Spam: something that can be replaced with a bigger and better, lowering the brickcount and adding detailed, subject.
In this case, instead of 1x1's and 1x16's, have 1x12x5's and whatnot. More detail as in, More detail.
But don't try and make it look like crap by making a chair three bricks, a base and a 2 bricks for the back.
Have detail, but make it a reasonable amount of bricks.