When I was doing interior decorating, I kept getting that same question. And my answer was, you can pay someone to coordinate everything and make it look like a palace, but if you don't like it, than it wasn't worth your money. So, if there are colors, accents, pictures etc, that you like.....then that is how you should decorate. I used to coordinate everything from kitchen to bath to laundry room, liv. rm. everything. That was then, now, I decorate in a way that represents me. Native American, traditional, contemporaty, pictures that my grandmother painted, my mom and dad crossed stitched, so to me, when you walk into my house you see me. And that's the way it should be.