Brit Reacts to Mysterious American Home Features No Longer Used

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[jimc]

That last part about the walls and separate rooms, used to be normal in the US too. The trend has moved to the "open concept, great-room" where the living room, dining room and kitchen are basically all in one big room.

[rltrumps]

We had our bathroom remodeled several years ago. When we tore out the wall behind the sink, there was a pile of razor blades 2 feet tall. There had to be 500 blades in there. They’d probably been in there 40-60 years.

[LaurinGarcia]

For 12 years I use to work at a theatrical Broadway costume company called Barbara Matera Ltd here in New York City. My late boss use to own a classic Victorian house in upstate New York. It was huge and beautiful and it always reminded me of a white wedding cake. Once a year she would bus all her employees to her house up in Athens, New York for her annual huge birthday celebration complete with fireworks on her two acre property. He home was a classic Victorian upperclass house. It definitely had a servants quarter with the seperate servant's stairway.
I use to find the house so fascinating and beautiful. I couldn't get enough of it.

[chrisdavis]

My grandparents house had almost all of these things. The bells for the different rooms, coal shoot, ice delivery, milk delivery, servants area, fireplace in every room, transoms on all doors. Delivery from river boats was through a tunnel under the house to the cellar. My fancy neighbors had an intercom system in their new home in the early 70's.

[lauraweiss]

I’m watching this in a room of my 130-yr old home that has backstairs, we have pocket doors and there’s a coal chute in my basement. This house was hand-crafted (all the doors, trim and floors were hand-planed and carved on site). There is stained glass in many of the windows. Funny thing is this house was priced pretty affordably for its size. A lot of people don’t want old houses anymore.

[jennifersmith]

My family home was built in the late 1800s, and we have picture rails. Some are new because my grandfather turned it into a restaurant in the 50s, but to keep the authenticity, my parents replaced them. They are really cool. No holes in the wall and you can hang very heavy frames. You can also move them around anytime you want. They need to make a comeback. They can also be placed at any level and painted to blend in to the wall. So cool!

[Ninjanimegamer]

We lived in a house that was over 100 years old. We had the copper wire and tube hooked up to all the outlets and lights. When we were moving, my husband stayed in the old house while our daughter and i stayed at the new house. The reason for our split was to ensure noone busted into the old house and strip out the copper wire and copper pipes to sell to the metal yards. Copper is expensive and people can make a lot of money off of scrap copper.

[Princess_Celestia_]

7:56 Why? Because back in those days, most people grew their own vegetables and needed way to store them for winter.

[NextgenTraveler]

As a Pittsburgh native i can attest, that Pittburgh toilets are still very much a thing and exist still to this day. My aunt has one in her house. They are strange, but useful haha. The house i grew up in used to be a 150 year old duplex that had a coal cellar, knob and tubing electrical, and push button light switches in the living room. VERY old house, but i loved it.

[bbdest]

Cheap laundry chutes became illegal due to fire code, because they enabled fire to spread to other floor faster. There are methods that make it work (basically, the same protections that elevators require), but it's more expensive so developers usually opt out of building them.

[Cookie-K]

The home I grew up in had a laundry my chute wasn't big enough for a child to fit down....don't ask me how I know that 😂

[larryfontenot]

A feature of old American homes from around 1900 was that they had very high ceilings on the ground floor. The reason was to have space near the ceiling to allow hot air to rise during the summer, making the air around the people in the rooms a little cooler. It was a feature that was fairly common in Victorian style homes.

[nyneeveanya]

I’ve still got a boot scrape. Rains and snows a lot here so boots get muddy or caked in snow. Keeps most the mess outside.
Narrator was being kind in the north they were sometimes paid servants, usually they were the house slaves.
Many new homes have open concept where the living room, dining room, kitchen are all in one big room. The only room with doors are bathrooms and bedrooms. In a loft or studio set up the only separate room is the bathroom.

[dougtripp]

I once did some remodeling in a Victorian style home. There were brass pipes throughout the walls with openings in various rooms so people could speak into and hear from. A non-electric intercom system.

[cyn]

We had so many of these things in the house where I lived before my teens.
I loved the push-button light switches! We had a coal chute and a Pittsburgh potty, which had a shower as well. The dumb-waiter freaked me out, though, because it funneled the voices of people talking, and I thought we had ghosts!

[ccct]

My home had a laundry shoot, which I found so handy! Also, I much rather prefer homes that DO NOT have open concept. I always thought it was a bad idea as it would require more energy to heat or cool such a large area. Some homes actually have area heating and cooling where there are separate controls in every room to set it as needed and not simply heat or cool the entire home.

[rockyroad]

Dumbwaiters are coming back thanks to 3 story townhomes with a street level garage. It makes it easier to get everything from groceries to suitcases upstairs to the living areas. I designed homes for many years and transom windows were popular as high end touches and pocket doors were and still are popular. Just remember never to drive a nail into the other side of the wall to hang a picture.

[maryjordan]

Grew up with many of these including the Pittsburgh potty, coal and laundry shuts, root cellar and transomes❤😊. Yes bring back the laundry shut for sure!😅

[dogfostermom]

Have you heard of the Winchester mystery house in Calif.? Mrs. Winchester (wife of the Winchester gun magnate) continuously built on her house as she believed she would never die as long as there was construction going on. Strange stories surround that house.

[barbarahomrighaus]

My mom was born in 1922. Her great aunt Kate had dumbwaiters in her house and my mother was allowed to.play in it with supervision. The button on the floor was at the end of the table where the hostess sat. When it was time to clear dishes and bring out the next course, the hostess would push the call button to make it happen. It didn't interfere with dancing because it was below the heavy, formal dining table. Very cool invention.