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Why aesthetic decisions feel impossibly weighty

I want my home to feel peaceful and uncluttered but I am paralyzed by every decorating choice because what if I pick wrong.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The desire for authentic simplicity has become complicated by perfectionist anxiety about making the right choices.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Japanese aesthetics — wabi-sabi mono no aware yugen?”

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