USS Macon Over New York Canvas Print children's illustration A bright blue riso-style print

A bright blue riso-style print of two hands toasting over a bowl of spaghetti

What to avoid: cool grey schemes

The dotted blue background pulls the eye in close

with a real sense of outdoors brought inside

Hallways pick up colour without going loud

USS Macon Over New York Canvas Print children's illustration A bright blue riso-style printOpen the curtains at late afternoon; the soft grey will handle the drama. The silver airship hangs low over Lower Manhattan, the harbour wide and pale below, the city packed in tight along the shoreline. It pulls a room toward stillness and scale, the kind of quiet you want behind a desk or above a console in a hallway. Hang it at eye level on a chalky off white wall, or above a low sideboard where the horizon line can sit just above the furniture.