They love them. Even if I think they look terrible, they don't think so. Chicago interior designer Norbert Young says that if his instincts tell him the client would be hurt by the suggestion that a piece has to go, he just finds another spot for it. For instance, the entrance sets the tone for the entire home. What happens with the floors and the artwork there is very important.
Some artwork has a negative response with some people.
In a case like that, I'd move it to, say, an upstairs hallway, a transition point where it will be glanced at for only seconds. Sometimes designers enter the picture when an agent wants an outside opinion. Mannion breaks into a laugh as she explains that even before the house was listed, she knew that her kids' full-sized trampoline, the principal feature in her living room, would have to go. And she had carted out two pickup-truck loads of toys. But Frumentino was urging her to do more, and Mannion wasn't sure that the effort and cost would be necessary.