With a heron in flight, scale decides whether the bedroom wakes up. Small, it reads as a quiet blue square. Large, the soft grey-blue becomes a wall colour of its own and the white bird gives the room one clear point to rest on. The room feels cooler, calmer and a little more open. Hang it above the headboard, on a narrow wall between windows, or along a hallway where you walk past it. Pair it with pale wood, linen bedding, off-white walls and simple ceramics. Keep the wall around it clear busy patterned pieces or heavy dark frames close by cancel out the space that makes it work. As a canvas, the light brushwork in the background gains a bit of texture.