I'm no extremist in this sense either, but I lived for a long time in a tiny apartment, and got to hate all the little objects that arrive from nowhere, pile up in the closets, on the shelves and floors, and make you feel quilty of throwing them away. it would've been frankly impossible to count my possessions.

Then, I bought a flat that's more than twice as big and got to move after almost 18 years of staying in the same place. I threw away a lot of junk, sold quite a bit, and a lot of various objects are still boxed away after 1½ years of not being needed. I quickly learned to love the empty space, but have admitted in some well selected stuff little by little - just this Monday, I actually bought a bed 😁

Most of the "little" things I have around now are somehow related to the B&O hobby: components, spare parts, tools, various pieces of kit that just aren't being used (although a lot is still in storage elsewhere).

I used to admire the empty, vacant interiors so prolific in B&O PR pics but now I'm not sure anymore. They seem somehow lifeless and so '00s. Some of the recent ads demonstrate how it is possible to have cluttered, but still good looking interiors: the trick apparently is to get rid of ugly things, and the objects that don't play well with other objects. Easier said than done...

I've always liked minimalism. For some reason I do not particularly like owning things, maybe because things tend to own you as well. As a consequence there's no clutter in my house at all and only a limited amount of Danish furniture. Downside is that most B&O systems aren't used at the moment and either stored or waiting to be sold.

Minimalism? Ha! I can only dream!

I have so much crap/clutter around -I could be on Hoarders!

One of these days, I think I am just gonna' go Elvis and start busting stuff up.

Ah, minimalism, it's the least you can do! 🙂

I have been a fan forever, but it's darned hard to do, especially if you have a small home and are acquisitive by nature. Previously I had a 1200 sq ft house, and it was a constant battle that was never won. We would do periodic purges, particularly of books, otherwise we'd have been like those folks shown in hoarder shows that wind up buried in junk. I do love the look though.

I have recently moved, we bought my in-laws house after my father-in-law passed away and my mother-in-law moved into an active senior living place. He was a mid century modernist, the house is very stylish and open, with great floor to ceiling windows in places with views out over the yard. It's about 3000+ sq ft upstairs where we live, and another 1000 sq ft in a downstairs apartment. I now have half a hope for a minimalist look, but even now it's hard to accomplish. For one thing, you have to constantly pick up after yourself and not leave clutter around, though clutter looks less onerous the bigger the house is. As we are still unpacking and having repairs done, we oscillate between neater and piled up while we sort and go thru.

This house was at one time in Architectural Digest maybe 40 + years ago, and my father-in-law talked about how they came in and moved everything hout and brought in the furniture they wanted to photograph in the house, so what you see in magazines is really staged. If you look at the pics, there usually is no indication that anyone lives there, no tissue boxes, magazines laying around, etc.

I have to admit that it's hard to get rid of stuff, but there's been very very little I've ever gotten rid of that I regretted, even now I think we have too much stuff and will eventually dump a lot of it. I don't find the look cold or sterile, but more Zen simplicity and restful/peaceful.

Wish me luck on achieving minimalism!

@ Jeff  

C'mon man.....that warrants a picture.  Wonderful description!  I have always loved that Atlanta and Birmingham, for example, have cool smatterings of mid-century architecture tucked away in "normal" neighborhoods.  

Well, the inside is still a mess as we have boxes everywhere, when I get unpacked and have the B&O in place, I will definitely post in the Flash Your B&O thread! In the meantime, here's an outide view:

Jeff wrote:

Well, the inside is still a mess as we have boxes everywhere, when I get unpacked and have the B&O in place, I will definitely post in the Flash Your B&O thread! In the meantime, here's an outide view:

 

Love mid century modern... 🤒

Me too! My late father-in-law designed the house and had it built in 1963. He was head of the art and design department for a large textile firm, and he had a very good eye IMO. All my wife's relatives are glad we bought it and are keeping it in the family.

The round window you can see on the side of the house is the master bedroom, it's almost floor to ceiling, and very Asian inspired. Out in the lawn he has the same design in brick that outlines what used to be the rose garden. We also have a terraced Japanese garden behind the house. The whole yard needs serious work as it's gone to seed and overgrown, but that'll wait until Spring. And until I have the inside done.

The yard is a tad under 3 acres, and it really brings home the difference in agricultural techniques when you stop and consider that one acre used to be defined as the area one man and an ox could plow in one day!

And the house came with a baby grand piano, a Steinway, and a spinett harpsichord (in teak no less)!

Jeff wrote:

here's an outide view

"on the outside lookin in"

Must flash my own B&O....