No, the bright orange doesn’t soften the room. It defines it. Five blue sardines swim across a mosaic ground that turns a flat wall into the loudest, friendliest thing in the kitchen.

Put it up and the room shifts. Pale cabinets stop looking polite. White tiles read crisper. The blue picks up anything navy or denim already in the room and pulls it together.

It earns its keep above a dining table, on a kitchen feature wall, or in a breakfast nook where you want a wake-up colour first thing. Works well at eye-level on a shorter wall, or stacked above a sideboard.

Pair with warm wood, cream ceramics, blue-and-white stripes, a rattan chair, terracotta pots. Coastal without being literal.

Stretched on a sturdy wooden frame with deep, saturated colour that holds its punch across the room.