bringing global style to your living space calls for a light touch as living rooms were the scenes of some of the worst excesses of hippy chic in the 1960s and 1970s even though color furnishings and textiles from around the globe are undeniably beautiful resist the temptation to amass piles of rugs wall hangings and trinkets instead keep tings clean and light in tune with a contemporary interior and do not let your exotic treasures take over