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06:50 - Giant TV Cabinets
08:28 - Colorful & 3D Art
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10:43 - Band Posters & Anne Geddes
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The Gen-Xers had Marushka prints, Anne Geddes, and This End Up furniture.
This was a very fun video! Thanks for making it :)
I for sure would watch more such comparison vids. They're great for understanding the evolution of style, trends and even generational thinking.
Ha! Every bullet you threw missed me! Wait, that means... yes, yes I have always been weird and done my own thing.😅 And yes! More please!
you missed my generation! generation Jones. we’re very small and land between boomers and X. 1955-1965. ish. 😊
As a GenXer, I was so excited just to have my existence acknowledged here, instead of being the forgotten generation skipped over between talking about Boomers and Millennials.
Lol - same here.
Same!
Amen. ❤️
And so accurate. Luckily I no longer have any of those trends, but I definitely did at one time.
Same. Finally the roast we deserved.
I feel like Gen X was the last generation that was expected to move out at age 18 and that had a lot to do with decor and furniture choices. Futons, posters, milk crates as shelving were amazing and necessary. Also, music taste said a LOT about you back then so displaying your music choices was the equivalent to bird displaying their plumage.
Love your take on this! Great insight!
Futons, absolutely!
It was the boomer hippies who popularized cinder-block shelves and futons. We just followed because we were nobodies with no trends of our own, and it was convenient as you said.
That stuff was bulky! You had to have shelving.
THIS. I spent so much time going through friends' music collections and bookshelves -- it told you a huge amount about the people who lived in the house.
As an older Gen X, we were totally obsessed with stripped pine Victorian furniture in the 80s
Omg, I still am.
Gen Xer here. Our vibe was anti beige, anti havest gold, brown or avocado. We loved a fresh white wall, mini blinds, black lacquered accent pieces-either in furniture or accessories or tableware. Pops of red, a Nagel print, huge audio components. Later, burgundy, hunter Green and navy was popular.
You just described my first house
@@melissab8500 Then you must have been super cool!
@@333Becca lol not so much! I guess I was young 20s so late 80s/early 90s. This was absolutely my house down to the Nagel. It's a happy flashback :) thank you!
Yes! If nothing else, Gen X began the trend of "If in doubt, paint everything white to start." Even if we ended up with other colours later, many of us opted to take things back the "blank slate" stage first.
Gen Xer here. OMG, to this day still hate the harvest gold and avocado! My grandmother raised me and she had everything in the kitchen avocado green and everything in the living room gold and brown. I like the Skandia style with creams, whites and metals.
The backwards books is the worst! You can’t even pretend that you read those books when you can’t even find the one you’re looking for.
I know, I haaaaaate it
Unless you only turn backwards the ones you’ve already read and won’t read again, but then why do you still have them? 😂
You know the books so well you don't need to see the titles; you remember you put it in that corner. It's like a computer keyboard with blank key tops. (Yes, those exist.) Just joking; I've never seen anybody who turns their books baclwards. I have two backwards textbooks holding up my monitor, but that's because I don't want to see the distracting titles.
Designer Rebecca Robeson loves turning her books backwards. 😝
Agree! Whoever thought of that idiotic idea?! It's ridiculous.
Gen X here....almost every house in the 70s had the brown floral velvet couch, with the wood on the arms. Who else remembers this?
We didn’t have that couch but I can think of at least four neighbours who did 😂
My aunt and uncle had one, and they had a matching chair. I used to like going to their house because it was all warm toned, and my parents decorated in cool tones.
My shin bruises felt that comment 😂
Gen X here. And parents had the solid rust velvet couch with wood arms. I took it when I moved out...I still have it in my basement. It still looks great, and comfortable. Lol
Core memory unlocked; thanks!
It's kind of fun having a Gen-Zer in your home as a Gen-Xer. My 16 yo daughter has found those record stores and dragged me to them. I will say that while she decorates her room with them - she DOES listen to them! So, despite the inevitability of having to spackle 90% of her walls one day, I'm here for it. :)
what Nick has failed to understand is that GenZ grew up with GenX parents, so we somehow influenced them. Not sure how he missed the led lights in the rooms, the (fake) ivy (they can't afford to keep replacing the plants they kill) and the vinyls on the walls.
They raid my clothes closet for the originals that go for 100s online at vintage shops and I'm buying 90s skate8r jeans that Gap now sells for $70, new!!!, lol.
Everything old is new again,
Everything new is old again.
🧑🦰? 🧑🦳! WE'RE on repeat!!
Yeah, I was thinking I noticed a lot of similarities between the two. Makes sense.
"Contact" hooks. They really work. My biggest item is a poster 4'x3.5' in a wood from with a plastic 'glass'. Save the spackle.
My gen x dad bought me records (I'm a zoomer). As much as I love the covers, though, I play them; I don't put them on the walls.
As a millennial, displaying vinyl and records etc makes TOTAL sense to me! It’s one of the few trends I think gen z has done well lol.
Music is SUCH a huge part of being a teenager, and I totally recognise the want to display what music you like. When I was a teen in the 00s, we showed off our music taste by hanging up artist posters we got from Kerrang and Metal Hammer etc. That’s how you expressed yourself. Since magazines are a dying breed, I feel like it makes sense for gen z to just hang up their favourite records instead. They often have beautiful covers so works great for “teenage-style” rooms. I totally get it. Sure, records are also functional, but they are definitely also works of art.
I’m with gen z in that one, clever thinking guys. I totally love it. Reminds me of my own poster-filled walls back in the day.
I remember as a grad student one of my classmates asking our professor how he organizes his books. “By death date of author, of course!” Of course.😮
Makes more sense than by color perhaps 😹
😂
My Mom, an avid reader, always organized by author first and then for books written by the same author she ordered them my copy write date, because she wanted to read them as close as possible to the order they were written or published.
That was just the right amount of "dark", I love it. I bet he was sitting on that line, just waiting to use it. I have several that are just waiting to be used, just need the opportunity.
Your prof had a great sense of humor! I'm a history Phd and I organize by time frame.
Gen X here. Can we take a moment and remember the popularity of the magic eye poster? There were literally entire stores dedicated to those things in malls in the 90s when I was in high school.
As a fellow Gen Xer, so many memories are being brought back from this video! I had forgotten all about those magic eye posters, but yes they were everywhere.
i never could see the hidden pictures
I love magic eye images! I look at them online to relax.
I love anything magic eye. I use it as wallpaper on my social media profiles.
@@jmsl_910 You have to allow your vision to blur like you're drunk.
As an elder millennial, records as decor has always been a thing because the covers ARE art.
Yes thank you, I always thought it was kind of timeless as long as you pair it well with the room.
“Let books be books,” YES, exactly! My philosophy is that the *only* genre of books that it makes any sense to arrange by color would be cookbooks, and placing books backwards on shelves is 100% unhinged. 😵💫😂
I was surprised he just tacked on the comment about turned around books - I would have thought that was far more infuriating than the colour blocking!
As a Boomer who has always been annoyed that young people assume I'm a Fox News-watching conservative who can't understand technology, now I'm saddled with the stereotype of liking Thomas Kincade paintings and rolled arm floral couches. 😂😂😂
Sandy, I AM conservative and a Boomer, and I agree with every word you said! (BTW, I don't watch Fox either.)
I’m with you, I don’t watch any news, I love technology. Thomas Kincaid was a scumbag and I’m only conservative fiscally but socially liberal. I don’t know why, but people think a boomer is this dottering old person, think back we were in our teens and 20s during the hippie era, I was buying weed in Haight-Ashbury in the late 60s I didn’t suddenly turn into a dementia ridden old conservative?
I was just thinking the same thing.
Me, too. I'm a Boomer, and I don't like any of the things mentioned here. I think those are definitely my mother's taste, though. What was that generation called?
@@RebeccaHunt-wv8bc the silent generation 1925 -1945. Sounds rather sad to me.
I have a friend that told me a fantastic story. On his wall he had eight album covers framed and displayed. He had invited a couple over for drinks and the woman made continual comments about his decorating (or apparently lack of!) and when she got to the albums on the wall she said pretty much what you said. The friend paused, looked at her and said, “Actually those are the first covers that I designed in my graphic design career so they have a lot of meaning to me.” She just turned red and shut up for the rest of the night.
I really hate it when the people who are invited into your abode just criticize how you do your spaces! They don't know your story yet they feel that they have a right to do this.
They're not really judging your decor, they're judging you!
Geez… no apology? I would have kicked her out.
Love this!!!!
I had friends over last year to see my new place. One friend was critiquing my place: my pink tiles in the bathroom, my dark cushions, etc. She's your usual beige queen so she didn't like mixtures of colours. Good thing another friend came to my rescue and was like haven't you heard of contrast? It's better than everything blending together. 🥲😂
@@sadie513 who does that at someone’s house?!!! How incredibly rude.
Fun Gen X story. My sister and her husband collectively display their HUGE CD collection. They met on Limewire because they are both into weird music (think Kraftwerk and Mongolian throat singing) and it's a sentimental part of their story. 😊
I think I might like their collection.
Gen X here - I literally threw my entire CD collection into the trash about 10 years ago as I had not listened to it in years. Of course, I backed up the good ones first.
I'm GenX and I love Kraftwerk!
I am a residential interior designer and I love your content; you are so spot on! From Boomers to Gen Z , I’m continually trying to help clients let go of things that they brought in as a trend. Getting boomers to let go of Tuscan and Millennials to leave ‘modern farmhouse,’ can be challenging. 🙃
Boomer here and I love modern farmhouse, not a fan of Tuscan, especially in kitchens.
Okay, I feel like you missed some MAJOR GenX touchstones:
Circle of friends candle holder
Black wrought iron everything - dining sets, coffee / side tables with lots of swirly scrollwork
Sun moon stars with faces on everything from knick knacks, plates, candle holders, mirrors, sheets / bedding
Koko pelle (the dancing flute guy) also in every freaking thing - wall paper, the side of your house!
Sun moon stars definitely gen x I agree
Koko pelle!!!!! omg yes that was EVERYWHERE.
The way this just gave me high school flashbacks, (it's spelled kokopelli, by the way. It's Southwest Native American culture.)
How about the country items for the kitchen: 🍉 🐝 🐓 🐦⬛ 🐄 (watermelon, bee, chicken/rooster, crows, cows)
I am glad someone mentioned sun, moon and stars, that design was everywhere. Also, not so much for this video, which was more about accessories, but feature walls in a dark plum or jewel colour were also really popular.
As a gen- xer, I’m okay that our faux pas were CD and band posters. We love music!!!
Superseded in passion for music only by your parents, The BOOMers! 😂🤎
(Also the last generation that knew music from bygone eras. Gen-xers are the smart cookie generation. )
it really wasn't though. not for a lot of us.
We WERE the MTV Gen before we got repackaged as GenX
@@annado9444 I’m Canadian, so I guess I was the muchmusic gen. MTV is American - not Canadian.
Music absolutely raised (reared) us. 🖤
I’m an old millennial, and mid century modern furniture hits really nostalgic vibes for me. My grandparents nicest furniture was mid century modern. It gives me warm cozy vibes like I’m visiting grandma and grandpa.
My grandparents were also newlyweds when World War Two started, and they had all four of their children by the time the war ended. Mid century modern was definitely a vibe for them.
Oh wow! I can’t believe how exactly you described my entire extended family’s decor! This was fun and so spot on!!!
I’m GenX… thanks for including us!😉
Being a GenX obstetrician, I want to thank you for calling out Anne Geddes photography. That brought a huge nostalgic smile to my face.
Yes, genX ovaries were screaming for baby pictures😂
I remember they were popular as calendars too 😂
Remember all the cherub angels?
Me, too! I’m a Gen X Neonatologist, so I initially loved Anne Geddes, then could not escape from her for YEARS after I tired of the babies, babies, babies, because everyone kept giving me more prints because I’m a baby doctor.
I had a clipboard covered in Anne Geddes stickers. It made me so happy! I still have cds but no racks.
Nick! You are such a ray of sarcastic sunshine! ☀️ ❤
Agreed!❤😅
Absolutely!! 💜
He never shuts up!
@@dottieland7061 That is a puzzling comment. If any TH-camr sat silently on camera, that would be an odd channel. Hard to express an opinion without talking.
@@MyFocusVaries not really sweet pea it’s called ASMR look it up some time. I’m not taking some odd blokes opinion on interior design and neither should you. It seems like you don’t have a creative brain in your head. I display my records and play them. So he doesn’t know what he is talking about sadly
I'm a very end boomer born 1964, WWII parents who had a olive green velvet sofa in the late 60s/70s and kept it until 2007. It was fabulous. Mom had emerald green pile cut design carpet and emerald green silk drapes/later a gorgeous candlelight beige? color and slightly darker smooth short pile carpeting. Honestly, if there hadn't been a slight discoloration at the bottom on one end, I'd still have that sofa. I love olive and emerald green.
Boomer here who remembers previous 2 generations of decor: My grandmother had a wonderful, cozy house that in no way seemed to represent anyone else. Her neighbor Anna kept her soft furniture under plastic slipcovers. My parents, like my grandmother, and the parents of my friends didn't have anything that says "decor" about it. My mother's younger sister married and proceeded to decorate in a "Spanish, 'rococo' " style lol.
I went for things I liked--never any word art, doilies, or anything else I've read that I supposedly decorated my place with. So many of the generalizations I see have nothing to do with any of my reality (but obviously here and there examples were cherry-picked in the US). TYVM, you happy people! My daughter is pushing 30 in a few years, is married, and has many gnomes in her home. She loves her some gray and black.
Please continue making these videos!!! They are so freaking entertaining but make you reflect about history and society too
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These reviews are trippy. We forget so quickly these days that we ever did anything differently!
I think of Monica and Rachel’s apartment from Friends as very Gen X. We love a mismatched chair and chunky wood coffee table. Blue wine glasses and that celestial sun and moon print.
Oh my god yes. It’s such a distinct style, you can spot it from a mile away 😂
😊Yes, still love the artsy, moody, vintage vibe of her eclectic 🍎NYC apt. It was very theatrical & elegantly feminine while still remaining cosy & inviting. It always struck me as French bohemian circa 1880s〰️even w/the touches of mcm wall art.
🤔Not even someone who is BIG on color, but the turquoise open plan kitchen actually rocked w/the purple main area. ✨️The pops of gold were perfection too✨️.
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To me , they are a fine representation of a certain Gen X style.
Celestial themed decor was plentiful in the 90s, the way that woodland animals and mushrooms are now.
Oh the navy and yellow sun and moon print, and sunflowers on everything!
My mother (born 1928) had an emerald green velvet couch going back to around the late 1970s. But then she was the kind of Southern lady who set the table for every meal and served coffee on a tray.
I was a display designer in a furniture store and left just recently. There HAD to be a large entertainment center in almost every vignette. I had no idea why the buyer ordered so many of them or who was buying them. You solved the mystery. Thank you!😄
I'm a Gen X'er who grew up in small town America. As teenagers through young adulthood, I think our style was defined by the pieces of furniture our parents no longer wanted. Those Boomer floral couches were given slip covers and thrown into bedrooms/basements/garages for us and our friends to sit on when hanging out. Mix that with mixed media shelfing, band posters, and torn pages from magazines and you have that 90's alternative rock, grunge vibe. Our walls were our Pinterest boards. Everything smelled like weed and Bath and Body Works. Those were some good times.
lol @bath and body works
I used to decorate the walls with cool pages from magazines.
Good times, for sure. 👍
Yes ! I’m 86 so considered millennial but my sister was 83 & my experience falls between the two.
omg my house is FULL of handmedowns to this day. i love getting something new. its an event!
Gen X - storage was milk crates. Bookcases were wood planks on cinder blocks. I had a futon set on nothing but milk crates. Those were the days.
gen-z' equivalent of those plastic, foldable pastell plastic crates haha
YES!
Was? Many of My storage totes are the crate style 🫣
Haha, I don't have any proof of this, but I think the wood planks on cinder blocks is more a "people who move frequently" thing and less a generation one. My parents had wood planks on painted cinder blocks for ages and they're Silent Generation - too old to even make this list! Now that I think of it, my 80-year-old mother still has a set of them in her basement.🤣
Elementary school aged me hated the cinder block shelves in my room. I decided at age 10 to eradicate the world of ugly decor especially Early American when I grew up 🤩
Gen X--see decor in Friends, Stranger Things, early Pottery Barn, 'real' art by artists, photography, not mass produced art (e.g., grunge), hardwood floors, Seattle vibes, nature/crunchy
Displaying records as art has been around as long as records have existed. I like it in a comfortable corner where you can sit and listen to music no matter whether it's from a turntable or a bluetooth speaker streamed from your phone. Boomer/Gen X cusp kid here.
BTW, I love Thomas Kincaid, and I can't wait until floral sofas make their comeback. I am sick of all the solid colored furniture. I could take a floral sofa and pull a color for the walls, a different color for curtains, throw pillows, or any other accessories in the room and make it work beautifully.
GenX went for cheap, but in a different way than modern cheap- ikea arrived here in the late ‘90s with no delivery. Like we were going to buy that; we didn’t have SUVs. And truck rental? Omg, no. Could we carry it, or recruit our parents to transport it for us? Then we could buy it. We picked up a lot of ‘60s and ‘70s stuff at garage sales and thrift stores, bought antiques if we could afford them, had futons, halogen lamps (black or white, but usually black), papasan chairs, our defining music collection, and lots of jewel tones. And then we got older and bought some new furniture (usually Tuscan) to put with the red, sapphire blue, and forest green. Most of us still have a decent chunk of our old cheap furniture because we can’t easily replace it and it burns to replace solid wood with stylish particle board or cardboard.
Weird; it deleted my fabric edits. We liked leather and chenille, not velvet. The pleather was if you couldn’t afford leather. The futons were the earlier purchases because you could fit them in your car (and, again, nobody delivered- or, if they did, you couldn’t afford it.)
@@MeanOldLady you brought back wonderful memories of my first apartments!
Oh, yeah. The ultimate GenX thing is the home theater. Huge screen, as many speakers as you can fit into the room. Shove some in the ceiling. Giant towers. Why not four subwoofers? Why limit yourself to one or two such setups when you can have more (what if you have three family members and they all want to watch something different at the same time? What then? We can’t deny anyone surround sound.). And now everyone wants to hide the TV or put it somewhere that you have to crane your neck to watch it. The seating group shouldn’t center on it? Are you insane? Do you know how much we spent on that thing? It should be proudly placed where everyone can admire it. Put on The Matrix and experience the lobby shooting spree in all its glory.
Having lunch with some fellow Gen-Xers recently, and we had an impromptu contest of who had the most hand-me-down furniture. Honorable mentions were given to those who had the same furniture they got handed down in their 20s. 😂
We were naturally or by necessity, very Bohemian Eclectic in our choices.
Good insight. I never experienced Ikea or knew what it had until I went with a friend in the mid 2000s. I've bought a few things from there but not much. I've never been to the other furniture stores Nick mentions. I can't see spending $500 or $1000 for a sofa, and I don't use sofas much anyway.
As a Gen Xer, I'm really vibing with the Gen Z decor (maybe because the bright colors appeal to me as a teenager of the '80s).
This makes so much since because Gen z is obsessed with the 90s and a lot of their decor style is from a very specific early 90s aesthetic. I’m a millennial and I loved almost all of the art category photos for Gen z. Maybe because it reminds me of childhood? Idk
Same
I was into hip hop in the 80s 90s and graffiti and neon colours etc and pop art
I've just bought a neon sign for my sitting room but my home is not ordinary as I don't want to fit in
Samsies - I usually describe Gen X style as a wild mix of Memphis Milano, Daisies and Checkerboard Patterns, MTV and thrifted - or hand me down - furniture.
Very similar to Gen Z's esthetic but fewer pastell shades.
I recently landed on Urban Outfitters furniture page and all the stuff there looks sooo much like my 90's college room.😂
Same 😂 I actually love the idea of displaying records on the walls.
I think significant Boomer trends were colonial revival, with dusty pinks and blues and ducks. Wallpaper for days, self installed. So wallpaper borders were needed to cover the questionable edges at the ceiling. Laura Ashley and Jessica McClintock styles seeped into decor. With skirted side tables, ruffles, and the mentioned florals. SouthWest decor hit Boomers and Gen x with huge terra cotta lamps, desert hues and tribal inspired rugs and throws. A print of a native american helped explain the theme, as did a home made dream catcher.
The aesthetic bookshelves are not something I acknowledge as a Millenial, because applying the Dewey classification system at home is so much more practical. You can find books so much more easily.
As a GenXer, THANK YOU for including us! Regarding our "design" choices... I don't think we considered media storage as "decor", but if you could store it in a cool way, bully for you. I know some people don't like so "see" media, but your media (music, DVDs etc) were a point of pride - your friends came over and gave your collection an eye to see what cool stuff you had. And besides, if it was hidden away, how could you access it to play it? If you're going to let books be books, then let media be media. I'm an older GenX, raised by Silent Gen parents, so our home was very traditional and I've carried my love of traditional furnishings into my home. I do have a large entertainment center in our den (but it's dark wood), but I love it. I don't go for trends very much because it's expensive and we've had to be frugal when raising kids. If it isn't classic enough to last for at least MY entire life, I'm not going to waste my money on it.
We are the same!! And I completely agree with your assessment of the media storage situation back then; it was a necessity. My home is now a stylistic amalgamation of things I’ve collected over the years, because good furnishings are sooo expensive…
I agree, the CD tower was for access and storage not décor and mine definitely wasn't to be cool, it was just basic storage.
I agree with everything you said!
Yes 😊
Ya. GenX dumped those. Ok actually they were all stolen out of our cars so we started streaming. GenX is RenFest / Fairy Core. Since the beginning. Very eclectic, colorful & Scandinavian light and airy. With antiques.
Gen Xer here - I see a lot of our trends showing up in Gen Z trends - in a revamped & updated way. We saw our vinyl collection turn into a cassette collection which became a cd collection, but were too nostalgic to get rid of our albums (especially those that had awesome cover art) so we often displayed our albums on the wall. Creative artsy types like me even did something similar with cassettes (I made footstools & wall art pieces with a lot of mine once I had switched to cds). You definitely got our love of "music as home decor" right.
hi Gen Zer here!! I think my gen has taken a lot from yalls trends, because a lot of us were raised by yall (at least for older/middle gen Zers like me, I was born in 2003 and my parents were born in '73 and '74). And I know I take a lot of my favorite styles from what my parents have shown me what was popular when yall were my age. Kind of that thing of "We grew up exposed to this kind of thing so now that we're older, we're making it into our own versions". Especially music, I always noticed music is the one thing that I rlly bond w my Gen X parents over.
genX and genZ are quite alike. esp the eyerolls. love them! -genx
Yes! Speaking of nostalgia, am I the only one who still owns and stores her 80s cassettes in shoeboxes in the basement? Please say I’m not….
Yes! And millennials totally copied us on rediscovering MCM
@@rinnegf yes, I totally relate to gen Z more than millennials. Millennials are a more modern take on the boomers. (that said my mother was a boomer too, but on the cusp).
We liked to display our CDs as it showed people who visited what was your taste and it reflected you, it was also a conversation starter.✌🏾
"They were all yellow oak, there was a shortage of everything else" got me wheezing. You just described my childhood home (raised by boomers).
Boomer here. Since no one wants the big entertainment centers, we use them for storage in the basement.
That seems like the perfect use!
I had seen awesome transformations of those cabinets, turned into coffee bars, cabinets for other things, and so much more.
@@vaderladyl One of the nice things about them are they are made of side units and a middle unit put together. At one time I had put the side units together to make a china cabinet in the dining room while I had the middle unit as a tv stand in the living room and just didn’t use the piece that went over the top of the middle unit.
Mine wasn’t that huge and it wasn’t oak. It was the espresso color. I listed it on Facebook and couldn’t sell it so listed it for free and found one person finally to take it. If they hadn’t, it was going to go out the door with a sledgehammer because there’s no way I could’ve moved that thing by myself. I would have to take apart everything I could and then sledgehammer it and I was going to do it to get that thing out of my house. 🔨
😂😂😂😂 that made me laugh out LOUD!!! Brilliant!
GenX here. Thanks for including us. I was too poor to put real money into my decor until recently, but I definitely favored arts and crafts or shaker style furniture, black and white landscape photography, and brown microfiber sofas. I also liked wrought iron for some reason and still have a wrought iron curtain rod in my living room, but have long since replaced the tab top curtains with something better. I couldn't afford most of the furniture I liked, and my house was decorated with whatever I could find at yard sales or even on the curb. We started with a second-hand pleather sofa and inflatable arm chairs, upgraded eventually to brown microfiber until I realized that my true love is MCM. Don't forget the IKEA Poang chairs. I still have mine. If I remember correctly, Native American motifs were popular with my peers: think Kokopelli, dream catchers, suns and moons, lizards, turtles.
I miss my IKEA raspberry colored cd tower. I wish I still had it. It looked great with a plant on top.
Omg yes the Poang. I recently got rid of mine because it’s not comfortable for me. But my sister still has hers!
Definitely the arts and crafts style! But I refuse to take any blame for Anne Geddes, the only people I knew who liked her stuff was my parents age, and possibly the Boomers in my family.
I had no idea the green velvet couch was a basic millennial item until well after purchase. I've only had it a year and a half, even if it's basic I love her! Sometimes basic things are basic because they are great! It looks amazing with my wood floors and big window that lets in tons of light!
This has been my favorite series of yours :) keep doing more! You have a knack for finding those intergenerational parallels. They track so hard it kills me lol
Thank you for giving us Gen X'ers some airtime! We are the OG thrifters and relied on putting random things together. The big box stores or Ikea weren't selling stylsh home decor yet. So we found cool stuff at Goodwill or took hand-me-downs from our fam. We made tables/desks/shelves out of milk crates or other boxy pieces. We covered gross furniture or walls with tapestries or printed sheets (from the local/college headshop or urban outfitters). We def put up movie/music posters (also.....the music was some of the best). And, LOTS of framed pics of us and our friends. We still had cameras!!! Keep going, Nick! We love it!
Yeah we tend to be very 'anti' big box store, very much DIY thrifters
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Until about 7-6 almost all my furniture and decor was thrifted and DIY.
GenX here. The band posters were a pre-teen/teenage thing, but later we were doing cool stuff in the shadows. The tapestry in one pic is a good hint. We developed alternative styles, sometimes boho and global, sometimes kind of goth, sometimes cold, industrial punk. It was often very dark to contrast all the overwhelming faux boomer glow. We liked late night independent coffee shops with old books, beatnik poets from another era.
The Geddes prints were definitely a boomer thing... although we looked at them at the mall and thought they were cute.
Edit to add: yeah, the futons and the faux leather are spot on. I have real leather now.
genX is not defineable. that's why were were called by genX by boomer media.
@@AlleineDragonfyreI guess we were the gen z of the day. We didn’t want anything to do with it, but then again, what kid does?
Looking at art at the mall made me remember those weird “3d” pictures where you had to cross your eyes and stare at it awhile to see the image appear. I would always stop and stare at them, and then feel like my eyes couldn’t focus for awhile. I never wanted to hang them up in my own house, though!
@hippiechick73 oh yeah! I loved that store, but never bought a poster. I did get a book once. Oh, and I recently saw a stereoscopic gif. That was really cool!
lol woud u say the baby prints were them trying to subliminally make you wanna have babies since birth rate was decreasing after boomers:)))
GenX: Baker racks, preferably wrought iron (maybe some ivy detail lol)
MMMMOOOORRRRREEEE!!!! Your examples were completely on point, and I love your sense of humor. Is just the perfect amount of dryness to it! I only recently discovered your channel, and you've found yourself a huge fan, here. Keep it up!
Gen X here. We needed somewhere to house all the CDs we bought via Columbia House. 😂
Right?! Haha! I never did finish buying the obligatory CD’s, but let’s face it: it was definitely predatory towards naive teenagers who didn’t have a grasp on the real world yet, despite watching the MTV show of the same name.
Omg yes the 10 cassettes or CDs for 1 cent! 😂
YES! 😂
Nick, more please!!! Young boomer, married to gen Xer. We are both laughing. You are the funniest Canadian since John Candy!
Nick should have been a Kid in the Hall
Love this kind of video so much! Subscribed just because of this! Please make this a weekly thing.
I haven't watched the video yet, but as a GenXer I feel it important to say that I was nearly 40 before I owned any furniture that was not foldable/collapsable/moveable which could easily fit into my Chevy Cavilier as I moved from job to job, from state to state, etc. My first studio apartment had a giant sliding glass door that took up an entire wall. I couldn't find curtains large enough for it at the thrift store, but I did find two bolts of slightly stained white lining fabric, that I washed and wrapped around the existng curtain rod, about 50 times at varying lengths. Take that you boring pinch pleat hooks I often thought as that fabric billowed in the wind. I still have that fabric. It's in the same box as the purple and green paint splattered "About Last Night" inspired couch cover.
As an English teacher and a librarian, thank you for standing up on the side of the books! Let books be books! Also the picture of the huge stack of books where they’re on top of each other makes me want to scream. That’s awful for the longevity of those books! And how do you get the ones at the bottom??? Clearly people who don’t read 😫
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Now I feel guilty about the stack of books next to me, is it really that bad? They won't stay that way for more than a few weeks or months though, I'm analysing the first few chapters in each and then putting them back in the shelf. I also do this for books I haven't read yet, they're stacked in the order I want to read them and are a sort of "active pile" because if I put them away I forget.
I don't know how else to make all the books fit on my bookshelf though
@@user-qp6lj6gu7s If it’s just a few books and they aren’t particularly heavy, don’t worry about it! Especially if you’re moving them around often and eventually placing them standing up. The issue is the spines will eventually collapse with the weight of what’s on top of them and warp them. Sounds like what you’re doing is just fine!
These are usually horizontal bookshelves. They were designed in the 50s by Bruno Rainaldi. "The Original Ptolomeo bookshelf is a truly inventive design. Both playful and practical, it is described as a mix between “magic, art and function” and has been awarded the world’s highest accolade for design - the Compasso d’Oro.
"Third century BC Pharaoh Ptolomeo I Soter gave the order to build the Royal Library of Alexandria in Egypt, the largest and richest library in the ancient world. Bruno loved books (designer Bruno Rainaldi) he believed that books were real nourishment for the soul, the best companions on this journey called life. This is why he wanted his bookcase, the only one that made books the absolute protagonists, to be a tribute to the one who was the first to take care of books (as far as history can remember)."
Gen x forgotten style mention: punk rock thrift vibes of the grunge sphere
Milk crates! All furniture was created out of milk crates!
I think one of the major reasons why all the materialistic generations like to skip over GenX is that we were anti-fashion, anti-social minimalists. That’s why it’s hard for other generations to define us, because we don’t give a f#%k about any of that pretentious bullsh;t!! Thanks for not caring
Actually we had the awesome post punk and cool edgy alternative stuff that made you feel more creative.
Maybe in college
DIY ethic everywhere - we had a bit of tech, but were (and still are) pretty inventive, resourceful and creative. All my friends recorded music on completely weird set-ups with 4 tracks and tape players. Furniture was up-vamped, cool decor was discovered by chance or luck, clothes were butchered and sewn back together..
omg yes make more! i love the walk through the decades on all these pieces. everything was spot-on!
Gen-X here too. I still have my hundreds of CDs and over 1000 DVDS. Why...because most of my collection is NOT on streaming services or only parts of an album are. I also still ise my 20 year old Ipod.. and yes it STILL WORKS.
Hello! Gen X here. Just some random thoughts from my perspective. 1) DVD/CD towers were awful, but necessary. 2) I think black and white photography was our thing. Think Ansel Adams, Robert Mapplethorpe, and although not black and white, I think Annie Leibovitz could even be grouped into that “trend.” Which, by the way, I think you will still see as part of the Ikea photography posters. So, I’m gonna claim that one for Gen X. 3) Mission style. In the Late 80’s early 90s mission style furniture , American Craftsman, arts and crafts, Shaker and , and I would even put the U.S. southwest style in there. I think those were hallmarks of GenX “grown up” style. 3.5) Forest Green and Burgundy. I think these colors were quintessential GenX growing up and moving out and getting their first apartments. Part of the mission or American Craftsman style. Unless you were doing Southwest and then it was all about the coral , terra cotta and desert tones. 4) Anne Geddes was ABSOLUTELY not a Gen X thing. That screams Boomer. (Disclaimer: in the mid-90’s I was hanging out with a lot of dot comers in Austin, TX, so they tended to have more money than your average Gen Xer. I think their taste was very typical for what Gen X would WANT to buy if they had the money.)
Everything you said is spot on. I'm also Gen X, and lived in central Austin for most of my life. Mission, Craftsman, etc styles were (are) practically built into the houses. Granted, those bungalows were built a few decades before we were born, so I guess we were trying our best to furnish them. Remember when Restoration Hardware sold quarter-sawn solid wood furniture with dovetail joints, and period hardware? Too bad RH now sells mausoleum bean bags.
Forest green and burgundy! Definitely.
Gen X with black and white posters of photos on walls!
GenX here. Totally agree with mission/craftsman style trend. My first real furniture purchase was a matching burgundy/hunter mission design couch and loveseat. My second was a cherry wood shaker-style table with ladder back chairs. We loved the hand-crafted look. I laughed out loud at the wavy CD rack. I had that in my dorm room.
@@ChachiBonacci for me it was teal and mauve when I was younger, pink and green "preppie" a little older, then forest green and cranberry when I had a choice.
You Nailed it! GenX are survivors, so cheap, found and functional furniture was the way to go. We didn’t have parents buying our furniture. We moved out when we were 18. I find it interesting how each generation truly has a look an you have perfectly defined it.
Petit point pictures, for me, because needlepoint is for children. I don't know if it's a trend this last century or so; I'm Gen X but I was born an adult.
I think one of the major reasons why all the materialistic generations like to skip over GenX is that we were anti-fashion, anti-social minimalists. That’s why it’s hard for other generations to define us, because we don’t give a f#%k about any of that pretentious bullsh;t!! Thanks for not caring
I don’t think GenX had access to cheap (IKEA) type furniture. We were not a big enough demographic to be catered to by businesses. We had our parents (or grandparents) hand-me-downs.
Early Gen X here. I had a late millennial colleague ask me why, in 1980’s movies such as 16 Candles et al were teenage girls’ bedrooms depicted being‘decorated like grandma did it?’ 😆 I told her it was because advertising back then, unless it was childrens breakfast cereal, was aimed at adults since they made the money, and had the ‘buying power’. I told her that no advertising was aimed at us b/c we were thought to have no money, thus no decision making. No one catered to us the way they do now, where “children wag the dog and are raised to be much more vocal and have agency to their mom and dad’s wallet! 😧
@@BarbaraM-lv7pe I agree wholeheartedly. I never really realized the “grandmother bedroom thing” until you said it, and it all makes sense now. GenX had no money therefore we had no opinion and no reason to be catered to. We’re lucky we survived at all, our parents left us out in the wilderness. Now I see toddlers and tweens bossing their parents around in the store, little kids carrying cell phones and Starbucks lattes. It’s horrible. How did the pendulum swing so far in the opposite direction?! Love your children don’t worship your children. It’s all too much
Love this video! You were so spot on. More of these, please.
This is so fun to watch! Thank you!
Gen X is the MTV generation. Popular culture was dominant, hence the posters.
Totally! Don't forget the Nagel Prints, pastel Miami Vice colors, lol! Also, do you remember Max Headroom?
@@Sonnie0325 The Nagel prints were EVERYWHERE and they weren't for the Boomers.
I still have many of mine.
I was thinking how there aren't poster stores anymore...
@@L.Spencer they’re all online now. When I was a kid a big part of going to the mall was visiting Spencer gifts and checking out the posters and 18 and over section.
Millennial colour scheme: "That little orangey, beigy, creamy pie" 😆Nick, you missed my Gen X decor go-to - the 1990's colour scheme of dark green and cranberry red. In all seriousness, YES on Babbel as a sponsor, YES on being Canadian, YES on working on French skills! Feeling weirdly patriotic right now.
Hunter green. The color of like 1995!
Omg! Hunter green, burgundy, and navy blue. Mix that with a celestial print and its peak Gen X.
And I still love it!
Add royal purple and yes! The only reason I avoided cranberry red is because hunter/emeral green was (and still is) and adding the red made every day look like Christmas. 😂
We still have an old comforter from a 1997 bed in a bag set. Navy, Hunter green, and beige. SOOO dark.
I'm a millennial. I like simplicity. My parents had to have a vase, a table, and a huge jungle in the livingroom. Could barely see the walls. I think it made them feel "safe" and enclosed. Gave me claustrophobia!
I loved this hot take on the 4 generations and home decor. I feel like we only usually hear comparisons on personal styling and fashion. Would love to see this be a series. ❤
Anyone who says Jagged Little Pill is the best album of all time is a friend of mine. :) IMO - best album of the 90's without a doubt.
I think that was my first real album that I listened to over and over and over!!!
I have her in my set list. I love Alanis Morissette.👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
It is up there on my list! 🙂
Alanis gets my heart like no one else does.
Absolutely, Nick's taste is *chef's kiss*. And like, people remember some of the hits on JLP, they know YOK and Ironic and You Learn and everything, sure, but so few people seem to talk about just how much VARIETY is on that album! Came for the relatable lyrics, stayed for the feeling of 13 albums in one! :O You laugh, you cry, you tap your feet, you yearn, you get mad & break things, and then you cry again but quieter this time, it is a RIDE. Brilliant album omg.
I would've laughed like hell if you went back to Greatest Generation & Silent Generation. 'Look! Look at my copper skillets hanging on the wall & my uranium glass gasoliere!' 😂😂
My late mother (1921-2017) was all about the copper skillets.
Copper skillets are back with a vengeance right now.
The fake oil paintings of horses running in the plains!
Wait. Copper skillets are gorgeous and freaking expensive these days, not to mention great for cooking 🤔
My silent gen parents (b. 1943) still have copper pots hanging on the wall. They did have a hanging pot rack, but remodeled the 1970’s kitchen in the last 5 years, so they are now wall ornaments. They do use them sometimes.
I love these videos, please keep them coming!
My mom had Thomas Kinkade prints everywhere. I remember my sister being shocked that I didn’t want one of them after she passed. I’ll pass on those every time, even if I was born in the late 50’s.
My boomer sister still displays her best Bob Ross paintings a la Kinkaid
We Gen Xers had giant media cabinets to store our Towers of Tech: the big black box 5-CD changer, the big black box 2-cassette tape player, the VCR for our old tapes, the DVD player for our Blockbuster DVDs, maybe an old turntable, and maybe a laser disc player if you were that kind of person. We lived through so much technological evolution in such a short time. And we all bought and re-bought and re-re-bought our music in all the new formats, and now we buy all of it again via streaming services.
😂😄😂 "re-re-bought" yup, that sounds just about right.
Absolutely, every 2 years something changed, then along came the PlayStation and all its friends; and behind the cupboard was a thousand wires and cables.
I actually really appreciate wireless stuff nowadays!
I had a 24 discussion changer and almost bought the 100 disc model...
My mother (The Silent Generation) loves Thomas Kincaid. She bought several Kincaid paintings and let my sister and I (Boomers) know that she bought them as "investments" and will leave them to us in her will!!! We both let her know real quick that she could leave them to someone else, lol.
I was born in 1951, which makes me a Boomer. Yet the styles you attribute to Boomers bring to my mind the preferences of my parents’ and grandparents’ generations. I must be atypical, because I prefer clean, simplistic furniture and decor, mid-century-ish I suppose. No Kincaids, floral sofas or massive entertainment centers in my homes, ever.
She can leave them to me! I love his work!
My mom (Silent) loves Kinkade too! (Note spelling.) She used to take me to his gallery and talk to the staff. She never had any of her own, so I started buying then from thrift stores for her. I liked the glowing light and cozy scenes too. Later there were concerns he was a Christian huckster so I stopped having them because they reminded me of that. But they're still beautiful!
@@kepckatherinec805 Same with me. Born in 1960 and now that I am older, I much prefer midcentury mod/Scandi. When I was younger, it was shabby chic - easy on my budget at the time.
@@kepckatherinec805 I'm 1956 and I prefer scandi, minimal, and frankly japanese antiques. I never knew anyone with floral anything.
I love this! Please make it into a series.
Thank you for the fun video!!! Please do more of them, highly appreciated!!!😂😂😂
One of the things to remember about the Gen X'ers is that there are 2 groups, the first part of Gen X came to adulthood in the '80's and the second part in the 90's and each group has their own specific tastes, etc. Remember all the neon in the '80s.
This is true. I'm gen x but relate more to the millennial decor choices in this video
I was born in ‘70 and graduated in ‘88. There weren’t that many Gen Xers who became adults in the ‘80s, mostly became adults in the ‘90s.
I’m genX and I stand by having a loverboy album on the wall as wall art.
Hey, we are all workin’ for the weekend.
Everybody needs a new romance 😮
Haha 😂
Guys, seriously! Everybody's going off the deep end
I love this content! Please keep doing it
Loved it! More, more, more. You got me perfectly 😉
GenX seating = papasan chair from Pier 1
Punk rock was counter culture. “Rebel without a cause” guys with white t’s, cigarette boxes rolled up, hippies…every generation had a counter culture.
My Gen X generation had the lamest possible counter culture, which was just a poster of James Dean, prominently displayed in the dorm room. We thought that was rebellious. Man, we sucked.
@@johnnysimes5082some of us saw The Clash live… and got on stage with the band. It didn’t all suck.
@@johnnysimes5082 Nah y'all paved the way for (and kind of started) punk rock
The “ Rebel Without a Cause “ generation was the Truman generation not the Greatest generation. My parents didn’t listen to 50s music, they liked Jazz and drank cocktails.
This is exactly what I was thinking!! Nick just only grew up in the normie crowd I think
I really enjoyed this video. There are so many videos and articles pitting the generations against each other, listing everything that boomers and any other generation "hate" about each other. So mean, divisive and unnecessary. The generations are family. Parents, children and grandchildren. There should be nothing but love!
Thank you for the peek at the popular trends of the generations. And put together in a nice way that brings us all together instead of dividing.
More please! This is so fun, relatable and interesting 😁
I love generation comparisons. As a boomer, I fell into the country craze of the late 80s, early 90s. Blues and peach, green and mauve
Also, the "Santa Fe" look. Big in Colorado during the 90's.
😂 I had mauve carpet in several rooms.
I had blue curtains that were puffed.
Also the closely related "colonial Williamsburg" look. Defined b lots of "colonial blue", dusty mauve and cream lace, cherry wood furnishings and brass or copper accessories like bed warmers and what not
@@AnnNunnally Oh and remember the valances?
GenX here. This was so much fun! Please, do more. This is a unique insight into the psyches of the various generations. Fascinating!
Your rant on books gave me life! 💜
yes. please make more of these. disagree with the first two (so many places sell vinyls today) but still love the snark
I think the tuscan kitchen and Thomas Kinkaid scenery paintings speak to the seemingly common boomer ideal of bucolic living in the country, lol. You might live in a stucco/brick/vinyl tract home 10 feet away from your neighbors in the suburbs...but you can imagine you're living out your ideal in a cabin in the woods, a beach house, or your under the Tuscan sun existence.
Yes, you nailed it.
It is so funny that I look at those band posters and vinyl on the wall and I see my room back in the 60's and 70's. I LOVE it!!!!
I have no idea why I have this channel in my recommendations, but as a Gen X I feel called out right now. You really nailed it!
YT recommended this video to me and I'm sorry I've never heard of you before. This was so funny. Love it! subscribed!
“Records as decor” is so late 60s/early 70s. Gen Z revived it. We didn’t hang records on the wall, but we built walls of vinyl in dorms, our first apartments and in our first living rooms. The stereo, with its monster speakers and our musical taste took the place of honor and said everything that we thought important about us. I remember the day put all my vinyl in bins in my basement (where it resides today)-I felt like I had finally arrived as an adult.
This is correct
@@Lisa-jm3nk I thought the same thing about Gen Z. The bright colors is also very 60's & 80's. Their decor and fashion trends often mimic those of GenXers and younger Boomers, possibly due in some part to the influence of their parents.
I'm Gen X and I have an album cover in a frame, and I use it as the top of an occasional table.
My brother, (boomer) had 3 walls of stacked milk crates of albums…in an apartment with 12ft ceilings… everyone envied his record collection. I think GenZ is trying to find the cool things about the previous generations. I’m sure I could do a root-cause analysis (but I don’t want to).
When AI can fake everything from friendships to art, it’s nice to retrieve something from the past that has substance or a cool factor that’s real.
I feel like millennials revived it - not gen z.
Gen X born in 74 - I’m watching this in my living room…across the room is my Misfits poster I’ve had on a wall in my home since I was 15 😆
This was SO accurate! You literally described my Boomer Parents’ house! And as a Millennial, I’m still in love with the velvet green sofa 😍 Please make more videos like this!!!
Nailed it! Would love to see more of these. Great series!
Gen X here, thank you for including us. We constantly get ignored and have younger folks calling us Boomers. The futons were cheap and left over from hippie parents. The fake leather couch was the Rock n' Roll vibe. Everything was about music and what music you liked. Furniture was scrounged off the side of the road from a bar or pool hall throwing their old couches away.
Besides band posters it was magazine ads and covers. Ugh. I hated those CD racks. I had a small cube stored under the bed or on the shelf. The jewel cases would break and then the discs got transferred to albums. Ah, cassette tapes how I remember you fondly.
I miss all the music and hanging out with friends. Vinyl as decor there is a special place in hell for the sacrilege... along with those who talk during movies. 🎵 🎶 🍿😂
Please Do An Entire Video For GEN X’S…just for us 💜
I second that.
I 27th that.
When you were showing the CD towers, I laughed because you showed the exact same CD tower that I own (and still use) today. Also, my husband and I were watching this video together, and when all the Gen Z art came up, he said "So they just want to live in a TGI Friday's from 2003?" 😂
Same here. I got rid of the CD wall as I ripped everything to MP3 (I still have the CDs and I still buy music on CD. It's nice to have a physical device which can't be simply deleted.). But at that time that was not so much design but just an easy way to choose the music you wanted to hear. There were no MP3s or streaming.
yes, keep doing these comparison videos they're hilarious!!
As a tail end boomer (1962), I was influenced by my parents, my older cousins psychedelic late 60’s, the 70’s decor- basically about 3 1/2 decades of style for my age group and we had to figure it out as we mashed it all together until we hit our 30’s and we finally started figuring what WE liked vs our parents or older cousins. Now, all of us boomers have more curated collections or very focused style. I have a little bit of this and a little bit of that with some modern and some traditional but for me, beige is not in my vocabulary nor is extreme modern furniture. The one thing for me is that blues and greens have been the foundation of my decor and I think if others use the basic color they LOVE and feel most comfortable around, then everything else will meld together.
How did you not do shabby chic/boho for Gen X? Everyone knows we found all our furniture on the side of the road and slapped on some Ralph Lauren crackle paint.
And ragroller paint effect or sponged onto the walls
I picked up an old school desk and chair at a yard sale (hardwood top/seat with iron base/legs - from the 1890's according to the stamp on it) for $3. 40 years ago. I moved it from NY to CA to Boston to Germany. Ultimate shabby chic. I still have quite a few other pieces like that, that I managed to hang on to. This stuff is 100% unique and can't be replicated. I have plenty of money to buy whatever I want. but I still shop for unique, "cast off" things like that, though sadly they are much harder to come by now :(
Gen X here. I remember most of our fashion and decor being hand-me-downs or thrifted. I did have a futon in high school/college for the random friend who needed a place to crash. There were band posters, but Nirvana was too popular to publically display in your place. It seemed as though most of us had art posters on the wall. A lot of people had Salvador Dali, but I liked Kandinski. When I got my first salaried job, I bought a whole set of mission style furniture from Rooms to Go. Now I just have stuff I've collected through the years. I don’t think companies marketed to us, so it all feels undefined.
Yes I had a Matisse and a van gogh that I bought at university market days 😂 then later a bunch of vintage travel posters from eBay. They looked good!
that's what i did in nyc!
Absolutely! I used peach crates rather than milk crates. Art Posters? Definitely! Futons for bed and couch. Thrifted lamps and other furniture. Not much else. We didn’t have IKEA ( did anyone in the 90s?) but if we had, my place would probably have had more furniture. Thanks for including our often forgotten generation!
For years, our “style” was whatever we could find for cheap. Milk crates, futons, homemade shelves, posters on the walls.
You nailed it, Nick!