Queensland State Archives posted a photo:
Ideas For Decor
If you have a collection of small objets d’art, snuffboxes, etc., group them all on a table covered with a Victorian velvet cloth, falling to the floor and heavily fringed. (The velvet protects the objects from breaking or getting swept off the table.)
Combine different styles of furniture by upholstering them all in the same coloured fabric. Get interest in this scheme by using different textured fabrics of the one shade.
You can make furniture “vanish” in a small room by matching it to the carpet.
In a small house or flat it is often better to use the main colour throughout several rooms to give continuity and make the rooms seem larger – carpets, walls, and curtains in the same colour, or in varying shades of the same colour.
Important to remember: The window wall of a room is the darkest, but you can offset this