My partner and I are renovating our home together and I keep wanting to preserve the weathered wood and old imperfections while they want to fix and perfect everything. We both say we love wabi-sabi but we're discovering we have completely different ideas about what embracing imperfection actually means when it's our space.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people are learning that aesthetic philosophy becomes viscerally personal when applied to the intimate space of home.
“Where Are You with Japanese aesthetics — wabi-sabi mono no aware yugen?”
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