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Could it be that much less was built and therefore purchased labor and specific raw materials were simply much cheaper (also relative to income)? Are there statistics on that? My father always says he earned only 400 Marks as a young employee, but back then beer also cost only 50 Pfennig (in the pub). Meanwhile, a junior XY now perhaps earns 2,500 EUR, and a beer in some areas already costs 6 EUR (in the pub). That is a price increase of almost 200%!

Without home office, dressing room, children's bathroom, KNX, kitchen island, large-format tiles, ... :)

And only in a total of 50sqm (living kitchen, parlor and the mentioned bedroom, upstairs great-grandmother lived in about 30sqm with bathroom without kitchen. My grandmother later washed herself in the kitchen. Full body with washcloth, when she could no longer climb stairs.

…a lot of own effort, paid overtime, the village club, without garden and landscape gardener…

Black is also a color, and the house construction itself took several years. … anyway: the only consumption consisted of the tube TV, typewriter and tumbler. The devices then lasted 30 years and went for repair. Considering all the fancy consumer junk we have – it all costs money anyway ;) Expenses did not exist back then.

I am interested in who among the home builders has thought about equipping their windows with fascias. I don’t think a separate thread would praise that (?).

We have installed window and door stucco. The door and roof cornice is made of white concrete, the window stucco is made of cement-coated styrofoam.

I always hear.. no one can afford that.. How did it work back then??

It was already somewhat more expensive in the past. People indulged in decorations, corners, and edges on their houses for various reasons. The cost advantage of standardization was not as pronounced as it is today; building regulations allowed more freedom in choosing the means for house construction. Often, a status consideration also played a role, and at every time, there were distinct insignia to represent social status. Some types of costs, which today obviously make up a large part of our budgets, did not exist in the same dimension several decades ago – just today's mobility and communication costs as well as "leisure and vacation funds" would massively exceed our great-grandparents' imagination. The attitude towards resource-conserving frugality is very weak today – so weak that we can no longer imagine how it once worked.

The mirror would also be due, grown quite large

grown quite a bit

I think so too.. I would still miss a light from the front. Is there a lamp in the shower? I assume it is behind the washbasin.