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> Rustic has a slight issue because it can also hide things you are looking for, and if you let it get to be a mess it won't "tell" you like Bauhaus will, it ju

> Rustic has a slight issue because it can also hide things you are looking for, and if you let it get to be a mess it won't "tell" you like Bauhaus will, it just feels nasty and oppressive without as being obvious why, but it has a lot of flexibility. That's one of the reasons I like minimalism: it makes it blatant when a room is overloaded instead of being a well-decorated environment where setting something down is equivalent to throwing it in the trash (except you can re-discover it six months later).

eternityforest 5y ago
It's interesting that it almost works like the digital cliff. In average to crappy conditions, minimalism will be more effort and work to make sure everything is put away and straightened, much like analog video being lower quality. Non minimalist places can function perfectly well with a moderate amount of clutter, and it's easier to work in, because things will be findable just by scanning your environment, right up until you suddenly find you can't tell the difference between the table and the dumpster. With tech, that theoretically doesn't happen, because digital should give a "Link quality low" alert before things actually get too bad, but with your living space, it's all on you to notice things are getting bad. It's probably about time for a more detailed theory of design that takes into account what specifically you are trying to minimize or maximize, the usual discussions don't distinguish between complexity, item count, physical volume, cost, reliability, and attention demand. Increasing complexity can often get rid of all the rest of them(As in going all paperless), and decorations are low attention demand. Whereas the single function analog stuff that some hardcore minimalism enthusiasts like(Like film cameras and dead tree tax papers), often have high space requirements and can easily be weapons of mass cluttering if not carefully put away.

eternityforest 5y ago

It's interesting that it almost works like the digital cliff. In average to crappy conditions, minimalism will be more effort and work to make sure everything is put away and straightened, much like analog video being lower quality. Non minimalist places can function perfectly well with a moderate amount of clutter, and it's easier to work in, because things will be findable just by scanning your environment, right up until you suddenly find you can't tell the difference between the table and the dumpster. With tech, that theoretically doesn't happen, because digital should give a "Link quality low" alert before things actually get too bad, but with your living space, it's all on you to notice things are getting bad. It's probably about time for a more detailed theory of design that takes into account what specifically you are trying to minimize or maximize, the usual discussions don't distinguish between complexity, item count, physical volume, cost, reliability, and attention demand. Increasing complexity can often get rid of all the rest of them(As in going all paperless), and decorations are low attention demand. Whereas the single function analog stuff that some hardcore minimalism enthusiasts like(Like film cameras and dead tree tax papers), often have high space requirements and can easily be weapons of mass cluttering if not carefully put away.