The old decoration gains value through the years nobody has asked it to look fashionable.

Objects that survive being unfashionable end up with something new. Once nobody judges a thing against current taste, it stops being a style and becomes a fact about the house, carrying the years it has stood there rather than the year it was bought. Fashion is a temporary way of seeing. Endurance is what turns furniture into history.

Before replacing something dated, ask whether you dislike it or only notice that it is out of date. Keep one thing that has stopped competing and let it stay. In twenty years it may be the piece people ask about.