What other old bathroom features do you remember? 🛀🚿

The laundry chute definitely needs to come back

When my husband and I got married in 1992, we bought our first house which was built in 1953. Most of the rooms including the kitchen had been updated but the bathroom was original. It had mint green sink, toilet and bathtub with pink tiled walls and floor. I loved it. 😁

I remember the razor blade slot in the bathroom cabinet. I used to write little notes and drop them in there hoping someday, someone would find my makeshift “time capsule”.

I don't know why I assumed that the razor blade disposal system had a way to be emptied out. When I found out that the blades just sat there forever, it shocked me. It's so weird to just leave essentially garbage in the wall of your home forever.

Thank goodness carpeting in bathrooms did not retain popularity! Gross!

pull chain toilets were awesome. The amount of force that extra height + gravity gave was amazing. No plunger needed, ever.

This wasnt built in but I remember pastel colored toilet paper.

I'm a plumber from Boston. I started my career in the 70's. Everything shown here was still commonplace and still in use in at least half the homes back then, right up through the 90's. I used to service them on a daily basis. Through the course of my career, I've watched everything turn to crap, (no pun intended). They were literally built to last a lifetime. I'm retired now and built a camp in Maine. The bathroom is a complete set of authentic1930's American Standard fixtures. The kitchen sink is 30's American Standard too.The most common tub was five feet long. You can still buy those for a couple of hundred dollars. It costs about $500 to have them restored.They were manufactured up to six. Mine's a five and a half footer, the most desirable size.Those are the rare ones. It's like a Roman calderium and my fountain of youth. Make sure you have at least a 50 gallon, 4500 watt water heater if you ever put one in. All the drains and faucets are still readily available today. You just have to know who makes the nickel plated, brass trim and avoid the cheap repros. In fact, if you buy anything repro, you will be sorely diappointed.

I love clawfoot, tubs, penny tiles, and pedestal sinks.

I lived in a mobile home in the 1970’s ( it was old!). The bathroom fixtures were all pink. The kitchen sink, range and refrigerator were also pink! I loved it

Penny tile floors are amazing!

My wife and I just bought a house in Levittown Pa. Built in 1953' from the original homeowner in her late 90's she kept the house almost original. Except for the orange thick shaggy carpet. The house is scary original and so outdated. The refrigerator has a date of 1961' on it. Huge and must weigh a fortune 😂. We are in our early 20's and I must say that living simple must have been the way of life back then. We were gifted 20% down payment so we can not afford to put a penny into this house but that's great for us. We will be just happy to have this house ❤

Still have our laundry chute. Love it

Our 1959 ranch still has all 3 original bathrooms. My favorite is the pink and gray one. It’s in excellent condition too. The tub still shines like it was new

My childhood tub was pink. I loved it and I miss it.

Here in Hungary, the pull chain toilets are very common. We too live in an apartman with such a toilet 🙃

We used to send my little sister up the laundry chute if we forgot our key when we got home from school. (We were early latch key kids.) Our basement was accessible from our garage, which was never locked.

I spent ten years working for American Standard and eight years working for Kohler Company before retiring and, as such, I’ve seen a tremendous amount of such changes.

My mother HATED claw foot tubs saying they were difficult to clean under and around. I remember, as a child , stubbing my toe on one of those legs. One thing you didn't mention were metal, built-in hampers. They were small but so convenient. Other bathroom staples that I remember from my early childhood (I'm 72 now) were razor strops hanging from a hook beside the medicine cabinet and a tall porcelain pipe beside the tub as part of the stopper mechanism. Many people had a contraption over the tub , which was used for drying clothes or nylon stockings. Bathrooms are better now, having showers and single faucets vs the separate hot cold taps that you show, but don't mention in the video. The Bathrooms of today are much easier to clean.

Hexagon and penny flooring actually haven’t faded.

My parents home has had carpet on the bathrooms floors for my entire life. These are not affixed, and are washable. The concept of stepping out of the shower/bath while wet and then drying off was not observed. You stayed in the shower/bath and dried off before stepping out. The carpets have never ever smelled or gotten moldy.

My grandparents just recently updated their bathroom. I miss the old version. It was straight out of the 60s. Mint greent cabinets and tile, baby blue bath tub. They had a little radio in the toilet roll holder. Wallpapered walls, tiles on the floor with a funky design that i always thought looked like a bunch of ears. They also used to have those padded toilet seats and the rug thing that fit over the lid of the toilet I remember their old kitchen too but they redid that decades ago.

My grandparents had a razor blade slot above their kitchen sink. It always bothered me when I was little. I wondered if there was a tunnel going straight down to the core of the earth.

The house I grew up in was built in 1920. It had 2 full baths to serve the 4 main bedrooms (1 master en suite) and one full bath for what was originally the servant’s quarters on the 3rd floor. The house also had 2 half-baths, one off the kitchen and one off the basement laundry room. Two of the full baths had a ceramic inset with 2 very large, oblong, heating glass-bulbs; hidden behind a ceramic grating, which pumped out a lot of heat when turned on. I remember they still worked in the 1980’s before my parents sold the house. The en-suite had the pedestal sink, while the main had been updated with a vanity. Both of these baths also had the penny tiles. The servant’s bathroom floor was oak flooring.

My 1951 home has a pink bathroom and a ming green one- the green contains a Cinderella tub, too. The colorful tubs, commodes and sinks have matching tiles in the rooms as well. I fully embrace the happy colors. The pink bathroom also has a "relaxation unit" that holds magazines, cigarettes, etc lol

Many of the bathrooms in these photos contained sit down vanity tables and that looked so awesome. I bet it just added to the daily ritual of putting on ones face and doing ones hair. I wish modern bathrooms were still sized to accommodate these.I know some houses that cost 1 million or more might have that kind of space, but my little 1000sqft home with the postage size bathroom just aint it.

I live in a 1950 Ranch house with 2 bathrooms, one has gray tile with red trim tile and a wall mounted sink that has chrome metal legs which one side also has a towel bar along side the sink. The other bathroom is yellow tile with mint green trim tile. It also has a mint green sink and tub. The tub is the square tub shown in some of the picture you have in your video.

In Chicago I have lived in apartments with forced air heat and with radiators, and the same thing for homes in the Chicago suburbs. let me tell you: Those radiators are absolutely fantastic to keep a place warm.There is nothing as good as that system. And if they are omfidu beautiful because they are somewhat ornamented.

Love radiators in the bathroom. You put your towels on them and in the winter you have a heated towel after your shower. My grandma’s all pink bathroom had a cool feature to hold toothpaste and toothbrushes. It would turn and hide in the wall when not in use.

I’m the fourth generation in a family home that was first built in 1938, then twice partly destroyed during WW2 and with an additional great-grandma flat added in 1953. The original 1930”s bathroom needed after several pipe issues and due to my grandma “s mobility issues a new more disability friendly bath. But my great-grandma”s 1953 bath just received new pipes, some fixtures and otherwise I left the mid-century items as they were. My great-grandma was quite short (only about 1,60m) but she had the tallest yet short soaker tub installed you can imagine. 2 adults can sit in it comfortably (😉) It is made out of pure , heavy lead (tub ca. 200 /250 kg) ,Siphon/ plumbing ca. 50 kg. I got it checked out when we remodelled the other bathroom and everything is just fine , it just needed some small repairs. The plumber ( an elderly gentleman with great experience) mentioned to me that this quality is literally undestroyable if well looked after. If the emaillie is intact, lead is not issue. In fact the lead will heat up with the warm water maintaining the hot temperature for much longer than acrylic tubs. If you come across such an old but working bathroom, give it a chance. A tad of new colour, some change in decor and making sure the plumbing is ok and you may have a classical beauty.

As a kid, I lived in a house that was built in the 60s. The original bathtub and toilit were pink. Absolutely loved them.

I wish colorful bathroom fixtures would return!!!

Our 1963 vintage house has mostly had the period decor "updated" out of it - except the front bathroom which still has its Robin's egg blue tile. We had to have it re-plumbed last year, I had the plumbers preserve the tile so I could put it back in! I had installed a vintage look tile floor - not hex but similar in idea - a couple of years prior, so I was able to find more of that tile to restore the floor. A new cast iron bathtub went in as well - people are amazed at this bathroom. I installed a tin ceiling in the kitchen too.

My grandmother's old Victorian home had those radiator like heaters in the walls of all the bathrooms and bedrooms. You had to light them to keep rooms warm.

I miss the light blue sinks, tubs, and toilets. They were a pretty color that reminded me of water. We had them in our bathroom along with seashell wallpaper when I was a child.

Oh my gosh!!!! I never knew what those little slots were in the back of the medicine cabinets in older homes. I had no clue and so blown away by that!

A friend of mine showed me his childhood home a few years ago. His father built it in 1951! It had the original corner tub- looked just like my dollhouse of that era! Someone had replaced the flooring, but otherwise was original. I hope the new owners kept it original!

Growing up, our home had a laundry chute and to this day I feel it is one of the most important, key features our floorplan had in maintaining a clean, orderly home. Our mom ran that house like an army barrack.

Miss the claw-foot tub!!

I live in a house that was built in the 50s and it has a laundry shoot because the washer and dryer are in the basement.

I have that Kohler plumbing fixture brochure. My parents picked from it for the house they had built in 1961.

Our home was built in 1910. We still heat with cast iron radiators. Very efficient clean heat.

We bought a home with a built in shaving mirror. It was as attached to the wall by a flexible metal arm so it was easily adjustable for the man of the house

I bought a home built in 1920 but had a mid century remodel (unfortunately). It has an all pink bathroom. Pink sink, pink toilet, pink tub, pink tile. I love it! I just don’t love the other “updates” they did in the living room

I grew up in a huge Victorian home. I loved our claw foot tubs! They were deep and roomy. I would soak for an hour, reading my favorite books. The tub I have today in my apartment is only big enough for a child.

My grandparents had one of those iron heat radiators in their bathroom...toasty warm and a great place to lay wet towels

Ah, the built in laundry hamper. Such a great place to grow mold and mildew. These turned into giant toilet paper storage as they were useless as a hamper, but too oddly shaped to hold much else.

Bought a house built in 59. Had a pink tub, toilet, and sink with gold veined marble. Oh, and navy blue paisley wallpaper. 😂

I recall single sheet toilet paper dispensers in my grandparents home.

A bathroom of the past is an outhouse with a Sears and Roebuck catalog. Granddaddy's brother had them on his farm, because they didn't have indoor plumbing, and this was in the 70s. Human waste does not smell like animal waste.

It's 2024 and I have just had a downstairs cloakroom installed - with a pull chain toilet. What goes around comes around.

My grandparent’s house has a laundry chute in the bathroom.

My great grandmother's house built in 1941, a two bedroom bungalow style with the bathroom accessible through each of the bedrooms. Bathroom was located between the bedrooms. Was all pink tile, everything the walls, the walkin shower, sink, toilet, and floor. It was all pink, overwhelming pink! It was actually somewhat of a large bathroom for a small house. A practical layout and features. Great Gram always had homemade cookies and milk (powdered) for us kida when we visited. She made the best sugar cookies with bits of candied cherries in them.

I grew up in a home built in 1902. In the(unfinished) basement, there was a pull chain toilet. In other bathrooms, there were razor slots, pedestal sinks and a laundry shoot. A lot had been covered over in the 1950s. Fireplaces were restored as was the library

Anybody else remember the crochet toilet paper covers? Sometimes they wouls use a doll, and the crochet would be her skirt. Loved the hexagon tiles.

We had a claw bathtub growing up. It was so comfortable. I also remember them removing it - heavy doesn't even begin to explain the pain it took to get it out of the house.

I remember cork tiles in the 70's.

I just saw an old mobile home that had pink bathroom fixtures, with a garden tub. It was in wonderful condition. If i was into retro, that would be my first choice. Lol

Fascinating about the used razors dropping into the void, being found in a disgusting clump during a gut remodeling job. We had pink tiles with mint green trim in our circa 1942 home.

Helped do clean up on old house and found old razor blades behind wall!❤👍 Cool History!!😊

I inherited my parents 1963 brick rancher. The small bath has mint green tile. We updated the sink and toliet. My parents had boring white and we replaced with white to keep as original as possible.The medicine cabinet is builtin and the razor slot still there. The larger bath has tan tile and it has the laundry shoot still being used. My brother use to dangle me over the opening saying he was going to drop me. Lol. Good memories.

I grew up in a Victorian farmhouse house with the original pull chain toilet in the downstairs bathroom. The tank and toilet seat were both wooden. All our guests would get a scare out of it when they’d flush for the first time because it sounded like a roaring monster lol. Unfortunately the upstairs bathroom in that house had the original carpeting 😑 we hated it but couldn’t afford to rip it out and put down tile or vinyl instead. It had a gorgeous stained glass window though

I miss radiators. Good luck drying towels with a heated floor... Also, I hate it that many modern baths have no windows. The electric ventilation is never as good as advertised...

The home I grew up in had a claw foot tub. A problem you have to consider is cleaning the floor underneath the tub and behind it. Also, sometimes our cats would hide behind the tub and that could be a pain if you're trying to grab them to go to the vet.

our house (built in 1910) does have a laundry shoot. Its small- no way even a small child could fit inside- and the room in the basement it leads to was never the laundry room (no water fixtures). We installed a shelf to cover the gap and turned it into the spot where the emergency replacement TP roll lives.

We had pink flamingo wallpaper in our bathroom in or about 1952 or ‘53!

Yep..got me a clawfoot tub in my 1907 house. Cast iron and super heavy to move! Love it, though. It's been there since the house was built, I think.

We have a claw foot tub in our bathroom -- inherited from hubby's grandmother, it's the real thing. We have a log house, so the older look fits in well.

I remember those pedestal sinks with the stainless steel legs. Absolutely no storage and no place to put anything beyond a bar of soap.

Oh. My. Gosh! My Aunt and Uncle (and then my sister and her husband because they bought their house) had that EXACT square PINK tub, PINK sink and PINK toilet!!!! Wow!

Our 1st house was built in the 70s and had wallpaper in the bathrooms. Over time it gets moldy & peels with the humidity. It's almost as bad as having carpeting in the bathroom!

Shout out to anyone else who slid down their grandparents' laundry chute as a child.

Went to a psychiatrist that had that high tank pull thingy and took me forever to figure it out 😂

While Maggie and I were touring Britain with Trafalgar Tours in 1996, we encountered a carpeted bathroom in an old hotel in Plymouth. I learned last year that the stewardesses who survived the Titanic sinking were put up there for one night when White Star Line returned the crew survivors to England. Males stayed at a different hotel

I do like the mini tile mosaic floor and clawfoot baths. So glad carpet in bathrooms is loonng gone

I remember holding onto a cast iron sink and on my tiptoes reached the pull chain for the light and getting a buzz shock. And the cesspool over flowing sometimes.

My husband and I bought a 1960 house from the original owner and the bathrooms still had pink shower and tub

1:23 Whoa, the reach for that toilet paper roll would change my personal procedure.

I liked the fact that back in the day bathrooms were larger than today's. My Grandmother had a claw foot tub and I remember using it only once and I was a five years old then and my Mother bathed me. Today I would rather have a shower than a tub but unfortunately the place I live and rent today, only has a shower in the bathtub which is deep and at my age a little hard to get into without the help of a safety bar on the wall. The free standing storage cabinet would be handy but only in a large bathroom but a nifty idea to me. That razor hole in the wall I've seen before but I don't remember my Dad using it. The colors of the bathroom features was great. I lived in a house where the tub, toilet and lavatory were blue and I loved it. White is so boring. I painted the walls blue in that bathroom. God bless.

Other things I think you could have mentioned: sun/heat lamps, bidets (have made a comeback), sunken tubs, garden tubs, 80s/90s Hollywood lights style makeup mirrors, '70s and '80s bathrooms in luxury homes where the garden tub had a window that faced a small private walled garden (and sometimes there was a second, outdoor shower), grotto style showers, CRT TVs embedded in the wall behind the mirror, jack-and-jill style bathrooms, built-in planters, wall-mounted telephones by the toilet, those little divider walls between the toilet and sink that were a series of wooden columns in '70s homes, swag-style lighting, drop-down fluorescent light boxes over the vanity area, shared toothbrush holders built into medicine cabinets, wet room style bathrooms.

I’m wondering if pedestal sinks fell out of style around the same time women stopped doing hair and makeup at a vanity table in their bedrooms? I’m in my 50s and remember my mom doing her makeup at a vanity table when I was young. I also remember the houses I lived in as a kid having laundry chutes. Very cool. If I had free reign to decorate a home, I’d definitely want a claw foot tub, pedestal sink, free standing medicine cabinet (with a vanity table in the bedroom, of course), and those lovely penny tile floors. I follow a channel where the guy is restoring a late Victorian home. He includes many of these features in the one bathroom he’s completed so far.

KZfaq seems to have "lost" my comment about the Thermador electric bathroom heater. Very popular back in the day, if you didn't have steam or hot water heating.

I lived in a house in New York in the 90s that had all these bathroom features. The foot tub, pedestal sink and the stand alone medicine cabinet but it was right outside the bathroom fixed into the wall. I thought it was cool and didn’t really know what we got! It was the first house I moved into after living in apartments! Cast iron heaters were also popular in houses and apartments back then idk now but this video was nostalgic!

I gutted my bathroom in 2007 and boy was I cursing someone for the mess of razor blades all over the place. Never heard of it going in the wall till years later.

I like the pink and mint green and pink and blue barhrooms.

Any freestanding tub needs a full around-the-tub curtain to use with a shower, and cleaning under and behind the clawfoot type is a pain. Yet some designers have hopped on the Trendy Wagon and have inserted them into their plans along with pedestal sinks. They aren't the most practical choices.

Wow, razor blade trash in the wall sounds like the dumbest sh** ever! How did people collectively decide "hey, let's just out our trash into the walls and not care what happens to it after!"??? 🙈 🤔 Then again, I guess it's not much worse than in modern day buying endless unnecessarily plastic encased disposables and then just throwing them into the trash, to throw them "away", out of sight, out of mind, thinking they won't affect anything anywhere ever again 🤦‍♂️

The glaring omission was small corner tub. Several views of them in the beginning but never mentioned.

One feature I would LIKE to see only in the past, is toilets in the same room as the shower and sink. Don't poop where you clean your mouth. That should be a rule. And more people will wash their hands if the sink is where everyone can see them.

Bathrooms from the past were way better.

❤❤❤ the sunken bath tubs designs.and the claw feet tubs .

Love my pink bathroom

My parents moved into their house is 1977. The upstairs bathroom had a carpet. They were the first owners and still live there. My mom as soon as they got the keys to move in looked at my dad and said take it out.. Now! Lol it was brand new but with two boys under the age of 10 yeah..no..my mom was having none of it.

Excellent video!!😊

Back in the late 70's a young woman I knew bought a bunch of colorful carpet remnants and cut them into small pieces and fitted them into her bathroom like a jigsaw puzzle. Since they were small, she could put them into the washing machine.

I've had all of these in houses I've lived in, except the razor blade slots and laundry chutes.

The claw foot cast iron tub was the best bubble bath and soaking bath you would’ve ever had…..water stayed warm for forever!!!!

One of my favourite channels ❤❤❤

So many of these original fixtures still exist in current working class priced NYC apt bldgs. I have penny tiles, heater, and sink. My bldg was made in 1932.