Some may downsize further to a simple room in a household with roommates, but that is not for me. Simple is quite livable.Īnd all around, there is something great about owning your own place and have that autonomy. I have a roof over my head when it rains. I don’t need a house, one of those Mcmansions, or even a one bedroom. My studio is 450 square feet and that is all I need.Īnd that is all there is to it! In my little base of command, I have all that I need to get through day-to-day life. A studio is probably one of the most minimalistic of all apartment types. Obviously, from the pictures below you can tell I live in a studio apartment. Boxes of stuff to the ceiling and old furniture pieces against every wall packed with stuff on top of them.Ĭoming of that backdrop, in like a baptism by fire, I was reborn as a minimalist. It was packed to the brim with unorganized stuff. Now that looked more like a hoarder’s house! Unlike our old two-bedroom apartment, this house had generations of accumulated stuff. It added more pain to an already painful event.Īfter we sold our two-bedroom apartment, we lived for the next three years with my aunt and grandfather in their house. That meant throwing away nearly all of our stuff. At 26 years old, I lost my mother and then we had to sell our apartment. We didn’t need all that furniture, which inevitably became shelves for more stuff. Every corner didn’t need a piece of furniture just to “look nice”. Most was stuff we had not seen or used in years. Therefore, having another unnecessary bill to pay every 6 months. In fact, we ended up having to purchase a storage unit to hold more of our stuff. Today, I would say it was an unhealthy attachment. There was just a sentimental attachment to much of our stuff. Up until I was 26 years old, we had accumulated 26 years of my stuff alone. In the two-bedroom apartment I grew up in with my mother and brother, we just had too much stuff. For most of my life, I lived in a home cluttered with too much stuff. I do find that when in comes to your home, less is better. Thus, minimalism is different for each person and there exists of spectrum of ranging from extreme to moderate forms. What is minimalism? Often called “simple living”, minimalism is choosing to live with less in order to maximize things we value the most. So, below is one example of a Minimalist Apartment (with pictures). I will use my own dwelling as one of countless examples. It depends on each person on an individual basis. Nevertheless, there is no one fixed model of what it should look like. Ever wonder what a minimalist home looks like? Or what a minimalist apartment looks like? Obliviously, it wouldn’t look like a hoarder’s house.
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