Huh?

[gurdymonkey]

Head scratcher for the day.

I don't know about you, but I would not take photos of such a state of chaos, much less show them to other people. But that's just me.

Comments

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

When you live in that much clutter all the time, you stop seeing it. Just like how your brain helpfully filters out the chatter of your coworkers, or persistent smells.

[bovil.livejournal.com]

You don't just stop seeing it, not unless you're nutters.

You just become resigned to it and hope for a day that you can have the energy and time to start doing something about it.

[ppfuf.livejournal.com]

Maybe I have a high tolerance for clutter because my mom's a clutter person, but I think the rooms in gurdymonkey's link would have to be a a lot more cluttered, before I thought the owner was crazy, or even just not very functional.
Looking at the link again, the rooms are full of stuff, but the windows and ornaments are clean, the books are stacked in low, non-leaning piles and there's no old food/dirty plates/animal hair visible.
Too many hobbies in too small a house, but not a nutter, IMHO.

[ldyanna.livejournal.com]

Mmm, wouldn't the true "japanese" room have minimal stuff??

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

You mean like mine?
http://www.wodefordhall.com/blank_slate.htm

[ldyanna.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

Ha. That's the "ideal" Japanese room. :p My daughter was an exchange student in Japan. She says her host family's tiny dwelling looked just as cluttered - and I saw the pics to prove it.

Dirty little secret

[gurdymonkey.livejournal.com]

Actually, MY clutter lives on the other side of those blinds. ;-D

I divided the garret because I wanted *some* space where I didn't have to look at mess, clutter, computer desk, piles of laundry that haven't been put away yet....

I am fully capable of making hellacious messes, particularly when I'm in project mode. I just don't take pictures of it!

[bovil.livejournal.com]

I've never seen a real Japanese apartment (at least not one that hadn't undergone extensive prep for an architectural photo shoot) that wasn't crammed to the gills with stuff. There just isn't room for everything.

[ldyanna.livejournal.com]

I suppose that would make sense since they are probably pretty small. However, if I were trying to create a "japanese room" I don't think that is the part I would want to recreate. LOL

[karisu-sama.livejournal.com]

LOL - you know what a Federal disaster area lovely and pristine house we live in; you're not gonna see us post pics of that sort of stuff online (though the recently organized dish cabinet, I believe, did get posted somewhere...)

[takadai-no-tora.livejournal.com]

The room is too full and the 'good stuff' isn't organized; both of those are fixable and would give the space some breathing room.

The dead flowers are creepy.