If you’re working around your OP’s situation where you have furnishings already in your possession like his Colonial and Chinese pieces, that’s a difficult situation to design around without your speakers clashing with your belongings and being eyesores. I had an acquaintance who parked his prized motorcycle in his living room. Needless to say he was single. If your wife/partner is into having an attractive home environment, way too many great sounding speakers are definitely not going to cut it any more than that motorcycle.
Having speakers that are not ostentatious like his KEF's on stands is helpful, limiting the palette of your components too, and having furniture and decorative items that draw your eye away from the speakers and other components also helps. It's not difficult to work in a small bit of industrial design (i.e. the KEFS and a flat screen) into a part of a room which ends up providing a nice contrast for your antiques. If you google your KEF speakers under Google Images you might get a couple of ideas. Music Direct has a picture there you might like.
Mike