With small owls and autumn oak leaves, scale decides whether the nursery wakes up. Go too small and the pattern turns into wallpaper you never look at; at a proper size it becomes the warm, storybook corner of the room. The cream background keeps the wall feeling light, while the browns and soft orange give it something to hold onto in the evening. Hang it above a chest of drawers, a cot-side chair or along a bedroom wall where you pass it daily. Pale wood, cane, cream linen and wool all sit happily with it. Keep loud graphic prints and bright primary colours away from it they flatten the fine pencil detail. As a canvas the surface reads softly, with no shine over the drawing.