Milk Door
If your house has a small cabinet with doors both inside and outside, it might be a milk door. Also called a milk chute, milk doors were built for milkmen to drop in daily milk. Like iceboxes, milk doors allowed homeowners to retrieve their daily milk without leaving their homes. Milkmen usually delivered the drinks early in the morning so families could drink milk with breakfast. Sometimes, milkmen would deliver other products such as eggs, cheese, butter, and soft drinks. In the U.S., some families still have milk delivered today.
Milk Door
Picture Rails Line The Walls And Ceiling
You may have a picture rail if your walls contain small wooden railings towards the ceiling. Architects built these into homes in the 1840s to hang pictures. The art would be suspended from a chain and would not damage the wall. Many picture rails have adjustable painting hooks. By the 1940s, picture rails had become obsolete. If you wish to protect your walls from nails, you can still install a picture rail. Most picture rails are 1.5 to 2 inches wide and made of wood, which is sometimes painted to match the room’s décor.
Picture Rails Line The Walls And Ceiling
