When it's impossible to follow the dictates of the home decor industry, you dance to your own drummer:
You use the materials at hand: here, on a shed door, hand-milled boards and half-log, paint and plumbing hardware.

You let things be: so the door kept getting splashed with the copper sulfate from the net-soaking tub? Well, it's a pretty green, isn't it?

Antlers, leaded glass, red lifesaver and ancient, unpainted boards. As your whimsy leads you.

And you make things easy for the cat: