I didn't know I way supposed to have a color scheme. I just put things I like in my house. I just built the retirement home of my dreams, a log cabin on the river and I have a mix of very old and very new. My favorite table topper is a part of an old crazy quilt my grandmother made and never finished. I put a binding on it and it is on an antique trunk in my living room. The colors in it don't match anything else and it looks great.