10/14/2026
I think beauty has a reputation problem.
Somewhere along the way, caring deeply about how things look, feel, or are made became easy to dismiss as frivolous. As if practicality has substance, but beauty doesn’t.
I don’t believe that.
The spaces we live in affect us. The objects we keep tell stories. Light, proportion, material, art, craftsmanship—all of it shapes how we experience our lives, often before we even have the words for it.
Beauty can’t solve everything. But that doesn’t make it unimportant.
Beauty is not vanity. It is one of the ways we show that life matters.
I wrote more about this on Substack. Beauty Is Not Frivolous — link in bio. xx