I think you mean sparse or unadorned rather than boring– boring minimalist designs miss the point of minimalism. The idea is to create beauty using the form of

I think you mean sparse or unadorned rather than boring– boring minimalist designs miss the point of minimalism. The idea is to create beauty using the form of the objects themselves and how they interact with their surroundings rather than adding purely decorative elements. A picture of open ocean or desert can be beautiful, entirely unadorned, and a picture of a carnival can be boring as hell. I'd certainly call Gottfried Böhm's Brutalist church sparse or unadorned in contrast to St. Basil's Cathedral, but I'd call it anything but boring. (Personally, I find them both breathtaking.) Same thing with minimalist lives, ideally!