When Living Rooms Went Brown: “Earth Toning” of American Homes in the 1970s Kathy Shaidle 9 years ago The 1970s were brown and orange. My mother had three of those rugs in the first photo. This is far worse though: More from my siteToday in yesterday: Karen Carpenter died (1983)‘So it’s ‘human nature’ for a judge to go into a big queeny huff…?’Skynet in reverse: Are leftists actually becoming LESS self-aware?‘…boys covet mastery while for girls it’s all about beauty’