Put bluntly, your living room can carry more warm brown than it thinks. This one arrives with a cream background, a wooden sideboard and a black cat with its back turned to a record spinning beside it. The room gets a focal point without getting louder. Hang it above a sideboard, a record cabinet or a low shelf, roughly at eye level, so the cat sits just above the furniture line. It sits happily with mid-century timber, cord seating, stoneware and warm lamplight. Don’t crowd it with other strong images one bold graphic piece nearby is plenty, and busy patterned wallpaper will fight the striped row of records along the bottom. On canvas the flat colour reads soft and matt, with no glare from a lamp or window.