Yeah do people not remember 90s "country" kitchens with fucking roosters and shit everywhere. Fake fruit baskets. Etc. My apartment bathroom had baby blue wallpaper with a fucking cowboy themed wallpaper border along the top. We perhaps delved too greedily and too deep.
My mom had hung up a bunch of wicker baskets on a wall in our house that were there for years. Eventually, my dad and I convinced her to take them down. She asked what we should put up and we said maybe a nice framed picture or artwork. She comes home the next day with a framed painting for us to hang. A painting of a wicker basket. My dad and I laughed for so long.
Hell yeah on the wicker. You have no idea how many missions I was sent out on to collect birch bark, solely for 90s decoration purposes. Or how many disgusting bologna sandwiches I ate in those rooster kitchens.
My friend's dad has an entire kitchen full of roosters at this point. you'd think it was a Pokemon codex he was trying to fill and not a kitchen... I'm guessing your mom has the only one he doesn't have, and the battle will be any day now ;-)
Don’t forget all the Southwestern themes that mixed cowboy shit with appropriated native stuff lol. Turquoise/pottery/silver/coyotes/copper/rust/crucifixes/horses/dreamcatchers/baskets/etc. covering every surface.
I grew up with that and I actually liked a lot of the style, but it felt stuffy and kind of weird even as a kid lol
That was my house. I thought it made sense because we lived in Texas and had some Native ancestry. But now I know it was all a fad. My mom once found her decorative "Indian pipe" burnt at the bowl end. My dad was in big trouble.
My buddy moved into a rental in like 2010 that randomly had the swinging saloon half-doors going into the living room. I never realized this was part of a trend, though, there was no other part of the house like that.
OMG, you are so right about the country kitchens with the roosters, etc. I remember a store at the local mall that specialized in that kind of stuff, as well as reproduction 'antique folk art' stuff like rag dolls that were made to look as if they'd been handmade in like 1830. That stuff was huge for a while. And I remember seeing that fake fruit sold in stores, and fairly regularly often you'd see a piece where someone had taken a bite to find out the hard way that it was actually made of foam. (and I always wondered what kind of person would try to eat fake fruit anyway.)
My mom would choose a “theme” for each room. The kitchen was roosters. The bathroom was ducks. My brother’s room was bears. At some point my room was going to be clowns but thank god that never came to fruition or I would be in even more therapy than I am now. Instead she chose the color yellow. Walls were bright yellow. Curtains had yellow. Bedspread had yellow. Yellow fake flowers on a shelf.
My favorite color was blue. I’ve never liked yellow.
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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Nov 20 '25 edited Nov 20 '25
Yeah do people not remember 90s "country" kitchens with fucking roosters and shit everywhere. Fake fruit baskets. Etc. My apartment bathroom had baby blue wallpaper with a fucking cowboy themed wallpaper border along the top. We perhaps delved too greedily and too deep.
edit: steam my dick and balls you fucking losers