The home you work to maintain should occasionally be allowed to serve you while it is imperfect.

Houses can quietly become projects rather than places to live. There is always another job pending, and if enjoyment waits for the list to be finished, it waits permanently, because the list renews itself faster than anyone can work through it. The point of maintaining a home was to have somewhere good to be.

Use the room this week in whatever state it is in. Sit in the half-painted room, eat at the table with the wrong chairs, have someone over before the hallway is done. Let one evening be about occupancy rather than improvement.