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The Home Does Not Need to Be Finished

French homes are habitually unfinished: a wall left bare for years, a room waiting for the right piece. Living in an incomplete house is normal and preferable to filling it quickly.

Identify the thing in your home you have been meaning to sort out. Decide deliberately to leave it as it is for another six months, and stop thinking about it.

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