What the heck is cluttercore? is it better than minimalism? 

So basically, "cluttercore" is just organized clutter which is still ultimately clutter?... All I know is that it looks exhausting to maintain, lol. I think love it for other people, but I wouldn't want to have to dust it all. I too really find other people's cool clutter fascinating to look at but I love that I can leave it behind when I'm done visiting.

My eyes are hurting after seeing those cluttercore photos. So much visual noise 😶

I love that you have a self indulgent part of your house for your Lego! I'm an artist and have many parts of my house that are cluttered with things that can't be decluttered because I need them for work (reference books, paper, art supplies, etc) and I'd love to see tips from you on how to keep those areas/things manageable, intentional, and maintainable. I love your videos!

That one bookshelf with all the things would take a whole day at least to properly clean. I take the non paper items and hand wash them in the sink to get them actually clean and then remove the books to completely dust the shelves. I have my mother with me and we have some of her collections in the dining room, and that’s how I clean and maintain all her porcelain figurines. I’m in the middle of spring cleaning the house and I’m about to tackle this part so I’m gearing up for it. I did a massive declutter of my things this week in an effort to streamline my life and simplify the cleaning. Maybe the people with the huge collections have the budget to pay for housekeepers. You’d almost need the professional help to keep it up. I found your channel really helpful to listen to while deep in the dusty trenches. I dropped off a massive amount of stuff at goodwill this morning and likely much more to go before I’m done.

Ooohhh!! It's awesome, your lego room!! That's just it! You have room, and your family loves it. It's a very intentional room. Nothing is overflowing or overwhelming there. Everything about it is still very minimal! You go girl! I myself love lego but I recently had my kids go through and pick only their favorite and I sold the rest. 4 Rubbermaid totes are TOO much when they don't play with it all anymore😰 There is ONE now. And a big castle. I HAD to keep the castle. Lol

Woah! Way too much visual clutter for me. I instantly felt stressed when you showed those pics. Even before I discovered minimalism, I would hide my clutter. I’d tuck it away in closets and drawers. Growing up with a mother who was a hoarder, I definitely didn’t want to see clutter everywhere.

They are organized but they look like shops to me. And like shops, they would be overwhelming after a short time. It's like shopping at a thrift or antique store. The visual stimulation becomes too much very quickly.

Those clutter core pictures make me feel overwhelmed. I am not minimalist by any means yet but I am slowly getting there. Thankfully, I don't have any clutter core areas. Your area is more of a collection. A nicely organized collection. 😁

Like others here, I find cluttercore overwhelming. I feel more comfortable and calm as I've been decluttering. I do have one room that I do have collections and pictures and stuff. It's painted yellow. It bring me joy & energy. It also has a door that I can close if it feels like too much.

I think it's fascinating to look at. I particularly like the themed/ colour coded pictures you showed. I do something similar in my house with my husbands knick- knacks (behind glass in a display cabinet/desk we inherited) rather than just have them hidden in drawers. BUT for the rest of my house I need my empty spaces. I feel this particularly when I've been out in my clients houses all day. Quite a few of them have a LOT of stuff everywhere, so not only am I coming home drained from the social interaction part of my job, but my mind is also overloaded from all the visual stimulus. Minimalism has majorly helped me with my mental health. I can't rate it enough.

The lego room would stress me out because dusty around them or picking them up to dust could break them up! YEEK!

This is a prime example to me of the minimalist mantra "create space and let go of what doesn't matter, to make space for what does." Sometimes what matters is still stuff!! For me its' books and D&D pieces; we have a LOT, but because we don't have a bunch of other junk we never use, it doesn't *feel* like too much. That being said, I 100% agree that if it makes more work to maintain, it wouldn't be worth it. I hate dusting! Some of it does look very homey, though.

I am a child of a hoarder and ironically enough, I clean houses for a living. Usually I figure on 15-20 minutes for dusting and vacuuming a room. I helped my mom with her living room a while back and it took me 2 days to finish her living room! Cluttercore makes me think of sorted hoarding. I do like the cohesiveness of a well-curated collection but I prefer it to be in someone else's house. ;) I like the Lego room-my son would be very jealous. :D

I think cluttercore is a good option for people who want to maintain that much stuff. Keeps it contained to one area and (hopefully) the rest of the areas/surfaces clutter free. I would say yours is a collection. I have a few collections in my house that bring me joy :)

I love your new video focuses - both of them! Good for you for following your heart & passion for being a helper to speak to/help a wider audience! ❤

My brain cannot handle these "cluttercore" pictures. Like if I had tea with the person from that place and he or she went for 1 hour talk on his/her iPhone, I would have thrown away half of the pictures and books to create some breathing room, cus my claustrophobia is kicking in just by looking at that clutter. Even if it is organized, clutter is clutter! Robyn is so amazingly inspirational, one of these days I might make a video of my minimalistic home.

If you take the backing off your TV shelving it will look more minimalist. We did that with our bookshelves, it was completely different looking bookshelves afterwards. It blended in more with the back wall.

Wow. It’s just so much. I’m not completely decluttered yet, but dang, some of those gave me anxiety just looking at them.

i’m a cluttercore person and i personally fear modern minimalism. makes me feel like i’m in a hospital. cluttercore is comforting to me , like a closing in hug! wish people could understand us a bit more :(

Wooohooo the Legos remain! One of the first videos I watched of yours (and one reason I thought I could vibe with your channel) was you decluttering, and debating with yourself about how much Lego to keep. Pretty sure that's when I subscribed. The castle is so cool!

OMGosh, I haven't thought about Bob & Doug McKenzie in like forever! Now I will have Take Off going through my head, lol. Cluttercore is interesting but to me it's still clutter no matter how organized you make it look.

I love the Lego room. It shows that you and your children have some of the same interests and enjoy them as a 👪 family .

Those pictures you googled were stressing me out!

i still get a headache and anxiety looking at the clutter core organization ha!

Had to comment and say that I think it's super cool that you have (at least) 4 books by Mary Roach-I enjoy her writing style & subject matter a lot, so props to you on your good reading taste :) And yes I recall the McKenzie Brothers, their Xmas song is my fave (I'm 50, so that hit the airwaves during my childhood & I was delighted at the humor). Know that these are not the point of this video-but I get a kick out of the tangential tidbits you share with us, too !

Your Legos are so cool! I can see the benefit of cluttercore if you are a collector. I keep the rest of my house minimal so I can have space to collect the things that are important to me, like candles 😊 I have a bookcase in the living room where I can have my whole collection on display.

I love looking at collections IN OTHER PEOPLE'S HOMES! There are so many cool things to collect these days, you really have to be firm with yourself. The cleaning/dusting issue is the deal breaker for me..how can you dust those little figures without a) removing everything first or b) knocking everything over?? Thanks for the peek at your bookshelf..we love (and miss) Stuart McLean in our home too :)

Я ни слова не понимаю по-английски, но Вы так убедительны, что я досмотрела до конца. И я поняла, что это мой стиль! Спасибо.

OMG!!! I am Danish, and I want your Lego room!!! ❤ This is just joy!

I have a barister bookcase (each shelf has a glass door protecting the shelf from dust) that I used to store my vases. I LOVE barister bookcases for this reason, well, that and they look pretty too. If I could have every shelf behind glass then cluttercore would be possible. Ikea sells some glass cabinet doors for their bookcases too.

I'd love a video on the castle you can see through the doorway (time marker 6:28). It looks amazing.

I enjoy you and your videos. I'm learning so much and love your collection of Harry Potter legos.

This was really interesting. My clutter core is my files of resources for my job as a Speech and Language Therapist. I don't use all of them anymore, however what I I need to use them....just in case.

There's no wayI could live with "clutter core". Just looking at it makes me feel crazy!

Clutter corp who knew? Thanks, I learned something new today

Great video! Regarding the shelves that bother you, have you ever co considered paint them the same color as the walls? Maybe they wouldn’t stand out so much and just sort of blend in with the walls. Just a thought. 😍

Take off eh? 😂 love Bob and Doug Mackenzie ❤ hello from Ontario btw 😊

My interpretation of “cluttercore” is Life on Display.

I ❤ Bob & Doug too!

Unfortunately I was watching this video while dealing with a migraine. I can’t tolerate all that visual clutter. My mom was a minimalist before we knew what it was. I inherited her penchant for lack of clutter.

Thanks!

I also dig Bob and Doug

“Her slippers are life”😂😅🤣

I would feel so anxious in that space

I would have an anxiety attack after 5 minutes in one of those places. 🤣

There are many of us who LOVE visual overwhelm. A busy space makes me happy. Sterile minimalism, so stark and plain is very depressing to me and makes me nervous.

OMG! I love Lego HP and Architecture kits also. I've been playing with Legos since the mid 1960's. I have a few around the house. I had some Lego stuff at my work (Beatles' Yellow Submarine) and some jerk took my Paul and John. Of course they didn't disturb my Doctor Who or Big Ben. That was when I brought them home. No more at work.

OMG! My ADHD would go nuts in those rooms. This is what I am trying to get away from. It is visual clutter, very overstimulating. Cool stuff gets lost in all that visual clutter.

This is the first I’ve heard of cluttercore. I may be partially just that. Minimalism for me is calming, unorganized clutter is stifling to me. In my case, I am an artist and have paintings on my walls. Arranged, and placed to let the eye rest. I never thought of them as clutter, but rather comforting and validating. The surfaces in my home are very minimal and easy to maintain. I’ve been in many homes where cluttercore is the theme, even carefully curated clutter. You’ve opened a whole new genre… carefully curated is like going to a museum with lots of things to look at…… then there is….. well you know…. Chaos!

LMAO!! let’s be honest today’s minimalism is not really minimalism, but our personal idea of what we’re willing to clean and take care of in the long run. while this would make me super anxious, my brother who is a neat freak has always had organized collections like this. he can literally walk into a room and see if one thing is turned fifteen degrees off where it should be (he’s an artist, i guess it’s all visual).

I still say no to cluttercore. I have a very similar unit for my TV. And since I just moved I'll style it more minimally.

The cleaning....I just can't justify that much time to cleaning clutter. I have books but like you say it's a swipe with a duster. I am going to have to make some sort of shelf though, because i recently acquired some antique glassware. Still asking myself "why?" but I wanted it and I got it and it would be ridiculous not to display it properly. Actually considering an illuminated cabinet enclosed in glass, so no regular dusting necessary. Also embarrassed to say, I have a collection of Mattel Ken dolls packed in crates. When I was a kid I had three sisters and they talked me into asking for Ken dolls at Christmas so they didn't have to compromise on getting the girl Barbies they wanted too. At some point my inner collector took over and I kept getting them 🙄 Now I have about 100 going all the way back to the originals and some are really valuable. I'm thinking of the same sort of case for the Kens as for the glassware but down in the basement rec area, kinda like you have your Legos. I don't mind eccentric. Just SOOO don't want to look like I'm living in a "shop".

mismatched home (Instagram) has weirdly clean lines and artistic setup. It's a lot but looks purposeful. The only thing that makes me crazy is the stuff on top of the bookshelf. My eye craves a clean line below the wall art and artifacts. That top surface not being cleared tips this into clutter for me. Although...I will bet anything younger, fit people own this house. They must have a stringent cleaning routine. EDITED TO ADD: The baby's bedroom, as well as their bedroom are both artistic, serene, and colorful. I tip my hat to mismatchedhome. I'd live here, but I'd have a cleaning crew twice a week, also.

I think i would use a blow dryer to dust that. You know, I think your shelves are underdone which makes the items dotted around them look messy. Mind now, I'm no expert but that's how it hits my eye.

Ostrich feather dusters are great! Easy work! Just sayin’ lol

It sounds like a subgenre of rock music like Metalcore or something lol This reminds me I use to think I wanted a large video game collection, I had a bookshelf full, but I decided to keep a handful about 20 instead.

*There's a happy medium!*

Those photos made my head hurt.

The Lego collection is cool!!

Eeeee! 😬 I am a (not cluttercore) maximalist, but display shelves that don't have glass coverings need not apply. I don't care if the items are sparse. Dusting anything with three dimensions is annoying. Though you can do nice things with glass cloches.

Cluttercore is nice when its curated, clean and organised but difficult to pull off, there is a fine line between clutter core, just ugly clutter and just a collection

Hurrah for Bob & Doug! "A couple of little toys of those..." Can you convert that to metric? All of those pictures you showed are massively overwhelming. Too much stuff, too much colour, too much variety. I know a lot of people who would (or do) thrive in that sort of environment, but not me!

Cluttercore is definitely not for me. I can appreciate that look and enjoy it, maybe in an eclectic bookstore or a cute teashop. But at home, my eyes need to be able to rest. I see things on surfaces as work that needs to be done, and my brain can't relax (unless I just pretend it's not there. LOL)

It looks like," help, I can't stop buying".

yeah, I'll pass on the clutter core 😂😂😂😂😂

Take off Ya Hoser. LOL. We love Bob and Doug Eh.

I thought the term was Maximalism though..

I do understand clutter core. However, let's just say I've been through clutter core and come out the other side. Ha!

This is how my house used to look. I can’t go back to it at all. No thanks.

It’s basically maximalism

For me having tons of books is not and never will be clutter, to be honest. But a million pictures (or whatever) on the wall... nope. Need some breathing room. I also think that when you collect a lot of things darker walls will make the room very overwhelming.

It’s a little too visually stimulating for me. I get overwhelmed with too much to look at.

Omg, I thought you made up cluttercore!

When I hear cluttercore I think enabling lol

My husband and I have separate shelves to put whatever we want to display and that is it. Im guessing these people dont have kids or pets lol

You miss the point, you don't need to dust a clutter core bookcase. I dust maybe once every 5 years. I have excellent immune system, not allergic to anything.

Definitely not for me 🤣. Gonna keep decluttering, you might say my craft area is my cluttercore

It makes me uncomfortable, too much stimulation for me but good for them if they enjoy it. Different strokes…

It still looks like a junk shop, just a tidier junk shop.

No. No no no no no no no. Sticking “core” on the end of clutter changes nothing. It’s like saying landfillcore. Still a landfill. If you have hobby and a display of it, that’s fine. But so many of the photos made me cringe.

Why the heck is your lego area your guilty pleasure?! Personally i think its the most interesting area of your house. I suggest you add backdrops to the wall behind it. Old calenders or dollar store ones, with scenery would bring those sets to life! Get creative and come to the dark side!!! You know you want it.

It's actually cool to look at, but hell no.

I think your entertainment center is too bulky & therefore makes you feel overwhelmed.

Isn't "clutter core" just another name for maximalism? Different strokes. My brain doesn't like visually sorting through all the colors and details.

Karen here. If its behind glass, fine. That stops dust. Fine if you have a maid.

maximalism?!

Lol the word "cluttercore" just makes me cringe. 🤣

It's basically trust fund kids on a spending spree.

No thank you, al that dusting

Your shelving unit is boring brown right now. I picture it filled with lots of natural coloured baskets and plants. Load it up with that, bring it to life! Or modernize it and paint the damn thing!

Organizing books by color is neither neat nor tidy. It is the mark of a non-reader!

Nope I do not like like it

Organized clutter is hoarding.

😬 I think this is me with plants. I got rid of SO MUCH “stuff.” Added plants 🪴