“Discover the 44 Luxurious Home Features That Once Defined Elegance—But Are Now Collecting Dust!”
Double-hung windows are another thing that isn’t common these days. My house has them, and guess what they are made out of. And then! And then! My storm windows are also double-hung. They are an absolute PAIN to clean, but then I can heat the house in January with a match.
Kitchen counters that wrapped around a corner with a little 4-layer shelf thing at the curve.
An oven embedded in the kitchen wall. I can only imagine what a pain in the butt it would be to have to replace!
Our house had a brick indoor planter box by the stairs. Never had a plant in it the entire time we lived there. We mostly put junk in it that we couldn’t find a place for anywhere else.
I wouldn’t call it fancy but some older homes had open bricks in the attic, I mean just holes where there wasn’t a brick, in a cute pattern so there was air flow.
Most of the houses built in the 1950s in “Lamorinda” area of the SF East Bay have brink fireplaces in the kitchen with a separate fireplace for a rotisserie.
Atriums, unfortunately. Besides bringing the chores and smells of the outdoors indoors, people were lazy and didn’t want to maintain them. Plus, they were a security hazard, an easy way-in for thieves.
Not sure if it was a “fancy” feature, but you rarely see new homes with detached garages.
Matchy-matchy draperies, wallpaper, carpeting in every room.
At one time people liked wood panelled walls. I think they’re horrible, dark and depressing.
