What’s the living room missing? Hot pink with some nerve. This peacock fans its tail across the whole wall and the room stops being polite. Colour that loud does the work of a feature wall without any paint. Hang it on a plain wall where there’s room to breathe above a sideboard, between two windows, or facing the door so it lands first. Pair it with deep blue or green velvet, cane, dark wood and one or two brass details. Keep everything else quiet: plain cushions, simple ceramics, no competing pattern. Don’t crowd it with busy florals or other bright colour blocks, and skip a gallery wall of small pieces around it. As a canvas the surface soaks up light, so the colour reads slightly softer and more painterly.