Yep Freddie. When I was a kid we lived in some interesting houses with interesting colours and such.... now my mother lives in a very nice house and so does my dad... Gen Y and some Gen X see their parents living in nice places and forget their parents have been paying off dodgy houses for 20 years or so before they got the nice house.

We had lino at the house before the brown tiles....ahhhh yeah back in the day! lol

I grew up with lino also

Just remembered, this house had the brown 'tiled' look lino through the family room and kitchen when we first bought it

I have to say it was easier to keep clean than what I have now


Actually, speaking of this sort of thing, a friend who lives up the coast wanted to get rid of carpet, that was contstantly covered in sand.

She wanted floating floors, but the house is old and uneven, so she went for the floating floors lino and it looks fantastic and so much easier to maintain.

Froot if you can find a house that just needs aesthetics done, go for it! Seriously, even if you're just painting wall by wall every couple of weeks, eventually it will be done. A kitchen make over isn't that hard. Paint the cupboard doors and there is an instant change. And so on and so forth.

But I could be biased because my ideal first house is one that requires a sledge hammer over a polishing rag But then I find the thought that I can walk into a dump, turn it into my Taj Mahal with some elbow grease and (hard) work somewhat appealing; I like the idea of making my house my home.

And pink bathrooms!

khaki seems to be the choice of wall colour in this area :LOL:

> Oh you can't beat the orange or lime green laminex cupboard tops


I don't know about that!

My sister had the same little square tiles I was talking about earlier, but in blue and they were her benchtop in her last house

We had a pink bathroom at th house with the brown tiles.... mmmmm loverly.