Get fruity: How to use the cantaloupe rule to create the perfect home interiors

Interior designer Rachel Cannon's succinct advice has been taken up by The Minimalists and has been trending on TikTok. Here's what you need to know 

Rather than creating a socially acceptable exhibition of good taste, if you love looking at anything, put it out where you can see it. When they're attractively presented, everyday objects can blur the line between the ornamental and the utilitarian. File picture

Don't decorate with anything smaller than a cantaloupe. Disseminated across TikTok for several months, this fruity, succinct piece of styling advice appears to have originated with Baton Rouge interior designer Rachel Cannon Instagram.com/rclinteriors.

The post was shared by authors Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus, heroes of the less-is-more aesthetic, known simply as The Minimalists on Instagram, which is where I found it.