Sometimes we find that we simply cannot have what we want with the money we have. Or there are practicalities like building codes that keep us from getting there. Designers create houses they believe are what people want, builders build them and consumers, with their limited experience, buy them. Of necessity, we consumers depend on the designers, builders, and sellers to give us the best we can get for our money. From Bacon to Sullivan to today, it's the same story.
Houses are complex structures made of many different materials from many sources.
It is the home-building industry that puts these together into marketable products that are attractive and functional. If there is one thing that characterizes this industry, it is the number and diversity of builders. Given the large number of builders you shouldn't be surprised to find all kinds of people in the business of home construction. As with any profession, there will be the able and the inept, those who take pride in their work and others who don't care, those who build with the customer in mind and those whose end-all is the almighty dollar, those who are honest and forthright and others who are litigious and a disgrace to their industry. They're all out there.