More are embracing minimalist lifestyle; here's why you too, should consider it

A minimalist lifestyle means you only own what you really need – a few pieces of furniture, a couple of plants, a few personal things. — Photos: dpa

MINIMALIST living is a lifestyle that focuses on what’s important. You purposely decide to own little.

”The trend towards minimalist furnishing evolved in the late 1990s as a counter-movement to pursuing opulence,” says Oona Horx Strathern of Zukunftsinstitut, a future trend think tank in Germany. And the coronavirus pandemic has helped to spur many people’s interest in the movement.