The REAL reasons why your friend's home looks better than yours.

Catherine Rose Design
8 min readMay 6, 2022

…and why it’s time to stop comparing your home to others.

Your friend just re-designed their home, and it looks amazing…

and you admit, you are a bit jealous.

You just don’t get it, you follow all the trends and know what’s in and you try and keep up but it just never seems to look as good as that other person’s environment! “What gives!” You say internally.

The things that are actually causing your friend’s home to look better than yours aren’t what you think they are…

The mirage of “perfect”

I know what you may be thinking but — No. She didn’t find the PERFECT rug or stay up all night tracking the latest styles on Instagram. The real reasons your friend’s home looks better than yours run much deeper than that.

I know that that little green monster that shows up when you see someone else’s seemingly perfect space is a deeply uncomfortable feeling. Not because you don’t want your sweet friend to have a gorgeous space of their own, but more because you are confused at why you can’t seem to recreate it for yourself! Let me tell you the secrets of why that other space feels so much better to…

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Catherine Rose Design

Helping sensitive people create home environments that deeply support them.