Some thoughts about home furnishing.

A feature light. It can be a huge lamp taking a corner of the room, and can be a pendant or standing light.

Lights along a wall. Built either into the ceiling or into the wall, but provides a long strip of ambient light.
Alternatively, place a row of small lamps along a wall.
Or dangle lights in a row from the ceiling. These also work well clustered together in the middle of the room.
Lights can also provide a nice pattern.
Look at how stores/restaurants/hotels light their spaces. Notice the rows of round lamps on the left.
Wallpaper. I like flowery Victorian stuff, you can tell, right?

If it's for a feature wall, dare to make it bold in colour or texture.
These are the same wallpaper and the same wooden panel, but in different colours. Above is more like a classy bar (possibly velvet wallpaper, padded wall), and below more like a beachside chalet.
And a note about colour. Plain backdrop, with sparing pops of colour work well. One large bright coloured object can be complimented with several small items of the same colour or small patterns of the same colour in the wallpaper.