Rewind: 1970s room

For the 1970s level I decided to do a living room, allowing me to scatter toys and other ephemera freely and also using it as an excuse for some period furniture (such as a G-Plan sideboard).

In the scene above you can see a handful of game objects:

• GPO model 706 phone (in Avocado), with connection block
• Telephone seat
• 1975 phone directory and Yellow Pages
• A can of Top Deck Lemonade Shandy, with ring-pull
• G-plan sideboard
• (Armrest belonging to a) Dralon-upholstered settee
• Raleigh Chopper bicycle

There are also a number of background semiotics to reinforce the 1970s context:

• Predominantly brown-orange-white colour palette
• Luminance shift: black lifted to dark grey
• Period patterned wallpaper
• Dark brown plain carpet
• Net curtains
• Wood-framed windows (with French windows at rear) with opening arm and decorative latch

It's worth noting that most visual references I found balance the carpet and wallpaper: if one was patterned, the other was plain.  Therefore I kept to that principle.

Unfortunately, due to time constraints, I didn't get the chance to make side curtains, which would have been a patterned carmine red colour.  Other intended objects included:

• G-Plan dining table with chairs
• Upright radiogram with stacking spindle on the turntable
• Electric bar fire with plastic fake coal effect top
• Wall clock with star-shaped surround
• Spanish holiday ephemera

Still, what I have produced gives a fair indication of the setting:

The next post will deal with some of the toys in the room.