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How perfectionist spaces inhibit natural function

My kitchen is beautifully designed and I spent a fortune on it, but I barely cook because it feels too precious to mess up, like a museum I'm afraid to actually use.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You have created an environment so idealized that it prohibits the messy, imperfect activity it was designed to support.

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