In the UK at least there is a pretty strong divide between expensive houses and merely ok houses. Everything just looks and smells of money, in a way that is pa

In the UK at least there is a pretty strong divide between expensive houses and merely ok houses. Everything just looks and smells of money, in a way that is particularly apparent over here because of the way our property ladder is. I don't mean gold plated toilet seats (I've never met anyone truly wealthy versus rich), but just because I have a chip on my shoulder I like googling bits of furniture or appliances I see, and find it immutably bizarre to see a set of taps that cost more than my computer, especially because they're nearly always made to look "rustic". At the moment in particular you have to be pretty secure and living in a sparse area to be able to get basically anything done to a house, i.e. because the builders don't you need you as much as you need them so they won't turn up.