on some monitors the gold is gonna look too dark, hence the wood will also look very dark on those monitors.  but looking at gold pieces, I realised it's difficult to even photograph them properly to show them off, the same as trying to photograph the dispersion fx of faceted gems.

The poles look brown to me as well (tops average ~ 90,30,0); ISTR they were originally made of wood of that colour (the nile thorn-tree that giraffes like to eat), but they may need to lighter and more specular to show up well, to show any displacement on them. there also were several errors in the last render in re: lighting and bad welds/smoothing on the lion and wall/floor in the background.  needs more IDL bounces/samples/shading rate.  bill explained how to do blurred reflections in an earlier thread, to give reflection fall-off.