"More Houses Should Have This": 21 "Outdated" Home Design Trends That Are, Honestly, Light-Years Better Than Today’s Trends

1. "A MUDROOM! I'm presently location hunting present up north, and mud rooms are a necessity — particularly with kids and/or dogs."

—justwandering24

"This seems to beryllium much of thing for cold-weather climates, but much houses should person a two-door entryway with a small mudroom betwixt the extracurricular doorway and the beforehand door. It insulates amended and gives you a spot to enactment wintertime boots and coats."

—lunaamethyst8124

2. "More storage, please. All these modern designs haven't fixed retention a azygous thought, oregon they've sabotaged the accidental to person a bully magnitude of retention by adding an other bedroom, but past each the bedrooms are tiny with minimal storage."

—Anonymous, 30, Austrailia

3. "Real wood floors. So-called 'luxury' vinyl plank (LVP) flooring looks cheap, plasticky, and slippery. Real wood is warm, and the dogs don't descent each implicit erstwhile they locomotion connected it."

—Anonymous, 63, Oregon

4. "Dining rooms that are ample capable to big a ample household gathering. I'm bushed of seeing homes with eating rooms excessively tiny for a array with much than 4 chairs, not to notation the apartments with nary eating country astatine all. Do radical nary longer person household gatherings?"

—Anonymous, 64, Nebraska

5. "Glassed-in/screened-in beforehand porches."

—ehch

6. "Dark wood/'orange' wood. I hatred the gray/white washed wood that's everyplace these days."

—ehch

7. "Claw-foot tubs. My grandkids shriek with delight erstwhile they travel to my house; they get bully and soiled and play successful the immense tub earlier heading home! They ever constituent retired the feet and punctual them they are animal claws!"

—Anonymous, 55, New Hampshire

8. "A basement. A kids' country wherever the household country is much for adults. It's bully for aft dinner."

—Anonymous

9. "Detached garages. Who wants to look astatine a store doorway that takes up 60% of the beforehand of the house? I privation the location to person curb entreaty and not a immense two-car store door."

—Anonymous, 71, Texas

10. "Glass block. I had a location with a solid artifact model successful the bathroom. It provides airy and privacy."

—Anonymous

11. "Laundry chutes! My hubby and I person been talking for years astir however we regretted not adding 1 successful for our household of 5 erstwhile we renovated our bathroom. It sucks lugging dense laundry baskets up and down the stairs!"

—Anonymous

12. "Radiant heat, coming up from the floors. Never had to deterioration socks oregon slippers successful the winter, due to the fact that the floors were lukewarm capable not to request them!!! Even successful our Christmas greeting photos, erstwhile opening presents, we were barefoot the full time!!!"

—Anonymous

13. "A built-in ironing board. I emotion having each of my ironing worldly conscionable successful 1 spot, and it doesn't instrumentality up country oregon get successful the mode similar a accepted ironing board."

—Anonymous, Utah

14. "Broom closets. There needs to beryllium a spot to store the vacuum and such."

—Anonymous, 69, Ohio

15. "More than 1 bathroom. I grew up successful a ample location with 5 bedrooms and 4 bathrooms. It was truly nice."

—Anonymous

16. "Wainscoting. I person formica wainscoting successful the room (it's lasted years), truthful I don't person to interest astir radical hitting the walls with their chairs oregon anything. Super casual to clean, and nary dents oregon scratches from said chairs oregon table."

—Anonymous, Utah

17. "When you're conscionable starting out, a ample capable backyard is the best, truthful the kids tin person a plaything acceptable and a spot to play. Nowadays, it seems similar nary 1 wants to chopped grass, truthful they conscionable pave implicit astir of it with a patio. Sad 😞."

—Anonymous

18. "A cedar closet. A closet lined with cedar boards: It's mothproof and the precise champion hide-and-seek spread successful the house. Might beryllium casual to find aft the archetypal clip oregon two, but it's worthy it to nestle down the hanging apparel successful the quiescent acheronian and respire the volatile aromatics the wood emits."

—Anonymous, 79, Maryland.

19. "Coffered ceilings."

—ehch

20. "Small details successful homes similar prime hardware and solid doorway knobs."

—ehch

21. "Jack and Jill sinks successful the bathrooms and lazy Susans successful the kitchen. The archetypal location I bought had a Jack-and-Jill descend successful my idiosyncratic bathroom, and I loved it! It helped prevention clip successful the mornings with my children due to the fact that they could some get acceptable astatine the nonstop aforesaid clip alternatively of waiting connected each other. And lazy Susans were successful 1 of the archetypal houses that I lived successful arsenic a child."

"I retrieve watching my ma propulsion a furniture doorway open, and the wrong spun astir to reappraisal what she had stored successful determination — usually seasonings and nutrient items that she needed to get to rapidly portion she was cooking."

—Anonymous, 53, Indiana

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