Minimalist vs. Maximalist Interior Design (Minimalism and Maximalism in Design explained!)
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- I feel like we have all heard about Minimalism, there has been a big movement towards this style. HOWEVER did you know there is also Maximalism... and that you can be a maximalist whilst still having a minimalist mindset?
Today I am sharing with you the difference between these two design styles and really sharing with you what maximalism is, and how it isn't just a nice way of saying you are hoarding. Very much the opposite. it is a curated interior design style that highlights your personal story, similar to BOHO, Grandmillennial (Granny Chic), or even Traditional Design style.
I am excited to share the variations in these styles!
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I've been maximalist for all of my life, long before I ever knew the term! My home is a reflection of my personality, and my personality is very loud and extroverted. Antiques, colours, art, accessories, rich fabrics... I need it! I have always felt that minimalist houses feel like you're supposed to be quiet and subdued in them, like someone will pop out and go "ssssh!" if you dare talk too loud. I couldn't feel at home in a place that makes me feel like I'm too much in it.
Love this!! ❤ true meaning of home! An expression of your authentic self
Thank you for watching!!
Let's face it, even the maximalist style doesn't work with a lot of clutter and mass produced items.
The abundance of maximalism comes from beautiful collections, handcrafted items, antiques and personal memorabilia and art.
Get rid of the clutter! Bring on the valuable!
Well said, I agree wholeheartedly ❤
Why does minimalism have to be beige though? I consider myself more minimalist than maximalist but everything is still colouful and interesting. I cant imagine living in a beige house, wearing beige clothing and just being beige.
You for sure don't have to do beige. I think neutral is the most comman, but I have seen some beautiful minimalist spaces in colours. I truly believe though minimalist living has very little to do with design and much more to do with mind set. I have lots of stuff and colour. But I considered myself to have a minimalist mindset :)
Exactly!
Terry, I've wondered about that many times.
I totally agree. I need color. Doesn't have to be a lot of pattern or anything but there needs to be some color. Beige white black and gray are fine but there needs to be some other stuff thrown in.
Some people think everything being beige is “visual silence”
Other people think it’s jarringly unnatural and hideous
And you can lean towards the latter opinion on Beige Everything and still not want much stuff.
That’s ok.
In general, if you aren’t hurting anyone else, then it’s ok to be you, so far as I can see
I love this! I love the layers and personality of maximalism. I tried minimalism and just felt it wasn't helping me express who I am and what brings me the most joy. I love the way you explained all of this. It helped me understand why I prefer maximalism!
I am so glad that you enjoyed the video! Thank you for the lovely feedback. I am with you... Maximalism is just cozy, feels like home for me!
Thank god there are others out there who feel blank space and minimalism isn't for them
My house is rainbow colored inside and I painted the outside aqua with jade trim. . I painted flowers on the garage walls and added a yellow brick road in my front yard with lime green front porch chairs and neon purple tables. There are rainbow windmills in my flower beds.
My living room is light purple and my couch is deep purple and my kitchen is turquoise and pepto bismol pink.
My bedroom ceiling is painted in multicolored geometric flourescent blacklight paints. My hallway has a massive floating wall bookcase running down it that is full of about 600 books. My hallway is light pastel green and my bathroom is lilac colored. My spare bedroom is covered in yellow and orange artwork and my bedroom is currently grey, silver, teal & plum.
I regret nothing.
Love it! Bold and creative. Sounds like such a fun and welcoming space
İ wish i can see it
Wow!🥳 Sounds fabulous!🤩
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I saw a whole video recently about how the minimalist mindset is maximalist because it maximizes what you want out of life, but the youtuber misconstrued maximalism as hoarding. He and a lot of the commenters were bashing the design style just 'cause it they thought that minimalism and maximalism were mutually exclusive. I appreciate your take a lot more.
Awe thank you so much! I really appreciate the feedback 💛🙏
I am definitely a maximalist and I have been watching minimalism videos and driving myself bananas. Coming across your video was like a breath of fresh air. Thank you.
Thank you so much for the lovely comment! I really appreciate the feedback 💛😊 and agreed I could never have a minimalist looking space. I like my stuff. 🤭
How to keep maximalist beauty clean?
@@rocknawe7336 I reorganize my things every few months or so to keep things looking fresh. What good is it have great things if they’re lost in clutter? If I’m out shopping I have to ask myself, “does this item really belong with what I already have or will it stick out like a sore thumb?” Sometimes you have to say, “ I like that but it’s not necessarily for me.” It’s ok to admire something and leave it. Another practice is to remove items that no longer work for you. We change every few years or so. 7 years ago I was in love with blue glass and collected a lot of it. Eventually I was over it and began to give it away, sell it, or donate it. Now I only have 1 or 2 pieces that I really love and have decided to keep. Don’t get bogged down in sentiment or how much money you’ve spent. I finally learned its ok to let go of the items you’ve gotten as gifts that honestly you never liked but you kept because you love the person who gave it to you. If its an issue of feeling like you wasted money, sell it. You’ll never get back what you spent unless it’s a collectible of some sort and even then you may not but at least you will have recovered something for it. Plan your space and be very picky about what you allow to take up that space.
@@aprilmorgan9807 Makes good sense. Your ideas contribute to the joy of maximalism. Thank you.
@@InteriorDesignHub Glad you showed us. Didn't know this was a thing! There are many beautiful (quirky, really cool, individualistic, unique, colorful, peaceful, enriching) things in the world that speak to each of our personalities, and maybe it's ok to own a stash - or two.... 🙃🙂
I love that you can have a minimalist mindset (everything has a purpose/reason for being in your space) while living in a maximalist design style. I see the difference between minimalist STYLE and minimalist MINDSET is that in the style you're just getting rid of everything that isn't absolutely necessary (even art on walls sometimes). With the minimalist mindset, you might still have stuff, but you're curating the stuff that you have in your life and getting rid of the stuff that doesn't have a purpose/doesn't bring joy/doesn't function in your space. So you can have a really colorful patterned wallpaper that fits in a maximalist style, but in your minimalist mindset you brought that wallpaper into your space for a specific reason that serves a purpose.
Definitely a minimalist, I hate stuff that doesn't have a function. What others see as decoration it can feel like visual noise for me
Oooo I love that term. Visual noise!
I'm so happy to have found you! I'm a lifetime Maxi! Everything I have is a memory, or an inspiration. I'm nearly 60, and I surround myself with things that remind me of my own phenomenal life. I no longer bend to the trends, I just do what feels good to me!
Love this! and so true.... embracing what you love is the best way to design/decorate your space
I am a maximalist with a minimalist mindset as well! I wish you can show your house to us.
Love it!! I just recently moved. So it's a work in progress, but Mondays video is my new home office. I reused everything except my desks and 2 new picture frames...I didn't have those. Tune in Monday to see that transformation. 👌
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Thank you for giving me permission to love who I am. There has been this deep confusion for me. I love the idea of minimalism....I love the look of it. I just don't want to live in it....to me it feels like a cold, and uneventful life. No shade to all my minimalist out there...keep up the good work you look amazing.
--I just notice experiences make my life wonderful... and as much as I love the idea of minimalism....I love playing basketball, racquetball, painting, sewing, gardening, photography, reading, listening to music on CD's, and pets. So I find myself space shaming myself all my life because minimalism has almost been pre-set as a standard to live up to when everything is perfect.
==I feel so grateful you shared the idea of maximalism ....it frees my life to be able to add style instead of shame to who I really am... which is very dynamic. Lol My name is Renee and I am Dynamic😁.... I don't belong in a box.
Awe... thank you for the kind words! I am so glad this resonated with you! Agree on all fronts :) Have a wonderful day!
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No, I didn't know there was a Maximalism style. The name seemed frightening! Like HOARDER. LOL But I love your explanation. I love a minimalist setting -- which to me has always meant uncluttered and honoring negative space. But everything in my house is about things I love and are a part of my life. "You can be a maximalist while living in a minimalist mindset." EXACTLY. That's me. :-)
Agree. I consider myself a minimalist because I'm not buying new things and I don't want clutter, loud colors and bold designs. At the same time, I don't like grey walls, and straight stringent lines. I also use what I already accumulated over the years to make my home colorful, creative, and cozy!
So happy i found your channel: i define myself as minimalistic maximalist- i am glad there are more of us out there! 😊
Awe love that! Thank you for the kind words! 🙏 😊
Thank you so much for this! I've always had a maximalist mindset and liked maximalist decor and hated the pressure to be a minimalist. Love these maximalist styles and maximalist mindset
So glad that you enjoyed the video :)
I love your videos! I just found them. A year ago I massively decluttered my entire home. I loved the way less stuff freed up my mind. It helped me be more creative, and I got some big projects done just by having a streamlined home. I didn’t think of myself as a minimalist, but I minimized the clutter. Now as I add pretty things to my home, I want traditional classic items. They do feel like home as you’ve said. I was always afraid to go too traditional or classic, because I didn’t want our home to be too stuffy. I think I’m seeing how I can decorate in a classic way and still not have it be too heavy. So I’m a traditional, classic, maximalist I guess!
Thank you for watching and I love that you have embraced your personal style!! ❤️
Right on with your description. I love and proud to be a Maximilist! With a tough of Memphis design
Love it! thank you for watching and your feedback!
My bedroom and eventually my game room will be maximalist. My bedroom is cozy and very 60s-70s. Yes the focus is on the stuff, it's 4 flat walls, theirs nothing special their. I put up cream wall paper with flowers in pastel colours, wood panels running between 1/3rd to 1/2 way up the wall with a chair rail along the wall and stained to a beautiful brown. Amazing custom made crown molding and green shag carpet. Chrome and coper lamps off the floor, table, and wall variety. Took out the over head light and just made it a fan. Got a big squishy chair, a lovely bed, antique furniture, and a 68 inch flat screen hooked up to a nintendo switch dock and roku box. My parents were minimalist, got told all the time I didn't need x,y,z. Well now I have the things I want, when I see something I like, I buy it if I can afford it and it won't put me in a bad way financially. My game room will eventually get Neon lights, a pin ball table to accompany my cocktail arcade machine, sofa, 5 point audio system, and arcade carpet. Additionally I will soon be installing a faux brick wall and spray painting some geometric wall art too. This has always been the sorts of beautiful visually complex rooms I've always wanted but was constantly told not to do because they are to cluttered and noisy, nah, they are relaxing, cozy, and full of life that cold white black and grey never had. No I don't want an accent wall, I want wall paper, no I don't want a green accent bookshelf it's shag carpet, and now I finally have it and it's what I've always wanted. Never going back to minimalism now that I am free of it.
This is awesome! Thank you for sharing!!
İ wish I could see it.. sounds great
I love your video! I would say I am a minimalist maximalist. I have books and I must have colours and art. But I don't simply buy things, I've become very good at not buying things I don't need. If my plate breaks, then I buy a new one to replace it. If I buy a new dress, I give away an existing one. I just can't do monochrome longer than a hotel stay. Oh, but I go crazy over face masks that my friend makes, I don't need a dozen of them but I can keep a dozen that makes me happy 😍.
I can totally relate to that!! I have lots of stuff...but I am not going out and buying new things :)
We're minimalist in mindset ad practice just not the aesthic of minimalism 😊
Thank you for watching! And agreed! I have a book problem 🤭
I feel like maximalism fits me better because I appreciate the things I own and want to see them. Especially the things I collect, I want to coordinate my decoration around them. Stuffing everything on the closet out of eyesight just feels depressing to me, it feels like you weren't really allowed to exist and live in a minimalist home. I've also seen many people going for minimalism but failing since they wouldn't be able to keep the house absolutely 100% tidy all the time and even just a little bit clutter anywhere on a minimalist home seems really out of place. Children and minimalist home really do not fit together. I've seen many parents getting burn out due to the children's stuff because it's constantly making the home look really unorganized so they're constantly organizing stuff because it stresses them out due to the contradiction to the vibe of the rest of the home. So minimalism looks great on a magazine, but if you're not really into cleaning and tend to do anything at your home at all, it ends up looking just chaotic and failed. So, I'd say, maximalism is "a controlled chaos" that's a lot more forgiving for the people actually living in the home.
This is just my personal opinion and I understand some people feel the opposite and that's fine too :)
I agree! And you will love Mondays video! Dedicated video to maximalism!!
@@InteriorDesignHub thanks for the tip, I'll check it out!
this is a great point as kids' stuff is usually super bright in colour too
@@katiechasm yeah. It's not really supposed to go with anything 😂 so, if you have kids, decorate the living room with maximalism and choose bright colors straight from the children's toy aisle lol.
I like the Maximalist look for decorating, but for clutter from papers, boxes stuffed with junk, drawers filled with too many pen, gadgets and too many mugs, glasses and dishes and a closet filled with clothes, I prefer minimalism.
I agree with books. I love my books but unfortunately, I had to donate over 100 books to the library when I moved across the country recently.
Yas. I love this. I secretly call myself a minimalist with personality. I've never heard the term maximalist/m. I'm super stoked to look into some inspo because it seems WAY closer to the flow we naturally have here. We have 5 littles and we are currently renovating and basically restarting life (in the same house with the same people). We need a fresh life right here, right now. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you so much for watching! I'm glad that you enjoyed it! And so exciting about the renovation! It will feel like a whole new space without having to move! 💛
You encapsulated this beautifully… from minimalism form and function through to layers, patterns and personality on the scale of maximalism. I believe above all everything must be carefully selected and curated to get that wow look in either genre.
Thank you so much for the kind words!! 💛🙏
I really appreciate this video because i was struggling with picking one of the two styles and at heart I’m both🤪😂.
the way i feel about maximalism is that it’s a logical end to minimalist philosophy. i may have lots of things but they’re also specifically arranged so they’re both organized and out of the way when i need to clean and dust.
like for example i have one wall that’s painted a verdant green and over there i have my plants and cacti and eventually i’m gonna get a fake trellis and some hanging pots. one of my walls is painted the same cream color as the sistine chapel ceiling’s base layer and over there i keep a bunch of icons of saints and religious decorations that are significant to me. i’m planning my last undecorated wall where i’ll have a bunch of vintage mirrors and black and white photos of my family.
i get the appeal of minimalism (even if it would make me incredibly anxious to have my house decorated that way and the most hostile proponents of minimalism can be a little annoying) but i find that a style of maximalism where you organically decorate the ethereal space of the walls then fill in the physical space of the room can be just as practical and clean as a minimalist space.
I do not have a white wall in my home. I definitely not a minimalist. I definitely HATE MODERN FARMHOUSE. I love colors and accents to achieve a balance! Something in-between.
I lean more towards maximalist but my eye needs some open space to so I tend to group things. I have been married for many decades and have had lots of homes and I tend to always have a similar amount of things. They change over the years, but I seem to have my comfort zone and threshold. I think it is because I am artistic but also a Virgo who does not like clutter. In eight homes I never had a junk drawer.
This was a great video. You clearly defined the absolute opposite of what I'm currently going through in the small space in which I live. Man I'm going to miss my books. 😕 Keep up the great content! -F
Thank you for watching and enjoying 💛
Oh no...not the books. Maybe a floor to ceiling bookcase is in order? 😉
All the best with your space!
I love maximalism decor style (more exciting and cozy), though I have a minimalism mindset.
I also have tons of books (and would love a home library), though I try to get more ebooks nowadays. I just don’t want to sell/dump my books.
Agree 100% I love a cozy space. Wine, blanket and a stack of books! 💛
Thanks for this!!!
You're very welcome ☺
Books, my world , colour as well.
Minimalist style, lets face it, it is more adequate for institutions, hospitals or prisons, not for homes! Or maybe more suitable for single men or couples, in their beginings, when they are more out, very busy and without many memories together... I can’t imagine a “home” beeing all white or, worst, gray or black, without ornaments and books and colours or flowers! Black or gray are not elegant, but sad!!! Be rebel, bring colours in your life!
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You can still be a minimalist and have a lot of stuff just as long as those all those things serve a purpose.
we both maximalists, we love antics.
Thank you
I remember not too long ago I was helping my parents re-decorate their living room. They have an old house, high roofs, big old windows, and a bright yellow wallpaper. It’s beautiful, and suits the maximalist style very well. Anyway - we went to a furniture store trying to find a suitable couch among the same looking beige and grey ones. Eventually one of the girls working there asked if we needed help. You should have seen her face when I told her that we were looking for a red couch with buds that would work with our red/yellow/dark green color scheme. She tried to sell us a millenial pink one instead so we left.
OMG wow... talk about not listen to your customer! I hope you found the perfect couch... elsewhere :)
@@InteriorDesignHub We decided to redress the one we already have in red velvet, it will arrive next week 🥰
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I am a maximalist who actually dislikes the way that minimalist homes look. I’m kind of tired of people just assuming that one or the other is “superior”. They aren’t. Different thing work for different people
As much as one style might feel obnoxiously loud, too cluttered, distracting and claustrophobic to some people, the other style feels soulless, boring, impersonal, vapid and jarringly artificial to others
I’m a bit tired of minimalism being seen as The One True Way For All Time And All People, honestly, but nothing ever should be seen as that, because different people are different, and that’s ok
Love this, wonderful perspective and I completely agree. It is a personal choice. We are all Unique :)
Well said.
Thank you 😊
I am minimalist for sure. Or is it frugal?
While I lean very much towards minimalist l don’t think you can drew a hard line between minimalist and maximalist.
Maximalism to me is clashing prints and colors in a bold way. The new crazy styles coming from Europe has taken it a step further with circus like decor, accent pieces that resemble childrens toys. Looks like a five year old child decorated the room. It may be fun to look at but wouldn't want to live in it.
You should check out my video on Grandmillenial style. Probably similar to what your describing :)
I hate minimalism. I don't think it's realistic for most people. Over time, everyone accumulates "stuff". I find minimalism to be very cold, generic, unoriginal and somehow unfinished. Give me colour or give me death!!!
Maximalism. Minimalism is dreadfully boring to me.
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i honestly can’t understand minimalism, It’s just, boring
A lot less her on camera and a lot more photos of interiors.