Old fashioned things you have in your home

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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!

But so easy to paint over so not exactly an issue if you move into a new house with wallpaper/wall paint colour you don't like.

Just read this thread again and I also have:

an upright piano (though it's an electric one)

a water tank (what do people have instead?)

laminate in a few rooms

Artex, we had oddly plastered walls, like mum’s Christmas cake icing, all peaks, hurt to lean on it. That was old fashioned, plus the anaglypta wallpaper, ruddy marvellously hard wearing! Pub style carpets.

I don’t believe this is old fashioned at all, so much of this is property dependent. I live in a period property with very high ceilings, the dado rails look great and break up the expanse of walls. Beautiful wallpaper always works too in these kinds of properties, plus having two toned walls. I’m fascinated to see other people’s houses 😂

This sounds lovely to me….though I prefer a recliner sofa ( more room for books and cushions and the crochet bag)

Old fashioned things I also actually have….my wardrobe and chest of drawers are both ( I think ) 1920’s solid dark oak. But the figures and relief carvings on them are much, much older, probably 17century. A furniture restorer told me he thought they had been ‘saved’ from church furniture during the French Revolution when churches were closed and their contents dispersed.

So in and out of ‘fashion ‘ several times by now , I think

I fail to see how books and photos / paintings are old fashioned! I think a Tiffany lamp is timeless too. I get a sense there’s a lot of people living in new builds on this thread!

Surprised people still have artex ceilings, not had those in years, the most old fashioned thing we have in our home is a radio, I LOVE it.

Yes, exactly that.

Sounds fabulous. “Fashion” doesn’t really apply to beautiful antiques.

Some of these posts are just (not so) stealth boasts describing desirable period features, which aren't the same thing as 'old fashioned' or 'dated' interior design.

Well the majority of posters haven’t made that differentiation.

We have pine stuff, I still quite like it. My dining room table is pine

I also like the pine dressers

I'm not that fussed if my house is dated

Our house was built in 1983 and has artex ceilings, but they are the small "bubble" type rather than the big swirls that were so popular in the seventies. I really don't mind them at all - in fact I never take any notice of them. I have mostly lived in houses built in the sixties, seventies and eighties, so have always known them. I think many people would think l have old fashioned things in my house - we have it to our tastes rather than other people's and the generation of the occupants of the house also plays a part. I actually do not like identikit IKEA homes. Ours has come together over many years and most of our furniture is second hand, often from charity shops. It is original mid-century and has come right back into fashion. We have a nice fireplace and an electric coal effect fire - very old fashioned, but we like it. We have a chiming carriage clock and a collection of ornaments.
I have a friend who truly has a very old fashioned house and has no idea that it is. She is in her mid sixties; a few years older than me. Anaglypta wallpaper, carpets with large swirls, net curtains, upright chairs and settee with wooden arms and legs and complete with antimacassars and arm covers. Blankets and bedspreads on the beds. It is like stepping back in time to my grandparents' home. However, the important thing is that they like it and are very content.

Oh, so many of these in my house!

• dado rails, with different decor above and below
• books
• CDs
• feature walls with wallpaper
• different colour in every room
• matching furniture
• gas fire with fake coals
• turntable (I definitely disagree they are old-fashioned though, they're coming back in)
• cassette player
• corkscrew (of course!)
• aspidistra (though despite being "cast-iron" they don't do too well for me)
• photos, pictures, assorted frames - I have collected my pictures over the years and it would be a miracle if the frames were identical
• sash windows - seriously though, what would I do, rip out my lovely original windows?

There are more, but this is getting long! I love it all though. Some modern styles are nice, but I couldn't be doing with everything grey.

The issue with some new builds is the size of the rooms. I've a couple of friends who have had windows taken out to get a piece of furniture in.

We have just moved into a house with swirly ceilings, magnolia walls and night storage heaters.

It looks like the kitchen (including the cooker) were put in when it was built about 30 years ago.

It has definitely old fashioned vibes but it's also a blank slate.

How are sash windows and books old fashioned?!

Because nobody in their right mind would live in a house with single glazed windows that are made of wood and are as useful for keeping the cold as a holey vest.
I can't change mine because I private rent and its a grade 2 listed building.

Not all sash windows are single glazed.

Millions of people living in Victorian/Edwardian period properties do just that. I have no desire whatsoever to replace my original windows with plastic shite.

Same here! Mine are 140 years old and still going. We can repair and paint them ourselves, whereas friends with PVC have to get them professionally fixed or replaced at intervals of rather less than 140 years.

I must admit though that my heart sinks a bit when it's time to repaint them.

A 100 year old metronome.
I bought it for my dad as a gift because it reminded him of when he had his piano lessons as a child.
He died in 2020 and now I have it.
Strange thing that is.

Artex ceilings, I have them and they will stay as I don't look up very often and the mess of having them re done would be horrendous !

Our ceilings are that much painted over rough textured ceiling paper, I have no intention of changing it, it looks sound,
We also have textured wallpaper. The hallway and landing is painted textured wallpaper and wood panelling on the stairs which I think is the original 1930s