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I’m trying to invent a new room for the home. There hasn’t been one since the garage was repurposed as a workshop by Some Guy in 1933. Considering calling it the Stack Room. Where you manage your connection to The Stack.
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Many rooms from the Age of Mansions have gone obsolete: Library Smoking room/den Scullery Gun room Skullduggery room Boudoir On the way out: formal dining room There hasn’t been a new kind of room for homes in forever, even the workshop-garage is a hack, not new
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grandparents' place had a servant's kitchen (which was converted into laundry) and a "sewing room" (which was more like a big closet) i have also seen places with dedicated canning rooms
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We had servants quarters in the bungalows I grew up in, and even in a townhouse we lived in for a while. Was common middle class thing in pre-90s construction, not just for rich.
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ah i think "servant kitchen" is just a second kitchen for overflow/bulk food prep which is only mainly used when entertaining; you're talking about entire quarters which is 🤯
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Yeah we had live-in maid (with family) and a gardener Owith family). House I grew up in had 2 tiny 1-room servant homes, detached from main house. Kinda like mother-in-law cottages in some American SFHs. And this was a middle-class house smaller than the average American SFH.
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Pretty much. Humans were cheaper then washing machines in small towns back then. Not so much these days. Now my ~78y old mom does housework in parents retirement flat because Covid = daily maid who used to come for an hour a day can’t come in.