"It's So Useful": 50 "Outdated" Home Design Trends People Really, Really, Really Want To See Come Back

1. "Bring backmost pouch doors. Great for having a doorway erstwhile you privation one, and large to not person an unfastened doorway that's successful the way. Practical places for 1 see the room pantry, astir a toilet successful a bathroom, a artifact closet that is usually open, etc."

—sportysalt943

2. "Wall-to-wall carpets. Solid floors tin beryllium nice, particularly connected a little level with higher ft postulation (for cleaning purposes). I don't privation to aftermath up and measurement connected acold linoleum. Carpeted stairs marque overmuch little sound arsenic radical spell up and down them."

—shilderbrandt96

3. "I miss tubs, particularly successful maestro bedrooms. Yes, I mostly shower, but sometimes I request a soaking bath. Either due to the fact that of a atrocious period, oregon conscionable due to the fact that I request clip to decompress wholly alone. But now, everyone lone puts successful walk-in showers, and tubs are a luxury."

"You tin inactive enactment a ablution caput supra a tub and conscionable instrumentality a shower. Why bash you request to wholly region the tub?"

—furrylatte106

4. "Milk doors. Houses built pre-World War II had a tiny doorway that the aboriginal greeting arriving milkman would open, acceptable the beverage vessel in, and close. Although we nary longer person beverage transportation service, it would beryllium large for Uber seats oregon different repast transportation services, and/or erstwhile mail-order items are delivered."

—Anonymous

5. "Bring backmost starter homes! Everything is excessively large now. The lone mode to get a smaller 1 is to bargain an older house, but without caller ones, we're moving out."

—sparklesthecupcake

6. "Basements. It's a determination for mechanicals (e.g., furnaces, h2o heaters, etc.) and other retention space. Temperatures are moderated — chill during summertime and lukewarm during winter."

—Anonymous

7. "An intercom system. My puerility location had an intercom, and my parents utilized it to aftermath america up successful our rooms successful the morning, 'answer' the beforehand door, oregon telephone america to dinner, nary substance what country we were in."

—Anonymous, 30, North Carolina

8. "Homes that person hallways. It gives much privateness and separation betwixt bedrooms and the remainder of the house."

—Anonymous, 68, Tennessee

9. "I miss erstwhile homes had details conscionable for the quality of it — similar an intricately carved arched doorway oregon model sills. Newer homes are truthful cookie-cutter that you don't spot these unsocial details."

—Anonymous, 41, Ohio

10. "A inferior sink. Great for cleaning up aft messy projects and bathing tiny pets."

—Anonymous, 57, Texas

11. "Master suites with nary doorway straight betwixt the chamber and bathroom. It's made adjacent worse erstwhile the lone mode to spot the furniture is to person it looking straight astatine the bath sink."

—Anonymous, 56, Arizona

12. "Mud rooms! Keep the shoes, coats, and backpacks retired of the house."

—Anonymous, 75, Pennsylvania

13. "Laundry rooms. So galore houses are built with connections successful the garage. It's bully to support laundry and its essentials organized distant from store grime."

—Anonymous

14. "Bring backmost houses that are designed with ventilation and aerial travel successful mind. Since astir houses person AC now, you can't get the aforesaid transverse ventilation erstwhile you unfastened the windows. I emotion AC erstwhile it's hot, but I similar to unfastened the windows and get caller aerial erstwhile the weather's nice."

—oldpuppy745

15. "A pantry — adjacent a closet with shelves is amended than nothing. Just a useful spot to ample pots, pans, oregon a mixer that isn’t utilized each day. My ample wok would instrumentality an full shelf. My imagination is simply a walk-in pantry with outlets and plentifulness of abstraction for a microwave and different tiny appliances."

—cleverovercoat458

16. "A two-car LARGE store — large capable to unfastened doors connected conveyance without hitting the other! We person four-door trucks arsenic cars, and they won't acceptable successful the garage, truthful they person to enactment outside."

—Anonymous, 70, Tennessee

17. "A beforehand hallway overgarment closet. They kept ocular clutter to a minimum, and adjacent the vacuum cleaner could fit. Using hooks for coats and jackets and a handbasket for gloves and scarves looks similar clutter."

—Anonymous, 67, Connecticut

18. "Wood-burning fireplaces. On a wintertime evening, thing says comfortableness and relaxation similar a mug of blistery cocoa successful beforehand of a existent occurrence successful the fireplace."

—Anonymous, 84, Washington

19. "Large beforehand porches with columns, spindles, and rails. They adhd a invited interaction to a home, wide capable for rockers to sit, unbend with friends implicit lemonade oregon iced tea, and bask caller aerial and a beauteous day. Today's houses hardly person country to basal connected the structure to ringing the doorbell and are closed successful tiny spaces."

—Anonymous, 70, Tennessee

20. "Actual rooms with doors that tin close. I was *never* a instrumentality of the unfastened level plan. You should beryllium capable to spell into the room without being heard from the surviving room."

—hwh

"I miss having walls betwixt rooms. Open level plans are chill to beryllium capable to ticker your toddler from the room portion they are successful the surviving room, BUT erstwhile the kids are older (mine are now), privateness and quiescent are a missed thing. Also, tables successful a room alternatively of an island. Islands are utile sometimes, but tables are much intimate."

—Anonymous, 37, Pennsylvania

21. "Real wood stairs and a beauteous banister. I'm truthful implicit carpet implicit lumber, and a plain, utilitarian manus rail. In astir homes, the staircase is the archetypal happening a visitant sees, yet it looks similar thing from an bureau building."

—Anonymous, 65, Virginia

22. "Sunken surviving rooms. They were truthful chic and added quality to a space!"

—Anonymous, 45, California

23. "Every disposable abstraction being utilized for storage. Our location is astir 100 years old, and I curse that each imaginable spot has immoderate benignant of closet oregon drawer. The main chamber has a closet that uses the abstraction supra the stairs to the basement. The peninsula antagonistic successful the room has a furniture and a drawer connected the acold broadside successful the corner. It inactive doesn't consciousness similar capable storage, but I admit the plan of nary wasted space!"

—Anonymous, 28, Colorado

24. "The laundry chute decidedly needs to marque a comeback. Our archetypal location had 1 that dropped the apparel into a wide two-door furniture connected the partition beside the washer."

—balconydrinksh20

25. "Taller ceilings. There's a grace and spaciousness that tin lone beryllium obtained by 10-foot ceilings. Even McMansions are often built with 8-foot ceilings, and wrong and out, the homes look squat and retired of proportion."

—Anonymous, 65, Virginia

26. "Bring backmost eating rooms (they don't request to beryllium formal). It's the spot wherever families sit, talk, and link astir meals. Today, with each the busyness, the intelligence wellness of the household is lost. The household doesn't get to beryllium down implicit meal astatine slightest erstwhile a week, look each different successful the eyes, perceive each other's voices, and beryllium capable to discern erstwhile thing is wrong."

—laughingtortoise10

27. "Window treatments. We person them present successful France. Workable shutters and blinds connected the extracurricular that you tin adjacent passim the day. I privation everyone had them, particularly successful places that acquisition aggravated summertime heat. We unopen them during the hottest portion of the time and unfastened them astatine nighttime erstwhile the vigor cools down."

"Even during the caller vigor waves, our location is comfy with conscionable 1 instrumentality running. Keeping them closed is besides an added furniture of security."

—michellemartinc2

28. "Windows successful the bathroom. Yes, you spot it successful astir aged homes, but obscurity successful today's homes. They springiness airy and caller air, some precise indispensable things. Today's bathrooms consciousness similar closed closets with suffocating aerial and a loud, irritating exhaust instrumentality sound."

—Anonymous, 70, California

29. "Doors connected bathrooms successful maestro bedrooms. Whoever thought this was a bully idea? I don't privation to perceive idiosyncratic ablution and brushwood their teeth!"

—Anonymous, 66, Arizona

30. "Attic storage, preferably with entree wrong with pull-down ladder. Doesn't person to beryllium a lot, but a spot to store vacation decor would beryllium nice."

—Anonymous, 60, California

31. "Laundry porches. A screened-in porch, with the quality to enactment successful tempest windows, disconnected the backmost of the house, dedicated to laundry. This includes a inferior sink, immoderate antagonistic space, and casual entree to the apparel drying enactment outside. Keeps the dryer's vigor retired of the location successful summer, and gives you a bully spot for kids to instrumentality disconnected soiled apparel and shoes close astatine the washing place!"

—Anonymous, 51, Oregon

32. "Literally having a yard. All these caller McMansions are being built utilizing each quadrate inch of property, leaving nary country for a yard! I grew up having a large gait (which is beauteous uncommon due to the fact that I grew up truly adjacent to the city), and we had a sandbox, a plaything set, a trampoline, a patio with a occurrence pit, and a ample garden, with plentifulness of open, grassy areas for moving around."

"I spent truthful overmuch of my puerility successful that yard, and it makes maine bittersweet to deliberation that truthful many kids won't person overmuch of a backyard due to the fact that the designer said their location needed to beryllium adjacent bigger."

—Anonymous, 18, Virginia

33. "I grew up with a big, achromatic porcelain room descend with built-in drain boards. Not lone are they a charming focal constituent to galore kitchens, they are truthful useful, whether rinsing a bushel of nutrient oregon washing a sticky toddler."

—Anonymous, 65, Virginia

34. "A keeping room. We person an eating country betwixt the room and the household room. We removed the tiny array that cipher utilized and placed a debased circular array and 4 upholstered swivel chairs. Replaced the buffet with barware, and present it's the cleanable in-between for radical who privation to congregate successful the room but besides privation a tiny speech space."

—Anonymous, 50, Florida

35. "Stained-glass windows! The colorful airy they bring successful brightens up adjacent the darkest room!"

—Anonymous, 51, Pennsylvania

36. "Built-in, slide-out cutting boards successful kitchens. The aged location we tore down had one, arsenic did each older location I ever lived in. I privation I'd thought of having my furniture shaper adhd one. They conscionable aren't enactment successful caller homes, but they were precise handy."

—Anonymous, 69, Minnesota

37. "Window awnings person disappeared everywhere! They are a inexpensive mode to chopped backmost connected cooling costs, and they look sweet."

—the_toast_of_you

38. "Bring backmost ablution curtains! Glass showers marque maine consciousness similar I’m cleaning myself successful a zoo grounds for the full satellite to watch."

—Anonymous

39. "Crown molding, baseboards, and wainscoting. There's thing truthful beauteous astir a finished location with attraction to item done with competent craftsmanship. It feels luxe, warm, inviting, and you know, similar a home. The full minimalist, sterile trends successful 'pick your shadiness of beige oregon gray' are tiresome and ever punctual maine of a doctor's oregon dentist's office."

—Anonymous, 45, California

40. "Bring backmost detached garages. What's appealing astir store doors taking up two-thirds of the beforehand of the house?"

—Anonymous, 70, Texas

41. "Covered porches oregon plot rooms. Add bully seating to marque a cozy abstraction to bent retired and work oregon to bash thing crafty, similar draw, paint, knit, play a tabletop game, etc., that doesn't necessitate an net connection!"

—Anonymous, 42, California

42. "Wood, unpainted room cabinets. No substance however good and professionally your cabinets are painted, they volition spot oregon scratch. Wood cabinets tin beryllium refinished. If you similar a airy kitchen, spell with birch; if you similar dark, stain your wood, but don't overgarment it."

—Anonymous, 76, California

43. "Functional kitchens! Built-in lazy Susans successful cabinets, those garage-door-type cabinets, things similar that. We got it close successful the '50s and '60s, and present we person gadgets for everything that utilized to travel built-in! I'd instrumentality a '50s-style room implicit a modern 1 immoderate day."

—Anonymous, 30, Virginia

44. "Living rooms successful beforehand of the location with representation windows. During holidays, radical tin spot your decorations and the Christmas histrion successful beforehand of the window."

—poeticalligator146

45. "Tile oregon linoleum connected the floor. Water connected the level is simply a changeless successful the kitchen. Wood and h2o don't premix well. True, you tin regenerate the wood planks that are affected, but they volition ne'er look archetypal due to the fact that the remainder of your level volition person acquired 'patina.'"

—Anonymous, 76, California

46. "Coat closets! A closet adjacent the beforehand doorway for your coats, purse, shoes, etc. Very fewer houses look to person them, and I don't understand! It's truthful convenient! Also, laundry chutes should marque a comeback."

—jessethecowgirl

47. "Fold-out ironing boards. Yes, I robust my apparel and find it relaxing portion listening to an audiobook oregon podcast. But lugging retired the ironing committee is simply a pain!"

—Anonymous, 40, California

48. "I miss the sponged walls everyone's moms DIY'ed successful the 2000s. When they were done right, they were truly pretty. Also, wallpaper borders, oregon adjacent wallpaper successful general. Plain walls are truthful boring, but they inactive look to clasp connected successful fashionable opinion."

—Anonymous

49. "A existent foyer. My aged flat had a existent foyer with abstraction for a seat to region your shoes, a small overgarment closet, a array to enactment your keys/mail, and a reflector for last-minute constitution checks."

—Anonymous, 54, Washington, DC

50. "Entertainment centers. I deliberation we got truthful excited astir the novelty of being capable to bent a TV connected the partition that we forgot however utile and charismatic amusement centers tin be. We inactive ain the 1 we purchased astir 20 years ago. In summation to our TV, it holds and displays immoderate of our publication collection, question photos, dependable equipment, and video crippled system."

"We person baskets down solid doors, which clasp each of the video crippled accessories, and hidden down the coagulated doors are a clump of things we don't privation to look astatine each the time, but are useful to person successful the surviving room. It's truthful useful!"

—Anonymous, 40, Texas

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