Cseri Miklós - Sári Zsolt (szerk.): Vidéki életmódváltozások a 20. században (Szentendre, Szabadtéri Néprajzi Múzeum, 2009)
Sári Zsolt: Típusterves építkezések és az életmód átalakulásának kapcsolata
the emergence of new building types, the modernisation and the technical development, new objects and appliances appeared in the object culture, having their impact on the lifestyle. It should be enough to mention lighting, electric appliances, running water and the modernisation of heating systems. Parallel to the disappearing of the farms, the bread baking ovens were demolished, the new houses were heated with coal and fuel oil, cooking ranges were set up in the kitchens, later, in the seventies gas cookers were purchased and they were often used simultaneously. All these facts caused changes in the interior design, in the dietary culture and even in the spending of leisure time. The cube-house changed not only the ground-plan but it brought innovation in the roof structure (tent-roof, mansard roof) and in the construction materials (concrete, bricks) as well. The lifestyle change was influenced by the transformation of the agricultural structure (collective farms, household plot), the industrialisation ("double life" - being employed in the industry without abandoning the agricultural work), women's employment (changing in the gender roles, new time schedule and working order) and the effects of modernisation and urbanisation. All above phenomena affected the use of l iving space as well as the style and furnishing of the newly built houses. From the seventies on the building of houses and the quality of interiors depended more and more on the family's financial condition, the newly built houses showed further differentiation, the regional differences faded, types were created on the bases of the financial status and the houses became again status symbols. Storied houses were built, completely unusual in the villagescape. The generation gap widened further, the young people moved in new houses and the building of new houses created new village areas. 50
