Call it calm if you want; we call it better walls. This illustrated village lane in soft pink, peach and washed blue does the slow work of warming a room without shouting about it.

Put it up and the wall stops being background. The pink stone steps and chalky white houses pull warmth into the room, and the strip of deep blue sea at the top gives the eye somewhere to rest.

It hangs well above a sofa, a console, or at the top of a staircase where the vertical shape leads you up. Eye-level is fine; slightly higher works too if the furniture below is low.

Pair it with linen, oak, rattan and terracotta. Cream plaster walls or warm off-white paint let the colours breathe. A soft brass lamp nearby picks up the late-afternoon feeling in the scene.

Don’t crowd it with other busy travel scenes or hot tropical prints it wants room to do its quiet thing on canvas.