Our culture affords a certain prestige to household and creative pursuits completed without professional help (in other words, doing-it-yourself, or DIY). There are certainly benefits to working with your own hands, but we should be aware that creating things on our own doesn’t always mean saving money.
Who hasn’t, at one point or another, looked at an element of interior design online or a household project on TV and thought, I could do that? The mentality of the American Dream is alive and well on design programs and Instagram accounts that celebrate transforming something that might have been thought useless into something both beautiful and valuable.
