ᐅ House Photos Discussion Corner – Share Your Home Pictures!

I’m excited. We’ve had minor and major construction work in and around our house for six years... and it looks like it will be the same again 🤨 You could easily submit that photo to a house building magazine. Do you also have slippers for outdoors? Great! Wooden cladding looks really nice too.

Andre77 schrieb:

@Matthias 40

Is this a real picture of your house? It looks like something from a catalog. I don’t mean that in a negative way. It looks great.

To me, it looks like a catalog photo. On one hand, the background doesn’t seem uniform, as if the house was added in; on the other hand, there’s the idyllic farmhouse in the background.
I don’t want to imply anything, but it feels very unrealistic.
Edit: I have to correct myself, at second glance it looks real. Still like something from a catalog. If it’s true, hats off.
But I still can’t completely believe it.
Are there more pictures?

haydee schrieb:

No idea. You’d have to be among the top 1,000 to get a house like that.

But not the very top – the political elites in what today would be called the "gated community" of Wandlitz, of course, lived in official residences built through socialist state production. Regarding your question about whether the Neckermann prefab houses, even when ordered through Genex, were actually Streif houses, I meant that I’m not sure if the houses were brought in along with an experienced team—that is, I’m only uncertain about the workers’ entry. They presumably would have had to undergo thorough background checks to assess any potential threat to the system, and naturally, they would have been under constant surveillance by agents from the company Horch & Guck ;-)

The wall panels and so on were probably allowed to be imported normally, and likely without any awkward labeling like "gift shipment – not for commercial sale" ;-)

As for how assembly and interior finishing were handled, I have no idea. I don’t believe the houses would have been simply replicated under license by a state-owned company (VEB), since there would have been little incentive to involve relatives in the deal. The products must have cost foreign currency in substantial amounts, so they probably wouldn’t have wanted a “domestically” made product for that. I suspect most of the funds came from estates transferred abroad. The upper thousand less so, unless they were travel cadres. The intelligentsia was probably paid reasonably well, but not in Western currency.

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You can find a catalog page with prices under Genex on Wiki. Of course, it's difficult to say what these prices meant at that time.

Nice house, @Matthias 40. Also very good image editing – the sky a bit brighter, the lawn a bit greener, the wood a bit more vibrant, and the lighting a bit warmer. This really brings out the character of the house. Professionals do the same for catalog photos. The photo of my house in the avatar was also edited.

The photo was taken by a professional who was hired by the architects and spent the entire day on site. He took pictures for the architects’ website. Of course, there are more images available.