{"id":12,"date":"2011-07-21T06:30:50","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T06:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hdthreshing.dreamhosters.com\/blog\/blog\/?p=12"},"modified":"2011-07-21T17:41:44","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T17:41:44","slug":"less-is-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdthreshing.com\/blog\/less-is-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Less is more"},"content":{"rendered":"

Less is more<\/strong><\/p>\n

Have you ever been in a home and felt you were back in the Victorian era? Where there’s so much furniture you can hardly walk around (without tripping over something)?<\/p>\n

When furnishing a space, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a fine balance to be struck between having everything you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like and making the space too cluttered\/gaudy. If we all had massive 10,000 square foot homes, this wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a concern. More often, however, you need to work with space. Less really is more for several reasons.<\/p>\n

Furniture needs to serve the way you live, and not the other way around. Having been in many homes, I can tell you that the majority of people have more furniture than is required. Besides kitchen cupboards and table with a few chairs, how much of your furniture do you ACTUALLY use on a daily basis?<\/p>\n

You know how they say you use 20% of your clothes 80% of the time? The same is true of furniture. Granted, it is nice to have flexibility for special events. But is it really a good strategy to set everything up for those events (which usually end up requiring some creativity anyway)?<\/p>\n

Simply from an appearance perspective, having less has several benefits:<\/p>\n

1)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Looks cleaner (and requires less cleaning!)<\/p>\n

2)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Is inviting (no claustrophobia)<\/p>\n

3)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Less congestion (as you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a lot of different things grabbing your eye)<\/p>\n

4)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Fewer colours to deal with! Colours are a tricky thing, and often improperly coordinated. The fewer you have, the less chance of everything becoming convoluted and inconsistent. Anything more than 3 colours + natural tone wood is too much!<\/p>\n

5)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 The furniture that IS there is more enhanced!<\/p>\n

I once set up a table in a massive living room that had only two things \u00e2\u20ac\u201c a grand piano, and the HDTFF table +chairs. The table and piano looked amazing because there weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t other thing competing for attention.<\/p>\n

So what do you do with the massive armoire that has been handed down and has sentimental value? Chances are you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use it very often, so your best bet is to put it in a part of the home you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t use very often. That way, you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have it interfering with your day-to-day.<\/p>\n

Keep things simple and minimalistic. It may mean detaching yourself from that desk you used back in your college days, or buffet that your aunt gave you, but in the end you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll thank yourself. \u00c2\u00a0You don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t HAVE to keep that \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwhatever\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 just because you have it; all that matters is your present and future needs.<\/p>\n

So now for how my obvious marketing spin \u00e2\u20ac\u201c HD Threshing Floor Furniture looks awesome in any design scheme. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve delivered to almost every scheme in the book and the feedback has always been very positive. From what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve observed, however, is that it thrives the most in the simplest designs \u00e2\u20ac\u201c 4 painted walls, 1 or 2 pieces of art on the walls, table +seating, and that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s it. HD’s reclaimed wood furniture\u00c2\u00a0is designed to stand out [one of the reasons, as well, why we never stain anything].<\/p>\n

Gerald Reinink, Owner and Designer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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