The value of empty space
A room's emptiest corner is often the one that took the most work.
Empty space is not what is left when the furnishing runs out. It is a material, as real as oak or stone, and it must be placed with the same care.
A wall kept bare gives the eye somewhere to travel, and a place to rest when it arrives. Remove that pause and a room becomes a sentence with no full stops — everything runs together, and nothing is heard.
The difficulty is that emptiness cannot be bought. It can only be protected. Every object added is a small vote against the space around it, and most rooms have already cast too many.
So we begin by defending the void. We decide first where nothing will go, and only then what the rest of the room may hold. The empty corner is not an absence. It is the thing that lets everything else be present.