What’s the living room missing? Bright orange with some nerve. This is the piece that stops a beige room from being polite. The orange and gold bands throw warmth back into the space, while the navy and sky blue keep it from tipping into sunset kitsch. Hang it on the wall you see first behind a sofa, above a sideboard, or on the long stretch of a hallway. Pair it with deep blue or rust upholstery, dark wood, linen cushions and a terracotta pot or two. Don’t crowd it with other loud colour work, and skip fussy patterned wallpaper behind it; it needs a plain wall to push against. As a canvas the texture reads like a real painted surface.