Double Income Home Decor Can F*ck Immediately Off

Photo by Shani Silver

While scrolling TikTok, which one should never do, I came across a content creator I follow because she appreciates a good macabre decor moment much like myself. In her video, she shared the home office makeover she created because she “decided [she] deserved a proper office.” It went from generic suburban bedroom to chic black accent wall with gold chandelier and flatscreen TV in a matter of sped-up seconds. It was gorgeous. It was also achieved on a double income so I should stop feeling so fucking bad about myself.

This creator got married in September of 2021, I have no idea how long she’d been with her partner before then or if they’d cohabitated prior. But by my calculations if I got married in September of 2021 I would have $36,000 more to my name than I do now at a bare minimum. I’d be splitting rent, and my home office would, theoretically, look just like hers.

Let’s gloss over for a moment that two incomes instead of one can do things like afford homes with spare rooms for home offices in the first place. What I’d rather talk about are the impeccably styled, freshly renovated homes and apartments that belong to influencers who, to my knowledge, never stipulate that the reason they can accomplish all of these of these sweeping changes that end up as countless “tutorials” is that they have the disposable money to make them…