Link no good.
Missed crawlspace.
The coffin corner.
I don’t know who ‘we’ might refer to. I love some of these old features but the reality is that architects and builders have foisted boring designs and cheap, tacky materials and workmanship on the market in order to speed up construction while demanding ever increasing prices for shoddy product.
Triple hung windows with 10-foot ceilings for ventilation.
Wider, shorter windows placed higher on the wall that didn’t dictate the placement of furniture. House place with long dimension parallel to street rather than parallel to lot side fences so there was stuff to see out said windows.
Good list, but the claw tubs, no, and the door mail slot won’t work, as the post office moves away from house to house delivery. I also think that the phone nook would not really work as planned, but would probably just become a flat surface to clutter.
Intercoms, really?
I also like actual rooms that older homes had. Builders, I am sure, love these great room plans and esthetically they look very nice but for livability and use of space I don't care for it.
My aunt still has a laundry chute in her house. A good idea if your laundry is in the basement. I see that nowadays it’s fashionable to put the laundry on the second or third floor — wherever the bedrooms are. Saves a lot of steps.
What I miss is wood paneling on the walls. My parents had it in our house. It gave the illusion of warmth and may have actually made the house warmer in winter.
Boot scrapers yes but better yet scraper and brush.
Pretty decent list.
My favorite is worrying about heat loss and then having entire walls made of glass and 20 foot ceilings. Truly brilliant.
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 loved having steam heat and radiators. There are still some around.
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Where is the built in ironing board?
!. 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.