Why the matched home has become a national reflex, and what to do instead. The matched interior is not really a style. It is a form of reassurance. Somewhere in the last decade, the home stopped being the place you assembled slowly out of your own life and became a thing to be photographed, posted, and quietly approved of by strangers. And the safest photograph, the one least likely to attract a wince, is the one in which everything agrees. The greys defer to one another. The timber tones...