At mid-morning, the sardine shoal turns from nice idea to main character. The colour walks in first blue, yellow, mustard, a flash of red and the room wakes up. Suddenly the kitchen feels like somewhere you’d want to sit with a coffee rather than rush through. It earns its keep above a sideboard, a breakfast bar or a dining wall, where there’s room to step back and take it in. It plays well with pale wood, painted cabinets, linen and stoneware anything with a bit of honest texture. Skip the busy patterned wallpaper and the gallery wall of competing brights; this one wants the wall to itself. Stretched over a wooden frame and ready to hang straight from the box.