Easier to ignore the nicotine stains.

Personally I feel like it was 50/50. All the interior at-home stuff was drab and gross, but a lot of the outerwear and clothing (not what your grandma would wear) was fairly vibrant.

You always knew houses with smokers and without. Hit you walking in the door and put a sepia tint on reality - walls, popcorn ceiling, all kinds of shit. But what kids today will never know:

Plastic covered furniture. People covered their couches and easy chairs with plastic. it was wild.

Google it, people had fitted plastic covers made for all their furniture. I don't know if anyone ever took the covers off "oh the pope is coming over let's go all out" attitude but it was a distinct thing.

I wore shit like this out of the house, because of how amazingly fucking cool I was

Wood paneling. Everywhere.
Brown carpet. Everywhere.

Anything that had been white was stained by cigarette smoke.

Including all the leaves, apparently.

I heard rumors that the sky was of a grey hue.

I heard it from someone who'd been on a walk on a winter's day.

My grandparents had that sofa - same print pattern but in a blue-gray. Holee shit.

In the not-so-distant future we’ll look back and say everything the 2020s really was just grey, wasn’t it?

This does not track with my reality

I can smell the potpourri.

60's Paisley, tie dye & macrame 70's Brown, orange & golden yellow. Plus a little beige. 80's Neon, black, sparkly, & hairspray. 90's pastel colors plus burgundy and forest green.

The biggest point a relative of mine made when building a house in the mid 90s, at which point people were getting colorful with home decor again, was that there was NOT going to be anything brown in it, haha.

Lasagna couch

i was going to say, this is the worst representative couch. i remember a lot of stripey couches with oranges.

New presidential couches?!

Pressure wash the smoke/nicotine stains, sun dry it for a few days, and replace the indoor Incandescent lights with white LED lights..

Its probably not nearly as dark and drab if cleaned up and placed under good modern white lighting..

In the 90s we had..

Blue couch, black chairs, gray carpet, etc

I dont recall anything brown, except a couple of wooden furniture pieces like my bed, which was from like .. 1930ish (with a new mattress)

Ugh this was my mom's furniture

The sky was yellow and the sun was blue

i sat on this exact couch

My grandparents had this exact couch and 2 chairs with the same pattern.

Good for Trump for when he shits himself again

Ngl i saw the thumbnail and thought it was like dinner rolls or some kind of bread