06-23-2023, 07:18 AM
15:40
I have to disagree with this guy when he says space in your home that you seldom or never use is wasted space.
You have to have room to move around. People may not congregate in those wide, unimpeded walkways between rooms or between furniture, but they serve their purpose of helping you feel less cramped, cluttered, and clumsy. I mean sure, having too much empty space, like in a McMansion, is probably overkill, but you need some empty space. It's analogous to whitespace on a printed page or web page.
A page needs whitespace in order to be read comfortably. That's why the pages in a book are 50% margins.
There's such a thing as sonic whitespace too. When a YouTuber eliminates every millisecond of silence from a video with jump cuts, it becomes an unlistenable wall of babble. Music has empty notes called rests. So must speech.
16:19
"We're living our lives depending on the space we've got, rather than creating our space to fit our lives."
Exactly. That's why this time around I designed my space well in advance of having an actual physical space to put it in. If you move around a lot, plan for the smallest space you're likely to live in. For a single adult living alone, that could be anywhere from 500 square feet to 1000 square feet -- usually between 700 and 800 square feet. If you need more than that, you're probably storing a lot of crap you'll never use.
I have to disagree with this guy when he says space in your home that you seldom or never use is wasted space.
You have to have room to move around. People may not congregate in those wide, unimpeded walkways between rooms or between furniture, but they serve their purpose of helping you feel less cramped, cluttered, and clumsy. I mean sure, having too much empty space, like in a McMansion, is probably overkill, but you need some empty space. It's analogous to whitespace on a printed page or web page.
A page needs whitespace in order to be read comfortably. That's why the pages in a book are 50% margins.
There's such a thing as sonic whitespace too. When a YouTuber eliminates every millisecond of silence from a video with jump cuts, it becomes an unlistenable wall of babble. Music has empty notes called rests. So must speech.
16:19
"We're living our lives depending on the space we've got, rather than creating our space to fit our lives."
Exactly. That's why this time around I designed my space well in advance of having an actual physical space to put it in. If you move around a lot, plan for the smallest space you're likely to live in. For a single adult living alone, that could be anywhere from 500 square feet to 1000 square feet -- usually between 700 and 800 square feet. If you need more than that, you're probably storing a lot of crap you'll never use.
