6 Reasons to Love Your Old House

With so many new homes on the market, new home developments and modernistic designs, are we throwing away from the best features of historical and vintage style homes? In a recent article by MSN real estate they spoke about 10 old house features that you shouldn’t abandon. Whether you’re buying an older home, a historical home, or considering renovating a new home with an Old-style look, here are some of our favorite reasons to love your old home.

Dutch or French Doors.

This really is a fleeting style and one you probably won’t find in many homes in this modern era. These Dutch doors where half of the door was split and you can open the top half with the bottom half separately were popular with the 18th-century Dutch settlers of New York and New Jersey. They are split horizontally to keep out animals while letting light and air in.

Sun porches or sleeping porches.

Popular in the 20th century, many health professionals believe that the fresh air in these sunrooms provided a boost to the immune system. Today, these sunrooms and sleeping porches can be renovated into beautiful greenhouse areas with lots of  light and a comfortable, relaxing setting.

Laundry chutes.

Why did we ever get rid of these things? In today’s society many of the new homes are building laundry rooms on the same level as bedrooms, duh! Nobody ever likes to haul laundry up and down stairs or down to the basement or out to the garage and  then back into the bedrooms. But the laundry shoots did make it easy to throw down all of your laundry, kitchen towels and other linens straight to the laundry room where they belonged.

Intercom systems.

Even though the these gadgets were devices from the 1970s, they can be useful even if you don’t have a very large home. “Systems consist of a base station and several remote modules, and the newest intercoms are capable of piping music throughout your home.” These intercoms can actually be very useful especially if you have twists and turns in your home that make it difficult to hear noises from one room to the other.

A telephone Cubby.

When telephones were the central location of the home, there were nooks and alcoves built especially to accommodate these large and bulky phones. Even though we don’t use land lines a lot in many homes they are convenient for leaving our keys, cell phones and even installing a cell phone charger base so you always know where to pick up everything as you head out the door.

A dumbwaiter.

These were convenient for carrying items like laundry and food from floor to floor. The small freight elevators rose in popularity during the 19th century. Even though you may not find them in any of the newer homes, they can be very convenient and installed with electric motors, automatic control systems and greater customization, and they can be an ideal device that’s extremely useful in your home.

Before focusing too much on renovating and modernizing our homes we don’t want to forget some of the old tried-and-true features that really worked. Feel free to read the entire article here. http://realestate.msn.com/10-old-house-features-you-shouldnt-abandon