Done right it can be fine, you just have to counter it well. Like light-wood furniture, pine or oak usually, makes it feel warm rather than overpowering, and cream accents tone it down too. Plus if you add a contrasting, cooler colour in somewhere (green or blue) like in a picture on the wall, it tones it down again.
Green twice . . . o.o i'm not sure if red was up or not when Tai-chan created Raven's Corner but i'll check that bit out now. Thanks for mentioning it.
Edit: you might have caught the word green in the money spell or the peridot info, or else the thread's glitchin somehow :D
Red will be in there soon, i've posted it a page or two before now, and it will be in the corner soon with the others. Don't worry, you were right to bring it up. Better to ask than not. :D
Where there's a Witch, There's a Way ;)