This is such good advice! I'm in the throws of analysis paralysis and I HAVE TO STOP!

I have to put the lid on the box of chocolates:)

Some time ago someone posted a piece about how many of us conglomerate the passed-up choices into an "if-only" memory of imaginary perfection that the actual stone, cabinetry, or whatever that we chose has to fall short of.

I can not WAIT until I get to the point that I can close the box of chocolates. I'm not the most decisive person by nature and have the self-defeating tendency to LIKE flooding myself with options.

So true! Thank you for such a great advice.

Luckily, I'm happy with all my big decisions, materials, appliances etc. but I do dwell on some of the smallest details, like "Should I have placed my pulls a half inch lower/higher on the doors?" Or "should my hood have been an inch or two lower/wider?" Nothing I can change now, I need to get over it and enjoy!!

I have been shopping along the way for finishes and for me it is a huge relief to have a decision done and made. Once I chose pendants, I never opened up the lighting store webpages again. I like browsing, or at least I really feel compelled to browse every possible option in my budget and get the best choice (according to me, at the time) but I LOVE having it done and out of the way and tend not to look back. So I guess I do institute a mental barrier after the choice is made.

Ever notice that happen after house hunting too? The grass is greener -- until the contract is signed.

Good article. I'm good at finalizing decisions but DH is not. He is not indecisive but always thinks there must be a better choice out there than the one he made. I don't know that he's ever had an "it's perfect!" moment in his life [except when he met me, heh heh].

I agonize over most decisions, but once it is made I am happy with it. I have always wanted a white kitchen but I saw this beautiful wheaten maple and the white kitchen went right out the window and I am very at peace with that decision.

My faucet was picked as soon as I saw it and I am so happy with that decision though I did agonize over which finish I wanted it in, but when I got the faucet I knew it was the right one for me.

The hardwood was one I had quoted about a year ago. I went with the same wood but in a different finish that would look better with my cabinets. I made that decision in minutes.

The hard decision was the appliances and which finish to go with. I went back and forth for weeks and weeks over that choice, and choosing the hardware took almost five weeks but I love what I picked.

I knew the pendants I wanted as soon as I saw them but I am still trying to talk myself into the chandelier that I love because it is crystal too and I know it will take a lot to clean it.

The only thing left to choose is my backsplash and I am in no hurry to do that because I am in decision overload.