Financially, it didn’t make any sense – I admit that clearly! But for me, it was simply worth having certain things "outsourced." Laundry stuff in the basement, workbench/heating stuff in the basement, hobby room and storage room in the basement.
....but for me, an absolute luxury and honestly one of the most important things when building the house.
Exactly so. For me personally, this feeling is completely incomprehensible, but those are your priorities, and elsewhere they are simply completely different. I would never decide that way but can understand that "one" does things differently.
We actually approached it like this: we determined what we absolutely wanted and it should also be of good quality (solid wood floorboards/affordable parquet floorboards, climate system, gallery, etc.). We completely left out other things or implemented them as cheaply as someone could do it for us or as we could do it ourselves. After a long search, we found a good worker and only carried out things with him in the way he could execute them; there was still plenty of room for imagination.
That takes time to find such people. But if you want it quickly, you pay for it.
Then I am once again the exception here because I laid laminate for 25 EUR/m² in the living spaces upstairs and don’t know anyone in this building development (after all, 86 houses) who had their entire house laid with oak parquet...
You are certainly an exception but in a different sense. It is by no means true that only you act cost-consciously while everyone around you just fritters away money. I do agree with you now and then, but unfortunately, you mostly argue in generalizations and therefore you never really hit the reality, because people are just different.
We laid our last apartment with 150 sqm of oak parquet, but second choice for €25, floating and by ourselves. This time it was affordable parquet floorboards for €38, and the otherwise expensive skirting boards we had cut from leftover boards for a few euros. Of course, it often goes cheaper, but it’s usually not as convenient or you have to take what is currently offered. Your laminate with bought skirting boards was ultimately more expensive than my parquet, so why do you want to be the only one again? Please stop generalizing, it doesn’t help anyone.
In the living room, that may still be for reasons of prestige and one prefers to gnaw on canned ravioli for years to afford having the parquet laid...
...no words
There will also be enough people in BaWü who are satisfied with simple houses because they simply don’t have 950,000 EUR and the bank won’t give them that much either.
Agreed
I just think that external appearance today (especially in new developments) is much more important than before. People rather save on the basement to then buy golden faucets (exaggeratedly said). That’s why – usually less is saved on the flooring now.
I don’t believe that, it has always existed and is human, more or less present in every one of us; only the products have changed.
I think you rarely "save" on a basement. As a young guy, I first saw in Holland that people built without basements and more with outbuildings, and I liked that. Also the fact that you could look through the whole house through big windows and there were no, for me, ugly gray shutters. That’s why I built my first house under that impression; not for showing off, but because I liked it that way.
Unfortunately, hardly any houses are shown here anymore, but there were such beautiful houses designed with a lot of imagination and less bought DIY store taste, like e.g. and others who I unfortunately can no longer all recall.