Having different interests and being a designer and working as well in the art fields does indeed affect one's life for the obsession of harmony and balance that is to be felt by myself and mine rather than to be for others.
Among other areas I work with, interior design is one of them, and have accepted challenges like redesigning the interiors of a building among others of different kind.
Everything is the same. It is how you blend things. This came up as a collector of swords as well as of painting, sculptures, oriental antiques.
I think that when we think and act naturally, it is very possible to harmonize objects of different types.

In this specific case I was able to blend a red wood contemporary worship table I designed with the painting behind it and the Joe Walters daisho. It is muted enough.
Living in a multicultural place like Macau, where Chinese culture and beliefs intermix with Western culture did shape my views concerning opening to different types of knowledge.
During my earlier days as Museum and Forum director, my office was also designed by me with the main guidance of a Feng Shui master. It was then that it was revealed that my metal nature required fire, so the color red would have to be present.

This was how it was solved. I kept a very neutral beech wood custom designed desk and low cabinets in the back which held a blue and white dish and two red lacquered painted squares with beech wood frames, and plants held in the correct Feng Shui positions according to the compass, the surrounding buildings, and my birth date.
There was a bokken on top of a beech block. Many would think it was a sculpture.

Opposite my desk the sitting area had much less red, because it reflected a lesser amount of work. It was targeted to visitors. However jewelry artifacts were exhibited as well as a fan full of sutras written in gold ink. This is to say that I very much favor a good but simple environment because it reflects on us and this was extended to everyone working with me.

The VIP room at the Forum Arena was redesigned to be simple and comfortable, with very little obstacles to disturb the movement of guests.

This side-board was based on another version of a Chinese altar table and was one of the very few objects apart from the seating area. There was a compromise between emptiness and occupancy. The bridging would be made by the guests themselves. They would fill the void.

Later, when I left the Museum and Forum, the same red square painted blocks and Chinese plate came to my house where everything has a reddish cast for the reasons explained. Contrary to the office, the home has to be a compromise between my taste and my wife's wish to have things she likes displayed.

These obviously includes her ceramics collection, our contemporary and antique buddha heads collection, as well as paintings. I therefore felt that among all these elements that I also like, respect and cherish, I would have to rotate my swords on display.

Too many objects can reflect the history of a family, but there has to be a balance to achieve some sort of compromise between harmony and display. It is the entirety that provides to us our own memories and remind us of our own choices of things we like to see.

Like the diagonal dialogue between a well know author's sculpture in marble and a Chinese vase with Daoist decorations, I find that multi-display is far more enriching for our lives then monotype display of objects.