Pastel Brownstones on a New York Street Canvas Print sleeping The room warms up by

The room warms up by a couple of degrees without changing a single light bulb

The canvas weave softens the brushwork and helps the colour feel painterly rather than printed

There's a reason illustrators keep returning to the morning ritual

in a stairwell

Don't crowd it with loud cartoon prints or saturated primary colours — it wants gentle company

Pastel Brownstones on a New York Street Canvas Print sleeping The room warms up byBefore anyone mentions the painterly illustration style, notice what the soft pink does to plaster and pale timber. The sky tone lifts cream and oat walls and warms up a cool room. The street pulls the eye down the page coral, mustard and pink fronts, dark awnings, a stray yellow cab. It brings a bit of life to a quiet wall without shouting. It works above a sideboard in the living room, on a hallway wall by the front door, or in a bright kitchen