Do you build your own house or do you download from gallery?

Almost always from the gallery. I'm a terrible builder.

If I want something that isn't in the game, I usually search the gallery first. Only if I can't find what I'm looking for, or what I find is so hopelessly overcluttered and MOO'd that it would take forever to fix, I begrudgingly start building myself.

I have been known to do both. I especially like decorating apartments, so most of those are my own. But I'm not great at building the actual house so I also download regularly.
Same for community lots too. I have a number that are my own originals and favourites from Gallery.

I tend to download from the gallery as I am bad at building.

I do a little of both. I have made a few houses, and I have downloaded several from the gallery. A few of the houses I have made ( more modern track houses ) are houses which I have actually seen inside. When I download houses I have downloaded shells where I can design the interior, and some houses where the interior is already designed, but I almost always change up some things inside a downloaded house till I am satisfied with it. I also do that a lot for community lots I download. I tend to like making community lots the most. And like someone else also mentioned, I love decorating apartments sometimes changing interior walls too. Many times I will add to Maxis builds as well.

I always start out with 0 simoleons and rrely get much further than a shack of some kind I build myself :#

I mostly build my own, unless I’m doing a Maxis shell challenge.
I’ve even sometimes build a house for my daughter, so that she can download it from the Gallery. My daughter doesn’t like to build much. So sometimes I’ll ask her what theme she wants & then I make sure to only use the packs that she has to build it. She really appreciates it.?

I don't like building. I've been building a wedding venue for a couple of weeks and it's still not finished. All my lots are downloaded from the Gallery. So thankful for all the great builders.

I love building, so I automatically just build my own 99% of the time.

Both, although lately I've been downloading a lot of houses. I always make changes to them so they work for my sims.