Pity these aren't around today! Makes life easier

I used to drop my gi joe's with parachute down

These are not exactly obsolete; it depends on the style of your home. If my washer and dryer are in the basement, then I for sure want a laundry chute. Had one growing up and it was great.

I seriously consider making one. Our bedroom is above the laundry room. Wooden floors ..... not a big project at all ......

My house has one, I love it. No move having to haul laundry to the basement every few days, saves me half of the trips

My parent have on in their house that my dad made. They love it!

If I was building my own home I'd either have my laundry room on the same floor as the bedrooms or I'd have a laundry chute and quite frankly a laundry chute would be much more fun.

We have live in our 100 year old house for 50 years and love our laundry chute. It starts from the hall outside the bedrooms and bathroom and goes to the basement where the washer and dryer are.

I still have one, thank goodness!

We've got one in our house built in the 70s.

I dated a guy who had a modest 2 story home with washer and dryer in the basement with one. I loved it! As someone who has taken a spill on stairs carrying laundry baskets (or not) this is a thing that should be required!

We had one in a house when I was growing up. Open the linen closet, lift the handle on the floor and toss. I used to throw my teddy bear down it and my mom would have to retrieve it.

We had one in the family farm house. Upstairs - dropped into a cabinet in the downstairs bathroom that was a lot closer to the laundry room. I'm not sure I'd spend a bunch of extra money to own one but it was handy. More useful IMO was the dumb waiter / elevator thing that would bring a box of firewood up from the basement to next to the fireplace.

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There were several in my grandparents' house.

My childhood home didn't just have a phone nook, it was almost a phone booth inset into the hallway with its own built in seat. All it lacked was a door. I absolutely loved it and used it for hours on end after school.

Now aren’t you glad you didn’t rip out the quality hardwood and replace it with the pressed sawdust s**t they call doors nowadays?

The attic fans should still be a thing, especially in really hot, humid areas. Depending on the particular shade of pink or green, as well as the contrasting color(s) of the tiles and porcelain, it might look kinda preppy, but it’s it really an eyesore. Some of it might be a b***h to find replacements for, though.

When I was a kid in the 50s we had a box on the front porch. One for milk and one for bread. Yes, the baker also delivered fresh bread every day.

My parents still have one full of porcelain, glass and crystal items. I had to dust them every week, and I hated it. :))

I will take a sunken living room any time. No carpet however.

Awesome!

Sunken living rooms were considered chic back in the day.

Pre-A/C and central heating, they had to be clever to stay cool. They’d design houses with great airflow, like the front and back doors lined up so upending them would allow air flow through, and make sure to plant shade trees near them, so they’d be cooler in the summer, but let a lot of sunlight—-aka solar heat—-in autumn when the leaves fell off and the colder weather rolled in. Upstairs they had screened-in sleeping porches to catch some of the cooler outside air on hot nights. If you move into an older house with these features, make use of them. It just might keep your heating and cooling bills low until the weather gets too unbearable.

Trash compactors always seemed like a waste to me. you had to buy special bags to go in them and once the trash gets to the garbage truck it gets compressed anyway.

Thought that was making a comeback.

Our family farm house had one of these as well. PROS: A lot less noise because the actual vacuum was in the basement. Better for allergy people because the outlet air is also going to the basement plus there is room down there to install some sort of HEPA filter if you want. CON: More expensive, need to be installed during house build (much easier anyway). The hose you plug into the wall is rather long since you typically had about one suction point per room. This meant the hose was kind of a PITA to roll back up and store.

I would much rather have one of these than the freestanding one I have now.

TBH, there are other ways to use them—-and I don’t mean riding in them like we did when we were dumb kids (I’m amazed I have lived to tell about all the dumb s**t we did when we were kids back in the day). If there’s no actual laundry chute, you could send your hamper down in it. If someone in the family is sick in bed on the upper floor of the house, you can send their dinner up—-and back down—-without having to balance it to avoid spilling anything while going up and down the stairs. Lots of things can be moved between floors in old dumb waiters without anyone having to negotiate the stairs. Think outside the box, folks!

Those finished basements WERE the rec rooms! Absolutely perfect for kids’ sleepovers too. They have some privacy, but you’re still in the house to intervene if something happens. Just get your a*s up and go check on them to be sure they’re OK, ffs.

As well as whole house intercom systems.

Cedar closets are supposed to be moth-proof. They also smell nice. So please don’t rip the cedar linings out.

Eh, if you have the room, I don’t see a problem with this still being a thing.

Agreed. So this one really depends on the room.

You mean for dough rising?

Pro tip, if you have a decent amount of piercings water beds are NOT your friend

Apartment buildings used to have these too, for burnable trash, along with a garbage chute for the other trash. Thing is, a lot of what we throw out, like plastic, ended up in the incinerators, and created toxic smoke. So we don’t incinerate trash anymore.

My dad bought wireless intercoms when I was a kid so he wouldn’t have to yell or figure out what room everyone was in when dinner was ready.

And may they STAY gone too.

Imagine if you pulled up the metal plate there and be able to witness 70 years of different meals and things 😳

Good place for cookbooks or knick-knacks, or your nicer mixing bowls.

Not a bad thing, and as long as there are people who are well-read, and have any sense of romance, canopy beds should never completely go away.

Omg, my mom even had dishware sets that matched the wallpaper

I always liked the look of these. Very 60s.

Your dad lived in a house that was in what used to be a very wealthy neighborhood.

If you have the space and don't need it for anything else, why not.

That typo really brought me to the brink.

I had no idea what a 'double-hung window' was. It appears to be a sash window where both the top and bottom sashes move. This is the only type of sash windows I have encouncountered. They are incredibly common in Scottish houses built before 1930.

Or the awful flock wall paper. Generally seen in Indian restaurants here in England.

It's just that in the past, appliances really lasted a lifetime and it was possible to repair them without spending more than the purchase price (as happens today), so the practicality of replacing or dismantling them was put on the back burner.

I hated them back in the day,. I thought they were tacky and looked like the walls of a bordello. I would not have them in my house now, even if they become the height of chic. I will take my regular non-reflective walls any day, and choose to put up A mirror in one spot on one wall, not the entire circumference of the damned room, thank you very much.

My home from 1935 has a detached garage and we can JUST fit our 2023 tacoma in it. They aren't meant for modern sized cars at all.