By mid-morning, the cityscape stops looking decorative and starts working. The room feels brighter, the wall feels open, and the eye keeps drifting toward the sunlit bay through the shutters. It softens a flat kitchen, lifts a dim dining wall and gives an entryway a holiday feeling without going themed. Hang it above a sideboard, a console or a kitchen table where you can sit and look at it. Pair with whitewashed walls, pale oak, rattan, linen and glazed stoneware. Avoid hanging it near busy patterned wallpaper or dark heavy florals — it wants light around it. Printed on premium fine-art paper with rich, lasting colour.