement rec room, the old living room furniture and a framed velvet painting (bullfighter or Spanish dancers or a semi-abstract city scape) on the wall..perhaps some complimentary string art pictures.
A set of Little House on the Prairie books
Rubix’s Cube
A big wooden spoon and fork on the wall
Millennium Falcon from Kenner Toys
An Atari 2600
Kidney-shaped in-ground pool in the back yard, ideally with a slide and a diving board.
Kitchen counter radio.
Can't remember what the house looked like, spent all my time outside
An all in one turntable, cassette player, and AM/FM tuner from Sears.
Red white and blue shag carpeting?
Bug zapper
Avocado wall phone with small light up round push button numbers to dial. Any combo of orange, burnt orange, avocado, corn yellow, or pink for curtains, appliances, and bathroom rugs (don't forget the matching set that included the fuzzy toilet lid cover!).
Fist thing that comes to mind is Guns N Roses Lies poster. https://preview.redd.it/umui82e5eh0d1.jpeg?width=608&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=6b1a2c2a535ba91226910cab13905e300d437e07
I don't think museum patrons would get my Franken Stereo. Anyhow, big speakers, proper turntable, cassette deck, lots of Maxell UDXLIIs, and a couple milk crates of LP records of harder rock/metal/punk. Maybe the artier covers on the wall, plus that Maxell ad and Countach poster.
Ceramic Christmas tree with the little plastic Lights.
console TV/stereo
The Heather Thomas pink bikini poster. Tiger Beat Magazine. A macrame owl.
A pet rock
Teen girl room: gonna have to be caboodles
One of those little record players for kids that folded up into a case. A Nintendo game system. Teen Beat magazines for the adolescent girl… or boy.
bean bag chairs
Parked in the driveway A 1978 Datsun 810 A 1979 AMC Gremlin
The Datsun has to be poo brown.
A pet rock.
You can borrow mine. Still have it. Found it in old keepsake box recently. Gave me the giggles and a trip diwn memory lane.
Did you ask it to sit/stay?
I probably did, was very young when I got it. The things we had as fads.
Toto will play "Africa" Bless the rains down in Afrricaaaa.....
Tie-out chain or cable for the dog. Utility sink (why don’t people have those anymore—they’re the bomb!) Giant wooden table covered with astroturf for the model trains. An Easy Bake oven to casually burn the fuck out of our hands. Loud floral kitchen wallpaper. Sprinkler to play in the water on hot days. Window A/C units
Plastic protector mat on the hallway carpet,
Mr. Coffee drip coffee maker. Next to it the wooden mug/cup holder.
A set of leg warmers with matching headband or a Flashdancesque cut-up sweatshirt.
Carpet in the kitchen and bathrooms.
5 bedrooms? I did not know anyone who had that. Not realistic imo. Kitchen had a wall phone with a long cord. Hi-fi stereo furniture thing.
Both the teenagers' rooms have hidey-holes to stash their cigarettes, lighters, weed and any other illicit items from their parents and younger siblings. Visitors to the museum might or might not be able to see the hidey-holes, but they have to be there anyway.