"It's easy to think that conveniences (like lots of storage) make life easier," they said. "But we've found the things that make our short-term easier, often make our long-term harder (like accumulating tons of things we don't need). "
For example, the entire space underneath their kitchen hides two full-sized tables, three sliding benches, four stools, and one hundred cubic feet of storage — but they hardly use any of it because it isn't convenient, they added.