Tuxedo Cat with Blue Vase Canvas Print

Tuxedo Cat with Blue Vase Canvas PrintSomewhere between Matisse and modern folk painting, this tuxedo cat refuses to behave. He stares straight out and dares the room to take itself too seriously. The room loosens up around him. The blue and cream stripe and the painterly ceramics pull a colour thread through whatever else you already own, and the black shape gives a neutral room something to push against. Hang him in a living room, a hallway, or above a reading chair where you actually

A black-framed mirror nearby holds the cat's weight

Hang it in a bathroom above the towel rail

the yellow wall is uneven

or on a small home-bar wall

Pair with painted oak

the colours warm without going syrupy

soft-focus photograph of a turntable mid-play — needle on the groove

or in a dining room where it pulls double duty through December and beyond

What not to do: don't crowd it with other tropical prints or anything competing in hot pink

Terracotta and chalky white walls only push the holiday feel further

a little funny

the snow flecks lift the wall