Minimalist Home and Its Benefits | From Zen Habits
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Benefits of a Minimalist Home
I could probably go on for awhile about this, but let me just list a few key benefits:
- Less stressful. Clutter is a form of visual distraction, and everything in our vision pulls at our attention at least a little. The less clutter, the less visual stress we have. A minimalist home is calming.
- More appealing. Think about photos of homes that are cluttered, and photos of minimalist homes. The ones with almost nothing in them except some beautiful furniture, some nice artwork, and a very few pretty decorations, are the ones that appeal to most of us. You can make your home more appealing by making it more minimalist.
- Easier to clean. It’s hard to clean a whole bunch of objects, or to sweep or vacuum around a bunch of furniture. The more stuff you have, the more you have to keep clean, and the more complicated it is to clean around the stuff. Think about how easy it is to clean an empty room compared to one with 50 objects in it. That’s an extreme example, of course, as I wouldn’t recommend you have an empty room, but it’s just to illustrate the difference.
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I think, a minimalist room design usually used a small size of the room, but on this picture. I didn’t see the small size details.
i just started my own list of miniamlism benefits: http://becomingminimalist.wordpress.com/benefits-of-minimalism/
While I agree a lack of clutter is a good idea, the minimalist aesthetic has become the neo-classicism of our age and is becoming as tired as columns were to 19th century Romantics. How about some balance, eclecticism and inherent beauty of ALL forms?