What it adds isn’t clutter. It’s vertical tension in the right places. The cat sits dead centre and everything else red flowers, mustard yellow petals, layered green leaves fans out around it on a soft pink ground. Put it on a wall that has gone quiet: the gap beside a kitchen door, a narrow stretch of hallway, the space above a small sideboard. The pink lifts off-white and pale grey walls and stops a neutral room feeling flat. Keep the things around it simple plain linen, painted wood, one plant, a little warm metal. What it doesn’t want is competition: skip busy wallpaper, patterned blinds or another loud floral on the same wall. As a canvas, the surface is matt and gently textured, which softens the brighter reds.