A Case for the Imperfect Home 🏡
In which the DIY Decade, social media, and the Great Grasping come to a head.
You already know this, but between 2020 and today, everyone on the Internet became a do-it-yourselfer. We painted our homes the oh-my-gosh-no-one-has-ever-done-this-before white with black trim. (Or just all black.) We re-plumbed entire bathrooms or changed out faucet fixtures for “a whole new look.” We added peel-and-stick plastic to our boring apartment linoleum. We were restless, we were stuck inside, and a global pandemic raged just outside our doors.
Our homes made us rage, too, in a different way. Updating them was catharsis, a way of grasping at control in an unstable world. And documenting that change on your social media platform of choice became a “middle-class obsession” (in the wise words of the one and only Anne Helen Petersen). We were home MAKING.
