Meet Dylan,a young man with fascination for the 1960s and everything that he thinks was cool about that decade.




My name's Dylan and I have a bit of a '60s obsession. I have spent a lot of time creating an environment to live in that I believe sort of authentically captures the essence of '60s interior design. I think it's really important to create a really nice space for yourself to live in. It says a lot about you as a person. I moved into this house and it was cream. Every surface was cream. Carpet sort of stank. And I knew something had to be done. And several years down the track, it's sort of almost perfect. There's still a few details that I'd like to keep working on, finish off properly. But it's a living project. I remember a few years back in Melbourne I was shopping around in lots of second-hand furniture shops and I came across these light fittings that I just... I saw and I thought, "Wow, they're great."

So I suppose a lot of the stylistic, aesthetic choices I've made have sort of flowed on from, what, you know, those light fittings.



I got a lot of these sort of ideas from various books and things that I've found in op shops about '60s home design and interior design, and watching movies from the '60s.

But it's more than just that as well. Like, the music... It's kind of the whole era, it generally sort of appeals to me. Where do you stop, really? A lot of the things that I really love and have collected over time, I've inherited from my grandparents. So I suppose as far as the '60s obsession, it probably really began years back when I was a kid and I just remember seeing some of these things around my grandparents' houses and just thinking that they were great.




So I suppose a lot of the stylistic, aesthetic choices I've made have sort of flowed on from, what, you know, those light fittings. I got a lot of these sort of ideas from various books
and things that I've found in op shops about '60s home design and interior design, and watching movies from the '60s.

But it's more than just that as well. Like, the music... It's kind of the whole era, it generally sort of appeals to me. Where do you stop, really? A lot of the things that I really love and have collected over time, I've inherited from my grandparents. So I suppose as far as the '60s obsession, it probably really began years back when I was a kid and I just remember seeing some of these things around my grandparents' houses and just thinking that they were great.



So I suppose a lot of the stylistic, aesthetic choices I've made have sort of flowed on from, what, you know, those light fittings.
I got a lot of these sort of ideas from various books. It's kind of the whole era, it generally sort of appeals to me. I just remember seeing some of these things



I never really specifically set out to live a sort of authentic '60s existence. It just kind of has turned out a bit like that. For example, you know, I have an old '50s fridge. It's not particularly convenient because I have to sort of defrost it every six weeks, but I just love the look of that fridge and the kind of feel of how that fits in my place. I don't have a mobile phone, much to all of my friends' annoyance. But I'm still able to be contacted on my regular landline phone just like they did back, you know, in the '50s and '60s. I suppose really what appeals to me most about the '60s is probably the aesthetic. I guess some elements of the social sort of conventions and etiquette sort of appeals to me too. I think sometimes we're a bit too relaxed now about certain things, you know, like getting out of going to someone's party by just sort of sending a text on your mobile phone. In the '60s, people kind of made a commitment. I actually just really love being in my house now. It's my little haven, I suppose.