'Too safe,' said nobody standing in front of red tiles and pink kitchen walls. This Matisse-inspired city kitchen lands somewhere between still life and window view, with cut flowers, geraniums and grey towers all sharing the same square of glass.
Hang it and a quiet kitchen suddenly has weather. The red splashback pulls warmth into the room, the blue-and-white jug brings it back down, and the city window stops it tipping into cottage prettiness.
It earns its place above a small dining table, on a galley-kitchen end wall, or in a breakfast nook where you actually sit and look at things.
Pair it with painted cabinets, butcher-block worktops, red-checked linen, blue-and-white china and terracotta pots on the sill.
Don't bury it next to fussy framed recipes or beige still lifes — this one wants a bit of space and a clean wall to talk to.