How Much Is Enough?

These photos above are of one of Ralph Lauren's homes is from the Habitually Chic site.

There is a richness in the pieces and the layering of objects. There is so much stuff in the top photo of the library when viewed large. Ralph does "create" the look of "to the manor born".

This reminds me of a book that I saw once that had families pictured in front of their homes with all their possession in the front yard. What would Ralph's front yard look like? Would the contents of the library alone fill the entire yard? What about all his houses around the world? How large would the front yards be to show all his possessions? How large would our front yards have to be to show all our possessions?

Do we acquire to please ourselves or to show off to others what we are able to own? They say we only use 20% of the stuff that we own. So what about the other 80%? What if our homes were stripped down to the 20% how would they look?