25 hilarious things "rich" people in the 1980s had at home

What the lifestyles of the rich and famous really looked like.


Ofthe hair with platform heels, everything was bigger, more daring and more colorful in the1980-And the design of the house was no exception. During this decade, the maximalistInner aesthetics Was everywhere, especially in houses, where the richest mirrors with oversized walls and aquariums were standard tariff. If you are buying in the Wham era! T-shirts and Memphis design, take a trip to the memory and discover these hilarious things the rich people had in their home back in the 80s.

1
Intercommunication systems

intercom phone, 80s interior design
Shutterstock / Pavel Vaschenkov

How can you tell if someone was rich in the 80s? Well, instead of simply shouting the stairs or room walk in the room, they would have a series of intercoms that have allowed what was for dinner or if someone nourished thecat.

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Shaped jacuzzi tubs heart

heart shaped hot tub, 80s interior design
Shutterstock / Jason Finn

While cheap motels and 80 expensive "houses have little heart jacuzzi in common, is an exception to the rule. And good news: if you are eager to make one of these beauties your own, they arestill available today For just over $ 2,000 each.

4
Memphis Furniture Design

memphis design chair, 80s interior design
Pamono

Bright colors, geometric furniture of the Memphis group is about 80s as the interior design gets. And while Memphis Groupe ceased to produce furniture in 1988, the parts of the company are still pretty liked to pick up beautiful sums-like nearly $ 6,000 forThis gras chair Via Pamono. A collection ofDavid Bowie pieces of Memphis was sold at a posthumous auction bySotheby In 2016, winning a total of $ 1,760,000.

4
Neon light sculptures

neon ring lights, 1980s home design
Shutterstock / Blue_Deep

Although they can not have provided enough light to read or write, if you were really rich in the 1980s, the house had at least one neon light sculpture illuminating a room. Because when you are rich, which needs traditional overhead costslighting In any event?

5
Central vacuum cleaners

vacuum cleaner attachment, 80s interior design
Shutterstock / Bermix Studio

If moving a vacuum from a room to is simply a task too heavy for you, the 80s has an amazing solution: pass the central vacuum. Back in the day, all you would have to do is fix your vacuum hose to a port in one of your rooms and the turn is played! It was a wonderful way tofloat Without having to trim all of a cumbersome machine with you.

6
New phones

lips phone, 80s interior design
Amazon

Whilemobile phones were still relatively rare in the 1980s, Tastemakers at that time had the best thing:New phones. Whether you call your friends on a device that looked like a hamburger or struck your other significant by a pair of lips, you knew you were a fantasy family in the 80s if your phone has been cleverly disguised in something else.

7
Basement bars

basement wet bar, 80s interior design
Shutterstock / Pics721

If your parents liked to have a good time in the 80s, so it's likely that your basement was also a bar because it was a meeting place. After all, what is more fun and glamorous than Tom Clinclates mix with the suave tones of your kids playing atari in the background?

8
Theater Seats

leather recliner, 80s interior design
Shutterstock / Vladimir Jotov

The primary color trend that dominated the 80s far beyond extended accessories, textiles and tiles. In many snobblocks of this time, you can find a lot of oversized red leather furniture, a style more often associated withmovie theater only by today's standard houses.

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Glass walls block

glass block tile, 80s interior design
Shutterstock / S Busakorn

Were they the windows? Have they conceive accents? To tell the truth, no one knows. What we know is that if they can be something, but today in fashion, in the 1980s, the glass brick walls were commonplace in all the most popular houses.

10
Round beds

Round bed, rich 80s design trends
Shutterstock / Studio2Sim

Of course, you could not find leaves to adapt them correctly, and they are not exactly ideal for a roomFeng ShuiBut the beds were round a basic food in high-end houses in the 80s anyway.

11
Apple Lisa

apple lisa computer, 90s home design
Shutterstock / Masini

Although there is nothing inherently funny to have a computer at home, the amount of silver people were willing to pay for limited features of the Apple Lisa wasquite hilarious. These computers, which could do some tasks (largely related to word processing and calculations) and often crushed, sold for only a few dollars amounted to $ 10,000 when they hit the market in 1983, not exactly a plus affordable for the most parthome offices.

12
MIRRORED WALLS

mirrored closet, 80s interior design
Shutterstock / FoamFoto

If you like to watch yourself as much as Narcissus does, the aesthetic mirror heavy from the 80s could have just tickled your fantasy. Sometimes ceiling closet doors, reflective surfaces are also ubiquitous in the 1980s were red.

13
Sea-insired bathrooms

seashell nautical bathroom, 80s interior design
Shutterstock / Roman Peselh

While you can pick up a dish of shells for yourbathroom Today atTargetOr Tjmaxx, in the 1980s, the bathrooms inspired by the beach were a little important. In some particularly flagrant cases, these toilets have even combined two trends of the 80s: wallpaper edgesand motifs on the sea.

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Crystal cabinets

wooden cabinet with crystal wine glasses, 80s interior design
Shutterstock / Evok20

Baccarat Must have a murder in the 80s, because at the back, then crystal cabinets were virtually all members of the upper middle class. And why would not they be? It's not like you could keep your cup collection and crystal chess pieces on any old shelf.

15
Oversized aquariums

fish tank, 80s interior design
Shutterstock / Zakhar Mar

Fascination with fish strikes fever in the 1980s when countless high-end houses started using aquariums as a living centers, why would not you like an exclusive, expensive and difficult design element to maintain Who is prone in the middle of your room?

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Golden toilet

gold bathroom, 80s interior design
Shutterstock / Fiphoto

Maximalism was a major theme of the design of the 1980s until the bathrooms of the time. If you went to the house of a rich person in the 80s - and we hear areally Rich person - You might be found sitting on a literal golden throne. And it seems that our current president is a fan of this trend in the 80s design: whenDonald Trump asked to be loaned aVan Gogh Painting of the Guggenheim to hang at the White House, ArtistMaurizio Cattelan it offered one of its solid gold toilets to borrow instead, as confirmed by the museumThe Washington Post.

17
Dot matrix printers

old computer printer, 80s interior design
Shutterstock / Kodakovic

Ask everyone who was in the 80s and they would tell you that if you really wanted to piss your home office at the time, a Dot matrix printer was the best way to do it. The only reciprocal technology? Expensive bores of hard paper to use that had to be threaded correctly, waiting for documents to print and find space on your desktop for a machine of the size of a small car ... just to name it some.

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Engraved shower doors

glass shower doors, 80s interior design
Home Depot

A suits to tell you was in the house of a rich person during the Reagan era? Theirshower surround. While your average class home could have had a curtain or united glass doors enclosing space, your fancy friend was probably frostedGlass shower doors Engraved with images of plants or submarine scenes, like this one of the depot of the house.

19
Faux fruit

plastic fruit, 80s interior design
Shutterstock / Moolkum

A bowl of false fruits. You could not eat it or stock it too close to the stove - and yet your home in the 80s has not been fashionable without it.

20
Fantasy

elegant sunroom, 1980s home design
Shutterstock / Pics721

Of course, your extravagant solarium may not have beenair conditioner To cross you in the summer, and its lack of heating might have been unpleasant to spend time during the winter months, but these three months a year in which it was quite comfortable to use space N ' was nothing short of happiness.

21
Windows inspired by the porthole

porthole window, 80s interior design
Shutterstock / Boring

The sea inspiration was an essential component of the 80s architecture. Thanks to this nautical trend, Windows inspired by a porthole was just another involved and incurable part of the houses of 80s well to do.

22
Glass stairs

staircase with glass banister, 80s interior design
Shutterstock / Dpinilla

The only thing more dangerous than a steep staircase? An surrounded by glass windows prone to break. Of course, this has not preserved the "interior designers of the 80s to install them in countless houses anyway.

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Curtains on top with matching values

curtain and matching valance, 80s interior design
Shutterstock / Yuyangc

It was not just enough so that rich families cover their windows in the 80s. If you wanted your home to look at the foot, your windows were to be equipped with oversized curtains with Assorted values ​​adorned with gems, acorns and adorned fasteners. The higher the top, the better.

24
GEODE COLLECTIONS

geodes on tabletop, 80s interior design
Shutterstock / Conejota

For a brief period in the 80s, this improved version of your favorite childhood collection was a perfectly acceptable and even elegant decoration at home. All you had to do was placed a handful of amethysts and aged on your coffee table and you were practically ready for aBeautiful house disseminate.

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Plants hanging in bathrooms

woven planter, 80s interior design
Shutterstock / Tippytortue

The plant trend of the 80s does not simply apply to textiles and wallpaper. If you wanted a really elegant house, you needed a handful of macrame-hungplants In your bathroom. (With the shower steam, it was practically a greenhouse anyway, is not it?) And for more trips in memory memory, check these20 photos from the 1980s at home decor to overwhelm you with nostalgia.

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