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The question here doesn't really have much to do with good design or good style, but rather emotional attachment to a bunch of essentially useless objects. The teacups were no doubt beautiful in the context of a wedding, but it's probably not necessary to keep and display the entire collection in order to remember how special your wedding day was. In the context of your home, there aren't many ways to display 20 teacups and saucers that aren't old lady-ish. Really.

I think it might be worth asking yourself if these teacups are objects are something you actually love and want to enjoy every day. If they weren't associated with your wedding, would you still want to look at them all the time? Would you have even collected them all if you hadn't been planning a wedding? If the answer is really, truly yes, then put them all on a shelf or hang them all from hooks, knowing that they're going to look old lady-ish, but that you'll get to live with and enjoy something you love every day.

If, however, you don't love the teacups themselves but what they represent, let them go. Save a few favorites and create a rotating display. Take pictures of each of them, print them, and display them in a bunch of clustered, tiny frames or in an album. Have a tea party for all your friends and their daughters and send each guest home with a cup and saucer. Donate them to an organization that doesn't care what they look like but desperately needs dishes. Fill each cup with little treats, wrap, and give them to your colleagues as holiday treats.

I'm sure your wedding was a fabulous, magical event, and you'll have lots and lots of ways to remember it through the years. The fact that you're asking this question, though, suggests that you're either looking for validation-- that it's okay to keep this entire collection even though it doesn't look modern, is difficult to display, and is currently taking up precious real estate in your home and headspace-- or permission to get rid of them despite their sentimental value. Best of luck in whatever you do! Let us know how it turns out!

This is just all very YES, YES, YES, YES, isn't it?

Fantastic wall color.

That duvet is great.

Terrific.

This is a really beautifully styled space. I love that it looks completely livable too!

A comma splice is an inappropriate comma between two independent clauses. In other words, it's a comma where a period or a semicolon should be.

Lyrics are typically organized with line breaks rather than commas, not unlike poems. When they're quoted in-text and are less than four lines long (that is, not organized in lines), a forward slash marks the line break.

So, yes, it's a comma splice, and, no, it's not typically how lyrics are reproduced. That said, it's also a piece of art, which gives you some wiggle room w/r/t punctuation. Just don't invite any militant grammarians to sleep over!

Wow, there are a lot of weird quotation marks in this post.

Well, lest we find ourselves in a very boring conversation about liking vs. not liking mustard-colored walls, let's do get back to the topic of the post itself. It looks like an interesting and well-designed hotel.

BTW, based on the mouldings on that ceiling, one suspects those aren't parquet floors but rather wood laid out in a herringbone pattern.

I'm going to try removing some of the tortillas and replacing them with hominy!