Rooms go quieter when soft pink is this sure of itself. It sets the tone the moment you walk in, and everything else in the room falls in behind it. Put it up and a flat wall turns into the thing people look at first: the coral hat pulls the eye, the deep green leaves cool it back down, and the cat gives the whole wall a bit of humour. It works above a sideboard, in a hallway, or on a narrow stretch of wall between two doors. Pair it with warm timber, rattan, glazed ceramics and a cushion or two picking up the pink. Don’t crowd it with other loud colour pieces give it clear wall on both sides and let it lead. As a canvas the thick paint marks read as texture from across the room.