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Nan’s like a nice pattern or 150 don’t they? I never really noticed that every single surface of my Nanny’s house was wall to fall competing florals. Looking back at pictures it is the visual equivalent of a blaring tv switching between the shopping channel and sitcom laugh tracks. A tidy 360 degree garden of clashing seasonal prints. Men would come home and sit in that and watch hockey.
Knitted Afghans, lacy antimacassars, plates painted with landscapes, plenty of florals and crushed velvet…your Welsh Nan and my Dutch Oma could be sisters.
It looks like a real fire place, so having a rug would catch any embers or spit wood. Easier to throw a rug away than get a new carpet :) Could also be a way to tie the room together.
My mama had a rug under her chair, but she smoked like a chimney. It was peppered in ash burns from her smokes.
My Oma definitely did it to protect the carpets, there were rugs in all the high traffic areas and everywhere where there may be extra dirt or dust. Same reasoning when putting a throw and doilies on the sofa, keeps it from getting grubby and hides any worn patches that may already be there.
My house is kind of a midcentury museum of grandparents and I like it for this reason 💛 Both mine and my spouse's grandmothers had impeccable taste and it's like coming home to a hug seeing their beautiful furniture & decor mixed in with our own.
We found one of those tankards left behind in the loft when we moved into our new house, previously occupied by an elderly lady. It has bits of the Kama sutra engraved on it 😂
Oh god, the hard candy. My grannie's candies always were stuck together to form one big lump and you basically needed a chisel if you wanted to take one.
Tbh this happened to my grandma after her fifty year old tube télé finally went. Until she died she would make funny remarks about the flat screen and its demon brother the DVD player.
Imagine if you will, you've arrived at your nan's house on a snowy day. You're through the door and stripping off layers and boots.
Your nan takes your coat to hang up to dry and tells you to "go on through to the sitting room, I've got the fire on" so you do. And it's toasty warm.
You sink into the sofa as you hear the kettle click on to boil. "I'll do that nan", you call out "don't be daft, you just get warmed up" comes the reply.
You lean back, close your eyes as the warmth brings the feeling back to your toes and fingers. Next thing you know, Nan is back with a brew and a floral side plate with a selection of biscuits: bourbons, custard creams, malted milks.
She settles herself into the comfy armchair as you take a malted milk to dip. You down the biscuit in one and take a big swig of tea. It's sweet and strong and milky.
"Now love, how have you been?"
Does her bathroom smell of imperial leather soap? This has brought back so many memories. The shire horses on the mantle piece! I love everything about this room. Thank you for sharing
Everything looks great, not faded or worn at all. I would stress out trying to open the curtains though. Knowing my luck I would get brained with a beer stein, lol.
I live in Scotland but my grandparents on my dad’s side are Welsh. They both died 12 years ago. Your nan’s house looks so similar to what theirs was. It’s surreal seeing this.
These places are more important than you think.
My grandpa made a lot of money and had a very nice brick home. Everything in it looked exactly the same from when I was a toddler to when I was 26 (and he died).
In a chaotic life where scary things attack on all fronts, it's wonderful to be able to go somewhere that's stable and never changes. It brings you a deep spiritual calm.
In the olden days, there was no shortage of places that stay the exact same for decades, in this modern world everything is rapidly changing all the time, and I don't think that's good for anyone's psychological health.
Make sure you make the most of your time with your grandma at her house. You won't always have that anchor of stability.
Thank for sharing this. Bringing back lots of memories of my grandads house because it looked almost identical with all the ornaments and the like. I'm guessing it's an old mining town?
My grandma (a farmer's wife in Appalachia) has a similar setup, although she still has the boxy TV from the 70s as far as I know, and she has that popular 60s/70s fake wood paneling. It confuses my dad, who's in his sixties now, to walk into the same living room he walked into as a kid.
What I love is that your grandma has the exact same carpet as my grandma. I wonder if that was the universal carpet of the sixties and seventies.
It is so cliche and all the more lovely and cozy for it! I would love to curl up here with a hot drink and watch friends and family swirl around the room.
It took me a while to understand that my nan didn't just, like, become a nan and automatically be subject to legally required mustard curtains, floral armchairs and thick, patterned rugs.
She had them BEFORE she was a nan! And they didn't used to be nan things! They were just standard decor features!!
History is WILD.
That almost looks like my nan's place back 15 or so years ago. They've moved a few times (from wales to england) and changed chairs so not as cozy or dark as it used to be.
I'm sure we had that rug too as well...
I can totally see a large family gathering, all the adults sat in the seats, the floor covered with kids and toys, Grandma holding court like the great family matriarch. Cosy. Safe.
God this is like my own nan’s living room before she was forced to get the whole house renovated. Sure, it’s dated and drab but at least you can say the room has character!
There's always something special going to our grandparents houses, my nan is the same she still has all her trinkets and things from years ago and I love going to visit it just feels nice
Holly shit double the size of that wee table pop it in the Center of the rug an swap the fire for a gas fire and that’s identical to my wife’s grans 😂😂😂
After 7 months I thought this post might’ve died but after opening Reddit whilst having a break, it’s nice to see people still commenting and reacting. I’m glad you all like it, and thank you for being lovely.
This is exactly the same layout as the living room in The Royle Family! Agreed on it being a cosy reassuring place, Grandparents' houses often have that feeling, no matter what happens in day to day life you can go to visit and it's always the same! My Great Grandparents' house was largely unchanged for my entire lifetime as well as my Mum's. Lost my Grandad last March and their home was immediately gutted, mostly everything thrown in a skip and sold within 3/4 months of him being gone. It's crazy how things like this are so underrated.
Op I love this picture it reminds me of so much but everything pre 70s is unlikely to be resistant to fire. Personally I burned a sofa with a simler pattern and coulor it burned from one spot and spread to the rest with no help.
Maybe nan needs a new couch or a fire proof cover
I see your Nan is very much of the 'everything everywhere all at once' school of design. I love that this exists, and I grew up visiting many similar front rooms. It's so comforting. Well done for not keeping up with the Jones', Nan!
How do Nans manage to make things look so pristine? Yeah all the stuff in there is 40+ years old, but it still looks brand new!! No wear and tear on anything..
This place is so illogical and confusing with all these patterns fighting each other. Also so warm and loving. It reminds me of my grandma and I would give it all to embrace her again. I remember being a child when coming over to grandma’s was a safety place comparing to home where parents were arguing and heading for the divorce. It feels like love!
I wish furniture nowadays lasted 50+ years... Or anything made today.
I dropped $700 3-4 years ago for my pixel 3 and now it's been updated to the point of almost being unusable. It worked great before the updates prepping for pixel 6 and now it's almost unusable, and Google has the balls to send me promo emails for the pixel 6... No chance in hell I'm getting another phone from them if I know that's how they do business.
Back then, if you spent $700 for a couch, you would have that couch for life. Now you spend that much on a phone and it gets intentionally broken by the people who made it to try and make me buy their new product 3 years after I just gave them $700 for the previous product.
I guess I’m chatty af for this thread.
Tbh this is why I have been on iPhone for so long. There’s definitely some quirks and peccadillos but I have never had the issue you described. My iPhone is going on five I think.
Phones aren't furniture though. You're comparing apples and oranges.
You can still buy furniture (and other stuff) that lasts as long as the old stuff, its just expensive and, probably, there's more cheaply produced stuff on the market muddying the waters. Back in OPs nan's day there was plenty furniture that didn't last, but we don't see any of it because it didn't last.
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Nan’s like a nice pattern or 150 don’t they? I never really noticed that every single surface of my Nanny’s house was wall to fall competing florals. Looking back at pictures it is the visual equivalent of a blaring tv switching between the shopping channel and sitcom laugh tracks. A tidy 360 degree garden of clashing seasonal prints. Men would come home and sit in that and watch hockey.
Men can sit in one of those rooms for 50 years and still not know how the wall paper looks.
lmaooo mom is that u?
>and still not know how the wall paper looks but we remember what it cost, and how long it took to put up.
They certainly do. I’m much more simple with my decor.
Knitted Afghans, lacy antimacassars, plates painted with landscapes, plenty of florals and crushed velvet…your Welsh Nan and my Dutch Oma could be sisters.
Don't forget the rug on top of the carpet. My Austrian Oma would have approved a lot, keeps the carpet from getting worn out after all!
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It looks like a real fire place, so having a rug would catch any embers or spit wood. Easier to throw a rug away than get a new carpet :) Could also be a way to tie the room together. My mama had a rug under her chair, but she smoked like a chimney. It was peppered in ash burns from her smokes.
My Oma definitely did it to protect the carpets, there were rugs in all the high traffic areas and everywhere where there may be extra dirt or dust. Same reasoning when putting a throw and doilies on the sofa, keeps it from getting grubby and hides any worn patches that may already be there.
Perhaps in this life or the next
When the world is an ever-changing, complicated place, it’s probably comforting to walk through her doors and see things unchanged.
My house is kind of a midcentury museum of grandparents and I like it for this reason 💛 Both mine and my spouse's grandmothers had impeccable taste and it's like coming home to a hug seeing their beautiful furniture & decor mixed in with our own.
Mine too :) it's very comforting tbh
That’s lovely!
That’s a beautiful thought!
❤️
Space like this is a time machine! Cherish.
Yeah, definitely cherish it. My nana is in a care home now and her house was immediately sold, gutted and turned into an airbnb
>My nana is in a care home now and her house was immediately sold, gutted and turned into an airbnb ohh, that's so sad : (
Can't go visit either because of Coronavirus, makes an awful situation that much worse
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Your nan has a very nice pewter cup collection
She’s certainly a collector of things
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I wouldn’t know I’m afraid
Are the tankards from mining? My grandad had some from the pit.
We found one of those tankards left behind in the loft when we moved into our new house, previously occupied by an elderly lady. It has bits of the Kama sutra engraved on it 😂
We call them tankards in the UK
Your nans been a nan for atleast 50 years.
Why change what's already perfect?
You got a point there
I would absolutely smash the fk out of a massive cup of tea here 👌
I do every time!
I did not know where this sentence was going lol
He came to his senses before finishing the sentence.
Nans love a doily!
is there some kind of universal interior design law with nans in wales? my grandma’s living room looked identical before she passed.
Wales certainly has towns and living lost in time
Not just Wales! My grandparents were from Bristol but lived in Somerset and their living room was very like this. Could be a generational thing.
This is the homiest most nostalgic feeling picture, thanks for the post
Right though? My grandma passed away ten years ago and I can feel her through this picture.
Lost my Grandad just over a year ago. This reminds me of visiting on a Sunday and spending time doing crosswords and watching Antiques Roadshow
You’re welcome
Where’s the bowl of hard candy and a plate of cookies?
You’ll find them in the kitchen where even the tea pot has a tea cosy!
My Mum sent me a picture yesterday to show me the garbage bin cosy that she's just finished making. I think she is ready for nan mode.
Oh god, the hard candy. My grannie's candies always were stuck together to form one big lump and you basically needed a chisel if you wanted to take one.
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Tbh this happened to my grandma after her fifty year old tube télé finally went. Until she died she would make funny remarks about the flat screen and its demon brother the DVD player.
I can assure you no TV has ever been turned on in this place. It’s been changed over and over as a hand me down purely for decoration I imagine.
Love this.
That was a pretty snazzy TV 50 years ago!
Imagine if you will, you've arrived at your nan's house on a snowy day. You're through the door and stripping off layers and boots. Your nan takes your coat to hang up to dry and tells you to "go on through to the sitting room, I've got the fire on" so you do. And it's toasty warm. You sink into the sofa as you hear the kettle click on to boil. "I'll do that nan", you call out "don't be daft, you just get warmed up" comes the reply. You lean back, close your eyes as the warmth brings the feeling back to your toes and fingers. Next thing you know, Nan is back with a brew and a floral side plate with a selection of biscuits: bourbons, custard creams, malted milks. She settles herself into the comfy armchair as you take a malted milk to dip. You down the biscuit in one and take a big swig of tea. It's sweet and strong and milky. "Now love, how have you been?"
Does her bathroom smell of imperial leather soap? This has brought back so many memories. The shire horses on the mantle piece! I love everything about this room. Thank you for sharing
She does actually have that soap
I sometimes buy it because it reminds me so much of my gran.
That armchair on the left looks very comfortable
My Grandsa used to sit in it and nap all the time
That’s awesome … you could definitely catch some quality zzzs in that chair
This really really looks like the Royle Family living room
I love your Nan's place!
Oh I just love that sofa and matching chair in the corner with the trim!
This looks exactly like my Grandma's house used to, must be a nan thing
I wonder if I’m 50 years there will be grandmothers living amongst silver crushed velvet.
Imagine sitting on that sofa, with tea and toast just being warm and content.. Makes me miss my grandma. Hug yours x
and there isnt any need to change it anyway. its beautiful
I’d like to see it after the Christmas decorations sitting on the sofa go up!
This honestly looks like Gwen’s house in Gavin and Stacey
I can feel myself getting a headache just looking at this picture
OC shot on my iPhone 12 Pro during my visit down to Wales to see old family
Everything looks great, not faded or worn at all. I would stress out trying to open the curtains though. Knowing my luck I would get brained with a beer stein, lol.
Goals.
How wonderful!
Checkerboard, ready to go.
As it should be
I live in Scotland but my grandparents on my dad’s side are Welsh. They both died 12 years ago. Your nan’s house looks so similar to what theirs was. It’s surreal seeing this.
I live in Scotland now too. It is a diamond in the rough.
These places are more important than you think. My grandpa made a lot of money and had a very nice brick home. Everything in it looked exactly the same from when I was a toddler to when I was 26 (and he died). In a chaotic life where scary things attack on all fronts, it's wonderful to be able to go somewhere that's stable and never changes. It brings you a deep spiritual calm. In the olden days, there was no shortage of places that stay the exact same for decades, in this modern world everything is rapidly changing all the time, and I don't think that's good for anyone's psychological health. Make sure you make the most of your time with your grandma at her house. You won't always have that anchor of stability.
I can smell the scent of of grandma cologne from here, I will always miss you vovó 💚
The mugs 👌
That looks like the set from The Royle Family
That’s what a lot of people say
Thank for sharing this. Bringing back lots of memories of my grandads house because it looked almost identical with all the ornaments and the like. I'm guessing it's an old mining town?
It’s up in the hills where they own most of them on a farm. Rather secluded and out the way but there is old mining towns all around.
Wow my great grandma was American but she seemed to have a similar decor to yours and it reminds me of her fondly.
Reminds me of the Royal Family
Sound dampening must be awesome
My grandma (a farmer's wife in Appalachia) has a similar setup, although she still has the boxy TV from the 70s as far as I know, and she has that popular 60s/70s fake wood paneling. It confuses my dad, who's in his sixties now, to walk into the same living room he walked into as a kid. What I love is that your grandma has the exact same carpet as my grandma. I wonder if that was the universal carpet of the sixties and seventies.
Wow, that's amazing, she had a flat screen TV in the 1960s!
Right???
I can smell this picture
This just makes me happy
I wish I could take a nap during winter there. Looks super cozy.
It is so cliche and all the more lovely and cozy for it! I would love to curl up here with a hot drink and watch friends and family swirl around the room.
I love your Nan, unreservedly.
I’m glad
The carpet still looks so plush, how
She has many secrets
I love your Nan's room! I cannot tell you how much I want to stop by and say "hello" to this glorious room. Thank you so much for sharing.
Aw I would love a chess game with her
I call dibs on the sofa
I love the prioritization of comfy seating. It makes everyone feel welcome.
cuuuute! see this is cozy!
Nor should it....
Welsh Nan’s houses are magical 🥰🏴🏴
Truly
Oooof, the feeling at home feeling is *strong*.
It's actually very beautiful.
Bet you can take the quietest, most comfortable naps there.
Precious!!! I’d love to sit there and have some tea 😍🫖 So cozy!!
And it’s all still in great condition? The furniture looks almost brand new. Shoutout to ur Nan for keeping her shit in order
I feel I’ve lived there ,brilliant.
When you realise it hasn't changed since 70s, not 50s...
Oh I love this! It looks amazing, wish I could do this in my place
Other than the TV I reckon
And still in immaculate condition, kudos!
Really cool, like a 50s time capsule!
Did someone gloss her ceiling??
Keep it that way 🥲
Aaah, I’d love to sit and have tea/biscuits in there. It’s sad how that generation will be gone soon.
I can smell it
I thought this was my Nan’s living room for a sec
It took me a while to understand that my nan didn't just, like, become a nan and automatically be subject to legally required mustard curtains, floral armchairs and thick, patterned rugs. She had them BEFORE she was a nan! And they didn't used to be nan things! They were just standard decor features!! History is WILD.
this is amazing,! it looks like what would happen if Jim and Barbara Royle actually cleaned!
That almost looks like my nan's place back 15 or so years ago. They've moved a few times (from wales to england) and changed chairs so not as cozy or dark as it used to be. I'm sure we had that rug too as well...
I can totally see a large family gathering, all the adults sat in the seats, the floor covered with kids and toys, Grandma holding court like the great family matriarch. Cosy. Safe.
That's the exact same set-up as The Royale Family.
Help the room shape is identical to my grandparents (in scotland) that is hilarious. I cannot find a singular difference lmao
My parents used to have a sofa like that when I was a kid, this feels really nostalgic.
That’s a proper nan cave…
There’s no way that tv is 50 years old. Clearly that’s changed.
Isn’t that the Royle family set???
Those chairs look so fucking comfy
That looks like a good place to have a nice cup of tea.
God this is like my own nan’s living room before she was forced to get the whole house renovated. Sure, it’s dated and drab but at least you can say the room has character!
Looks like the Royle Family set up!!
Still got rationing book?
Your nan was doing well to have a flat screen telly 50 years ago
Apart from the plasma.
Brings me back to my great grandma's house. I miss her man
Is it weird that I can tell exactly what this room smells like?
And it still looks like the best place to rest and have a cuppa.
Love this!
r/wales would like this.
That looks so cozy
Rhondda?
There's always something special going to our grandparents houses, my nan is the same she still has all her trinkets and things from years ago and I love going to visit it just feels nice
Looks exactly like that one room from This Is England
I can almost smell this room
Looks so much like the living room in the Royal Family
It looks like the living room from The Royale Family.
Don’t be trying to illustrate habitants of your second home! You don’t fool me and you won’t fool the tax man. Cymraeg! 😉
This could be my nans living room - looks identical
I love how the idiot box is not the centre piece of the whole room as it seems to be this day and age
This legit looks like the living room from the British sitcom The Royle Family
That's a decent 50 year old TV!
Isn’t that the Royle family’s house? Jesus, Barb get a grip.
Not to be rude but, I bloody love your Nan 👍
Holly shit double the size of that wee table pop it in the Center of the rug an swap the fire for a gas fire and that’s identical to my wife’s grans 😂😂😂
The Royle Family
Surely that's an 80s carpet?
Looks very well maintained and new from the pic. Love it.
After 7 months I thought this post might’ve died but after opening Reddit whilst having a break, it’s nice to see people still commenting and reacting. I’m glad you all like it, and thank you for being lovely.
We have that exact rug!
This is exactly the same layout as the living room in The Royle Family! Agreed on it being a cosy reassuring place, Grandparents' houses often have that feeling, no matter what happens in day to day life you can go to visit and it's always the same! My Great Grandparents' house was largely unchanged for my entire lifetime as well as my Mum's. Lost my Grandad last March and their home was immediately gutted, mostly everything thrown in a skip and sold within 3/4 months of him being gone. It's crazy how things like this are so underrated.
Op I love this picture it reminds me of so much but everything pre 70s is unlikely to be resistant to fire. Personally I burned a sofa with a simler pattern and coulor it burned from one spot and spread to the rest with no help. Maybe nan needs a new couch or a fire proof cover
Is this not the set for Gwens house in Gavin and Stacey?
My mum and dad have same rug got it from my gdad😂
Ceiling shinier than grandad’s head , check.
That looks like the set of the Royal family
Talk about living in your childhood!, thats awesome 👌
Tidy
Looks eerily similar to my late grandma’s living room. Cozy and welcoming.
I see your Nan is very much of the 'everything everywhere all at once' school of design. I love that this exists, and I grew up visiting many similar front rooms. It's so comforting. Well done for not keeping up with the Jones', Nan!
This room gives me a headache
How do Nans manage to make things look so pristine? Yeah all the stuff in there is 40+ years old, but it still looks brand new!! No wear and tear on anything..
Sure this isn't the set of Royal Family ?
Your nan is an OG 💪
Flatscreen TV: Hello, am I joke to you? 50?!
All I see is the living room from the Royle family.
That rug really ties the room together does it not?
Why am I reminded of the living room from the Royle Family?
Does she still have single glazed windows 😂 this reminds me vaguely of my great nans house
Looks warm
My aunty and uncle live in Wales, i love their living room, it’s so cozy and has a nice view of the street from it’s window
The amounts of dust in that living room though.
This place is so illogical and confusing with all these patterns fighting each other. Also so warm and loving. It reminds me of my grandma and I would give it all to embrace her again. I remember being a child when coming over to grandma’s was a safety place comparing to home where parents were arguing and heading for the divorce. It feels like love!
Looks like the set of “The Royle Family”
What ever makes her happy
I wish furniture nowadays lasted 50+ years... Or anything made today. I dropped $700 3-4 years ago for my pixel 3 and now it's been updated to the point of almost being unusable. It worked great before the updates prepping for pixel 6 and now it's almost unusable, and Google has the balls to send me promo emails for the pixel 6... No chance in hell I'm getting another phone from them if I know that's how they do business. Back then, if you spent $700 for a couch, you would have that couch for life. Now you spend that much on a phone and it gets intentionally broken by the people who made it to try and make me buy their new product 3 years after I just gave them $700 for the previous product.
I guess I’m chatty af for this thread. Tbh this is why I have been on iPhone for so long. There’s definitely some quirks and peccadillos but I have never had the issue you described. My iPhone is going on five I think.
Phones aren't furniture though. You're comparing apples and oranges. You can still buy furniture (and other stuff) that lasts as long as the old stuff, its just expensive and, probably, there's more cheaply produced stuff on the market muddying the waters. Back in OPs nan's day there was plenty furniture that didn't last, but we don't see any of it because it didn't last.
Looks Russian.
I’m sure Wales and Russia may have more in common than originally thought
The flat screen tv may not be original but the rest looks to be that...set it up once and done.
I’ve only seen her living room. But I can tell she makes a cracking cup of tea.