Interior design “confidence crushing” comes in many flavors. Worse, we do it to ourselves. Is it that you’re comparing your home to someone else’s? Is it fear of not being good enough at design and thinking you’re going to make a big mistake you’ll hate, then having to live with it for a long time?…

When gleeful buyers tour through that perfect upsize, downsize or right-size, the new home fantasies run rampant. They range from that first great party to memory-building while raising a family, to arriving home to this perfect sanctuary every night. However, once the keys are handed over, fantasies can turn to agita when confronted with the…