Paul,
Your comment about kitchens struck a note with me. We've recently moved, and my new kitchen, while nicer, is much smaller than my old kitchen. I've been whinning (according to DH) about it nonstop. Of course, then he starts in on the "you could be liivng in the third world and dealing with a mud floor routine". I'm never happy.
BTW you guys probably already know this, but the overwhelming majority of the people whose homes are featured on TOH are very wealthy. Years ago, they worked on a triple-decker house in Boston that was bought for near to nothing by a middle class woman. They had a tight budget and it was interesting to see how they managed that.
Do you guys have a program like TOH over there?