Venetian Plaster in an Organic Space

I saw this on one of blogs I follow, but now I can't remember which blog-- fortunately, I remembered the link to The Serving Dish (the blog that the blog I can't remember got it from). If you can follow that. Any way, love the headboard, but don't you think it would look awful against an ordinary wall? Venetian plaster, yeah! -- the molto bene wife