When my mom moved into her current house, she showed me what she thought to be one of the coolest, most unique features of her new home: a laundry chute in the upstairs bathroom. She’d bought the ...

Laundry chutes once felt like the coolest invention of all time. Built-in drawers would lead to long slides that shot laundry down a floor or two and spat it into a laundry room, removing the ...