Is your home spartan?

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Whenever I visit someone else's - anyone else's - house I notice how much visually richer an environment it always is. I also notice it is always cosier, and warmer. Compare that with my home which is a bare, undecorated environment in comparison. I feel like I'm missing out on something when in other people's richer home environments, however I'm very happy with my home the way it is. My home's also not usually as cosy or as heated, again I don't need that to be comfortable, for sensory reasons.

Does anyone else find their home is spartan, compared to almost everyone else's?

My home is a stalled re-model project that is actually sub-spartan. I am mostly okay with it as it is, but my wife just bought a nice picture to hang on the bathroom wall after I get the sheet rock hung, taped and painted.

I'm a nester by nature, and I like a lot of visual detail so my living space is far from Spartan. I think that has it's own beauty though.

I don't have a single picture or poster or anything else hung on my walls.

The only knick-knacks I have are old telephone and electrical insulators. I don't need any more "dust collectors" than I have already.

Not in the least. I'm pretty good at decorating and spent a lot of time when I first got married studying different furniture styles and decorating designs because my husband was an antique furniture buff. I'm good at putting colors together and creating overall effects in a room. Others tend to agree, although they also tell me that they would never have been brave enough to put my choices together themselves. I once had a magenta livingroom with cobalt blue accents; sounds terrible, I know, but it was fabulous. Now, my livingroom has dark chocolate brown walls (with just a hint of red) and red, green and gold accents. My furniture is all dark mahogany, oak and cherry. It's a wonderfully relaxing room. Of course, keeping it all tidy is another matter entirely.

My office at the university is also another matter. I just haven't put in the effort. I have to be pretty invested in a space before I start decorating it.

More austere, really. It's my style. Focus on what is important; don't get distracted by the fluff.

I like to think of mine as more 'comfy zen' than spartan. I have my mothers watercolors and my father's oil paintings on the walls, soft cusions, fluffy comforters, wooly white sheepskins, soft torcher lights and a mellow cat streached out on the bed warmed by a mattress warmer. . . at least in the winter.

i would say minimalist modern. do not like old stuff and useless (they say decoration) things. and people always bring these as gifts and i feel sorry to throw them or give them away so i just stack them somwhere.
however i have a silly habit of making things, like an indoor swing and a climbing wall.

An aspie's home is a haven topic

My home is just the way I like it--I have all my belongings and everything is in its place.

I like a cosy home that feels lived-in as opposed to completely spartan, but I'm not the kind of person who'd accumulate decorations that are just for the sake of decoration. Never saw the point of posters as a teenager, and I still don't really feel drawn to put pictures on the walls now. I wouldn't know which ones to choose; it's not a form of self-expression I've ever really felt comfortable with.

Nope, I always feel best at my own place

my house is a giantcluttered warehouse that the wiord spartan would get lost in..

i wouldn't say spartan, everything has a place and a function... it's home

Funny. My room as a teen was as plastered with Rock Band posters and such as you'd expect any kids' to be, though I've always been a 'place for everything and everything in its place' person - not OCD by any means, I may go for ages without dusting and deep cleaning, but most everything is structured (though I have a tendency to get stacks of things out for specific projects that drag on for months and leave them out lest I forget to include them in the job).

But many times over the years, visitors have remarked that my house always feels 'cozy' and 'homey', never a House and Garden spotless showplace - just neat and comfortable.

However, there's always one room that's just MY SPACE, that gets decorated like a kid would do it. My living room now is neat as a pin, but the office I'm sitting in is plastered with pictures, posters, unopened action figures (on the walls), books, awards and licenses and my computer desk is awash with Pez dispensers and Hot Wheels cars and Batman and Superman toys. All arranged in very neat patterns and glued in place so no one comes in and disturbs them.

Everyone needs a Fortress of Solitude.


Oh. My. God. I'm Sheldon Cooper.

I would probably have to add furniture to reach the "spartan" look. And I work at home, so I have office furniture. Plus much of the "furniture" is for my cats.

My apartment is very spartan. A bookshelf, CD stands, a table, a futon, a tv, chairs for the table. The other room is a recording studio with a desk, the mixer/recorder, instruments.

I have a hard time decorating, and don't really care to. Bugs my BF a little bit because I can't help out with decorating.