Water Lilies by Claude Monet Canvas Print

Water Lilies by Claude Monet Canvas PrintCall it calm if you want; we call it better walls. This is the kind of soft blue botanical that makes a room exhale. Put it up and the wall stops being a wall it becomes a window onto a still pond. Bedrooms love it. So do quiet reading corners and the wall opposite the bed where your eye lands first thing. Pair with pale linen, washed oak, off white plaster and one good lamp. Skip the bold graphic prints and the heavy dark frames nearby; this piece

The figure brings a quiet

What not to do: don't crowd it with other busy patterned art on the same wall

Hang it and the room reads a bit more grown-up

brass fittings or marble

wake the study room

affectionate

or use it as the anchor at the end of a hallway where the eye needs somewhere to land

stoneware and a little cane or rattan to keep things grounded

Looks especially good framed in a slim black or oak frame to keep the focus on the colour

its abstract impressionism style features vibrant wildflowers in shades of blue

Set against a near-black ground with cream chrysanthemums and gilded foliage

It sits comfortably with oak