Kitchen

[AuntG]

What I had and liked were:

A flour bin just as OP described

Laundry chute

Pull out cutting boards

[kindred cats]

I think the pull-out cutting boards in the kitchens win the prize!

I suppose no one had a "dumb waiter"??? 

[CelticCrafter]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

Remember those huge tin-lined drawers that were for bread storage and we're supposed to keep it fresh?

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I still have one in my kitchen!  It doesn't have the lid on it that you could slide back to get the bread out though.

[Puzzle Piece]

A Bread Board. 

[wagirl]

In 1986 the now "ex" built our house and I got formica faced cabinet fronts with an orange stained ( as was the thing then, stain color wise )  oak pull on the bottom---and I did like them --they cleaned up easliy-- but after 35 years --I detested them----would have been a pleasure to rip them from the hinges for new ones--but we sold the house, so I didn't have to worry about them. 

[CamilleP]

@On It   I've read through the entire thread you started and nobody else has mentioned it, so I am going to describe a feature we had in a Craftsman-style house we lived in for a short while when I was in the 4th grade.  It had had a basement at one time, but had been moved from the location it was originally built on in order to build a new hospital, and the movers did not dig a new basement for it, just put it on a standard foundation.  The front door from the wide front porch opened into a living room, with a small parlour off to one side.  Behind the parlour was a small bathroom with a claw-footed tub, and then the kitchen.  Behind the living room, divided by a partial room divider with glass-fronted bookcases on each side and half-pillars up to the ceiling was the dining room, the staircase to the bedrooms upstairs and the door to the staircase which once led to the basement, and for us, stopped at about two steps down to the sub-floor.  (We kids thought it was a tremendously exciting mystery, lol!)  The kitchen door opened into the dining room, and it was a huge kitchen, plenty of room for a four person table in the middle of it, besides all the cabinets, sink, a free-standing fridge and free-standing stove/cooktop.  In the back corner of the kitchen, in between all the standard cupboards, was a door that opened into a small space that, instead of an outer wall, there was a thick wire screen.  There were three wire shelves in that little corner cupboard.  My Mom told me it was called a pie safe, and it was for putting pies in, fresh from the oven, to cool off, so they didn't burn the counter, which was some sort of composite material like linoleum.  In the winter we put the butter dish in there, it was cool but not cold like the 'fridge, so you could still spread it.  I would love to have something like that in a modern kitchen for all kinds of hot things you want to cool but not steam up the kitchen.  The screens keep the bugs out, thankfully.   Anybody else ever have a pie safe in their house?

[Jo1313]

My parent's house had a "dumb waiter"..

We loved it as kids..had relatives on the floor below..As kids that was "our secret" place to send messages and toys..LOL

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@kindred cats wrote:

I think the pull-out cutting boards in the kitchens win the prize!

I suppose no one had a "dumb waiter"??? 

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[Shihtzursqmom]

We live in a old two story house with the laundry room in the basement , we have a laundry Shute in our bathroom that goes into the basement to a laundry bin
It’s really handy for getting the laundry downstairs if it just had a way to get the laundry back upstairs it would be great lol

[GoneButNotForgotten]

how I would love to have a laundry shute! I'd have one installed if I could, but the way my house is laid out, it's an impossibility. Plus an elevator...these creaky old knees are starting to wear out (I'm in the early stage of osteoporosis).

[Twins Mom]

The pullout cutting board was a great feature.  I still have the cutting board with grip from mom's first kitchen.  Great trivet.  I remember always having a metal sliding towel holder for three towels usually placed on outside of cabinet next to refrigerator.  Also a handy feature.