Posted on 06/13/2015 6:12:26 PM PDT by TurboZamboni
We were probably right to leave behind many hallmarks of yesterday's home, but it's time to reconsider these 15 once-popular details, not for their novelty, but for their practicality.
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I miss having a “junk room,” which everyone in my hood had back in the day == the room that served as a parking place for everything that didn’t have an actual place where it belonged.
We had big houses.
Open the top and bottom. Right on, bro.
Dumbwaiter, plaster walls, and needle showers come to mind.
Link’s fine. Bob’s priorities are a little mixed up. For one thing, 14 of those are not generally related to his attachment to one of the most hideous architectural forms of modern times, the A-frame. I mean, why didn’t he list geodesic dome homes? Or double-wide trailers? Or flat-roofed bauhaus city manors?
I have many junk rooms. As a matter of fact, the entire house is a junk room. It’s 120 years old next year.
The grand kids love it.
My children are so anal.
Try the following:
http://www.bobvila.com/slideshow/15-old-house-features-we-were-wrong-to-abandon-46066/dutch-doors
Had an uncle with an early 1900s addition to an early 1800s farm house and the dining room had windows like that.
You could raise two sections and walk out into the kitchen garden. Wonderful old house that’s now a parking lot.
Thanks!
I loved having steam heat and radiators. There are still some around.
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Where is the built in ironing board?
Thanks for your help. I may be past that stage even.
Hooahh.
!. Real wood structural elements.
2. 12/12 roofs in Nothern areas.
3. Basements.
4. Diagonal sheathing.
5. Hardwood flooring.
6. Plaster interiors and cove mouldings.
7. 100 amp panels.
8. Slate roofing.
9. Hardwood trim wider than 2”.
10. Brass hardware.
11. Leaded stained glass as accents.
12. Push button switches.
13. Family rooms without television.
14. Dining rooms where families eat together.
15. Home as a place where love resides instead of a place to crash.
I miss a really big walk in pantry. In colder climes, before refrigerators, everybody had a larder. The larder was insulated well from the kitchen access door,because you could open screened areas in the outside wall of the larder to let the cold outside air into that area to keep things cold in the winter months. If I could change anything in my house now, I would wish for an extra large pantry so I could also store extra kitchen appliances, extra large serving dishes, as well as food storage.
we had a phone “nicho” in an old rental home built in about the 1940s. It was charming, so when we remodeled our current house, we put one on the wall next to the stairs. It is perfect for putting a vase or objet d’art. It was not expensive to add a nicho, but it really adds charm.
My house is 135 years old but a farmhouse without high ceilings. Still OK, though, as it is in God’s country.
BS click click click click click click and more click link.
Welcoming front entrances with porches you can sit on.
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