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I'm torn and am thinking between late 60's and 70's!?

as am i, late 60's early 70's... i went with 70's because of the drapes...

50's. But I've been wrong all but once.

1970s

The table and the branch arrangement are very 90s. But everything else is very late 60s/early 70s. I also think the drapes are 70s, I'll go with that.

The decade of awesome.

july 25, 1968

The branches throw me off too - and I'm torn between late 60's and early 70's - So I'll have to go with the 70's...

Looks like the late 50s to me.

orange screams 70's, especially with avocado green

What a fun game!

Symptoms:
The two chairs have the splayed wooden legs which I believe to be very 50s.
The orange couch is made of a textured fabric – very 50s. The orange however is not very 50s – more 70s or 60s.
The brick wall could be 50s or 70s.
The lush carpet looks like a 50s colour but a more synthetic 60s or 70s fabric.
The table is definitely 30s.
The curtains have 70s colours but a 60s design which makes me think it could be cutting edge 60s.
The dual light hanging is probably 60s. In the 50s they tended to hang three lights and in different subdued (pastel) colours. The metallic colour is 60s or 70s to me.
The yellow glass (ashtray?) is 60s/70s and the twiggy display could not possibly be 50s

Diagnosis:
This room has elements from different eras but was probably taken in the late 60s.
Aside: [One of my big bugbears is when people construct a set (in film) for a particular era, they bombard the “room” with everything from the era the film is set in. In reality people have things from various decades in their houses… usually things they bought ten years ago, or inherited or were given as presents… this room is looks genuine]

Conclusion: I reckon the photo was taken in the late 60s but it has furniture from preceding eras in it. My guess is 1969… the year I was born!

50s. I base this mostly on the style of the furniture and the fabric used for the drapes.

At first, i could not decide between 1960s and now. The Ahstray made my decision: 1960s.

it's 1973 and they just started building toronto's CN tower.

my parents had this exact color scheme in our house growing up -- an orange modern sofa and a green shag rug. in fact, it's all still there in our family home in los angeles, a memorial to the decade i will not give away. this picture makes me very nostalgic.

yard sale to follow this summer in los angeles as i am faced with cleaning out our home of many, many decades.

Yeah baby...it's the 1970's! Far out man!

I am guessing a very avante-gaurde 1949.

those drapes are pure 70's

The curtains and furniture look 50's, but the ashtray and colors look 60's.

Based on fabric and the table, I voted 50s.

thinkin this is not the 50's do to:

-color of the couch
-ashtray - not that it's there, but that it's transparent
-color of the lighting
-table centerpiece is the deal killer on the 50's. no way.

-i can't place the table. i don't think it would be there in the 70's

late 60's it is!

/so obviously it's something else because i never get these right :)

Those light fixtures are 1960s all the way.

I think it is a 70's interpretation of the 40's.

Insert some underfed and half naked extras, and it's the set from Fiona's 'Criminal' vid. 1970s all the way...

All I know is it's making me sick with horrible flashbacks to my parents' home in the 70's. The decade of velour and bad taste and it's all coming back in style. oh joy.

Predicated on the table alone, I am going with the 90s.

I'm going with late 1950s....

late '50s, early '60s, going with '60s (the orange of the sofa and the slight shag of the rug)...

1957, the year my house was built.
PS to taniatingel, there are three lights hanging--look carefully on the right side of the photo...

The table is an homage to late deco which would put it in the 1940s, and that style of sandstone wall (or fireplace, especially) got big because of Frank Lloyd Wright's resurgence beginning in the 1940s, and the boxiness of that couch is very 1940s-1950s modern. The texture of the rug is worrying, but overall the look of the room looks late 1940s to early 1950s to me. I put 1940s but it could be early '50s also