Kitchen

[LizzieInSRQ]

1. My modest 1 story family home was built in 1954 here in Florida. There was a lower corner cabinet that was a built in 2 level lazy susan which i would do in any kitchen if i could afford it. My brother's ex  wife took it out. DUMB MOVE.  There was exhaust fan built in on the backsplash of the electric stove (very handy when burning dinner). A giant exhaust fan was built in the ceiling of our small hallway that went into the attic. No air conditioning so that kept air moving. Mom got central ac in 1984.

Ive not paid attention to see if my brother kept either fans. 

[PINKdogWOOD]

@Kachina624   We have one these drawers among our 34 - yes I said 34 kitchen cupboards/drwers we have i our kitchen. Don't know if it was ever used for breads and baked goods. We currently use it for a junk drawer - rolling pin, knife sharpener, batteries of all sizes in plastic bags, 

In one of three homes I lived in with family growing up, in one of those kitchens there was a cupboard that behind the door was a two-shelved turnstyle type you could spin that held SO many food items, spices, flour, mom's mix-master, and was built back into and under the countertop. It was cool, a real space saver.

[PINKdogWOOD]

@Kachina624  @ValuSkr   Yep we had a clothes chute in the same huge home that had that spinning cupboard/drawer in the kithcne I wrote about.

Yes every once in a while something would get hung up on a nail or rough edge inside it. The chute was very handy, and yes eventually we'd get out whatever item got hung up inside.

[CJC]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

@mimomof4    They don't build houses in my area with basements either, although there's no reason why they couldn't.  It adds to the cost of a house.  So everything gets stored in the garage which is why there's no room for a car in there.

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Ditto for Florida.  You'd hit water before digging a foot down.   Garages here are used as basements with cars and boats stacked up in driveways. So ugly. 

[wagirl]

Funny--I had one put into my brand new house, my ex built in 1986!!! I LOVED  that thing and used it non stop until recycling started in my area a few later--then it never got used. I think I stored stuff in it--but when I sold that house in 2021--it still worked just fine!!!

[frenchie]

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@PA Mom-mom wrote:

@On It  My mom had a full-sized ironing board that folded into the woodwork of her kitchen, looking like a recessed kitchen cabinet when it was closed. That way she could iron and keep an eye on the stove at the same time. I enjoyed helping her iron there, because it was the best room in the house for friendly conversation and good smells. She kept her "sprinkled" cottons on a shelf of the utility closet in the kitchen. She used an old ginger ale bottle with a metal sprinkle top for the sprinkler.

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There was one of those in our first house we bought in 1967. We decided to leave it out. It was very small.

[Still Raining]

I miss the pullout cutting boards.  There has never been anything that handy since.  

After grandma got her first refrig up in the kitchen proper, there was still a trap door to the outside on the landing where the ice man delivered the ice into the bottom of the icebox.  Guess there was a drain too?  

[Jo1313]

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@frenchie wrote:

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@PA Mom-mom wrote:

@On It  My mom had a full-sized ironing board that folded into the woodwork of her kitchen, looking like a recessed kitchen cabinet when it was closed. That way she could iron and keep an eye on the stove at the same time. I enjoyed helping her iron there, because it was the best room in the house for friendly conversation and good smells. She kept her "sprinkled" cottons on a shelf of the utility closet in the kitchen. She used an old ginger ale bottle with a metal sprinkle top for the sprinkler.

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There was one of those in our first house we bought in 1967. We decided to leave it out. It was very small.

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MIL had the same..Grandma too..Still have Grandma's gingerale sprinkler bottle.

I have a corner lower cabinet that has a 3 shelf lazy susan....I like it  but my cats LOVE it so much I had to put a large flower pot in front of it..they loved to push the doors!

[DrBabs]

The house I grew up in was built in 1956. Kitchen had the pull-out cutting board which I would love to have in today's kitchen. We also had the laundry chute in the hallway that went down to the basement utility room. Dad always hit his head on that thing and you  could hear him cuss from upstairs!

The house I live in now, built in 1976, doesn't have a basement so no laundry chute. The kitchen had a trash compactor that was never used. I removed it and installed a wine refrigerator -- now THAT gets a lot of use!

I removed an indoor grill with huge vent hood -- it also was never used and I didn't want that messy cooking inside my house -- and put a big cutting board in its place. Much better use!

I miss built-in wall ovens as "standard equipment" these days.

[patbz]

My parents bought their newly built home in Silver Spring in 1938. It had a revolving corner cabinet for pans, A fold down small table in the kitchen and a built in warming chamber in the range that my Mom used to steam bread and rolls. Since then I've lived in homes with trash compactors ( A waste) and a laundry shoot ( loved it; nothing ever got stuck).