Open Shutters, Sleeping Cat Canvas Print

Open Shutters, Sleeping Cat Canvas PrintWhat it adds isn't clutter. It's loose brushwork tension in the right places. Hang this painterly bedroom scene in a quiet bedroom and the room stops feeling tidy and starts feeling lived in the cobalt shutters and red striped throw pull warmth out of pink and cream walls. The change is immediate: a flat wall becomes a doorway out. Try it above a low headboard, on a chalky pink or oat plaster wall, or on the dim wall opposite a window so the painted

Don't crowd it with bold florals or heavy abstracts — let the soft colours do the talking

A Highland cow in a tweed flat cap and tartan coat

narrow space

The flowers feel hand-painted

presented as a museum-style exhibition poster with quiet grey type below

Put this up and the room stops apologising

With this on the wall

brass switches and a single stoneware lamp

The colour does most of the work — warm without going loud

Greens deepen against pale walls

oak leans into the William Morris-style feel

Most nursery prints behave