When a Home Looks Perfect — But Something Feels Off

Sometimes a home looks perfect on the real estate page. The floor plan looks practical, the location convenient, the price fits your budget. From the many - many! - places you have been browsing, this might be a match - swipe right! (And doesn’t it just feel a bit like online dating these days? ;) )

And yet… there’s that small, persistent feeling you can’t quite name. A subtle heaviness. A sense of tension you can’t shake. A quiet discomfort in your body that whispers: this isn’t fully right for me.

Most people ignore it. They chalk it up to nerves, stress, or overthinking. But that feeling is often a signal — not a flaw in you, but a mismatch between your energy and the energy of the space.

Over the years, I’ve worked with many clients who experienced exactly this: the home “looked fine,” yet living there slowly drained them, made it somehow difficult to fully arrive and blocked their clarity and flow in life.
Like myself back then in Amsterdam (see ‘About’ section), they feel stuck. And it may take years to get un-stuck again without clarity.

And the frustrating thing is… it’s not something you can measure or see in a photo. It’s subtle, experiential, and deeply personal.

That’s why I approach homes differently. Instead of judging them as objectively “good” or “bad,” I look at how they interact with the people who will live there. Which areas support rest, focus, and wellbeing? Which areas quietly sap energy? Which parts can be aligned with your rhythms, and which may be a lifelong friction point?

My goal is to help clients to find a home that truly fits them and supports them in the years to come. It doesnt have to be picture perfect but it should fit their energetic blueprint. And then you can take all the time to make it your own home, your sanctuary and safe haven where you plop down on your sofa, inhale and exhale deeply with a big smile on your face and feel the bliss of having finally arrived home!