My house has a 1970's to 80s blue toilet. It's almost impossible to find a matching seat. If spare parts were still available, a lot less demolition would take place.
I've always said that I was born in the wrong time era I love the old sturdy furniture when it was built to last. I will take old & antiques over modern any day of the week.
The beauty of the contemporary age, you can still enjoy those things, you may have to hunt them down, but you would still be able to procure items for your house.
I much prefer having a stand-up shower, but I still do miss a deeper tub. The ones after 1970 tend to be very shallow. The best one I had was from 1930. It was much deeper and bigger than a claw foot, which really aren't that big, and, though we did not have a shower, was positioned so that one could be easily installed..
My Grandma Zilk had the exact pink bathroom at 1:07. She even had pink toilet paper and a doll with a pink and white knitted dress to cover the extra TP.
My Grandmother had a beautiful mint green bathroom. The sun used to come directly thru the bathroom window and light it up. Whenever I see those tiles, I always think of her and staying at her house sometimes on weekends. Precious memories, still miss her.
Our bathroom was that mint green too! I grew up in the 60’s & for a long time we didn’t have air conditioning either so the sparkling clean bathroom had a pretty smell then that people miss out on today! ✌️
My mom's parents' bathroom was mint green and there was a blade slot in their medicine cabinet. I remember the bladed safety razors my grandpa used, along with the cup he had for mixing his shave cream in that he applied with a brush. I used to like the smell for some reason but then we loved Grandpa a lot because though he wasn't touchy, he was kind, compassionate and fun to be around.
Modern bathtubs only hold like a couple of inches of water before they drain so it's no wonder these tubs are coming back in style. People are tired of a shallow tiny bathtub
When I recently renovated my bathroom, I filled a quart container with old razor blades that were in the wall. After replacing the wall, i reinstalled the old medicine cabinet with the razor slot, which i actually use.
We have baseboard heat. It's much better than the old radiators we used to have. Hot air is good just to take the chill off, but it blows cold at first, and the second it goes off, it's cold instantly. I was just thinking, though, I'm surprised none of us hit our heads against the radiator. Our beds were right next to them and we rough housed a lot. A girl I went to school with got a black eye from one.
I still have the lime green tile in the bathroom of my 1960s Florida house. I had to replace the fixtures, but I love my green tile with its black trim. It still has its original black mounted cup holder and soap dish.
Some of the bathroom features mentioned are still commonplace in other parts of the world, they're super practical especially in small spaces after all.
My father was a carpenter contractor that built many of the homes we lived in. My mother insisted on putting carpet in the bathroom during the 1970's. It got moldy and had to be torn out within a year. My father told her that was going to happen, but she wouldn't listen. It got replaced with vinyl flooring.
Never store medications in the bathroom, it damages the medications due to the heat and dampness so they don't work properly or at all. Store them away from heat and moisture. Unless they require refrigeration, don't put them in the fridge either.
8:13 - My main bathroom is directly above my laundry room and I think about a laundry chute every time I shower there. But my home was built in the early 90's so the chute was long gone. That's the feature I miss the most. My grandmother's house had one and it was perfect.
I am as well my kids thought it was hysterically funny, me moaning the doddering old people . Who would go out in the car never going over thirty you would die. All down to the air rushing past you couldn’t breathe. I think mum and dreaded her coming. Five children the youngsters being six
The eldest being 18 not many understood his sense of humour. A bit like mine it’s now in fact for a long time just the one line. My mouth says it before giving the brain time to catch up.
I remember the razor blade slot in my grandfather's house. My other grandparents had a claw-foot tub. Only our European relatives had chain-pull toilets. Our 1960s bathroom was blue porcelain. Our very modern home has medicine cabinets in every bathroom. I miss soap dish inserts! (But I do appreciate liquid soap.)
My mother’s bathroom, built in 61, has the soap and cup mounted holders in a pinkish tan. We use the soap holder for the scrub brush and the cup and tooth brush holder is for her toothbrushes and cup. I’ll check the medicine cabinet for the razor slot, I think it’s there. As a home health aide I’ve seen a lot of 50’s bathrooms with the mint green and pink. Even seen well working pull chain toilets in some of the older farmhouses of clients. They work well.
Yeah... I've never seen a house without a wall mounted medicine cabinet, so I don't know what this video is referencing. Maybe heavily minimalistic modern designs?
In our house in the late 50's and early 60's they had electric heaters built into the wall next to the bathtub! Once I got cold bathing as a kid, stood up in a tub of water and reached to turn on the heater. Somehow I got out alive. Who thought up that great idea?
My mom had a modern-ish pull chain toilet. It was made in the 80’s. She loved that toilet and was so sad when she had to sell her home due to declining health.
x Love that claw foot tub! x Those penny floor tiles are fascinating! x I really like laundry shoots! x That's the first time I have ever seen retractable clotheslines, they look awesome!
I grew up in old houses with porcelain tile floors in the bathrooms and kitchens. We also had claw foot tubs, pedestal sinks and either built-in linen closets or linen closets in the hallway. I sure do miss all that. A friend of mine also renovated his 4 story main bathroom by putting hot water pipes under the floor that he then retiled as it had been with penny tiles.
I have a pink steel tub and pink toilet, which I love. Unfortunately, my pink sink was removed before I moved in, and replaced with a new vanity. I used to work in the plumbing and heating industry. You’d be surprised by how many things on this list are still sold every single day. I also used to work at Restoration Hardware, and many people bought all the matching bathroom pieces, including soap dishes and cup holders. Except for a few things on this list, most are still around.
My bathroom has two medicine cabinets and a clawfoot 'slipper' tub. The house was built in 2007 and the bathroom remodeled about six years ago (the 'garden' tub was removed and a cast-iron clawfoot tub was installed).
We had carpet in the master bathroom in the house I grew up in, but it was only laid down, not tacked or otherwise anchored, and specifically designed for the purpose, using mold and mildew proof materials and a waterproof rubber backing.
At 1:38 ..oh god...I remember when we had carpeting in the bathroom and kitchen in the 70's when I was a teen...water would cause mold and stench..it was terrible...
My parents bought their first home when Dad got out of the army. Bathroom had carpet for a whole day. Mom had the stinky mess pulled out first day. 1968.
I grew up in a house built in 1920. I hated the claw tub, sink with separate hot and water faucets, gas space heater, wire soap dish that hung on the tub side, linoleum, no showers, wood floors. House was too old for a medicine cabinet. My uncle’s toilet leaked and floor under the linoleum rotted. He was sitting on the toilet when it fell through the floor!
@@Laura-bi5dc Except for the humiliation, he was fine. He then rebuilt his entire house from the ground up, and added a garage and garage apartment, with the reluctant help of 2 teenaged sons. He was a great woodworker. He just should have started his remodeling several years sooner. It was one of our best family stories.
My Aunt and Uncle in KS had a light true pink tile in one bath and a light purple tile in the other. Just beautiful! Matching tank and seat covers and floor rug for toilet contour and tub. And the familiar rose scent of original pink Dove soap! My home only had a shower stall in a small bathroom, so as a kid, I always wanted a real bubble bath in my Aunt’s tub when we visited! Only time in my life I was eager to take a bath!🤣
I have a claw foot tub which has been fitted with a shower head, some time in it's 100 year service. It works fine, but the original porcelain glaze has been eroded away on the bottom by the feet of my predecessors, the building is celebrating its 100th birthday.
I'm pretty sure that the real reason why medicine cabinets are no longer used in bathrooms is because you shouldn't be storing medicine in humid, hot environments, like a bathroom. Most labels read to store in cool, dry environments. Therefore a medicine cabinet should be located in a place that has consistent temperature control. Which is why I believe that many people started to store their medicine in the kitchen cabinets. I would still be some temperature fluctuation, but at least it's not humid
I enjoyed the video. Historically accurate. We are actually starting a complete bathroom remodel in a week or two with an estimated 6-8 week completion. We have updated the master bathroom but this is a complete demolition and rebuild. It prompted my interest in this video.
I have four of these things in the bathroom of my 1920s home. Some are beloved quarks of our home and others... well, they won't last through the next remodel
The house I grew up in had a razor blade slot, laundry chute into the basement, and a milk carton receptacle for milk deliveries! We did regularly use the laundry chute
I loved this video! From pastel colors to small details like wall-mounted cup holders - it really showed the beauty and practicality of old designs. Hope you make more videos on vintage interior features!
I don’t understand your reasoning behind things though. I don’t have a soap dish in my shower to make it look more vintage I have one in my shower because when we redid our shower my boyfriends uncle who owned the house wanted somewhere to put his bar of soap. Same with my boyfriend now. I don’t have a “stand alone medicine cabinet” or above the toilet take shelf to be vintage I have them due to the small space in my bathroom and needing storage
Why are the majority of your images modern designs rather than the vintage things you are discussing? I thought that is what I would be seeing coming to a video about old bathroom features. I was disappointed not to see more of the older items.
What are you guys complaining about? When they said something, I saw a picture it. Were you looking for a what bathrooms looked like in Victorian houses or something? I’m sure there’s a video for that. Complainers gotta complain about something🙄. Man. Get a life. Seriously. Make your own video.
When we retiled around our bathtub, we eliminated the built in soap dish. I have a retractable clothesline outside. I hang out laundry whenever possible; it smell so nice. I never knew anyone who had a built in radio. Tank top shelves, we have a cabinet we bought at a second hand store
I never even heard of the medicine cabinet radio. I know a lot of people who have redone their bathrooms, or bought new houses, and they all have soap dishes.
I have a modern cast iron claw foot tub I had installed when I built my home. Although the builder told me it took two men and a mule to move it to the second floor, I'm not sorry. I love soaking in it.
It started off with memories of my great-aunt's house with the pink bathroom, and a couple features from my grandparents' house, a couple things from my '60s rambler to 'wait, that's considered obsolete?' when it got to bathroom storage and laminate counters. Unless you've done serious remodeling of the house and bathroom, the existing dimensions of the bath haven't changed and neither are there more built-ins, so stand alone and wall/shelving units are still desired.
A lot of older Seattle apartments still have radiators as the only source of heat. They do a great job, keep the air moist in winter and best of all, the steam heat they produce is CHEAP. When I had radiators (in the early 2000s), my friends were paying through the nose for gas or electric heating, but I only paid around $11 a month! It's probably more, now.
I much prefer baseboard heat. Do you get your steam from city pipes? Is that's why it's cheap? Because our oil bill was always high because of the heat. It was about the same at the time for gas/hot air.
Carpets in kitchen areas as well. My bathroom is pink, brown and pastel blue.. the house was built in 1948. Yes the razor slot is there as well. Pedestal sink as well.. cedar lined small closets. Sculptued all wool carpets (had to be moth treated every Six months. In the south ,knotty pine kitchens and dens. Glass door knobs. Central attick fans. The soap dishes are chrome in my home. But this is the last week of these features.. 3 thousand sq feet in 1948 was massive. In 2024 it's cozy.. I am adding a 3 car garage with a apartment above it if I could I would keep the 2 original bathrooms. The red laminate and aluminum trim are going to be no more. Sadly the house 22:26 is on 4 acres and has to be renovated. Not because I don't like the house.I can no longer deal with the 30 calls a day asking to buy it . renovated it will be a million dollars. The land is what the corporate interest want. I really don't want a Mc masion. But I am being forced to. . Sadly the house bought in 1968 for 35,000.00 without renovations would be torn down and multiple houses built on it.
My mother insisted on keeping a carpet in her bathroom and toilet right until she moved into a care home. When we bought our first house in 1976 there was a clawfoot tub in there as the original bathroom was still there. We had it taken out and an avocado green (ugh) bathroom put in as it was the height of fashion at the time.
I think that whole carpeted bathroom trend was a planned fail on the designers part. They knew that it would get yucky in short order and then you would have to pay a ton of money to the same people to fix it.
Avocado green and Harvest Gold. I had bought a Harvest Gold side by side fridge when my husband and I rented a house when I was 22. Thought I was all fancy-schmancy in 1980!!
I remember pull chain toilets, and claw foot tubs. I demanded that the previous owner of this house remove the claw foot tub from the attic before I closed on buying the property. That attic space must have been a servant's quarters at one point, given that there was also a rusty old toilet paper roll handle there, along with a previously removed toilet. My previous house had a laundry chute. This one still has cast iron radiators, in the original part of the house before all its additions over the past 150 years.
I understand. Things from the 40s were considered vintage in the 80s, but only to people like me who were not from then. To my grandparents and parents, the things from the 1940s weren't old at all. Now my kids think the 80s are ancient.
@@bigred9428I don’t think they are debating whether it has been enough time to be considered vintage or not, but rather are referring to that fact that a decade they were probably a kid during, or at least alive during, is now considered vintage, which makes them feel old and because the the 80s doesn’t feel that long ago to them.
@@jon1065 , I wasn't debating the term vintage. I was just using perspective. For my mother, 1940s wasn't old at all, but to me, in the 1980s, the 40s were super vintage. Just like now, I think of things from the 80s as not that old, yet to my kids, it's almost as if the objects were from another planet.
@@bigred9428 well then I guess we all agree then but I’m not sure what the point of your comment was then especially since you then partially contradicted it talking about the exact same two time periods and how it was vintage to you but not your mom. But I mean OP was clearly just referring to how 80s being called vintage made her feel old
My bathroom was redone 2 months ago HA house up. I have a brand spanking new light pull, pedestal basin, medicine cabinet but my retractable clothes line is in the kitchen. 😆
😂😅Am in the middle of 2 bathroom renovations . . . probably why this video was recommended . . . getting rid of pink and green bathrooms (avocado, not mint) with pedestal sinks, razor blade disposals, pull chain lights, and built-in soap holders. Yay. But adding marble penny tile to one! Something I didn't realize is that apparently TP holders that are recessed into the wall isn't a thing any more.
@bigred9428 Just on the wall or vanity. Not recessed. 💁♂️💁♀️💁 Took me a week to get used to it, but now it's okay. I was just floored it wasn't "normal" any more. 😀😃😄
I suddenly feel really old mostly I’ve used these items and thought that were fabulous. In Of most of my friends. To go the bathroom it was actually a mission to the unknown. They all bathed in the scullery me in front of the fire. I still like some of the things. A big brown teapot fully filled which never run out of tea, but it could be topped up. Horrible tea leaves and globules from the top of the milk. The milk used to be in standing in a big bowl or bucket with cold water . This used to taken a way if he started pulling it apart? This time of year was cake and pudding time not forgetting jams and bottled a lot all standing in rows. Plus pickled, onions red cabbage my grandmother did. To me it was an acquired taste one I never got. Later years big bottles of these on the bar. A int of Double Diamond and an egg . Going on a picnic have you got the pickled eggs. Bags of crisps with a salt in blue twisted at the top. A lady used to come haven’t a clue who she was. I did ask not long before mum died. She was a cousin of Betty my aunt but didn’t go there. She would decide who was the lucky this year. She never missed a funeral . There would be food but only a little as my constituents couldn’t take it. Then if you could spare a bit for my supper. Two rounds of turkey sandwiches made and wrapped in grease proof paper held together with an elastic band. But she couldn’t go until she had seen the Queen. The television was put on to warm up. All she did that I remember is tell us kids off. She even would tell our parents “ they get any more excited someone will be sick or hurt. When the National Anthem played she would immediately stand up. Just her no one else. Everyone had a tongue lashing. After discussing I think she looked tired. Well there a lot for her to do. All the pressure on making cakes and puddings. By then us kids understood she had servants. Now just a bit older than all of us. My brother said things must be tough going for her. Of course if was all those rooms to be cleaned. Clean towels with the coat of arms on them. All the towels folded in a particular way she didn’t do that. My aunt said most days she was an ordinary female. She had to obey the Phillip. She used to get really angry over it all . She is why we went war our menfolk fighting. Our response being now truly fed up the would start of with if we let them have her no war. We all got a telling off. She said it was intelligent people who understood it. My uncle wanted to know why did the men have huge lumps in their tights. She replied that it was something she had no knowledge off.
Dental sinks. I was waiting for those in the video. They were a smaller sink with a smaller mirror on the wall and were usually kept a further distance from the toilet for sanitary reasons. They had toothbrush holders, toothpaste storage and also would feature a container of disposable cups.
My 1/2 bath was pink and tiled. The full bath was also pink and had carpet. Both had tiled walls. We had the laundry chute. Had the chain light too. We had the built in soap dish (I broke mine, I got in deep 💩 for that as my sister and I were chasing each other). Had the fabric covers, they would smell due to the mold that would grow on them. I still have the shelf above the toilet. Countertops were laminate as well. Damn I’m old! We also had an attic fan (I miss that one).
When my wife and I bought a house in ths late 1990's , I had a strange dream in which there was a TV mounted in the wall of our bathroom . It used a remote control for all of its functions and the way it was mounted posed no threat to possible electrocution and you could watch TV safely while taking a bath or shower . Here is the strangest thing about this : I went to HOME DEPOT one day and they had a "bathroom" made exactly as in my dream !!! STRANGE !!! I never saw their "bathroom" until after I had my dream ! By the way my bathroom NEVER had a TV mounted in the bathroom !
I am aware that, especially with trash bags coming along way since the beginning, it was easier to dispose of old razors into the walls rather than to try to put them in a bag that will just cut through. Frankly, I wouldn’t mind the razor slot in a modern sense reworked if it went down into a specialty chute.
I like a lot of vintage stuff but I don’t miss most of these. Cleaning all that tile…. 😢 I do have a pedestal sink in my early 2000s house though. I also added a tension bar in my shower for hanging clothes to dry.
Interesting. I had not heard of a couple of these, especially the radio. A lot of these space saving and storage solution add in features are being added to Asian bathrooms per the videos that I've seen on RUclips.
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It breaks my heart when people tear out the old tile work and pretty colored tubs, toilets , and sinks.😢
I just bought a house that was built in 1959. One of the selling points for me was the original pink tile in the bathroom. So cute!
My house has a 1970's to 80s blue toilet. It's almost impossible to find a matching seat. If spare parts were still available, a lot less demolition would take place.
I've always said that I was born in the wrong time era I love the old sturdy furniture when it was built to last. I will take old & antiques over modern any day of the week.
The beauty of the contemporary age, you can still enjoy those things, you may have to hunt them down, but you would still be able to procure items for your house.
I grew up with the razor slots. Now I have an original claw foot tub and laundry shoot! Love them! House built in 1900
I much prefer having a stand-up shower, but I still do miss a deeper tub. The ones after 1970 tend to be very shallow. The best one I had was from 1930. It was much deeper and bigger than a claw foot, which really aren't that big, and, though we did not have a shower, was positioned so that one could be easily installed..
My Grandma Zilk had the exact pink bathroom at 1:07. She even had pink toilet paper and a doll with a pink and white knitted dress to cover the extra TP.
My grandma had the pink crocheted dolls that covered the TP too!
@@kitcat1278 😁 That's awesome 💕
I’m 59. I remember the colored t.p. And those crocheted southern belles
@violetvonpumpernickel1796 Grandma made her own TP doll. But now, I am wondering if everyone did or if they were sold at stores.
@@marandazilk3175 I’m pretty sure they were all home made
My Grandmother had a beautiful mint green bathroom. The sun used to come directly thru the bathroom window and light it up. Whenever I see those tiles, I always think of her and staying at her house sometimes on weekends. Precious memories, still miss her.
Our bathroom was that mint green too! I grew up in the 60’s & for a long time we didn’t have air conditioning either so the sparkling clean bathroom had a pretty smell then that people miss out on today! ✌️
@@blossom1643 MY bedroom was mint green! LOL
IM SO JEALOUS😭
Ours was green too.
My mom's parents' bathroom was mint green and there was a blade slot in their medicine cabinet. I remember the bladed safety razors my grandpa used, along with the cup he had for mixing his shave cream in that he applied with a brush. I used to like the smell for some reason but then we loved Grandpa a lot because though he wasn't touchy, he was kind, compassionate and fun to be around.
Clawfoot tubs are iconic.
They are creepy. Always where the murders happen in movies 😱
Modern bathtubs only hold like a couple of inches of water before they drain so it's no wonder these tubs are coming back in style. People are tired of a shallow tiny bathtub
@@albtcklI see them and always think that same thing. 😂
Okay but I still have a shelving unit over my toilet in 2024!! I’ve been vintage for about 12 years LOL
My exact response. 😂
In the early 2000s, they called them etageres.
When I recently renovated my bathroom, I filled a quart container with old razor blades that were in the wall. After replacing the wall, i reinstalled the old medicine cabinet with the razor slot, which i actually use.
Sounds like a good idea to me. Why fix somethin that ain’t broke! ✌️
What is the appeal of permanently storing trash in your wall? To each their own, but it would bother me personally.
When my father replaced his blades, they would automatically be ejected into a slot in the box the new ones came in. They don't have that anymore?
I remember most of these! Raised in the 70's but brought up like we lived in the 50's 😂
That’s because we grew up with stuff “made to last”😂. A bit of a double edged sword, eh? Lol
I still have an over the tank shelving unit and half of these antiquated amenities in my bathroom.
I had pink boots called " maimie yoakums " had no idea they were historic
I remember cast iron radiators
They’re still in use in many old buildings.
We have baseboard heat. It's much better than the old radiators we used to have. Hot air is good just to take the chill off, but it blows cold at first, and the second it goes off, it's cold instantly.
I was just thinking, though, I'm surprised none of us hit our heads against the radiator. Our beds were right next to them and we rough housed a lot. A girl I went to school with got a black eye from one.
My college dorm room in 1972 had a radiator heater. It was great!
I still have the lime green tile in the bathroom of my 1960s Florida house. I had to replace the fixtures, but I love my green tile with its black trim. It still has its original black mounted cup holder and soap dish.
I just bought a house that was built in 1959. It still has the original pink tile in the bathroom! I love it
Some of the bathroom features mentioned are still commonplace in other parts of the world, they're super practical especially in small spaces after all.
They're commonplace here too. All these videos are like that. I wonder if they do it so people will comment on it.
My father was a carpenter contractor that built many of the homes we lived in. My mother insisted on putting carpet in the bathroom during the 1970's. It got moldy and had to be torn out within a year. My father told her that was going to happen, but she wouldn't listen. It got replaced with vinyl flooring.
Using real coins in flooring is illegal, as it is defacing money and you can get fines and go to jail/prison for it. Don't do it.
Never store medications in the bathroom, it damages the medications due to the heat and dampness so they don't work properly or at all. Store them away from heat and moisture. Unless they require refrigeration, don't put them in the fridge either.
@PhantomQueenOne Um, her comment is talking about the 70's. I think we're well past prnny flooring.
@@mangos2888 Yeah, that's when my dad was in business in the '60's and '70's. He built what are now million dollar homes.
@@PhantomQueenOne ,
What were they at the time?
8:13 - My main bathroom is directly above my laundry room and I think about a laundry chute every time I shower there. But my home was built in the early 90's so the chute was long gone. That's the feature I miss the most. My grandmother's house had one and it was perfect.
I'm sure you could work one in!
I NEED that pink cat themed bathroom cup holder!!!
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Pedestal sinks have never gone out of fashion in the U.K. - lots of people have them - even in huge bathrooms !
Still have them in France, too.
I have have one… love it!!! ….in America!!
They're still here in the U.S, too. I was just looking for a vanity in Home Depot, and they had about 3.
I still use retractable clothes lines from that era, but theey are set up in my basement. Wonderfully useful. Diane, using Joe's Tablet.
Oh no, the 1980s are vintage! I must be officially old. 😂
No, you're ✨️vintage✨️
I am as well my kids thought it was hysterically funny, me moaning the doddering old people . Who would go out in the car never going over thirty you would die. All down to the air rushing past you couldn’t breathe. I think mum and dreaded her coming. Five children the youngsters being six
The eldest being 18 not many understood his sense of humour. A bit like mine it’s now in fact for a long time just the one line. My mouth says it before giving the brain time to catch up.
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In order to relate when my kids call it the old days, I have to count back from say, 1974, when 1924 was OLD.
Wonderful! I stepped back in time with you! Thank you for this journey… I’m 71…so I remember these…
I remember the razor blade slot in my grandfather's house. My other grandparents had a claw-foot tub. Only our European relatives had chain-pull toilets. Our 1960s bathroom was blue porcelain. Our very modern home has medicine cabinets in every bathroom. I miss soap dish inserts! (But I do appreciate liquid soap.)
I wish the blue/pink/turquoise porcelain would make a comeback.
My mother’s bathroom, built in 61, has the soap and cup mounted holders in a pinkish tan. We use the soap holder for the scrub brush and the cup and tooth brush holder is for her toothbrushes and cup. I’ll check the medicine cabinet for the razor slot, I think it’s there.
As a home health aide I’ve seen a lot of 50’s bathrooms with the mint green and pink.
Even seen well working pull chain toilets in some of the older farmhouses of clients. They work well.
I lived in a house built around 1900 which had a chain-pull toilet.
Yeah... I've never seen a house without a wall mounted medicine cabinet, so I don't know what this video is referencing. Maybe heavily minimalistic modern designs?
It drove me carzy when he called them inserts. They're soap dishes. Are they not in new bathrooms?
Before i even start this, i had an antique clawfoot bathtub and it was amazing to read in and have super long baths in. (From 1996-2003)
In our house in the late 50's and early 60's they had electric heaters built into the wall next to the bathtub! Once I got cold bathing as a kid, stood up in a tub of water and reached to turn on the heater. Somehow I got out alive. Who thought up that great idea?
There's still some pull chain toilets in English pubs.
I had an original claw footed bathtub in my bathroom, it was fabulous for a deep soak.
My mom had a modern-ish pull chain toilet. It was made in the 80’s. She loved that toilet and was so sad when she had to sell her home due to declining health.
When the Victorian stuff was hot in the 1980s, quite a few people in the U.S. installed them.
I live in St. Louis which is a really old city. A lot of the homes here still have most of these features
x Love that claw foot tub!
x Those penny floor tiles are fascinating!
x I really like laundry shoots!
x That's the first time I have ever seen retractable clotheslines, they look awesome!
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Claw foot tubs still rock!
Laundry shoots? What kind of ammo are you using?
@@FigaroHey Hahaha, nice catch!
They still sell them. I've seen them in Florida homes.
I grew up in old houses with porcelain tile floors in the bathrooms and kitchens. We also had claw foot tubs, pedestal sinks and either built-in linen closets or linen closets in the hallway. I sure do miss all that. A friend of mine also renovated his 4 story main bathroom by putting hot water pipes under the floor that he then retiled as it had been with penny tiles.
I have demolished old houses and found piles of old razor blades in the wall cavity three foot plus high.
I have a pink steel tub and pink toilet, which I love. Unfortunately, my pink sink was removed before I moved in, and replaced with a new vanity.
I used to work in the plumbing and heating industry. You’d be surprised by how many things on this list are still sold every single day. I also used to work at Restoration Hardware, and many people bought all the matching bathroom pieces, including soap dishes and cup holders. Except for a few things on this list, most are still around.
My bathroom has two medicine cabinets and a clawfoot 'slipper' tub. The house was built in 2007 and the bathroom remodeled about six years ago (the 'garden' tub was removed and a cast-iron clawfoot tub was installed).
My cats LOVE radiant heaters!!!
Really?
I luv radiant heat...doesn't create dust like forced air...doesn't burn dust like the coil types that use to be in bathrooms.
I love the pink tub.
We had carpet in the master bathroom in the house I grew up in, but it was only laid down, not tacked or otherwise anchored, and specifically designed for the purpose, using mold and mildew proof materials and a waterproof rubber backing.
At 1:38 ..oh god...I remember when we had carpeting in the bathroom and kitchen in the 70's when I was a teen...water would cause mold and stench..it was terrible...
My parents bought their first home when Dad got out of the army. Bathroom had carpet for a whole day. Mom had the stinky mess pulled out first day. 1968.
Soap inserts and tank top shelves are still very common. We need to bring back the retractable clotheslines because the racks take up too much space.
I grew up in a house built in 1920. I hated the claw tub, sink with separate hot and water faucets, gas space heater, wire soap dish that hung on the tub side, linoleum, no showers, wood floors. House was too old for a medicine cabinet.
My uncle’s toilet leaked and floor under the linoleum rotted. He was sitting on the toilet when it fell through the floor!
OMG! Hope he was okay.
@@Laura-bi5dc Except for the humiliation, he was fine. He then rebuilt his entire house from the ground up, and added a garage and garage apartment, with the reluctant help of 2 teenaged sons. He was a great woodworker. He just should have started his remodeling several years sooner. It was one of our best family stories.
My Aunt and Uncle in KS had a light true pink tile in one bath and a light purple tile in the other. Just beautiful! Matching tank and seat covers and floor rug for toilet contour and tub. And the familiar rose scent of original pink Dove soap! My home only had a shower stall in a small bathroom, so as a kid, I always wanted a real bubble bath in my Aunt’s tub when we visited! Only time in my life I was eager to take a bath!🤣
my grandparents up stairs half bath still has carpet in it.
Omg I have a razor blade disposal slot in my military housing and just realized it.
For the cast iron heater, I remember those because it left its mark on my cheek. Cut my cheek on one when I was very young
This video brought me back to quite a few items. What I didn't know about was the razor slot disposal.I never knew what it was for.😊
I have a claw foot tub which has been fitted with a shower head, some time in it's 100 year service. It works fine, but the original porcelain glaze has been eroded away on the bottom by the feet of my predecessors, the building is celebrating its 100th birthday.
Can you get it reglazed?
I'm pretty sure that the real reason why medicine cabinets are no longer used in bathrooms is because you shouldn't be storing medicine in humid, hot environments, like a bathroom. Most labels read to store in cool, dry environments. Therefore a medicine cabinet should be located in a place that has consistent temperature control. Which is why I believe that many people started to store their medicine in the kitchen cabinets. I would still be some temperature fluctuation, but at least it's not humid
We never kept medicine in it, just toiletries....maybe aspirin and Pepto Bismal. Plus, they still have them for bathrooms.
I enjoyed the video. Historically accurate. We are actually starting a complete bathroom remodel in a week or two with an estimated 6-8 week completion. We have updated the master bathroom but this is a complete demolition and rebuild. It prompted my interest in this video.
Good luck!
I have four of these things in the bathroom of my 1920s home. Some are beloved quarks of our home and others... well, they won't last through the next remodel
The house I grew up in had a razor blade slot, laundry chute into the basement, and a milk carton receptacle for milk deliveries! We did regularly use the laundry chute
My childhood home had a powder blue bathroom…
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I loved this video! From pastel colors to small details like wall-mounted cup holders - it really showed the beauty and practicality of old designs. Hope you make more videos on vintage interior features!
Yes I'm going to do so keep following me
A+ video!
LOVE IT! Awesome bathroom features!
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cosmo and Wanda was everywhere lol
laundry chutes and dumb waiters are still useful built ins.
The furry bathmat is a good replacement for the bathroom shag carpet, as you can toss that bathmat in the wash every two weeks.
Thanks Captain Obvious
I don’t understand your reasoning behind things though. I don’t have a soap dish in my shower to make it look more vintage I have one in my shower because when we redid our shower my boyfriends uncle who owned the house wanted somewhere to put his bar of soap. Same with my boyfriend now. I don’t have a “stand alone medicine cabinet” or above the toilet take shelf to be vintage I have them due to the small space in my bathroom and needing storage
My mom just covered their penny tiles in their arts and craft bungalow. It made me so sad.
I love the pink.. I waas just telling my daughter about this just yesterday about the shoots
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At 0:58 ...in the 2010's light blue and brown became popular for bathrooms...
Why are the majority of your images modern designs rather than the vintage things you are discussing? I thought that is what I would be seeing coming to a video about old bathroom features. I was disappointed not to see more of the older items.
Sorry I will pay attention to the following videos thanks for your comment
That is historical. Read more
The pictures of actual penny floors while talking about penny tiles was disappointing.
What are you guys complaining about? When they said something, I saw a picture it. Were you looking for a what bathrooms looked like in Victorian houses or something? I’m sure there’s a video for that. Complainers gotta complain about something🙄. Man. Get a life. Seriously. Make your own video.
@@tanyaredfieldI can see why!🙄 what a disappointment! You must have been crushed. Even though they showed Penny tiles.
My grandmother had a purple tub and toilet. I think the people who moved in after she passed ripped it out
Laminate countertops came with our home bought in 2002. Idk about them being done away with or used in vintage inspired homes...
I'm looking for a new vanity. They are MDF, without the protection of laminate, so one step backward in design.
My parents out a laundry chute in our basement and we played bungee jumping with our Barbies in it 😂
When we retiled around our bathtub, we eliminated the built in soap dish.
I have a retractable clothesline outside. I hang out laundry whenever possible; it smell so nice.
I never knew anyone who had a built in radio.
Tank top shelves, we have a cabinet we bought at a second hand store
I never even heard of the medicine cabinet radio. I know a lot of people who have redone their bathrooms, or bought new houses, and they all have soap dishes.
I have a modern cast iron claw foot tub I had installed when I built my home. Although the builder told me it took two men and a mule to move it to the second floor, I'm not sorry. I love soaking in it.
I had one put in when I remodeled, too -- very heavy, but at least we have a one-floor house.
@karengrohs4942 now that I've been in my house for some time, I wish it was one story.
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I wish ours was 2 stories.
It started off with memories of my great-aunt's house with the pink bathroom, and a couple features from my grandparents' house, a couple things from my '60s rambler to 'wait, that's considered obsolete?' when it got to bathroom storage and laminate counters. Unless you've done serious remodeling of the house and bathroom, the existing dimensions of the bath haven't changed and neither are there more built-ins, so stand alone and wall/shelving units are still desired.
A lot of older Seattle apartments still have radiators as the only source of heat. They do a great job, keep the air moist in winter and best of all, the steam heat they produce is CHEAP. When I had radiators (in the early 2000s), my friends were paying through the nose for gas or electric heating, but I only paid around $11 a month! It's probably more, now.
I've lived in several houses with radiators. I love them.
I much prefer baseboard heat. Do you get your steam from city pipes? Is that's why it's cheap? Because our oil bill was always high because of the heat. It was about the same at the time for gas/hot air.
Carpets in kitchen areas as well. My bathroom is pink, brown and pastel blue.. the house was built in 1948. Yes the razor slot is there as well. Pedestal sink as well.. cedar lined small closets. Sculptued all wool carpets (had to be moth treated every Six months. In the south ,knotty pine kitchens and dens. Glass door knobs. Central attick fans. The soap dishes are chrome in my home. But this is the last week of these features.. 3 thousand sq feet in 1948 was massive. In 2024 it's cozy.. I am adding a 3 car garage with a apartment above it if I could I would keep the 2 original bathrooms. The red laminate and aluminum trim are going to be no more. Sadly the house 22:26 is on 4 acres and has to be renovated. Not because I don't like the house.I can no longer deal with the 30 calls a day asking to buy it . renovated it will be a million dollars. The land is what the corporate interest want. I really don't want a Mc masion. But I am being forced to. . Sadly the house bought in 1968 for 35,000.00 without renovations would be torn down and multiple houses built on it.
I called it sanitarium pink, but it was in sold shape, we lived there for 12 years and sold it that way.
My mother insisted on keeping a carpet in her bathroom and toilet right until she moved into a care home. When we bought our first house in 1976 there was a clawfoot tub in there as the original bathroom was still there. We had it taken out and an avocado green (ugh) bathroom put in as it was the height of fashion at the time.
I think that whole carpeted bathroom trend was a planned fail on the designers part. They knew that it would get yucky in short order and then you would have to pay a ton of money to the same people to fix it.
I love those tubs ! I hated when we got the regular shower tub
I had a pink bathroom in my house built in the 80s. That sunken pink tub was at least a zillion lbs to get out in pieces!
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I bought a 1963 house and it had pink fixtures in one bathroom and a sunken tub in the other.
You haven't mentioned a BIG, popular fashion colour in the Uk in the 1970s: avocado!
Big in USA too
We had avocado carpet in our foyer and living room as well as sofa, recliner, chair and ottoman.
Eww yes😂
Avocado green and Harvest Gold. I had bought a Harvest Gold side by side fridge when my husband and I rented a house when I was 22. Thought I was all fancy-schmancy in 1980!!
I remember pull chain toilets, and claw foot tubs. I demanded that the previous owner of this house remove the claw foot tub from the attic before I closed on buying the property. That attic space must have been a servant's quarters at one point, given that there was also a rusty old toilet paper roll handle there, along with a previously removed toilet. My previous house had a laundry chute. This one still has cast iron radiators, in the original part of the house before all its additions over the past 150 years.
It’s the fact that things from the 80’s is now considered vintage for me 😭😂
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I understand. Things from the 40s were considered vintage in the 80s, but only to people like me who were not from then. To my grandparents and parents, the things from the 1940s weren't old at all. Now my kids think the 80s are ancient.
@@bigred9428I don’t think they are debating whether it has been enough time to be considered vintage or not, but rather are referring to that fact that a decade they were probably a kid during, or at least alive during, is now considered vintage, which makes them feel old and because the the 80s doesn’t feel that long ago to them.
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I wasn't debating the term vintage. I was just using perspective. For my mother, 1940s wasn't old at all, but to me, in the 1980s, the 40s were super vintage. Just like now, I think of things from the 80s as not that old, yet to my kids, it's almost as if the objects were from another planet.
@@bigred9428 well then I guess we all agree then but I’m not sure what the point of your comment was then especially since you then partially contradicted it talking about the exact same two time periods and how it was vintage to you but not your mom. But I mean OP was clearly just referring to how 80s being called vintage made her feel old
My bathroom was redone 2 months ago HA house up. I have a brand spanking new light pull, pedestal basin, medicine cabinet but my retractable clothes line is in the kitchen. 😆
A lot of these things are still very common in British homes. Mainly pedestal sinks, radiators, pull chains on both the lights and toilets
I recently bought a house that had carpeted bathrooms 🤢 changed it out before we moved in
We still have cast iron radiators. Our house was built in the 20's
😂😅Am in the middle of 2 bathroom renovations . . . probably why this video was recommended . . . getting rid of pink and green bathrooms (avocado, not mint) with pedestal sinks, razor blade disposals, pull chain lights, and built-in soap holders. Yay. But adding marble penny tile to one!
Something I didn't realize is that apparently TP holders that are recessed into the wall isn't a thing any more.
Really? Where do they put the TP?
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Just on the wall or vanity. Not recessed. 💁♂️💁♀️💁 Took me a week to get used to it, but now it's okay. I was just floored it wasn't "normal" any more. 😀😃😄
I suddenly feel really old mostly I’ve used these items and thought that were fabulous. In Of most of my friends. To go the bathroom it was actually a mission to the unknown. They all bathed in the scullery me in front of the fire.
I still like some of the things. A big brown teapot fully filled which never run out of tea, but it could be topped up. Horrible tea leaves and globules from the top of the milk. The milk used to be in standing in a big bowl or bucket with cold water . This used to taken a way if he started pulling it apart? This time of year was cake and pudding time not forgetting jams and bottled a lot all standing in rows. Plus pickled, onions red cabbage my grandmother did. To me it was an acquired taste one I never got. Later years big bottles of these on the bar. A int of Double Diamond and an egg . Going on a picnic have you got the pickled eggs. Bags of crisps with a salt in blue twisted at the top. A lady used to come haven’t a clue who she was. I did ask not long before mum died. She was a cousin of Betty my aunt but didn’t go there. She would decide who was the lucky this year. She never missed a funeral . There would be food but only a little as my constituents couldn’t take it. Then if you could spare a bit for my supper. Two rounds of turkey sandwiches made and wrapped in grease proof paper held together with an elastic band. But she couldn’t go until she had seen the Queen. The television was put on to warm up. All she did that I remember is tell us kids off. She even would tell our parents “ they get any more excited someone will be sick or hurt.
When the National Anthem played she would immediately stand up. Just her no one else. Everyone had a tongue lashing. After discussing I think she looked tired. Well there a lot for her to do. All the pressure on making cakes and puddings. By then us kids understood she had servants. Now just a bit older than all of us. My brother said things must be tough going for her. Of course if was all those rooms to be cleaned. Clean towels with the coat of arms on them. All the towels folded in a particular way she didn’t do that. My aunt said most days she was an ordinary female. She had to obey the Phillip.
She used to get really angry over it all . She is why we went war our menfolk fighting. Our response being now truly fed up the would start of with if we let them have her no war. We all got a telling off. She said it was intelligent people who understood it. My uncle wanted to know why did the men have huge lumps in their tights. She replied that it was something she had no knowledge off.
Radiant heat truly is the best!
My building must be old! The cup and soap holders are still in the bathroom.
Why did they have to get rid of coloured appliances; think they look lovely.....
"More modern materials, like granite." LOL
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Dental sinks. I was waiting for those in the video. They were a smaller sink with a smaller mirror on the wall and were usually kept a further distance from the toilet for sanitary reasons. They had toothbrush holders, toothpaste storage and also would feature a container of disposable cups.
We have a laundry shoot in our house and love
the way pedestal sinks have just never left in south america. like yes there are other sinks but i risk saying pedestal sinks are more normal here
Growing up in the early 2000s I had a pink and white bathroom.
My 1/2 bath was pink and tiled. The full bath was also pink and had carpet. Both had tiled walls. We had the laundry chute. Had the chain light too. We had the built in soap dish (I broke mine, I got in deep 💩 for that as my sister and I were chasing each other). Had the fabric covers, they would smell due to the mold that would grow on them. I still have the shelf above the toilet. Countertops were laminate as well. Damn I’m old! We also had an attic fan (I miss that one).
When my wife and I bought a house in ths late 1990's , I had a strange dream in which there was a TV mounted
in the wall of our bathroom . It used a remote control for all of its functions and the way it was mounted posed
no threat to possible electrocution and you could watch TV safely while taking a bath or shower .
Here is the strangest thing about this : I went to HOME DEPOT one day and they had a "bathroom" made exactly
as in my dream !!!
STRANGE !!! I never saw their "bathroom" until after I had my dream !
By the way my bathroom NEVER had a TV mounted in the bathroom !
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19:10 - 'Tank top shelves' - You mean 'Johnny Poles' ?! VERY small bathroom
here, so I still use one ! :)
We had a mint green tub with beautifulmint green tiles . The actual color was closer to chrysoprase green.
I am aware that, especially with trash bags coming along way since the beginning, it was easier to dispose of old razors into the walls rather than to try to put them in a bag that will just cut through. Frankly, I wouldn’t mind the razor slot in a modern sense reworked if it went down into a specialty chute.
I like a lot of vintage stuff but I don’t miss most of these. Cleaning all that tile…. 😢
I do have a pedestal sink in my early 2000s house though. I also added a tension bar in my shower for hanging clothes to dry.
Such a great idea! Especially during pool season to drop dry the bathing suits! 🤩
We had a claw foot tub in the house I grew up in.
Interesting. I had not heard of a couple of these, especially the radio. A lot of these space saving and storage solution add in features are being added to Asian bathrooms per the videos that I've seen on RUclips.
I still have pull chain ligjts in my closets and pantry
I have a pedestal sink in my half bath. 😂😂😂😂 Didn't know it was a relic.