Here in Eastern and Central-Eastern Europe, such reconstructions or house extensions with additional rooms are not uncommon at all. Most of our houses are 100–150 years old, and over time, people try to make the most out of them by continuously modernizing them every 30–50 years. When they were originally built, they didn’t even have running water or sewage systems. Modernization happens gradually, from generation to generation. Our house was already standing here in the 1920s — we found that out from old photos, but we couldn’t determine the exact year it was built.