Inspire Notes:
This whitewashed silhouette seems like any other home until you get a closer view. The designer, Manuel Aires Mateus has thrown away the rule book to produce a home of almost stark, windowless monastic austerity and yet…somehow…for a home dwelling…I believe that it still works.
The life-vital light source is well thought out and bravely imaginative. It is given access through the generous top cut-out in the roof and also via ground access as cut-outs in the lawn.
The low beds in this home and the minimal furnishing draws on the Japanese aesthetic of uncluttered simplicity. It would be hard to be stressed and angry in a ‘mood’ room such as this, gracefully devoid of the latest ‘must haves’ and intrusive ‘electronica’.
It is like living in an art piece, but one that still provides the space required to live, love, breathe, think, talk and work.
The giant white plant pot provides a lovely, unencumbered visual diversion.
Beautiful, alien and right.
The grey sofa is saying nothing, other than ‘I’m a sofa.’ The Glo Ball floor lamp is lighting the room. Full stop.
But it all works. And have you noticed?
Zero. Wall. Art.
Apart from that rather momentous birth in a stable gig some 2000 years ago – could this be the simplest home space ever?
Of course it’s crazy, but this way out there creative shizzle is exactly why we get up in the mornings.
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To live in this space take any rule books that you own and throw them away. In fact throw most of the books you may have (and pretty much everything else) away because this home is so minimal it would not sustain keeping them. Everything is sliced to the bone here.
Even access to natural light has be re-thought and re-presented for a sleek, unfettered outlook.
It would be pointless selling this home to the maximalist or the unconverted as it would take a certain appreciation to have your bed so low to the floor as a permanent choice, (as opposed to for a short excursion like a camping trip), or your child’s playroom devoid of must-have trendy electronica.
We are being shown the basics here and without doubt the more everyday utensils have been afforded a really sleek hideaway composed of flush inline cabinetry and touch sensitive handle-less access.
It is fearless living where you are not concerned about what everyone else is doing or what everyone else has.
So one giant pristine white planter suffices without the need to add a table and chairs, more plants and a rarely used bar-be-cue in that space…because that’s what other folks do isn’t it? Tables are raw and undressed and free of kitchen fodder and clutter…because that’s what other folks do isn’t it?
It’s brave. It is not so much styling for aesthetic as for stark necessity which just happens to feel right for this space.
Even if you weren’t an ultra minimalist the lesson to take from this home is that one can think carefully about what one really needs in the home before buying, lest you end up with the clutter that then has to removed, (usually at more expense), once the self admission comes that most of it isn’t really needed.
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