interior design question: swank or skank

In My Humble Opinion
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swank or skank

i want to decorate my entertaining room as follows

tiger print carpet on the floor
a coffee table that is an opalescant porcelin mermaid sculpture with a glass top
space age plastic chairs or eames leather chairs
a lcd flat screen tv
a space age orb terrarium with vensus fly traps, pitcher plants and poison dart frogs
and a UFO bubble phonograph hooked up to flat speakers on the wall.
with those chrome ball lights from the ceiling

i have most of these things in my home

would it be wrong to put them all together and have a very clockwork orange-esqe entertainment room?

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I think it all sounds pretty sweet except for the seating. You have to have something you can sink into. A nice sofa, or at least a love seat to complement the chairs.

What kind of lighting would you use?

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chrome space age ball lighting with rainbow lights , possible a paper lantern with a earth light bulb (they make the paperlantern look like neptune)

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point me towards something you would use for seating. i would LOVE any input anyone else has

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Well, to me, it sounds like something James Lileks would feature on one of his web pages. But * chacun a son gout *.

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These two sites have really mod furniture that would work for you. Unfortunately it’s also really expensive. I’d check out vintage stores, thrift stores, local online exchange forums, etc, and look for something with similar lines to the sofas I linked to. If you find one with the right bones, you can always re-upholster it to suit the rest of your decor.

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Personally, the idea you have is potentially swank, but the description is far too over the top and into skank.

The only analogy that comes to mind is some lady who wants to look really fancy, rich and elegant so she gets a big ballgown in a metallic color and has a huuuuge necklace and huge matching earrings and a big bracelent and a tiara in her hair and heavy makeup and fancy shoes. It’s far too overdone and she would’ve looked much more elegant with the spotlight being that fancy necklace she loved and keeping the rest of her outfit/appearance simple.

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<img src=“Architectural Foundation - Architecture Advice, Tips and Product Reviews - Architectural Foundation”> i can buy a knock off of this for 300$ i think that it would def. look good

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If you think this sounds “swank”, you’ve got rather unique taste in decorating. I could appreciate something like that on a kitsch level, but only because of the over-the-top tackiness of the entire idea. It really does sound like something out of James Lileks.

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I wouldn’t put the animal print or the mermaid in with the rest of the stuff. You need to stay with your theme, and those two belong somewhere else. In my opinion anyway.

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This sofa looks like it might fit in.