Leave the feature wall blank if you like cautious rooms. This one brings a famous blue wave, two cheeky black cats and a steady cream backdrop Hokusai with the volume turned up on the humour.

The room gets a clear focal point straight away. The deep blue wave pulls the eye, the cream sky calms everything down, and the two cats stop the whole thing taking itself too seriously. People will look, then smile, then look again.

Hang it where it has room to breathe above a sofa, in a hallway, on a study wall, or as the main thing in a kids’ room or nursery. Eye level works. A small picture light makes the wave look damp in the best way.

Pair it with pale oak or ash, natural linen, rattan, indigo cushions, cream walls and stoneware in soft blue or off-white. A little brass keeps it warm.

Don’t crowd it with other busy patterns or a second statement piece on the same wall. Stretched over a wooden frame and ready to hang straight out o