Your home should tell the story of who you are.

In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.

I can look at a photo and the dimensions of any piece and tell you if it's going to sit well with the four other pieces in your room.

A lot of guys go in immediately for status, as opposed to comfort and allowing their home to tell a story about them.

You don't have to paint your walls lime green just to try to have your home feel decorated. If you're a classic dresser or preppy dresser or a modern dresser, you wear a lot of black - whatever it is - your home should reflect that as well.

There's something I call 'Moving Day,' which I've done for the last 20 years. Look at everything in your home, then think about how you could combine things in a different way. Maybe you break up your night tables and use one in the family room; maybe the dining room sideboard becomes a console table for your television, with storage underneath.

Buying found objects means repurposing something that was already made years before, sometimes decades before. It strikes a nice balance between the new and used equation we should strive for in our lives.