I bought a house (built in 1960) about three and a half years ago. The previous owner left behind a Sears Kenmore refrigerator, a Maytag clothes washer, and a Speed Queen dryer… all from the early 1970s. All of them work perfectly. Those appliances were manufactured when MADE IN AMERICA meant high quality and durability.
Our washer is more than 20 years old and we will be keeping it when we move to our next house. We will also be almost immediately be getting rid of the fridge in favor of some more almond colored fridge from the 80’s, because it will likely outlive us.
Thus brings back so many memories of the 70s and 80s. The first home my parents had built together was completed in July of 1976 and it had many things mentioned here. The several inch sunken living room (not a pit), the wood paneling in the family room. The shag carpet which was later replaced by sculpted in the mid 80s. The harvest gold appliances, flooring and wallpaper in the kitchen. All we need is some disco. My friend's house had the swinging doors into the kitchen and, what I called, the globule fireplace in the corner. We had a massive brick fireplace. What memories!
People and especially children would inevitably trip and hurt themselves, even die from sunken living rooms. There’s a reason why they don’t exist anymore.
@@jimmyday9536you’ve got that right! My son just said the other day that they don’t seem to make cars in many colors anymore…just white, black and silver.
AMEN especially in these cookie cutter neighborhoods where they make you sign a contract preventing you from making any changes to exterior in the name of neighborhood aesthetics. Most likely made power hungry hoa members with an ego the size of Texas
I've been an Authorized NuTone Service Center for almost 40 years. I've sold, installed and serviced thousands of new and existing Intercom Systems. We repair about 425 Systems each year adn I can tell you that Intercom Systems are not obsolete. Their popularity wained mostly becasue the manufacturers didn't keep up with modern technology. It's a simple fact that if you design a product that people want, they will buy it. Intercom Systems are rarely removed and often times it's less expensive to repair them than remove them. I find it interesting that you showed Systems from the lat 1950's through the mid 1960's - The hayday of equipment was in the mid 1980's throuigh the mid 2000's and most of those Syetms are still in use - Chris
When I was a kid my parents moved into a 70s built two story 4 bedroom home equipped with an intercom system. 15 years later in 1988 they had me rip out all the intercoms and patch the drywall because it was so outdated lol.
Interesting. Do you still use wired receivers or it's all over wifi? My country completely missed the wired intercom boom; in the 1990s we installed ethernet-connected intercoms, and now the business is completely dead owing to cheap wifi sets. Five euros apiece, no wires, no drilling. But no security guarantee. Who knows who can tap into them.
@@Provocateur3 Boy, I'm with you on that one. Our laundry room is downstairs in our daylight basement, and I have to lug a heavy laundry basket up and down. Not at all convenient!
We also called them kidney shaped pools. Unfortunately, we didn’t have one…nor did any of our neighbors. I’m totally glad I watched this, as we didn’t have any of them, and I haven’t cried yet today. I now have a reason to. 😒
Thank you. I worked for a company that installed swimming pools in the 1970s. They were called Kidney Shaped pools. This is the first time I've ever heard them called jelly bean pools.
My son 2 years ago built a dumb waiter for a customer of his . It means the owners don't have to carry food down two flights of stairs to their outdoor kitchen
Some of these should really still be used for their practical value! Particularly laundry chutes (if you have a basement or downstairs laundry room) and pull-out cutting boards. My current house (built in the 50's but renovated) has a pull-out cutting board and it's so helpful! My grandmother's house had a laundry chute which I obviously loved to play with by repeatedly sending my stuffed animals down and going down to the basement to retrieve them - but it was safe because it was mounted on the wall and was not tall enough or wide enough for me or my sibling to climb into (not that we would have lol). I'm also saddened by the persistence of "modern" design - because ever since the 1980's, this has just translated to bland and uniform colors and features that exist for their neutrality and resalability. Colorful kitchens, appliances, and conversation pits are so cool, fun, and a way to really make your space your own! I understand not using wallpaper as much since it's a tedious thing to clean/maintain and change, plus it's a mold risk, but colorful designs can be achieved in better ways through painting or installing real backsplashes. In general I think we should recognize the value of adding color and interesting designs to make our spaces our own if it's something we enjoy and are able to achieve. This is super long-winded, but I think this standard is enforced societally in a way that is a direct consequence of capitalism's need to push that aforementioned neutrality and uniformity for a number of reasons, but in part because of that sense of lack of permanence in any place one might be living in. Take "beige moms" for example - there's very real evidence that diversity of colors and designs are actually important to the development of young children's brains, and is even valuable to our mental health at any stage of life. My point is, even if you're renting, don't be afraid to make your space how you like it even if it's through hanging pictures and tapestries (gotta get that security deposit back) life is short and you deserve to enjoy your space even if it's temporary!
The house we moved into in 1951 had both a clothes chute and a milk chute (that's what we called the milk door). It was a two-story home with a full basement so the clothes chute was handy.
@@carlsaganlives4036 I still see a few colorful cars around, but not that many, especially bright yellow or orange ones. Mine is candy-apple red, and hubby's is bright yellow. Yeah, we love the colors. Constant blandness really isn't very uplifting.
The home that I grew up in (built in the 1920's) had a built in ice box in the back porch into the kitchen. One time when the refrigerator broke down for good my parents used it in place of a refrigerator until they were able to buy a new one.
We own a custom built home built in 2000. It has 2 pull out cutting boards in our large kitchen, a laundry chute, 2 large stone (gas) fireplaces, and a Murphy bed! Love the Murphy bed because the room then becomes our "library" when no in use, and then easily becomes a bedroom for guests.
My granddad built my house in 1949. I have a full, solid swing door between my kitchen and dining room. When I remodeled my house, I thought about taking it down, but decided against it. I’m glad I left it.
My grandparents had that too in their 1950s home. I loved it and have thought how convenient to have today because when we have dinner parties, the mess in the kitchen is right there! with the open modern architecture. I hate that.
@@rmac113 I watched lots of episodes in syndication as a kid in the 80’s. One of my favorite shows along with I dream of Jeannie and Gilligan’s Island. ☺️
And just as we had one in our arts and crafts house, our swinging door featured a kick-plate at the bottom so that you could open the door with your foot without marring the finish, given that your hands were carrying dishes.
My grandparents always left their swinging door open so that people wouldn’t get smacked in the face by someone coming in the other direction. There’s a reason why they don’t have those dumb doors anymore.
In 1973 when I was 4, we moved into a house for a couple of years in San Diego where we had a milk man that came once a week. He'd deliver milk, eggs, cheese, ice cream etc. With a family of 5 to take care of, my mom loved it.
I remember the milkman in the late fifties and early sixties. He would deliver chocolate milk if you so desired. I thought him to be mysterious, like Santa Claus. I once got out of bed very early and slyly peeked out the window to see him. He wore a white suit and a white hat.
@@latinforever LOL. I have similar memories. We lived in a little 2 bedroom ranch/bungalow on a hillside, with a somewhat long steep driveway down to the front of our house. I was often awake before anyone else and for some reason would hang out behind our couch, which was under a big picture window, until someone else got up. I recall watching the "mysterious milkman" making our delivery from that window. Not being far from the pacific ocean, early mornings were often pretty foggy, which definitely added to the mystic.
@@misslora3896 We had bay windows in the living room, and my mother had placed a couch in that recess. My best friend and I would hang out behind that couch. It was like our secret place. My mother did not approve of this behavior. We would also run around on the bluffs above the Mississippi. We would be gone for hours, playing army or talking about The Twilight Zone or whatever. We were about four when we started doing that.
@@ALT-vz3jn And if all one cares about is practicality, then one doesn't need a sunken living room. But if one wants more charm and intimacy in their home decor, then a sunken living room is just the thing to provide it. It just depends on what one wants in one's home, and can enjoy.
I miss wood panelling. I always get nostalgic seeing these because it's always seen in the background of a family photo or in my case my birthdays as a young child.
I owned a pretty older home in the 1980s with a milk door. AND I had a milk service that would deliver milk, eggs, cheese and other products once or twice a week. It was great and I was thankful that our milk door hadn't been removed by prior owners. I also had a swing door between the kitchen and dining room. It wasn't attached when we viewed the house or moved in, but we discovered it in the rafters of the garage (along with a beautiful leaded glass insert for the front door that had slight damage and had been removed and replaced with clear glass - the old, oak door was basically a frame and the whole thing was glass!). Anyway, we cleaned the swing door, painted it and hung it and I loved it!
I have not seen an ashtray in a private home for well over 35 years, they were commonplace in the 1960's and 1970's even in homes where there were no smokers, they were provided for guests.
we had the intercom in the house we built, in 1984...had it in another house too, I think, but they were great....I could answer the front door while cooking in the kitchen, or call the kids to supper or have music going throughout the house, or check on the kids...I would have it again if I could
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I was born in 1971 lived in a house as follows. Avacado green stove, refrigerator, main bathroom, kitchen sink and siding. We had blue shag in living room, green shag in my room, red shag amd velvet walpaper in my parents room. Now just remember the appliances lasted longer than the new mexican garbage they make today so the house was like that long after i moved out in 1989. Lol
I could use a dumbwaiter, for my laundry, and food. What I really want is a stove, with a pot roast/soup well, and refrigerator, with drawer shelves. Just think, 15-20 years from now, "modern farmhouse" will have gone the way of the Tiki bar, harvest gold appliances, and swing doors.
We had a central vacuum system. A motor in the basement had outlets in each room. One got suction by inserting a long vacuum hose into whichever room needed cleaning. It still worked when the home was sold 30 years later.
That's what we had. I never knew anyone else that had one like it. It was noisy but pretty cool. My daddy liked unusual things and he liked to make things different for us. Our house was tiny but I loved it and it was full of love and sharing.
@ihave35cents95. In fact the thing that I like most about mine is that I barely hear it at all so that when I do my most thorough cleaning monthly and move all of my furniture into the center of the rooms so that I cal clean from ceiling to floor, clean the molding and baseboards, floors underneath where the furniture is and backs of the furniture I’m cleaning and using the attachments in quiet and don’t feel rushed because of noise.
You're probably more likely to see a Folding Bed Mattress in homes for guests these days than Murphy Beds. Not to mention there are beds where you pull out a secondary mattress and beds with storage areas. There's also Pod Beds.
The segment with the milk doors showed a deleivery from Golden Gurnsey Dairy. My parents had home deleivery up into the late 60's. When we moved my mother to assisted living we found the file box that had every monthly statement (in chronological order). My sister's and i each kept the statement from the month of our birth.
When I was a kid, we would be sitting in the kitchen in the morning and all of a sudden the door would open up and it would be the milkman he would come right into our house and put it right into our refrigerator. No, he didn’t knock on the door. He just walked right in.
When I was growing up we had a milk door and there was a door bell inside so the milkman could ring it to let my mom know that he had made a delivery. If he had ice cream (on Friday) he rang the doorbell and my mom made sure to be home to retrieve it and put it in the freezer immediately. When I became an adult and married we had avocado appliances in our first home and in the next house the appliances were harvest gold. I loooooved both colors.
I’m one of the few people that miss wood paneling. I thought it was cool. Gave the room warm. But when I was a kid, we only had light paneling, which made the room look brighter.
I nominate: trash compactors, cold rooms, bathroom red lightbulb heaters, appliance garages, speakeasy doors, jalousie windows, door knockers, mailslots. I have an ironing board closet in my kitchen and a doorbell in my backyard entrance.
My house still has a milk door or as my nana called it the service box. Mine is on my basement stairs. People use the milk door for small package delivery now or mail delivery. Popcorn ceilings are only dangerous when you scrap them off. Asbestos, if there is the presence of it, is only dangerous if disturbed, it would be under layers of paint and well sealed from being a hazard. I wish I had a laundry chute and a dumb waiter to bring the laundry back upstairs. My grandma had a grandfather clock until her death in 2003. Pull out cutting boards are making a comeback, the property brothers have been installing them in some of their renovations. Fireplaces are great when there is a power outage or a bad snow or ice storm affecting the central heating system in the winter.
Fireplaces are even sometimes converted into fireplace inserts due to being more efficient with heat. There are also gas powered fireplaces that are entirely enclosed.
Too young for the milk doors (Xennial), BUT we did have an intercom in the house. Ours had a built in radio, and an audio jack, so dad hooked up a small cd player to it as well (the main hub was in our kitchen, and dad added a flip down door to keep the cd player and a few cds stored there). Each of the bedrooms had an intercom, plus the downstairs hallway.
Vertical shades are still manufactured, i have them on my room's windows to eliminate the need of the combination of curtains and blinds above the heat radiator. Will order them for the top floor after the reconstruction works will be done.
@@Kinann They were taken back to the Dairy, washed, and refilled. And believe me, milk tastes much better in glass. It doesn't have that "plastic jug" taste.
We had tabletop intercoms from Radio Shack. One house we lived in had a milk door, but it was bricked over by the time we lived there. We had metal milk boxes. I babysat for some people who had a sunken living room.
Pretty much everything I want in a home, is listed in this video. You can still get wood paneling at the hardware store, love that stuff. Vertical Blinds are still sold. Heck we just installed ours a couple years ago to cover a sliding door that had no blinds over it. Never understood the fascination of not putting blinds or curtains on your windows. I always entertain the "call of the void" by looking in to uncovered windows imagining I'm a burglar. They always give me a chuckle when I see homeowners without window coverings.
We have a 1928 home. It has a milk door. When we bought the house, we had no idea what it was for. LOL The house also has a door bell in the back yard. Oh yeah, delivery men didn't get to use the Front door. ROTFL Poor Amazon! My parent's 1970's home had a sunken living and cathedral ceilings, with a huge Valmonte diatomite stone fireplace. Gold carpets, harvest gold appliances. Floor to ceiling windows that let the cold in. Memories.
By no means was popcorn ceiling used for noise reduction as it did little to nothing. Also, asbestos was banned in the 1970s. Pop corn ceilings were still widely used in homes all over US and Canada up until 2010.
I grow up in the ghetto in Brisbane Australia. We went to adelaide in 1999. We visited my mothers friend house which was a 2 storey mansion type house with intercom systems on the walls and the grinder in the sink. This was an amazing thing for me to see as a kid, and my brother jokingly ordered a cheese burger though the intercom systems.
I'd like to see a Milk Door design , only bigger , to except Prime or other Postal deliveries..... Something that the delivery person can lock and shut after delivery.... That would Stop Porch Pirates
The term for the "huge stone" fireplaces is fieldstone, and the term for vertical blinds is Venetian blinds. Also, this list is missing Westminster doorbells, or at least doorbells that have hanging brass tubes and make a regal sound. You can still buy them but they're very niche so they're expensive.
I grew up in a house in CA in the 70s that had a sunken family room with orange/brown carpet and dark wood paneling. The room also had popcorn ceiling but with an added touch of glitter so it looked like starlight in the room 😂😂
We had a popcorn ceiling in our first home. It had sparkles.. I guess the previous owners threw glitter in the mixtue?. We bought a waterbed ..The ceiling started to crack. Got rid of the waterbed but kept the platform. Had 6 drawers on both sides... And a huge headboard with lightning and several shelves... Kinda liked it.
I still have a glitter gun from the 70s in my shed . they arent electric you just hold it vertical to the ceiling crank it like a pencil sharpener messy as hell.
@@angelmist4253 We had it in base housing once. Went so nicely with the dented metal closet. My husband got some of the popcorn in his eye and ended up in the hospital.
I remember having a milk box just outside the door which was insulated and could hold about 6 quart bottles. We used to have milk and bakery delivery trucks, and ice delivery for those who still had the actual "iceboxes" instead of refrigerators.
4:07 = awesome! This looks like sitting right in the middle of the room watching TV in the Occulus VR! I’ve dreamed of sitting in a real version of that apartment with the huge balcony and all.
Every swiss household still has a milk door but it’s a box integrated into the letterbox. The size has to follow a certain standard defined by the post office. You can theoretically receive milk in there 😂
My dad's house still "has" yellow shag carpeting, only on the basement stairs now, the water heater blew and flooded the basement so that carpet was destroyed, the paneling survived tho!
My house was built in 1914 and until 10 years ago; it still had the cast iron coal chute hatch on the side of the house. I removed it and bricked it up.
These features were everywhere during the decade of the '70s. We had both shag carpeting and paneled walls all over the place. That combined with my mother's yellow kitchen made for a yucky but unforgettable decade.
@@kericaswell6084 That, in my opinion, is absolutely correct. Time ages & changes us all. Technological advances are inevitable. But after about 1990 I believe this country changed with the explosion of social media, the internet, smartphones, and all of their tentacles. And I see it as not good at all. I grew up during the '60s & '70s and basic morality and ethics were common knowledge and widely practiced. Today, none of that stands true anymore. I 'm glad that I'm 61 and not a lot younger; I would absolutely hate growing up in this mess today.
Hide safes are still big in a lot of homes especially for firearm owners, just about everybody I know have hidden safes for valuables and important documents.
Number 1 feature Missing in all modern homes being built to day is a FRONT PORCH. I also missed laundry chutes and completely despise open floor plans and can lighting. The home I currently live in built before 1920 has a front porch where you step up 4 feet to get onto it and then its 30 feet wide and 8 feet deep completely covered. A couple other things I miss........ A home with a mail slot on the house. A homes that have alley in behind it. I dont drag garbage to curb to have the cans sit there for 12 hours till I get off work. A home with a front yard then a sidewalk then more grass and then a raised curb. A home with the Garage in the back of the house with plenty of yard left.
I bought a house (built in 1960) about three and a half years ago. The previous owner left behind a Sears Kenmore refrigerator, a Maytag clothes washer, and a Speed Queen dryer… all from the early 1970s. All of them work perfectly. Those appliances were manufactured when MADE IN AMERICA meant high quality and durability.
Our washer is more than 20 years old and we will be keeping it when we move to our next house. We will also be almost immediately be getting rid of the fridge in favor of some more almond colored fridge from the 80’s, because it will likely outlive us.
Repair them when they break and keep them forever
Yep…appliances made and purchased today will be expired and in the junk yard 50 years from now.
And I bet they STILL work!
That’s what American made means quality craftsmanship and badass
Thus brings back so many memories of the 70s and 80s. The first home my parents had built together was completed in July of 1976 and it had many things mentioned here. The several inch sunken living room (not a pit), the wood paneling in the family room. The shag carpet which was later replaced by sculpted in the mid 80s. The harvest gold appliances, flooring and wallpaper in the kitchen. All we need is some disco. My friend's house had the swinging doors into the kitchen and, what I called, the globule fireplace in the corner. We had a massive brick fireplace. What memories!
I always wanted a sunken living room when I was a kid. I thought they looked so cool. I still kind of like them.
After a couple of cocktails, everyone is tripping.
People and especially children would inevitably trip and hurt themselves, even die from sunken living rooms. There’s a reason why they don’t exist anymore.
@@Kinann I see what you did there
Fall in one once you'll rethink it
Pay attention and you be fine my in-laws have a old 1950s house in Iowa and it has a sunken living room I would love me one in my house
The number one thing that faded from homes... CHARM in design.
Totally agree
Also color. Today, everything from cars to kitchen appliances are simply various shades of gray.
@@jimmyday9536you’ve got that right! My son just said the other day that they don’t seem to make cars in many colors anymore…just white, black and silver.
Wood panelling was overdone. With every vertical surface covered in these cheap and cheesy panels, it became overwhelming and nauseating.
AMEN especially in these cookie cutter neighborhoods where they make you sign a contract preventing you from making any changes to exterior in the name of neighborhood aesthetics. Most likely made power hungry hoa members with an ego the size of Texas
I've been an Authorized NuTone Service Center for almost 40 years. I've sold, installed and serviced thousands of new and existing Intercom Systems. We repair about 425 Systems each year adn I can tell you that Intercom Systems are not obsolete. Their popularity wained mostly becasue the manufacturers didn't keep up with modern technology. It's a simple fact that if you design a product that people want, they will buy it. Intercom Systems are rarely removed and often times it's less expensive to repair them than remove them.
I find it interesting that you showed Systems from the lat 1950's through the mid 1960's - The hayday of equipment was in the mid 1980's throuigh the mid 2000's and most of those Syetms are still in use - Chris
When I was a kid my parents moved into a 70s built two story 4 bedroom home equipped with an intercom system. 15 years later in 1988 they had me rip out all the intercoms and patch the drywall because it was so outdated lol.
Interesting. Do you still use wired receivers or it's all over wifi? My country completely missed the wired intercom boom; in the 1990s we installed ethernet-connected intercoms, and now the business is completely dead owing to cheap wifi sets. Five euros apiece, no wires, no drilling. But no security guarantee. Who knows who can tap into them.
The wood paneling is now on the floors.
and it gets greyer with every passing year
I miss all of these things! Love it when I still see houses with these features!
I miss the pull out cutting board and I LOVED my laundry chute.
I use my cutting board every day.
@@rosemeccia9411:
Bring back laundry chutes.
I love laundry chutes. The only thing one has to be careful of is over stuffing. A good yardstick is good for fixing that.
A laundry chute is cool for a 2 story house.
@@Provocateur3 Boy, I'm with you on that one. Our laundry room is downstairs in our daylight basement, and I have to lug a heavy laundry basket up and down. Not at all convenient!
Our house built in 1973, had the harvest gold fridge, oven and dishwasher. We still live there, and still have the gold oven. Also have a sunken den.
I love my wood paneling. It reminds me of my childhood.
You For got the Padded Toilet Seat !
Those were horrible.
They're great in a cold house.
@@thistlemoon1definitely awesome when you inly had single pane windows and the thermostat was set at 65 all winter(thanks Carter)
I think we should bring back sunken living rooms!
We called them kidney shaped pools. The cool, rich kids had them. Sadly, that was not us. Lol
We also called them kidney shaped pools. Unfortunately, we didn’t have one…nor did any of our neighbors.
I’m totally glad I watched this, as we didn’t have any of them, and I haven’t cried yet today. I now have a reason to. 😒
that is the architectural name. Any cad program that has one will call it a kidney pool.
Thank you. I worked for a company that installed swimming pools in the 1970s. They were called Kidney Shaped pools. This is the first time I've ever heard them called jelly bean pools.
I've always heard kidney shaped, never jelly bean shaped.
Very fun to skateboard in
Murphy beds are making a come back.
We couldn't get anyone to take our murphy bed when we renovated last year. I loved it, but we needed to move.
Most people are poor again and forced to live in a "cubical" rather than real homes.
@@nunya___ Where is it that most people live in cubicles?
Some older homes had pull-down ironing boards; cutting boards were always pull-out.
Thanks for the Memories of the Past that we no longer
see around anymore thank you.🇺🇲📺🇺🇲
My son 2 years ago built a dumb waiter for a customer of his . It means the owners don't have to carry food down two flights of stairs to their outdoor kitchen
Some of these should really still be used for their practical value! Particularly laundry chutes (if you have a basement or downstairs laundry room) and pull-out cutting boards. My current house (built in the 50's but renovated) has a pull-out cutting board and it's so helpful! My grandmother's house had a laundry chute which I obviously loved to play with by repeatedly sending my stuffed animals down and going down to the basement to retrieve them - but it was safe because it was mounted on the wall and was not tall enough or wide enough for me or my sibling to climb into (not that we would have lol). I'm also saddened by the persistence of "modern" design - because ever since the 1980's, this has just translated to bland and uniform colors and features that exist for their neutrality and resalability. Colorful kitchens, appliances, and conversation pits are so cool, fun, and a way to really make your space your own! I understand not using wallpaper as much since it's a tedious thing to clean/maintain and change, plus it's a mold risk, but colorful designs can be achieved in better ways through painting or installing real backsplashes. In general I think we should recognize the value of adding color and interesting designs to make our spaces our own if it's something we enjoy and are able to achieve. This is super long-winded, but I think this standard is enforced societally in a way that is a direct consequence of capitalism's need to push that aforementioned neutrality and uniformity for a number of reasons, but in part because of that sense of lack of permanence in any place one might be living in. Take "beige moms" for example - there's very real evidence that diversity of colors and designs are actually important to the development of young children's brains, and is even valuable to our mental health at any stage of life. My point is, even if you're renting, don't be afraid to make your space how you like it even if it's through hanging pictures and tapestries (gotta get that security deposit back) life is short and you deserve to enjoy your space even if it's temporary!
Same with 'cars' today - black, white, or grey sir?
The house we moved into in 1951 had both a clothes chute and a milk chute (that's what we called the milk door). It was a two-story home with a full basement so the clothes chute was handy.
@@carlsaganlives4036 I still see a few colorful cars around, but not that many, especially bright yellow or orange ones. Mine is candy-apple red, and hubby's is bright yellow. Yeah, we love the colors. Constant blandness really isn't very uplifting.
The home that I grew up in (built in the 1920's) had a built in ice box in the back porch into the kitchen. One time when the refrigerator broke down for good my parents used it in place of a refrigerator until they were able to buy a new one.
We own a custom built home built in 2000. It has 2 pull out cutting boards in our large kitchen, a laundry chute, 2 large stone (gas) fireplaces, and a Murphy bed! Love the Murphy bed because the room then becomes our "library" when no in use, and then easily becomes a bedroom for guests.
I got em all in my house except an elevator including the telephone booth cut out in the hallway. It was built in 1920.
I was born in 1980 and grew up in an old house it’s no big problem with me that’s what I know.
The only time, I saw someone gliding through a swinging door, was Miss Kitty on Gunsmoke...it was magical!
My granddad built my house in 1949. I have a full, solid swing door between my kitchen and dining room. When I remodeled my house, I thought about taking it down, but decided against it. I’m glad I left it.
My grandparents had that too in their 1950s home. I loved it and have thought how convenient to have today because when we have dinner parties, the mess in the kitchen is right there! with the open modern architecture. I hate that.
Watch Bewitched. Always had the swinging door
@@rmac113 I watched lots of episodes in syndication as a kid in the 80’s. One of my favorite shows along with I dream of Jeannie and Gilligan’s Island. ☺️
And just as we had one in our arts and crafts house, our swinging door featured a kick-plate at the bottom so that you could open the door with your foot without marring the finish, given that your hands were carrying dishes.
My grandparents always left their swinging door open so that people wouldn’t get smacked in the face by someone coming in the other direction. There’s a reason why they don’t have those dumb doors anymore.
In 1973 when I was 4, we moved into a house for a couple of years in San Diego where we had a milk man that came once a week. He'd deliver milk, eggs, cheese, ice cream etc. With a family of 5 to take care of, my mom loved it.
I remember the milkman in the late fifties and early sixties. He would deliver chocolate milk if you so desired. I thought him to be mysterious, like Santa Claus. I once got out of bed very early and slyly peeked out the window to see him. He wore a white suit and a white hat.
@@latinforever LOL. I have similar memories. We lived in a little 2 bedroom ranch/bungalow on a hillside, with a somewhat long steep driveway down to the front of our house. I was often awake before anyone else and for some reason would hang out behind our couch, which was under a big picture window, until someone else got up. I recall watching the "mysterious milkman" making our delivery from that window. Not being far from the pacific ocean, early mornings were often pretty foggy, which definitely added to the mystic.
@@misslora3896 We had bay windows in the living room, and my mother had placed a couch in that recess. My best friend and I would hang out behind that couch. It was like our secret place. My mother did not approve of this behavior. We would also run around on the bluffs above the Mississippi. We would be gone for hours, playing army or talking about The Twilight Zone or whatever. We were about four when we started doing that.
Lots of moms loved the milkmen….
@@EBTROUBLE LOL. I hear the mailman was pretty popular too.
I never heard of jelly bean pools. They were commonly called the kidney-shaped pools.
I knew it as a peanut shaped pool
Still love the idea of sunken living room
Me too. I remember them well.
They’re impractical.
Me, too!
@@ALT-vz3jn And if all one cares about is practicality, then one doesn't need a sunken living room. But if one wants more charm and intimacy in their home decor, then a sunken living room is just the thing to provide it. It just depends on what one wants in one's home, and can enjoy.
I miss wood panelling. I always get nostalgic seeing these because it's always seen in the background of a family photo or in my case my birthdays as a young child.
Another home feature that faded into history: Two parents.
And kids with common sense!
@thegeminishome8438 "Common Sense" is an oxymoron.
What's your point, not enough kids being raised in unhappy homes these days? Or too many women able to leave a POS?
@ryanschiano7206 What's your point - your assumption that a home with two parents is an unhappy home?
@@ryanschiano7206simp
I still like vertical blinds.
Flap Flap Flap. No thanks.
Pretty much everyone I know, including my self still have vertical blinds on patio doors.
Curtains here.... grandmother was as a self made seamstress so we had beautiful hand made curtains with all the flair
I still adore Mid-century architecture!
Most people do, that's why everything MCM is very expensive now.
Build solid and of good quality. None of this ticky-tacky we see, today.
I owned a pretty older home in the 1980s with a milk door. AND I had a milk service that would deliver milk, eggs, cheese and other products once or twice a week. It was great and I was thankful that our milk door hadn't been removed by prior owners.
I also had a swing door between the kitchen and dining room. It wasn't attached when we viewed the house or moved in, but we discovered it in the rafters of the garage (along with a beautiful leaded glass insert for the front door that had slight damage and had been removed and replaced with clear glass - the old, oak door was basically a frame and the whole thing was glass!). Anyway, we cleaned the swing door, painted it and hung it and I loved it!
I have not seen an ashtray in a private home for well over 35 years, they were commonplace in the 1960's and 1970's even in homes where there were no smokers, they were provided for guests.
My parents never smoked, and we had lots of glass ashtrays for guests when they had company or parties. This was when I was little (1970s).
we had the intercom in the house we built, in 1984...had it in another house too, I think, but they were great....I could answer the front door while cooking in the kitchen, or call the kids to supper or have music going throughout the house, or check on the kids...I would have it again if I could
It's interesting that "popcorn" ceilings look nothing like popcorn, and exactly like cottage cheese.
Cottage cheese lol
I build Custom Tiki bars... Any size , Any configuration . Fully loaded or basic features , LED lights , Bluetooth , bottle refrigerators , slide out sinks , AC outlets . Compact design , modular , can be passed through a 30" door and reassembled . Tiki grass with Woodgrain features . Two to ten or twelve seating capacity.... Southern New England... Delivery and set up included , depending on location .
People don’t entertain at home anymore.
I was born in 1971 lived in a house as follows. Avacado green stove, refrigerator, main bathroom, kitchen sink and siding. We had blue shag in living room, green shag in my room, red shag amd velvet walpaper in my parents room. Now just remember the appliances lasted longer than the new mexican garbage they make today so the house was like that long after i moved out in 1989. Lol
I could use a dumbwaiter, for my laundry, and food. What I really want is a stove, with a pot roast/soup well, and refrigerator, with drawer shelves.
Just think, 15-20 years from now, "modern farmhouse" will have gone the way of the Tiki bar, harvest gold appliances, and swing doors.
I would like one for my parents attic since I’m the current dumbwaiter lol!
We had a central vacuum system. A motor in the basement had outlets in each room. One got suction by inserting a long vacuum hose into whichever room needed cleaning. It still worked when the home was sold 30 years later.
Well, those never went out of style
That's what we had. I never knew anyone else that had one like it. It was noisy but pretty cool. My daddy liked unusual things and he liked to make things different for us. Our house was tiny but I loved it and it was full of love and sharing.
@@amyloring1648 these days they are pretty quiet. But yeah, they used to be loud if they were in the house.
@ihave35cents95. In fact the thing that I like most about mine is that I barely hear it at all so that when I do my most thorough cleaning monthly and move all of my furniture into the center of the rooms so that I cal clean from ceiling to floor, clean the molding and baseboards, floors underneath where the furniture is and backs of the furniture I’m cleaning and using the attachments in quiet and don’t feel rushed because of noise.
@@LlyleHunter I agree, but if you want better performance by yourself a miele
This was really great, thank you for sharing it. God Bless You & stay safe.
Vertical blinds were a pain. Hated them.
I still have a dumb waiter and milk door in my 1906 house.
You're probably more likely to see a Folding Bed Mattress in homes for guests these days than Murphy Beds.
Not to mention there are beds where you pull out a secondary mattress and beds with storage areas.
There's also Pod Beds.
IKEA sells them. Similar to a trundle bed.
The segment with the milk doors showed a deleivery from Golden Gurnsey Dairy. My parents had home deleivery up into the late 60's. When we moved my mother to assisted living we found the file box that had every monthly statement (in chronological order). My sister's and i each kept the statement from the month of our birth.
When I was a kid, we would be sitting in the kitchen in the morning and all of a sudden the door would open up and it would be the milkman he would come right into our house and put it right into our refrigerator. No, he didn’t knock on the door. He just walked right in.
Were you that charming family in Chappelle's neighborhood?
Cool.
No, just an extremely small town
My grandmother has a grandfather clock. Can hear at nights and could tell what time it was
When I was growing up we had a milk door and there was a door bell inside so the milkman could ring it to let my mom know that he had made a delivery. If he had ice cream (on Friday) he rang the doorbell and my mom made sure to be home to retrieve it and put it in the freezer immediately. When I became an adult and married we had avocado appliances in our first home and in the next house the appliances were harvest gold. I loooooved both colors.
Cooper Brown was another choice of kitchen appliance. We had Avocado Green in our kitchen. My friend had Harvest Gold.
Avacado green here, and matching carpet! My mim even found a bean bag chair in matching cilor! Now those were yhe bomb as a kid!
I’m one of the few people that miss wood paneling. I thought it was cool. Gave the room warm. But when I was a kid, we only had light paneling, which made the room look brighter.
Never heard of pull down cutting boards- we had pullout cutting boards. Kidney-shaped pools not jelly bean shaped pools!
I nominate: trash compactors, cold rooms, bathroom red lightbulb heaters, appliance garages, speakeasy doors, jalousie windows, door knockers, mailslots. I have an ironing board closet in my kitchen and a doorbell in my backyard entrance.
A cool feature many homes used to have was kids that move out before the age of 30. Wouldn't it be cool to go back to that?
Encourage the economy to shift back to affordability! I would like to not work 70 hrs between 2 jobs
Exactly. I don't think that they want to be there anymore than the parents do
@sargethepup2301
@@sargethepup2301 Degreed jobs pay just fine. Who's problem is that ?
@@sargethepup2301They stay home because they have not grown up and their boomer or gen-x parents have spoiled them and won't throw them out.
@@sargethepup2301Let me guess.. You only have a HS diploma. That has been insufficient for years.
Many of those shag examples aren't shag at all and back in the seventies when we were going to buy a pool they called that shape a kidney shaped pool.
Hi-fi systems are a rare sight in modern homes.
How about the piano? 😁
My house still has a milk door or as my nana called it the service box. Mine is on my basement stairs. People use the milk door for small package delivery now or mail delivery.
Popcorn ceilings are only dangerous when you scrap them off. Asbestos, if there is the presence of it, is only dangerous if disturbed, it would be under layers of paint and well sealed from being a hazard.
I wish I had a laundry chute and a dumb waiter to bring the laundry back upstairs.
My grandma had a grandfather clock until her death in 2003.
Pull out cutting boards are making a comeback, the property brothers have been installing them in some of their renovations.
Fireplaces are great when there is a power outage or a bad snow or ice storm affecting the central heating system in the winter.
Fireplaces are even sometimes converted into fireplace inserts due to being more efficient with heat. There are also gas powered fireplaces that are entirely enclosed.
Too young for the milk doors (Xennial), BUT we did have an intercom in the house. Ours had a built in radio, and an audio jack, so dad hooked up a small cd player to it as well (the main hub was in our kitchen, and dad added a flip down door to keep the cd player and a few cds stored there).
Each of the bedrooms had an intercom, plus the downstairs hallway.
We still have vertical blinds and are practical for us.
Nothing takes their place! Rollup blinds offer no privacy!
Before refrigerators, people used ice boxes. Supplied with large chunk of ice delivered by the ice man. Also stored food in cellars.
I would love to be able to have an ice house and a nice big root cellar..
Vertical shades are still manufactured, i have them on my room's windows to eliminate the need of the combination of curtains and blinds above the heat radiator.
Will order them for the top floor after the reconstruction works will be done.
Ah yes, milk in glass. No plastic waste wrecking the world. Choking wildlife.
What did you do with the old milk bottles? There weren't recycling centers back then and they weren't collected for reuse.
The empties were collected by the milkman, cleaned, sanitized, and re-used, just like soda bottles.
@@Kinann Re above. They were reused as glass is more expensive to produce and had that useful reusable life.
@@Kinann They were taken back to the Dairy, washed, and refilled. And believe me, milk tastes much better in glass. It doesn't have that "plastic jug" taste.
I love wood paneling and swing doors in kitchens.
My Grandmother had an intercom like those except it even had a cassette deck built into it!
My grandmother left me her grandfather clock!
0:18 The house I grew up in had that NuTone system! What a flashback
We had tabletop intercoms from Radio Shack. One house we lived in had a milk door, but it was bricked over by the time we lived there. We had metal milk boxes. I babysat for some people who had a sunken living room.
Pretty much everything I want in a home, is listed in this video. You can still get wood paneling at the hardware store, love that stuff. Vertical Blinds are still sold. Heck we just installed ours a couple years ago to cover a sliding door that had no blinds over it. Never understood the fascination of not putting blinds or curtains on your windows. I always entertain the "call of the void" by looking in to uncovered windows imagining I'm a burglar. They always give me a chuckle when I see homeowners without window coverings.
We have a 1928 home. It has a milk door. When we bought the house, we had no idea what it was for. LOL The house also has a door bell in the back yard. Oh yeah, delivery men didn't get to use the Front door. ROTFL Poor Amazon! My parent's 1970's home had a sunken living and cathedral ceilings, with a huge Valmonte diatomite stone fireplace. Gold carpets, harvest gold appliances. Floor to ceiling windows that let the cold in. Memories.
Just had a Murphy Bed installed in my studio condo in 2022. I’m pretty sure this is still on trend in cities like New York. Just a hunch.
By no means was popcorn ceiling used for noise reduction as it did little to nothing. Also, asbestos was banned in the 1970s. Pop corn ceilings were still widely used in homes all over US and Canada up until 2010.
I grow up in the ghetto in Brisbane Australia. We went to adelaide in 1999. We visited my mothers friend house which was a 2 storey mansion type house with intercom systems on the walls and the grinder in the sink.
This was an amazing thing for me to see as a kid, and my brother jokingly ordered a cheese burger though the intercom systems.
I still have a harvest green bathtub.. porcelain on steel.. I wouldn't trade it for any other tub!
I'd like to see a Milk Door design , only bigger , to except Prime or other Postal deliveries..... Something that the delivery person can lock and shut after delivery.... That would Stop Porch Pirates
13:42 Definition of irony: Watching this part of the video while staring at my popcorn ceiling. 😂
We still have vertical blinds. They look great!
The term for the "huge stone" fireplaces is fieldstone, and the term for vertical blinds is Venetian blinds. Also, this list is missing Westminster doorbells, or at least doorbells that have hanging brass tubes and make a regal sound. You can still buy them but they're very niche so they're expensive.
There is a difference between a vertical blind and a Venetian blind though
Our home on the farm had avocado green appliances
When I got married, ours was harvest gold
I have a fold down ironing board in my laundry room that I refer to as my Murphy Board
I grew up in a house in CA in the 70s that had a sunken family room with orange/brown carpet and dark wood paneling. The room also had popcorn ceiling but with an added touch of glitter so it looked like starlight in the room 😂😂
We had a popcorn ceiling in our first home. It had sparkles.. I guess the previous owners threw glitter in the mixtue?. We bought a waterbed ..The ceiling started to crack. Got rid of the waterbed but kept the platform. Had 6 drawers on both sides... And a huge headboard with lightning and several shelves... Kinda liked it.
We had one too. The glitter was applied after the ceiling was sprayed and still wet so the glitter stuck to the paint.
I still have a glitter gun from the 70s in my shed . they arent electric you just hold it vertical to the ceiling crank it like a pencil sharpener messy as hell.
You had _lightning_ in your headboard? Sounds dangerous.
Popcorn is stilled used in homes in Florida.
I like it.
@@angelmist4253 We had it in base housing once. Went so nicely with the dented metal closet. My husband got some of the popcorn in his eye and ended up in the hospital.
It is hideous.
@@MsSavagechef I've had that happen, but I didn't have to go to the hospital fortunately.
I remember having a milk box just outside the door which was insulated and could hold about 6 quart bottles. We used to have milk and bakery delivery trucks, and ice delivery for those who still had the actual "iceboxes" instead of refrigerators.
Murphy Beds made a resurgence during the Covid lockdown. So, they haven't exactly fallen out of style.
My neighbors had a sunken living room that had rose/pink carpet.
4:07 = awesome! This looks like sitting right in the middle of the room watching TV in the Occulus VR! I’ve dreamed of sitting in a real version of that apartment with the huge balcony and all.
Every swiss household still has a milk door but it’s a box integrated into the letterbox. The size has to follow a certain standard defined by the post office. You can theoretically receive milk in there 😂
My aunt and uncle had a murphy bed in their family room. We loved sleepovers at their hours.
I miss these Old Home features!
My dad's house still "has" yellow shag carpeting, only on the basement stairs now, the water heater blew and flooded the basement so that carpet was destroyed, the paneling survived tho!
I remember so many of these things from the home Ingre up in! My mother refused to ever give up her wood paneling. 😂
My house was built in 1914 and until 10 years ago; it still had the cast iron coal chute hatch on the side of the house. I removed it and bricked it up.
These features were everywhere during the decade of the '70s. We had both shag carpeting and paneled walls all over the place. That combined with my mother's yellow kitchen made for a yucky but unforgettable decade.
In the 60's my mom insisted on Copper colored appliances in the kitchen.
I still have paneled walls in my basement 😅.
@@DrFunk-rk6yl Booooooo! 🤣🤣
There's something about it all that I truly love still! Maybe just memories of better days and a better life!
@@kericaswell6084 That, in my opinion, is absolutely correct. Time ages & changes us all. Technological advances are inevitable. But after about 1990 I believe this country changed with the explosion of social media, the internet, smartphones, and all of their tentacles. And I see it as not good at all. I grew up during the '60s & '70s and basic morality and ethics were common knowledge and widely practiced. Today, none of that stands true anymore. I 'm glad that I'm 61 and not a lot younger; I would absolutely hate growing up in this mess today.
There were brown appliances as well, at the same time as green & gold.
When we first got married, we couldn’t afford new appliances. So we had a brown refrigerator and an avocado green stove! Year was 1980
The house I grew up in had a pink Amana refrigerator, a wall oven in soft yellow and a stovetop and dishwasher in soft yellow.
Luxury Vinyl Plank flooring (LVP) will fade into history like wood paneling has.
But it’s perfect for a finished basement.
Hide safes are still big in a lot of homes especially for firearm owners, just about everybody I know have hidden safes for valuables and important documents.
My house was manufactured in the early 1980s. Wood paneling and brown and tan flowered wallpaper.
Number 1 feature Missing in all modern homes being built to day is a FRONT PORCH.
I also missed laundry chutes and completely despise open floor plans and can lighting. The home I currently live in built before 1920 has a front porch where you step up 4 feet to get onto it and then its 30 feet wide and 8 feet deep completely covered.
A couple other things I miss........
A home with a mail slot on the house.
A homes that have alley in behind it. I dont drag garbage to curb to have the cans sit there for 12 hours till I get off work.
A home with a front yard then a sidewalk then more grass and then a raised curb.
A home with the Garage in the back of the house with plenty of yard left.