Sunlit Pink Mediterranean Lane Canvas Print lilac Skip it next to loud

Skip it next to loud primary-colour toys or busy patterned wallpaper — the watercolour wants a calm backdrop to do its best work

while the blue fjord cools it back down

Don't pair it with anything too graphic or too dark — a heavy black-framed photograph next to it will flatten the watercolour

and a few real houseplants — the print echoes all of those without trying to match anything exactly

and the painterly edges take the formality out of a tidy space

Sunlit Pink Mediterranean Lane Canvas Print lilac Skip it next to loudThree things it does fast: ground soft pink, sharpen plaster, wake the hallway. The room gets a slice of summer holiday without leaning kitsch that painted light, slow afternoon feeling people pay airfare for. Hang it where you walk past it daily: hallway, bedroom, kitchen, or the awkward bit of wall above a console. It loves white walls and pale wood, and sits well next to rattan, linen and a few terracotta pots. Skip it if your room is already loud