Old fashioned things you have in your home

[Kittyteaa]

Had a friend up for a catch up today, I am redecorating and I had asked what she thought of my home beforehand, she said “well it was a bit old fashioned wasn’t it?!” So I am genuinely interested what things in a house makes it old fashioned!

Mine too we should start a club.

Have a dado rail with wood panelling underneath and very old fashioned wallpaper above in DD's room. The kitchen's backsplash is very 60s or 70s.

Honestly that sounds like my ideal decor!

I guess it’s old fashioned vs. dated.

There’s an original Georgian bread oven in the basement. Fireplaces and a working outdoor toilet.

I grew up in a house with a 1ft brick wall all along one living room wall with a wooden top and break in the middle for the gas fire, absolutely hideous!

I have an upright piano and a 35 year old kitchen.

Who mentioned ‘paper’ books as being old fashioned? 😱
Almost as bad as the MNer some time ago who referred to books as ‘clutter’.
Philistine!

I have a Kindle but still read ‘proper’ books, and we have masses of them.

There’s not much in my house that isn’t old-fashioned (according to this thread) .

Hornsea storage jars?
Hostess trolley?
Carpet in the bathroom?

Hope you told her to fuck off.

CDs
Dark pine tv cabinet ( houses said CDs)
Not sure how old our kitchen units are but they definitely need updating - I want to change the doors.

I do have a granny square crochet blanket
Hand done embroidery crap

I dont have... Those crochet dollies that go over the spare toilet roll on the cistern.
Toilet pedestal rugs
Concork tiles

Crikey! I'm buying a house with arterx ceilings, woodchip wallpaper, water tank & a maroon bathroom suite!

My favourite home - lived there from about 8 to 21 - was a 1960s double-fronted cream brick veneer. It had a lovely feature wall, pale green and silvery embossed wallpaper. The fireplace (which held an oil space heater - those were the days!) had a surround in different coloured stone slabs and a good big mantelpiece. The carpet was grey with rosettes in greens and pinks. The lounge room sliding doors had frosted glass with a seagull design. I loved that house, hated having to leave (the Board of Works were selling it and Mum couldn't afford to buy it).

Yes, dark brown ‘wood’ doors but it doesn’t really matter in the utility room.
What it does have are four Pyrex type dishes at the top, inferior versions only have three, and, very H Bouquet, silver plated cradles with lids for the glass dishes with little legs so you can put them on the table without heatproof mats.

That sounds lovely and very hygge.
I don't think that bookshelves will ever be old fashioned. The one in my living room is always admired - as are my recently recovered wing back chairs....

I love old bone china and I use a bone china teapot and teacup and saucer every day both on a bone china tray with a mini milk jug. I have several large dinners and tea sets in bone china and I think it's very pretty. I can't stand drinking out of a mug.

According to google, Artex is a brand of textured paint, usually referring to a heavily textured "popcorn" style finish (see pic 1), whereas "textured paint" is a broader term encompassing various types of paint.

Artex can also be applied to have patterns like swirls or fans like in the other pictures.

@ppiscofrisco I would LOVE an old style teasmaid. 😍

Older style for me would be:

Those tiny dark wood corner shelves with black wrought iron brackets that can only hold one ornament.

Fake Olde ceiling beams.

Those crackle glaze bathroom tiles that have the same repeated pattern. (DB and I used to call them "baby chick" tiles when we were young.)

Rag rolled walls in yellow or terracotta resembling a Texmex restaurant.

Dark beige kitchen tiles spaced with randomly placed images of wicker baskets filled with wheat sheaths, fruit etc.

A set of old soup bowls with the recipe on the front - fits a whole can in perfectly

4 Murano Cockerels. I have inherited one from my grandparents, one from DH's GP's, my mother gave me hers because it was so old fashioned, and step's sister's for the same reason. They are much complimented.

We also have a fair bit of mahogany furniture and a very traditional dining table, chairs and sideboard (grandparents') and my father's Victorian wing backed chairs. I think the aforementioned are antiques though.

When we bought this house, it had worn China blue carpet and dark red velvet curtains in the reception rooms and vanity sinks in three of the bedrooms: two pink and one blue. It also had a yellow bath with marbled yellow and white tiles (those tiles came in a variety of colours - pink, blue, an orangey shade). The yellow bathroom had a certain charm. All those things are gone now.

We have a very old fashioned door pull at the front door which sets off tinkly bells which are threaded on a wire in the hall.

A Denby Memories tea set, cream jug and butter dish. Still use the butter dish. The plates went years ago.

Separate kitchen with a door
Old cabinets (1990s)
Built in china hutch possibly dating to the late 1800s/ Victorian period
High ceilings
Ornate wainscoting and trim around the windows and doors
Big fireplace (probably late 1800s/early1900s) made from carved wood
Built in drawers and linen cupboard in a hallway
Big built in closets
Books
Record player for vinyl

Also, patterned china as opposed to the ubiquitous white

I'm laughing away because we have every single one of these , living in a very long term reno and loving it.

A different pattered carpet in every room
Wallpapered textured ceiling (plaster starts to crumble the minute you think about peeling it).
Floral tiles in bathroom and kitchen.
80s gas fires (wasn't complaining when boiler died and weather was -3)
Teak fitted wardrobes
80s pine kitchen
Old tvs on brackets in every social room, none of which work
Massive decorative curtains with elaborate pelmet.

Moved from a newbuild and cannot tell you how much I love all the crazy old fashioned features.

I loved the artex ceiling we had in our house when I was a teenager, just loved the patterns of it.
My house now has wooden ceilings which is nicer, probably very old fashioned as I doubt they've been changed in decades as they just wouldn't need to be, good and solid.

Teasmaid!

That's my New Year's Resolution sorted!!

Meat hooks suspended from the cellar ceiling.

The house I grew up in had meat hooks and a big stone slab in the pantry. Very useful as a fridge overflow. (The slab not the hooks.)