“Discover the 44 Luxurious Home Features That Once Defined Elegance—But Are Now Collecting Dust!”
Living rooms with 1-3 steps down.
Decorative tile in bathrooms in god-awful color combinations -pink/black, etc.
Solid oak doors. Oak everything. This house was built in the 90’s but to old standards. It was oak plate rails in the walls. I was going to have them removed when I repainted, but they are glued and screwed to the walls. Removing them would have cost a small fortune, so I left them up… As a result, this house is incredibly solid and very, very quiet. Even my WIC has solid oak doors. Why? Who knows. I’m pretty sure this house could take a direct hit from a nuclear missile and not be worse for wear.
Trash compactors were big in new $$$ homes when I was a kid. We were impressed when people installed them in their existing homes.
Central vacuum.
I always thought there would be a clog in the pipe inside of a wall somewhere which would render the whole machine useless. I never had one but I had friends who did.
Interestingly, though, I’m seeing these videos on instagram now showing people using them and all the comments are like the people just discovered fire. “WOW!! What a great idea!! No more lugging a vacuum around. Brilliant!!”.
Milk doors. Small doors usually adjacent to side entrances, where the dairymen would leave products.
Bright pink or turquoise or green tile bathrooms with matching tub and toilet and sink. Whole house attic fans that could suck all of the heat out of the house in minutes.
Knotty pine. Our 1950s house has Knotty Pine kitchen cabinets and flooring throughout. We didn’t know about the knotty pine floors when we bought the house, as the owners had them covered with carpet. The floors were in pristine condition, as they had always been covered since the house was built. We kept all the knotty pine. One other oddity was every closet in the house was cedar-lined.
High-fidelity radios in the walls of each room. Saw that once in one of the richer towns in the SF Bay Area. Thing is that they were all early ’60s models and by the ’80s they were dated and sort of beside the point.
Floor outlets.
I actually had some installed in a condo I owned as the rooms were fairly large and to run a wired lamp across the floor would have been a real trip hazard.
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