Comments on: Shiny orange floor

By: Sparg Otyebat

Sparg Otyebat — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:41:00 +0000

Back in the day, if you didn’t have wall-to-wall carpeting, you had floors that needed mopping and waxing to retain that fine shine. I still remember having to wax and buff our barracks floors every day before going off to classes. Боже мой!

By: Zack Weinberg

Zack Weinberg — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 06:31:00 +0000

What on earth do they mean “one-way floor”?

/just barely too young to remember the seventies

By: Matthew Petty

Matthew Petty — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:58:00 +0000

It looks like a raised pool of beans. I expect Anne Margret to emerge and throw Tommy through the mirror.

By: level

level — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 21:46:00 +0000

Congoleum used to love them some saturation when it came to colors back then.

By: Frank Diekman

Frank Diekman — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:23:00 +0000

It’ll be fun when that dog goes running across the floor and slides into the dinette set.

By: Sparg Otyebat

Sparg Otyebat — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:35:00 +0000

Yes, like my green and yellow plaid Tuffskins. I still laugh over that picture.

By: kartwaffles

kartwaffles — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:01:00 +0000

My theory is that Big Lapels were in during the 1970′s expressly for the purpose of blotting vomit off one’s lips.

By: jeligula

jeligula — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:00:00 +0000

Interior desecration at its finest.

By: MadRat

MadRat — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:03:00 +0000

That’s not just any orange, that’s burnt orange! Along with harvest gold, avocado and the lesser known chocolate brown, burnt orange is one of the four colors of the 1970s.

By: bubberella

bubberella — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 11:47:00 +0000

That’s not a dress, it’s an extra long apron. It is a kitchen, after all.

By: penguinchris

penguinchris — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:53:00 +0000

The orange is a bit garish, but then orange always is. A solid-color, shiny floor like that in a more tasteful color would look really cool, I think (and I love KimberlyClarke’s idea of just painting the floor!)

I really do love the pattern on the left – and it’s not unlike some of the more adventurous fabric patterns you can sometimes find at Ikea these days.

By: KimberlyClarke

KimberlyClarke — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:09:00 +0000

When I moved into my 1800s cottage here in Dorset the old floors were gone, and once I chucked the viled carpets I was left with a hardboard skin over chipboard. I had no money so painted it with orange gloss paint and I have to say it was utterly fabulous with yellow walls and wooden furniture. And gloss paint needs no waxing either. Now replaced with grown-up solid hardwood, but this brought back fond memories. Also I think in the early 70s when I was about 8 I had a dress in the exact same pattern as the other floor. And I looked utterly fabulous.

By: TheMudshark

TheMudshark — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:58:00 +0000

I have a no-wax floor at home too. It´s made out of wood and I don´t wax it.

By: lsamsa

lsamsa — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 07:42:00 +0000

Oh my…I actually remember seeing that ad…way back when. Good gawd I’m old.
Anyway…yes, the top floor looks like an incredibly shiny orange-rind.
The lower floor…something that would send someone with a nauseous stomach running to the bathroom. Nice pattern in small doses…but a floor?
Yes, I do believe that is Cybil Shepard…and as to the ‘dress comment’…I’m pretty sure she’s wearing trousers.
My issue…who the hell covers their books in white paper?

By: Talia

Talia — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 06:55:00 +0000

I actually find that color scheme bizarrely attractive, I’m not sure why. Perhaps I was meant to grow to adulthood during the ’70s :P Or perhaps it’s just the cheeriness of it all that’s so appealing.

By: Oliver Schmieding

Oliver Schmieding — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:43:00 +0000

“Why you are looking queasy, Daniel-San ?”

By: ladykatey

ladykatey — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 05:13:00 +0000

As the owner (renter) of a solid colored linoleum floor, I must say AVOID AVOID AVOID. It shows the dirt like crazy.
I’ve been thinking about giving it a proper wax (wash with ammonia, wax, buff) for a few years but haven’t been able to bring myself to actually do it. I don’t think it will help the ‘shows every speck of dirt’ issue, anyways.

By: scifijazznik

scifijazznik — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:30:00 +0000

Just look at it.

By: jsandin

jsandin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 04:08:00 +0000

After 2 years of that dog rubbing his ass on it, it won’t be shiny and it will never be properly cleaned and waxed. That’s what happened to the 70s.

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:21:00 +0000

A woman that I know bought a moderately significant mid-century house and ripped out the new granite kitchen so that she could restore it to its previous formica glory. It looked much better with the formica.

By: jimkirk

jimkirk — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:05:00 +0000

Ah, back in the days when plastic wasn’t ashamed to look like plastic.
This was our kitchen counter growing up:

By: princessalex

princessalex — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:52:00 +0000

Don’t admit what happened?

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:53:00 +0000

i believe you’re right…. that IS cybil shepard!

Looks like Time Traveler Laura Linney to me.

By: franko

franko — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:47:00 +0000

i believe you’re right…. that IS cybil shepard!

By: franko

franko — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:46:00 +0000

i grew UP in the 70s, and even *i* think those floors are cool. you haters don’t know what you’re talking about. there was MUCH worse stuff back then.

By: samovar100

samovar100 — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:31:00 +0000

You could not be more correct, Stephan.

By: neurolux

neurolux — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 01:31:00 +0000

It’s hot lava! Walk on the furniture! Don’t fall off!

By: snowmentality

snowmentality — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:44:00 +0000

The patterned floor is identified by the ad copy as being red, white, and blue — so I suspect the shiny orange floor is actually a shiny red floor. I can’t decide whether red or orange would be more awesome.

Actually, I think a super-shiny candy pink floor might be the most awesome.

By: snowmentality

snowmentality — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:42:00 +0000

I think it’s wrong that I want the patterned one. It would only work over a very small area … but it would be pretty fabulous in an otherwise super-modern, super-white space.

By: King_Rocket

King_Rocket — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:22:00 +0000

Is it so wrong that I want that orange floor? Love it!