20 Old Home Features That Have FADED Into History | HomeDecor | Historical Interior Design
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- Join us on a journey through time as we uncover 20 once-common home features that have faded into history. From milk doors to ice boxes, these nostalgic relics of the past offer a glimpse into the way homes were built and lived in decades ago. Discover the stories behind these forgotten features and reminisce about the charm they brought to old homes. Let's celebrate the evolution of home design and architecture!
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This video makes me feel old. I grew up in a lath and plaster home with a parlor, coal chute, ice box, milk box, laundry chute, boot scraper, claw foot bathtub, transom windows and a phone nook. Now that we're becoming more energy conscious, transom windows, Dutch doors and sleeping porches make more sense than running the AC. I'm sure nobody misses shoveling coal and hand lighting the furnace in freezing weather.
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I just moved into a 77 year old home with lath mad plastic walls and have been perplexed as to how to hang art. Now I know what we need!
They never should have eliminated the transom windows and sleeping porches! Besides the AC energy savings, here in the Midwestern US, storms that knock out power lines are not that rare, and sometimes houses have no power for several days. The strong thunderstorms are most frequent in the late Spring and Summer, when it can be very hot and humid.
Maybe just my internal thermostat is defective, but trying to sleep when it's too hot is much worse than moderate activity when it is too hot and humid.
Something common in older houses was also the "flow thru" ventilation, where you had windows on opposite sides of the house, so you could have a real breeze inside! So practical, and doesn't use any electricity. My current condo, built 1970, only has windows and a glass door all on one side of the apartment... No breeze at all unless the wind is about 60 mph from the West.... or if you have about 5 big square fans for the windows and the door.
***However***, please, please, please, don't bring us back to "no indoor plumbing" Thank you!
And another thing, more older houses had fireplaces, wood stoves, or coal heating that would work when the electric power is off. Our local winter storms also tend to take out power lines. With the "modern" gas furnaces, there is no heat when the power is off. Fortunately, my condo has a gas fireplace in the living room that will run with now electric power. I shouldn't ever have to freeze to dealt in here!
I owned a Victorian tutor that was built in 1902. When I bought it in 2003, nothing was changed; except some appliances were added and a small fuse box was being used. The knob and tube wiring was used for all the lights, and all the electrical wires were spliced to so many outlets all in different rooms.
We had to add so much to get the house updated and for fire safety reasons.
The rest of the house had everything mentioned in this video. Including the old radiators, original fireplaces, single layered glass windows with sashes, and pulley and weight system to raise and lower the windows. We also had the coal shoot and the old small pile of coal in the basement. Yet, the furnace ran on oil. Hard wood used for trim, Wainscoting, doors, winding staircases, and flooring. Glass, or brass door knobs. Stain glass detailing and tile hearths.
The old craftsmanship that went into the house was priceless. We could never replicate any of it. We refurbished most of the original items, like the twist and turn carved brass doorbell and the locks that used the skeleton keys. Man, one repair couldn't be done until something else was finished first. There was always a hidden issue laying low. We knick named the house, The Money Pit. I'd never buy another old house again, but I'm glad I had that opportunity. I learned a lot about home repair, home ownership and the history of the time.
I'm anachronistic in this modern word. No black/grey/white or steel and glass boxes. I love the older designs like these. So homey and cozy. I think some of us long for a time that's gone for good.
My husband and I have decorated our home that way. Warm woods and early American furnishings. We have had so many people comment on how cozy our home is. Black, white, and gray aren't the colors for us. Stark uncomfortable looking furniture with Chrome. A 60's look with a twist. I personally think these rooms look like a poorly decorated Dr.'s office.
I feel EXACTLY the same way. My consolation? It will not be too much longer before my time has passed, too, and I will not be here any longer.
We just built a new house and we put transom windows above our living room, dining room, and kitchen doors.
Actually a great idea. Especially if you have a heat pump or wood stove. We ended up having to add a screen door to a bedroom we needed to keep the cats out, but still heat.
Clawfoot tubs are back in style again, sleeping porches too.
I Think that You'd be hard pressed to find, A cast iron clawfoot tub these days. I DO KNOW there are so e places that still sell them. Most NEW Clawfoot tubs are made from fiberglass .
I grew up with an ice box, latte and plaster, rotary telephones, we didn't have a television till I was 12 years old, entertainment was playing games, reading the Bible, outdoor activity, and you didn't back sass !!!😅
That's for darn sure!!
I love the warmth of the vintage features.
My mama, a practical minded woman, had a laundry chute built into her 1968 custom built house. She looked at the 4 floors between the bedroom level and the first basement, where the washer and dryer were located, and decided that anything that reduced trips up and down the flights of stairs was a good thing.
I live in a century old Craftsman style bungalow with lathe and plaster walls. I love them! The quietest house I have ever lived in.
We had a laundry chute in our 1959 colonial style house. Later on we couldn't use it anymore because that was where they put our new water heater next to the washing machine.
@@julienielsen3746 Oh, too bad! Last time I had to get a new water heater, I opted for a tankless one--takes up far less space (It's about the size of a suitcase hung on the wall), way more energy efficient and, while it cost about 1/3rd more initially, it will last more than 3x as long as a conventional water heater.
@@GrainneDhub-ll6vw Didn't have those in the 70s I think.
@@julienielsen3746 versions of the tankless heater go back to the early 1800s. The modern style tankless heater goes back to the late 1950s. It's far from a new technology.
@@GrainneDhub-ll6vw OK. Whatever.
I wonder if we could not bring milk doors back as a way to put deliveries inside the home away from porch thieves?
Ours didn't lock from outside, so unless ypu just wanted it out of sight, the milk door was accessible to anyone. The interior milk doircwas latched from the inside. You are thinking more of the mail slot function where packages could be pushed directly into the home.
Love old homes but with modern conveniences…
We forget that they were state of the art features in their time and not something found in the average home.
My parents are in their 90’s and still in their house. They have a milk door and a laundry shoot
My parents are gone but they also had a milk door and laundry shoot. My son and his fiancé bought the house from my father and love these features and are proudly to keeping them.
Our last house had a shoot. One from the second floor and a door to it from the first floor. Loved it. New house has main floor laundry. No basement.
I have a milk door and a laundry chute in my 1950 bungalow (I'm 60).
I think you mean laundry chutes. Unless your killing your clothes..
Some of it should come back
The parlor room concept was still around to some degree when I was growing up in the seventies and eighties. In our family, my house, and the houses of both sets of aunts, uncles, and cousins, as well a number of friends of mine, there was a living room that was almost never used -- I called these rooms museums for nice furniture. The family actually _used_ a different room we all called the den, that's where the TV was and where everyone spent time together. The only time the living rooms were used was when there was a salesman in the house, or other guests who were basically strangers. And we weren't rich or anything; we were all ordinary middle class people, but in suburbia, we had houses spacious enough to indulge this sort of custom.
Yes, I grew up the same way. Of course we had a parlour and a formal dining room and scullery/butter's pantry, etc. We also had two quite small rooms right off of the foyer that were for greeting a visitor who would come to visit for some reason but not stay long and was not invited back into the rest of the house. We also had another feature I greatly miss---so-called French windows. These windows were literally the length of the wall. The ran from the point at which the wall met the ceiling all the way down to the ground. Opened, they let in an enormous amount of fresh air not to mention the beautiful fragrance of the roses in the garden on the ground floor.... {{{SIGH}}}
And, no you did not have to be uber rich to live in this sort of house. I think homes were built to be more gracious in the old days compared to now. I do not like modern homes where rooms are soulless boxes.
Every house I've lived in - including the house I proudly own now - had/has lath and plaster instead of sheet rock. My house is over 120 years old and is in beautiful condition. A testament to good old fashioned building skills. I grew up with claw foot tubs, and my mother always referred to our refrigerator as the ice box.
I would LOVE a laundry chute. I think it would help keep the bedrooms, especially, tidy.
I have a laundry chute in my 1950 bungalow. Quite convenient!
We live in a restored 1898 Victorian. It has 2 sets of pocket doors, an elopement porch off the upstairs master bedroom, an oak breakfast nook, and some of the other features menttioned here. Fun video! Thanks!
God that's a beautiful staircase in the beginning of the video
Fun video! My house was built in 1900. It has a coal chute, butlers pantry, parlor, lathe & plaster walls, and knob & tube wiring (recently replaced). It was also artfully designed to admit cool airflow - with windows facing each other turning the 2nd story hall into a breezeway. I love my house 😊
Oh, and razor bank slots.
Very cool!
Gosh, what a blast from the past....I recall so many of these things growing up.... I miss the old days. Life now has a lot of advantages, but it has a lot of disadvantages, too. Would I go back in time if given the chance? Yes, I would! I honestly do not recognise the world I live in any more or the people in it....
I've always wanted a butler's pantry....but I have a bunch of these in my house!
A beautiful wooden Butler’s pantry in the house I grew up in. It was built in the very very early 1900s which was beautiful. I recently sold the house. The people that bought it took it out and put in powder room broke my heart. I have no idea what they did with that wood probably threw it out.
@@terrymeehan7787 Heartbreaking.
I still like plaster walls because they are excellent sound absorbers.
3:11 with online package delivery service becoming more common nowadays, might as well bring back “THE Milk Doors.”
Chamber pots😂❤❤❤
Wow, I had all of these features in the homes I grew up in except iceboxes, witch windows and California coolers.
I didn't see any picture rails when you talked about them. They were strips of nice wood afoot or two below the ceiling and parallel to it, for the length of the room. Big paintings can be put up this way. Also bring back transoms! They work!🌿
Look again @ 4:13 …
picture rails
They were white next to a white ceiling. Easy to miss.
I like milk doors, phone nooks, boot scrapers, laundry chutes, and dumb waiters. Much of the past could be merged into the modern.
I think that’s a dodge on “parlor”. The parlor was where wakes were often held for family members who died. Apparently newer architects and sellers decided to make it less morose by emphasizing “living” for living room. This may have also coincided by an increase in “funeral PARLORS” (as they were often called) taking the body and keeping it away from the home altogether. Thus, put behind the “death” aspect that parlor often connoted for the house.
Feature that has faded ? Any kind of actual craftsmanship and quality
The elementary school I went to in Colorado (1977-1979) had boot scrapers near the entrances you could use to scrape snow off your boots before you go inside.
When I was a child in the 1980s my grandmother had what we called the "fancy room" which I guess was like a parlor. It was just outside their bedroom and as far as I know they didn't use it for entertaining, it was just where my grandmother kept her collection of antiques. I was the only one of the grandchildren allowed in that room because she knew all I would do is sit in there and read, or maybe play on her piano. Any of my more rambunctious cousins would have torn the place apart 😂😂
Thank you for sharing these interesting historic details!
Nice Wallpaper! big flower prints
Philadelphia is filled with row houses with coal chutes, usually at sidewalk level. Coal was the principal source of heat until the 1950’s.
The parlor was also originally used in the home for the dead to be laid out for a wake before “funeral parlors” became the standard.
I loved my grandmothers clawfoot tub
I have a laundry chute in my home which was built in the 1960s. I have to say I love it.
The heat pump / summer fan, lift cool air from the basement to the ceiling of the top floor in the warm season, put warm air from the ceiling of the top floor into the basement in the cold season.
the modern summer fan setup is a broken version that doesn't work, since it vents at the FLOOR of the room not the ceiling.
I was reading about Humphry Bogart & that before he passed, he was so weak that they'd transfer him from floors by putting him in the dumbwaiter, rather than trying to carry him up/down the stairs.
Our house was built in 1902, and really hasn't changed much since then, save the addition of bathrooms above the basement. We have a claw foot tub, back stairs, servants' quarters on the third floor, a double parlor with pocket doors, a kitchen sink from the 1920s or earlier, and a built-in suitor's bench. We are only the second family to live here!
I've always been a sucker for houses with back stairs, which somehow didn't make it onto the video.
Soon to be joining this list: dining rooms ("A whole separate room just for eating meals?"); hallways (messes up that open floor plan so dear to contemporary architects: every house a sitcom set); real kitchens that aren't merely a corner of the Great Room fitted out with sink, stove, fridge, and a couple of cabinets; private yards; even bedrooms eventually will give way to sleeping pods. Future generations will tour the few remaining mid-century suburban single-family houses the way people today go through Versailles and Hearst Castle, and marvel at the luxury.
That's what I hate about newer homes, they all look like sitcoms.
I wish I still lived in an older home.😥
Coffin corners are interesting. Saw these in some old houses in Boston.
I remember those slots for the razors, and it would be nice to have a phone nook!
This video makes my house feel old.
I'd love to see pantries, transom windows, laundry shoots, California coolers, & boot scrapers become standard in all houses. Dumbwaiters & clawfoot tubs optional.
Not my home, but when my husband and were looking for our first home, we saw so wierd stuff. I believe the most interesting was a set of servent's stairs located behind the master bedroom. Not the stairs themselves, but the 1950s Frigidaire that had some how been placed in an alcove at the top. I must have been assembled in place. There is NO way that thing could have made it up the stairs, let alone through any of the doorways. It still worked by the way.
That is awesome!
California coolers still make sense in the Bay Area where it doesn’t freeze in the winter and, if you are west of the foothills, it usually doesn’t get hot in the summer.
I miss pocket doors.
I saw electrical tubes and knobs in the old buildings of my grandparents as a kid. It was unused as more updated wiring had since been installed next to it.
We had milk door and laundry chute blade bank slots laugh and plaster I loved those old houses
My dad had two or three clawfoot tubs that were used to water livestock.
Root cellars were considered a must-have in the 18, 19th, and early 20th centuries. Usually constructed under the house much like a basement. These were a simple dirt floor and dirt walls. The walls could also have primitive stone walls. Constructed this way to utilize the coolness of the ground to slow further ripening of produce and keeping canning jars cool as well.Constructed to store produce and canned good for the coming 'lean months# November through April when most of the country wasn't producing food for consumption. Still puzzled ?.... Visit Auntie M's in the film "The Wizard of Oz"
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You're welcome 😊
Service stairways. Usually small narrow back stairways that start in the kitchen and go up with an exit on each floor ending on the floor with servants’ quarters. Staff would use these and not the main staircase. We have one in our home.
That's a great idea!
Dusting has died given how dusty that woodwork was
We had none of those items in our house growing up.
I still have a laundry chute.
nice
The Ice Man.
Lmao, that is a nook with a phone in it. Not a phone nook. They featured a phone wired into the wall, and usually were on a party line, meaning your neighbors can listen in.
My current house, from the early '80s has a "parlor" of sorts. It's inaccessible from the outside, only used for company, and always clean. I would like a glass door to totally separate it from the front door. BTW, do they still install whirlpool tubs? They were hot in the '70s and '80s. BTW, I would love a pantry to store non-perishable food, as well as seldom-used appliances, utensils and cookware..
Washer and dryer belong in the basement where you can easily throw all dirty clothes down the clothes chute.
I have a boot scraper.
Me too. Shaped like a black cat.
I need a mud scrapper. If you think road here is bad, wait until you see the driveway. Yeehaw! The downside of no neighbors...
@@punkinhoot You can still find some. I got mine at a thrift store. Renaissance faires, possibly sporting goods/fishing/hunting places? Find a blacksmith and get them to make one?
@neophytealpha my mud scraper is an iron black with a long tail to scrape your shoes!! It was a gift years ago, and I love it!!
@@mabelbenson586 I like mine too. Great thing to have.
Huh. No actual picture of the claw foot when talking about claw foot tubs.
I don’t know, I still might want to use some of these. Their date or vintage are unimportant to me.
You mean to tell me these homes are no longer standing or occupied? Or just that newer homes don’t have them??
I absolutely HATE the monotony and coldness of modern homes and open floorplans. They're awful. Homes shoyld be warm and inviting with lots of color. I don't wish to live in a museum and I don't believe in decorating for the fictitious next person. Decorate how YOU want YOUR home.
So many of the homes I see appear cold and sterile. I prefer a “living in” home.
LATH and plaster.
Transom windows = sunlight, security, privacy + BUGS
depends, some transoms angled out from the bottom so a screen could be placed to keep bugs out, unlike the rotation style shown in the vid. ( I have lived in multiple buildings with transoms above the doors that tilted from the top so could be screened to keep bugs out. )
Dumb waiters were useful and should still exist.
As always, this is all about America 🙄
If the person making the video is American, why wouldn't it be about America? That's what they know. Anyone is free to make their own video about any country.
They are not Dutch doors. The picture is an open window.
At 4min 45 seconds the Dutch door is to the right.
It is most definitely a Dutch door. Top and bottom can be opened separately.