Inspiration Boards

I have been struggling with photographing my paintings in vignettes or larger room settings. In the places with ligh,t there is no good wall or furniture space. The places with space have either bad light or something undesirable in the way, like a stair railing.
I have been playing with inspiration boards and using items from everyday catalogs or 1st dibs. This took forever but I am sure to get faster and make less obvious choices for the items involved.
The first one is using the very feminine and floral "In the future I" paired with sleeker items from CB2.
It was my first attempt and it shows.
Next I used "Walking King Street" with more feminine but colorful items from Wisteria.
I liked the items I chose here but I also felt like it was too many goodies in one basket, y'know?
This was my final, more restrained attempt. 
What is your favorite way to visually group items?