Heather AardemaCoach, Author, Speaker, National Board & Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach, Certified Decluttering & Life Coach

Light or Heavy? Transform Your Space with This Simple Question

Name: Light or Heavy? Transform Your Space with This Simple Question
Uploaded: 2025-01-09T19:00:11+00:00
Duration: 54 s
Channel: Heather Aardema
Description: A short YouTube clip by Heather Aardema presenting a simple design heuristic—ask whether a space (or object) feels ‘light’ or ‘heavy’—to evaluate and…

9 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube clip by Heather Aardema presenting a simple design heuristic—ask whether a space (or object) feels ‘light’ or ‘heavy’—to evaluate and transform interiors. She illustrates with a client who felt a newly renovated kitchen was still 'heavy' due to cabinet color; after painting the cabinets, the client felt the kitchen was light and loved it.

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Does this question, does it feel light or heavy? Does it work for other categories? And the answer is yes, it works for everything. So I have a client. And every time she walked into her kitchen, she felt heavy. And this was a new kitchen. She had new cabinets and countertops and appliances. And yet she would walk in and it felt heavy. It did not feel light to her. So she used this question, does this kitchen feel lighter? Heavy? Well, it felt heavy. Well, what was it about the kitchen that felt heavy? And she realized it was her cabinets. The color of the cabinets felt heavy to her. She painted the cabinets. And now she absolutely loves her kitchen. Every time she walks into it, she feels light.