'90s Home Decor to Take You Back

Grab some Dunkaroos and join us for a walking down retention lane . If these things made an appearance in your childhood home , you ’re definitely a ' ninety nestling .

Rick Taylor

Maybe the popularity of green had something to do with the melodic line of prosperity ( hello , dot - com bubble ! ) that dominate throughout most of the X . In this moment of nostalgia , we ’ll choose to block the bust .

90’s style dining room

Credit:Rick Taylor

Ultrafrilly

This was the mom counterpoison to yourgrunge phase .

Jenifer Jordan

STUFF . We need more stuff . Finding Fido in this room is like seek aWhere ’s Waldo?book . Can you spot the dog in this pictorial matter ?

Living room with floral decor

Credit:Jenifer Jordan

Wicker Furniture

Demand forwicker furniturewent wild . And we ’re pretty sure these room had something to do with it .

Pattern x 1,000,000

PATTERNS ! Oh , and did we note PATTERNS ? ( Also , those window treatment . DYING ! )

We recollect designers in secret challenge each other to see how many chevron they could match into one room . Counting the pleats on the lamp shade and the flute on the open fireplace pillar , we spy six ( six ! ) clean pattern .

We could n’t talk about patterns from the ' 90 and give out to bring up gingham . The only affair that would ’ve made this pattern more popular would ’ve been if M. C. Hammer had worn " Hammer pants " in gingham . But the sofa fromFull Housewas enough to cement the patern ’s position as a mainstay in American interior decoration .

Red living room with floral decor

Credit:Jenifer Jordan

Ross Chapple

Gingham on ev - er - y - thing – even the ceiling . Which bring us to belike our favorite ' 90s trend …

DECORATIVE PAINTING

Kent Clawson

The ' 90 may have ended with a sponge that hold out in a pineapple under the ocean , but the parasite drop most of the decade as the essential false finish and ornamental pigment puppet . Raise your hand if your bedroom wall were grub , rag - rolled , glazed , or painted with charge card wrap ( yes , it was a matter ) .

D. Randolph Foulds

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And if a simulated finish were n’t enough , fanciful decals were the icing the puck on the patty . ( Why your mom could put stickers on the wall , but your Lisa Frank sticker border ground you from your Game Boy for a calendar week , we ca n’t explain . )

Carpet in the lavatory — still not a good idea .

Wallpaper & Murals

If it was n’t decoratively paint , it was wallpapered or made into a mural , much to the chagrin of the next circle of homeowners everywhere . ( Side note : This is what we imagine the closet of an older , more mature Cher fromCluelesswould look like . )

Tim Murphy

We detest to break it to you , but when you moved away from your childhood home , the first thing the newfangled owners did was paint over that mural and strip thatwallpaperyour mum yield a great deal for .

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Beth Singer

We know : " Wallpaper has made its comeback . " And we still importune we wo n’t repent it . Our shaver will likely say , " Ugh ! Chevron ? Ikat ? " But what merriment is decorating if you do n’t get to do it all over again every once in a while ?

Elaborately Themed Kids' Rooms

Jon Jensen

Any passing fantasy could be turned into a kid ’s room theme . love the idea of cattleman or spaceman after seeingToy Story?Well , to infinity and beyond , you have yourself akid ’s room .

Edward Gohlich

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James Yochum

Obsessed withSaved by the Bell?Your elbow room could look like Kelly Kapowski ’s press exploded all over it .

Susan Gilmore

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And yes , there were many rooms that were a holdover from the ' fourscore Laura Ashley compulsion ( but " princess " is a theme that transcend 10 ) .

Greenery and Florals: Faux, Dried, Anything But Real

We ’re not talking about a simple trivial arrangement on the coffee mesa — vine straining across windowpane frame , dried bouquets the size of small children — they were the ultimate in bringing the outdoors in .

Primary Colors

And not the pretended book / movie that was a thinly veiled story on the Clinton White House . The cherry-red , scandalmongering , and blue live no mode bounds : country , modernistic , and everything in between .

Does n’t this bathtub look like it would go perfectly with the D. J./Stephanie bedroom fromFull House ?

Many clock time , yellow and blue miss Marxist to strike out on their own . And what ' 90shome decorwas complete without a round , skirted board ? Or seven .

Dining room with gingham decor

Friends Purple

Every ' 90 mom harbor a fantasy of single life in the city in which she was a prettier rendering of Rachel . But paint something in her theater the colour of Monica ’s threshold was the close-fitting she catch .

Window Treatments: Large and In Charge

If the ' 80s were defined by openhanded whisker , then the ' 90s were defined by big window treatments .

on the face of it , one window treatment was never enough .

A Computer Desk

Joan Hix Vanderschuit

For your 6 - ton monitor , hard drive , printer , fax machine , and quite a little of CD - read-only storage . Aah , the hr spent play Oregon Trail … er … doing prep .

A Closet for Your CDs

AN total CLOSET FOR YOUR CDs . Who would have thought that a decade later , the iPod would make this obsolete ?

A NASA-Scale Entertainment Center

William N. Hopkins

To which there were 17 remote control , and the VCR tape were never rewound , despite your class induce a mag tape - rewinding gimmick .

’90s Minimalism

To be fair , the ' 90s had its share ofminimalism . ( And if your house looked like this , your category probably shopped at the Mickey Drexler Gap and wish they were friends with Frasier Crane . )

’90s Urban

And if your house looked like this , Contempo Casuals ( RIP ) was probably your store of choice .

But This is How We’ll Choose to Remember the ’90s:

We prefer to remember the ' 90s in all its effete , overdone glory . beg off us , we ’ll now be binging on TGIF shows and Nickelodeon on Netflix and AppleTV all weekend , eat bowl after bowl of Oreo O ’s and French Toast Crunch , and maybe taking a break for a round of Laser Challenge or Dream Phone .

Bedroom with gingham ceiling wallpaper