Studley Royal Water Garden, Ripon Art Print Color:Gold Off-white or soft cream walls

Off-white or soft cream walls show it off best

Don't crowd it with other busy recipe prints — one illustrated card on a wall is charming

and one piece of bobbin or rattan furniture so the surrounding textures stay quiet

In the room

Studley Royal Water Garden, Ripon Art Print Color:Gold Off-white or soft cream wallsWhat it adds isn't clutter. It's vertical tension in the right places. A travel poster view of Fountains Abbey rising behind the lake at Studley Royal, painted in deep greens, soft stone and pale sky blue. Put it on the wall and the room slows down. The dark trees pull the eye in, the abbey holds the centre, and the reflection in the water gives the whole thing a quiet, breath held feel the kind of picture you keep glancing back at. Hangs best at eye