“Discover the 44 Luxurious Home Features That Once Defined Elegance—But Are Now Collecting Dust!”
My friends bought a home in FL that was built around an indoor swimming pool. The house was a U-shape and every room (except bathrooms) opened onto the pool deck.
I’ve seen photos homes built in the 70s and the living room area is kinda designed like a “conversation pit”…dude that is so cool and I would love to have a home like that
Maybe not particularly fancy, but the house I grew up in (from the late 1950s) had an incinerator in the basement. You could just throw in burnable items and *POOF* they were rendered into ashes.
This now sounds like a nightmare and a disaster waiting to happen, and I am pretty sure they are now illegal, or at the very least, inadvisable.
I was surprised to see a motor device embedded into a friend’s house kitchen countertop. They said it’s a built-in blender motor that was there when they bought the house. Seemed like a super fancy thing.
I was thinking just the other day how much I miss a water bed and was wondering if you could still get one. We used to have a couple of water bed stores, but they are long gone.
Many homes used to have all-around porches for shade to help in the summer.
A bar in the home. They are *wildly* impractical unless you are entertaining (aka giving out free alcohol) a few days a week, at which point you’re just throwing away your money.
My dad’s house where he grew up had a ballroom. It was long out of use by the time they bought it.
We had that intercom in our 1973 built house. We used it as a baby monitor, would put the baby’s room on listen and pipe it to the family room which was downstairs. That required a bunch of switch flipping at the central station to figure out. They weren’t exactly flexible or user friendly. Had to do everything at the central station.
That was the only practical use we got out it in over 40 years.
