After the morning light shifts, the nursery suddenly has a pulse. One small, friendly dinosaur is enough to give a quiet room a character of its own. Put it up and the wall stops being background: kids look for it, name it, point at it from the changing mat. It sits well above a cot, a low dresser or a reading chair, at a height where a small person can actually see it. Pair it with pale wood, cream linen and cane baskets, and keep the wall around it fairly bare. Don’t crowd it with busy patterned bunting or loud primary-colour posters the soft blue-grey does its work when it has room to breathe. Printed on premium fine-art paper, with the option of a real wood frame.