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!

My aunt had a washing copper in her kitchen. I suspect it's been removed by now....
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wash_copper

Agree with PPs it's all about your own taste. But also your house - a period cottage might not suit whatsername's grey and pink decor, while a huge New York apartment would look daft with period wallpaper.

Yes - MILs green bathroom suite, green tiles and pink fluffy carpet (plus about 6 fluffy mats) is definitely dated. Plus all her carpets, wallpapers and curtains are very 'busy'. But she is 97 and she likes them all!

Our house is several hundred years old in the older bits. We decorated 25 years ago and have oak shaker style kitchen cupboards, and a dark wood floor and stripy wallpaper in the beamed dining room. The kitchen is immaculate so I'm not going to change it any time soon. The dining room is a bit tired so maybe. But I'll never understand these people who change stuff every five years just to be 'trendy'........

Have what you like OP - and ignore your 'friend'.

Popcorn artex ceilings. I do weirdly love them though. There’s something comforting about them.

Our dining room ceiling isn't even artex....😃 - it's textured wallpaper (not woodchip but sort of bubbly) and had been painted over so many times it's hard and crispy. We had a shower leak years ago and it sagged and I stuck a screwdriver in the bubble and we caught the water in a bucket. We glued the crispy paper back up and stuck masking tape over the joins.

We will redecorate in there one day, honest.......

I’ve got all of that apart from a pelmet over my curtains! Didn’t realise I was so horribly old fashioned, I’m only in my forties 😁

We still have the built in larder in our kitchen and it goes over my dead body! It’s great for keeping things cool, my wine in winter doesn’t need to be chilled (though I have tor bring the red to room temperature!). The only old fashioned things I don’t like about my Edwardian house is the hallway with texture wallpaper that we will have to redo at some point, and the 90s country kitchen with orange pine and flower tiles. Or maybe I just need to wait until it comes in to fashion again…

My mum’s house has one, it’s great.

Or you have to carry food from the kitchen, through the sitting room, into the dining room.

As kids, we may have climbed through it, when my mum wasn’t looking of course.

Sadly I suspect that I wouldn’t fit now.

I have two in my dedicated music room. As I am a professional musician, this is only to be expected. However, many people are wanting to learn the piano, or for their children to do so. Many adults had piano lessons as children and still enjoy playing for their own pleasure. It is not unusual to have a piano in a living room even today, although with space at a premium in many homes, especially in new builds, the piano is more likely to be a digital model these days. Not old-fashioned at all.

C15 century house, half timbered, some decorative painted beams, salt and bread ovens, thatched rooves, stone flags, a well in the kitchen.

Need I go on?

Sorry!

Remembered a house I lived in one winter when my oldest was a baby. Everything about that house was old fashioned. This was the stove.

So many mentioned before in my rented home. Swirly ceilings, 'chandeliers', embossed wallpaper, wood panelling, patterned carpets, pine kitchen, a complete overdose of fitted wardrobes, wall to ceiling tiles, plain with occasional floral and a large 'centre piece' tile in the bathrooms and kitchen, Separate loo, each room decorated on a totally different theme, even though it's not a big house.

Oh I'm so jealous. I am stalking FB Market Place and local charity shops for a glossy, dark wood bureau for our study. Have seen so many bastardised ones painted in grey chalk paint and lined with lurid wallpaper. Hideous.

DD1 is currently desperate for a CD player and vinyl turntable! They're apparently back and trendy again now!

Mind you - I have an iPod I upgraded to SD card storage and an ancient iPod docking station in my office which is flipping awesome.

In our house - his and hers bathroom sinks with waterfall taps everywhere and a jaccuzi style bath. The kids refuse to part with the bath as if you set the water level just right you can fire satisfying water jet cannons at your sibling.

Also 1950s sewing machines (I have a couple) - fucking indestructible and so much prettier than modern ones!

This is exactly my house now, apart from photos should only ever be on walls in the hall, landings or downstairs loo. Most of mine are in silver frames. Funny how tastes vary!

Teak /mahogany furniture

As in mine at the moment. My home is dated and not in a good way! I've just remodelled the lounge and stripped layers of embossed wallpaper and paint. Everything must be 30 to 40 years old.

But if you like it then it doesn't matter. Before we know it all this grey will be considered old fashioned.

A grandfather clock

When my parents downsized years ago I got the grandfather clock as it wouldn't fit in their flat.

I have now downsized to a flat of exactly the same size and they refuse to have it back so I am stuck with it (sentimental value!)

Love the sound of this, esp the kitchen well! Are you able to draw water from it?

Those little mats/covers you put on sofa arms and backs to keep them clean

They’re called antimacassars. One of the most useless bits of information I have ever learned!

Pine everywhere. Especially orange / varnished wall and ceiling cladding. Like the ceiling in the dining area of Mick & Pam's on G&S! I never liked it even when I was a child and it was the height of fashion (or at least among my parents' friends).

I also think pine furniture is old fashioned. Gone are the days I was excited about a heavy, waxed-pine chest of drawers or coveting a big pine wardrobe at my then MILs. Also yellow walls. Quite the thing in the mid to late 90's.

I think my kitchen is old fashioned now - it came with the house. It's a sort of mushroom soup coloured high gloss with black granite tops. I find it revolting but we don't have any ££ to replace it but also don't do any tweaks as that would be wasteful because we intend to replace it. At some point. Ah well!

Sounds fabulous. My GP's had a well in an inner hall. About that age but not half timbered.

It's an hotel now. Ghastly too. The well is still there.

Our house is old fashioned. We've never had a lot of money or time to change things.
We still have woodchip wallpaper that was here when we moved in. We've just painted over it, because stripping it is a massive job. DP refuses to take down the polystyrene tiles on bathroom ceiling (I know!). He's painted over the floral tiles in the bathroom, but has to keep retouching.
Kitchen units are 80s dark pine that we have painted (I still hate them).
Edit - we have just got rid of the gas cooker with eye level grill. Hurrah.

We have servants’ bells and graffiti from the 1890s. Also a big open fire, which seems pretty old fashioned now that most people have converted them to wood burners.

I still have a landline as it was the same price with it as without it when I renewed my broadband. But I don't plug it in, because the only people who ring on it are cold callers.

Mine had had one owner since it was built (60 years ago). So far I have found and removed 5 BT points. I don't even have a landline now!