Leave the dining room wall blank if you like cautious rooms. This one asks for a bit of nerve. Put it up and the whole room warms by a few degrees the gold background catches lamplight, and the soft pink blossom picks up anything rosy already in the room. Hang it centred above a sideboard or between two windows, at eye level, so the peacock reads clearly from across the table. Pair it with mid-brown or dark wood, velvet seating, brass candlesticks and plain cream or warm-white walls. Skip the busy patterned wallpaper behind it, and don’t crowd it with small prints the branches need room to breathe. On fine-art paper the gold reads as soft, powdery light rather than metallic shine.