Put bluntly, your hallway can carry more soft green than it thinks. This watercolour brings a quiet alpine scene a vintage red and cream train, a turreted chateau and pine trees against snowy peaks into rooms that usually settle for safe neutrals.

What changes is the temperature of the wall. The cream and washed grey background keeps things calm, while the small pop of warm pink florals and the train’s clay-red roof stop the room from going flat.

Hang it at eye level above a console, low sideboard or a run of coat hooks. It also earns its keep in a kitchen, a child’s bedroom, or a stair landing where people slow down enough to look.

Pair it with pale oak, linen, cream walls and a few stoneware pieces in soft green. Brass or aged iron fittings tie the warm and cool tones together.

Don’t crowd it with other busy landscapes let this one tell the story. Looks especially crisp behind acrylic glazing in an oak frame.