Buy retro typography for the story. Keep it for the warm cream. The cartoon cheese is the hook that grinning wedge with little boots and waving gloves but the cream background is what actually does the work in the room.

Put it up and the kitchen warms up a bit. Worktops look less serious. The bold black headline gives the wall something to do, but the cream keeps it calm enough not to fight your tiles or your splashback.

Hangs best above a sideboard, between a fridge and a pantry door, or in the bit of wall by a breakfast nook. Good in a dining room with a long table, too.

Works with oak cabinets, painted cupboards, enamelware, vintage mugs, butcher block and brass handles. A pantry-style room eats this up.

Not for a room that’s already loud busy patterned tiles, three other framed quotes, and a chalkboard menu will turn this from charming to cluttered. Give it space. Stretched over a wooden frame and ready to hang, with a s