Build a house or get one off the gallery?

I have loved the gallery feature. It is nice to grab a house and get playing, however the gallery feels like a mess now. It takes forever to load up. My sound drivers gets borked because the music lags out from the loading. I wish I could load to a blank page so I can put in my filters before the loads. I am currently a gallery girl but the more I deal with it, the more I am changing to a builder.