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1. "Coat closets, broom closets, and linen closets. My 1873 Victorian location has each of them, arsenic good arsenic a built-in china cupboard successful the eating room. I person seen modern luxury apartments with thing but a tiny hallway closet."
—Anonymous, 56, Massachusetts
2. "Zoned level plans. Bedrooms utilized to beryllium connected 1 extremity of the house. Now, the maestro is connected the other extremity of the house. Not convenient erstwhile you person an babe astatine the different extremity of the house."
—Anonymous
3. "High ceilings. We person 10-foot ceilings, and it makes everything consciousness overmuch much open. Our erstwhile location was newer and had overmuch little ceilings, which made things consciousness overmuch much cramped."
4. "I REALLY request lavation tubs back. Where other tin you cleanable up overgarment tools, for example. In the bathtub???"
5. "If we could conscionable bring backmost well-crafted, affordable starter homes, that would beryllium great. Every enactment these days is simply a immense home. What happened to elemental three- to four-bedroom homes with 2 bathrooms and nary elephantine extras? Not everyone tin bargain a mini mansion."
6. "Front household rooms and a backmost household room. My grandma and great-grandma person them, and I emotion it! We’re selling my grandma’s location close now, but my great-grandma’s location has this arsenic well!"
—Anonymous, Midwest
"Get escaped of immense 'great rooms.' Bring backmost the household country and a ceremonial surviving room."
—Anonymous, 70, North Carolina
7. "A basal cellar. Wonderful for storing plot vegetables picked from summertime done fall. Fresh is ever amended than canned oregon frozen. Bushels of apples and potatoes tin beryllium successful the basal cellar. You lone suffer a fistful done wintertime."
—Anonymous, 71, Michigan
8. "Space betwixt homes. I person ever loved precocious fidelity stereo, and you can't perceive to euphony present without neighbors complaining — yet I person to perceive to their barking dogs and marital arguments."
—Anonymous, 69, Ohio
9. "Wood partition paneling. It gives the location a compartment vibe!"
—Anonymous, 71, Florida
10. "Steam radiators. I ever had a lukewarm towel aft a ablution and lukewarm pajamas and underwear successful the winter. Good for raising dough and drying mittens and socks aft a time successful the snow."
—Anonymous, 83, New Hampshire
11. "Built-in drawers and shelves successful bedrooms."
—Anonymous, 37, Texas
12. "Built-in ironing boards. They instrumentality up little abstraction and are easier to acceptable up. You don't person to lug a committee anywhere. It's conscionable determination erstwhile you request it and retired of show erstwhile you don't."
13. "Large garages. I loathe the tiny garages wherever we live. I privation a store wherever you tin really parkland 2 vehicles. I privation abstraction to store outdoor furnishings erstwhile not successful usage and inactive parkland my cars there."
—Anonymous, 60, South Carolina
14. "A laundry chute beside the bath for soiled apparel to spell straight to the basement. We had 8 radical successful a accepted farmhouse. It worked wonders for anyone having a washer/dryer successful the basement — having apparel down by the washer, not stacking up upstairs."
—Anonymous, 71, Michigan
17. "A instrumentality with a propulsion cord that goes straight outside. My person had a afloat location instrumentality successful the attic. Open the windows arsenic the time cools off, and each that chill aerial is sucked into the house. Amazing."
18. "I grew up successful a location with a beverage chute, astir apt 1 of the past years that these were built into homes, arsenic we ne'er utilized it for thing (except crawling done erstwhile we were kids!) Now, I would similar to fig retired a mode to incorporated those again, alternatively than permission deliveries retired for structure pirates."
"However, I'm not an technologist and haven't figured retired a mode to marque them secure, truthful they are neither a information to kids nor an casual introduction into one's location for burglars."
19. "A dumbwaiter. Our location erstwhile had two. One adjacent to the fireplace, for bringing up substance from the basement, and 1 from the basement each the mode up to the attic with hatches successful the kitchen, the upstairs hallway, and the attic — for moving astir laundry and what-have-you. Previous owner(s) demoed some of them, leaving america with a trapdoor successful the surviving country and 2 weird tall-and-narrow closets (in the room and successful 1 of the bedrooms)."
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