article_snippet.sent: we stripped out the laminated flooring and scraped off the modern wallpaper, replacing the laminated flooring with original parquet flooring from a Sheffield school, and painting the walls.
article_snippet.sent: I invited my ten-year-old nephew to stay and showed my ten-year-old nephew photos of how it had been when them moved in.
article_snippet.sent: Seeing all the modern flooring and wallpaper, my ten-year-old nephew asked: ‘Auntie Claire, why have you wrecked your house?
article_snippet.sent: our originally had our own homes, and our was full of 1950s memorabilia, but our wasn’t.
article_snippet.sent: I wouldn’t want my house to look like everyone else’s — that would just be boring.
article_snippet.sent: From the red glass vases and psychedelic wallpaper, to the Formica tables and G-plan dining suite, everything about my two-bedroom terrace home is a tribute to the late Sixties.
article_snippet.sent: I have a like-minded friend who completely decorated her home in Sixties style, and I vowed to one day have my own Sixties abode.
article_snippet.sent: The first thing I did when I bought my home 12 years ago was to have genuine Sixties wallpaper put up.