Are you seriously comparing a builder's grade special and knock off prints to an elaborately trimmed out home and original art?
I think your point...if I understand it correctly...would be better made comparing overpriced new construction in the city with what you could frugally build elsewhere.
Buying a house like this is like buying a classic automobile and sourcing original parts to restore it. Yes you could go to Pep boys and get the part and it would work, but that wouldn't be "right". I personally think paying 2 or three times the price for some historically accurate fuel line for a car you can never drive for fear of damaging the paint is really silly...and I just don't get it, the same way you don't "get" why anyone would care about artisan tile. to each his own.
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