Achieving a Minimalist Home

Benefits of a minimalist apartment or house

You could tell a lot about this, but will list just a few benefits:

Less stressful. The visual clutter is a distraction, and everything in your vision draws attention even a little. Less clutter, less visual stress. A minimalist home is calming and attractive relajante.Más. Think of the pictures of homes that are cluttered and photos of minimalist homes. Those with the least amount of things but beautiful furniture, some nice artwork, and very few but beautiful decorations, the things that attract us to the great majority. You can make your home more attractive minimalista.Más making it a little easier to clean. It is difficult to clean many objects, or sweeping (vacuum) around a lot of furniture. The more things there, but must be kept clean, and becomes more complicated to clean. Think how easy it is to clean an empty room compared with one having 50 things inside. This is an extreme example, of course, and I would not recommend having an empty room, but really helps illustrate the difference.

As we can see a minimalist home

This will vary of course depending on your taste and you want to take extreme minimalist in you. I am a minimalist, but not the end. But there are certain characteristics of a minimalist home:

Minimum furniture. A fourth minimalist only have a few essential pieces of furniture. One room, for example, can only have one couch, one chair and a loveseat, a coffee table, a minimalist entertainment furniture (not large bookshelves), a television, and a pair of lamps. May even be less (couch, chairs and table, for example). A bedroom can contain a single bed (or even just a mattress), wardrobe, and maybe a nightstand or repisa.Superficies clean. IN a minimalist home, flat surfaces are clean, except for one or two decorations (see next item). There are a lot of stuff out there and definitely no towers of books, papers or other cosas.Decoraciones that enhance. A house without decorations or things would be boring. So instead of having a totally empty table, you can have a vase of flowers, for example. Or a table may simply have a family photo. A blank wall can have a piece of art with good gusto.Calidad chosen over quantity. Undersides have many things in your home, a minimalist would choose just a couple of very good things you love and use often. A beautiful carved wooden table, for example, is better than 5 aglomerado.Ejemplos furniture.

The photo above this article is a very good example of a minimalist home. Traditional Japanese houses are another good example of minimalism.

How to create a minimalist home

There are no predetermined steps to make your home minimalist, except to change your philosophy and point to the ideas in the previous section. But here are some tips to offer anyone who wishes to make a minimalist home:

A room at a time. Unless you have moved recently to a new site, it is difficult to simplify a whole house or apartment at a time. Focus on one room, and that is your center of calm and peace. Use it as inspiration to simplify the next quarter and next. After having to do the same outside garden! Start with the furniture. The greatest things in any room are the furniture, so you always should start looking at simplifying fourth furniture. The fewer pieces of furniture, the better (logically of course). Think of that furniture can be eliminated without sacrificing comfort and livability. Aim a few simple pieces of furniture of solid colors and llanos.Solo essential. So looking at the furniture or anything else in the room, ask yourself how essential it is. If you can live without it, take it out. Try to leave the room alone with the basics - other things can always increase it later if time necesidad.Pisos clean. Except the furniture, your floors should be totally clean. Nothing should be on the floor, nothing should be piled, or anything stored on the floor. Once you have your essential furniture, clean the floor everything else - you can donate them, throw them away or find a site that is out of sight, to estos.Superficies clean.

The same principle as the flat surfaces. Do not have anything in them, except one or two simple decorations (See Tip 9 below). Dona, boot or put out of sight all the rest. This will see the rest of cosas.Paredes minimalist clean. Some people hang all kinds of things on their walls. This can not be done in a minimalist home. Clean your walls except one or two pieces of art that you really like (see tip 8 below). Keep things out of sight. This has been mentioned in the above tips, but you must save everything you need out of sight, in drawers or closets. Shelves can be used for books, DVDs or CDs, but they should not have much more than simple decorations (not whole collections of things). Organize and order. If you are cleaning surfaces and the floor, and keeping things in drawers and cupboards, perhaps it would be a good idea to organize and manage art armarios.Piezas drawers and simple. For a room does not get boring, you can place a simple painting, drawing or photo, framed with a light frame, on each wall if you wish. If you can leave some simple cosas.Decoraciones free walls.

As mentioned above, one or two pieces of simple decorations can serve as key pieces in a room minimalist. A vase or a small potted plant are two classic examples. If the rest of the room has light colors, your key pieces can be brightly colored (red or yellow) to attract attention or give some energía.Simples quarter window coverings. Clean windows or curtains simple, solid color, wood blinds are good. Things too ornate desorden.Diseños window is simple. Colors are solid are best for covering the floors (if any), furniture, etc.. Complex designs such as flowers and squares create a mess visual.Colores Faint. As mentioned in Tip 9 above, you have some bright colors in the room, but most of the room should be dim or soft colors - white is classic minimalist, but really any solid color that does not stress to the eye is fine (I can think of earthy colors like blue, brown, green and tan). Edita and removed. When you've simplified a room, you can always do more. Give a couple of days then check everything again with a fresh perspective.

What can you eliminate? Kept out of sight? Is not essential and that is worth? You can return to each of the rooms several times over several months, and sometimes discover things you can simplify even mas.Un place for everything. In a minimalist home is very important that you find, assign and remember the whole site. Where will the blender? Give a site, and keep it. Aim always logical and practical sites. The key is that your site must have designado.Siéntate relax and enjoy. Once you've simplified a room, take a moment look around and enjoy. It's so peaceful and satisfying. This is the reward for all your hard work. Ahhhh. beautiful!

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