Less is more! Human brains struggle to be minimalist, scientists say

Human brains struggle to take ideas or elements away from designs, such as from a blueprint of a building – and instead tend to add more, a new study reveals.  In experiments, participants tasked with making a Lego Duplo building stronger tended to add more bricks rather than take them away. In another computerised task, … Read more

Larsa Pippen pulls back from the excess of the Kardashian clan as she unveils minimalist closet

Her longtime friendship with Kim Kardashian fizzled out over the summer, after her name was thrown out in one of Kanye West’s infamous Twitter tirades.  And Larsa Pippen appeared to be pulling back from the excess of the Kardashian clan as she revealed her minimalist closet in her latest Instagram self-portrait.  ‘Colors make me happy,’ … Read more

CHRISTOPHER WILSON: Minimalist wedding ceremony for Princess Beatrice was the ideal solution

It was a neat device – cynical, some might say – to shield Princess Beatrice’s wedding behind the greater event, the knighting of Sir Tom Moore.  But the Covid-19 crisis, and the 100-year-old Army captain’s colossal act of gallantry in raising £33 million for NHS charities, happily combined to spare the Royal Family’s blushes over what … Read more

Minimalist couple chuck away 80 per cent of their belongings and move into tiny house

A couple who chucked away 80 per cent of their belongings to downsize to a miniature home have now bought an entire lakeside peninsula to create an off-grid tiny house community.   Tim Davidson, 30 and Sam Cosner, 28, drove their 270sq ft tiny house, nicknamed Tiffany, to the 1.5 acre peninsula in Sarasota, Florida last … Read more