Sunlit Italian Steps Canvas Print

Sunlit Italian Steps Canvas PrintStart with the soft pink; it'll wake every terracotta pot, painted timber door and stretch of plaster wall around it. This is a sunlit Italian village scene with a green door, balcony, climbing plants and a slice of deep blue sea at the top of the steps. Up on the wall, the room gets warmer and a little more relaxed. The pink lifts pale walls without going saccharine, the green door anchors it, and the sea blue gives you a clean cool note to pull the

A striped runner or a single piece of brass picks up the warmth in the roofs and grounds the cooler sky

This is a 1920s-style New York travel poster — the Statue of Liberty lit against a starry night sky

Rooms with a lot of hard lines — modern sofas

and sits happily next to mustard

the coral wall

glossy chrome and busy gallery clusters next to it — this piece does its best work with breathing room

fruit heavy on the branches

on a dining wall that earns its keep after dark

Keep the rest of the wall genuinely calm

the dark ground reads as soft texture rather than glare

It brings a small holiday into the room without raising the volume

the sky blue is clean