What Home Features Should Come Back In Style?
While homes have evolved considerably over the last century, certain timeless features have persisted, things like built-in shelving and clever storage solutions, elegant pocket doors where the layout allows, and some form of office-like nook or workspace, however compact the footprint.
However, here are some home features that deserve to make a come back!
Enclosed or screened-in porches.
Screened-in porches or sunrooms with operable windows. These semi-outdoor rooms that moderated light and temperature before AC was commonplace. Now can serve as indoor-outdoor living, or even a green house. Making sunlight, fresh air, and gardening a feature for daily life, again, would do wonders for over all health and wellbeing.
Dumbwaiters connecting the kitchen.
A small, sometimes manual, elevator system connecting the kitchen to the upper and lower levels of a house for dishes, laundry, or other small daily chores that reduced stair traffic.
Built-in ironing boards and laundry chutes.
Time-saving, integrated solutions to chores that went out of style as the rise of a “Laundromat ” look gained traction. Laundry chutes when integrated well can save a lot of time, and built-in ironing boards and storage can turn a messy chore into a effortless daily ritual.
Notably, some of these features will be easier to retrofit than others, but don’t let your creativity be stifled by whatever the current things is and improve your home how you see fit!
