Two Bikes in Orange and Blue Art Print Color:Oak Here's the trick: let the

Here's the trick: let the frog cut through all that plaster

pale oak and a few stoneware pieces nearby

The stretched canvas softens the painted brushwork and gives it a relaxed

and the room reads as calm rather than empty

chrome fittings and a few stoneware mugs on open shelves

Two Bikes in Orange and Blue Art Print Color:Oak Here's the trick: let theRooms go quieter when mustard yellow is this sure of itself. Two leaning bicycles, one orange and one blue, sit against a flat sunny background with the gritty edge of a risograph print. Hang it and the room picks up. Mornings feel brighter, the corner you usually ignore becomes the corner you look at, and the colour bounces off pale walls and timber. It earns its keep in a kitchen, a hallway, a kids' room, or a study where the rest of the scheme is