We call it tradition with a twist.

People today are more fluid, and they don't want to be shackled with one color palette forever.

But you need to keep things in the same color family.

A big, bold pattern on the floor is more deceptive than one on the wall. There is no way of knowing what it will look like in a room without rolling it out there. Sometimes things recede, and sometimes they just jump off the floor.

Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.