I bought a new lamp. Quite unlike my usual style, which is plain and simple, this lamp is quite elaborate, and black and gold! I think I get away with it in this simple wooden house because, apart from a black and gold framed print, everything else is plain and simple, and to my eye, the contrast is attractive.
It is a question I think of proportion - if the room held equal amounts of plain things and elaborate things it would just look a muddle, but a lot of one and a very little of the other makes a point of interest....I also like a room of all new things with just one or two antique things, or a room full of antiques with a modern classic piece for contrast, or a room decorated in neutral colours with one primary colour. You get the idea....
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