mod cons

plural noun

1. informal.
   modern conveniences; the usual installations of a modern house, such as hot water, heating, etc

Example Sentences

Luckily, this hotel is just a few miles from her daughter Emma's home, where Susan is regularly welcomed for hot meals, company and access to mod cons.

From BBC

Meanwhile Dr Robinson, who said the fort was "manned up until the late 1950s", said the building would be a bit "short on mod cons and a bit bracing" for anyone to live there.

From BBC

As late as the 1970s, Hill’s grandparents lived in a subsidized rowhouse without “mod cons,” or modern conveniences, including indoor plumbing.

From New York Times

By the time Leonard arrived, Axel had trained Marianne for the role which was tough work, as Hydra was without much water, electricity or mod cons and it made a peasant of a muse to keep the lamps burning, to lug water and food up the hills as well as firewood on which to cook it.

From The Guardian

As the developers of the complex put it in 1935, this was to be “the housing method of the future”, a place kitted out with all the latest mod cons: tennis and squash courts, swimming pool, skittle alley, Turkish bath and cinema room.

From The Guardian