enough of minimalism....

ok, so i wish i had said this......from the nytimes.......F. SCOTT FITZGERALD is said to have told Thomas Wolfe that there are two kinds of writers: taker-outers and putter-inners. There are minimalists, in the Hemingway mode, who pare their prose to the bare essentials, and maximalists, like Wolfe, who never met a descriptive detail he didn't like. ..........The same applies to home design. Some people spend a lifetime accumulating; others spend it throwing out. i am the accumulator in a fmaily...whilst my spouse contends that he could make do with a sleeping bag thrown in the corner........this IS a direct quote...not just a supposition.......and yet we seem to manage with all that i have and cannot throw away........