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The staircase I'd fight you over
My house was built in 1790. The stairs up to the bedrooms are worn so deep in the middle of each tread, you can see the footprints.
235 years of people climbing up to sleep, wearing the wood down a little more every night.
I think they're the most beautiful thing in the house.
Some people walk in and see a hazard. They're uneven, worn. Their impulse is to tell me to rip them out, and put in something level and new.
To them the wear is damage. To me, replacing it would be the worst thing you could do to this house. The wear is the whole point. It's what makes it irreplaceable. 👈
I think about that every time a client tells me she wants to fix the thing that makes her HER. The hypervigilance. The over-attunement. The reading-the-room-before-she-walks-in. She calls it damage and asks me to sand it smooth.
It's not damage. It's the rarest thing she owns.
Tell me one "worn tread" you used to think was a flaw and now know is a feature. I'll go first in the comments.
(If you coach people who hit a wall trying to "heal" the thing that's actually their gift, I built something around reading the wear instead of sanding it off. It's called Excavation, doors are open. Link's in the comments if you want it.)
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The staircase I'd fight you over
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