40 Things Every House in the 70s Had That No One Sees Today

You still see wood paneling around, but rather than the currently trendy beadboard or shiplap, the 70s version was usually made from anything but real trees and had a painfully obvious fake grain.

These throws were crocheted in a repeating "granny" square pattern, using colors that clashed. Often made from scratchy wool, they were better tossed over the back of the couch than used to cover up with during movie night.

Technically the oddly hypnotic lava lamp was made popular in the 60s, but it continued on strong through almost the end of the 1970s.

If the 1970s were about one interior design trend, it was wall-to-wall shag carpeting, usually in eye-searing colors like bright orange.

Televisions weren't always so flat and light they could hang on walls. In the 70s they were furniture, a place to put knickknacks as well as watch The Brady Bunch.

Made of rough rock and usually taking up a whole wall, this design trend wouldn't have looked out of place in a hunting lodge.

Before the world went digital, people woke up with alarm clocks sporting numbers that flipped. They came in the ever-popular fake wood veneer, or some seriously bright 70s colors, and made a cool clicking sound.

If 70s walls weren't lined with wood paneling, they were sporting paper splashed with with big and bold geometric shapes in bright, contrasting colors.

The 70s were a neighborly time, and conversation pits were meant to encourage socializing. These seating areas sunk down a notch from the rest of the room and were cozy and inviting—as long as your guests didn't break an ankle getting to them.

A floating staircase was a focal point on the design-forward set of the The Brady Bunch. Mr Brady might have been an architect, but those stairs still looked a little dangerous.

Once consigned to patios and the like, rattan furniture become a hot addition to living rooms and other interior spaces in the 70s. It did go rather well with all the macramé and ferns that started turning up everywhere...

Much the same as wallpaper, upholstery in the 70s tended toward big, bright, bold, and busy as a bee in a field full of sunflowers. But where wallpaper tended toward geometric shapes, furniture fabric was all about the florals.

Between the rotary phones of yesteryear and the cell phones of today, there was the push button phone of the 70s. It seemed lightening fast to dial compared to its predecessor.

In the 70s, stereos were whole systems, some so intricate they rose in towers, up the wall. The modern equivalent, a tiny speaker that plays music from cell phones, can't compete.

Macramé, created by tying cords into knots, was all the rage in 70s homes, used for everything from potted-plant holders to decorative wall hangings in the shape of owls.

Maybe as a result of patriotism over the Bicentennial, Colonial furniture came back with a vengeance, bringing with it turned wood and other favorites of our forefathers.

Fringe was in during the 70s, and not just as a hairstyle or a decorative element on vests and ponchos. Fringe turned up on lampshades, too, where it diffused light and helped create a mellow vibe, man.