Even the plaster in here starts looking expensive next to soft sea green. That’s what this poolside scene does to a room it lends everything around it a slow, holiday sort of confidence. Walls read warmer, white paintwork looks deliberate, and a plain sofa suddenly seems chosen rather than inherited. Hang it above a sofa, a sideboard or a dining wall, where people sit long enough to spot the cheetah at the water’s edge. Cream linen, cane, green velvet and pale timber all pick up on it easily, as do simple stoneware pots. Keep busy patterned wallpaper and other striped art well away the umbrellas are doing that job already. On paper, the brushwork and fringed umbrella edges stay crisp and detailed.