Soft botanicals for quiet walls

Why botanical prints

Botanical prints live or die on the background, not the flower

The plant is usually the easy part; it is the ground colour behind it that decides whether a print sits with your wall.

Most people choose a botanical for the stem or bloom and only notice the background once it is hanging. A bone or ecru ground glows against warm white walls but looks grubby next to cool bright white. A crisp white ground does the reverse. If you are buying two or three from a range, check they share the same ground tone, because mismatched backgrounds are far more obvious on a wall than mismatched subjects.

Botanicals are quiet art, so undersizing them is the usual mistake. Over a three-seater sofa, run a set of three to roughly two thirds the sofa width with 5 to 8 cm between canvases, hung so the centre of the group sits about 145 cm from the floor. In a bathroom or hallway, a single tall portrait canvas beats a small square. Keep the palette to two or three families, and avoid hanging warm gilded prints beside cool grey ones.

How your print is made

1. Choose the size and finishPick a size, then stretched ready to hang or framed. The size guide on every print shows it to scale.
2. Printed to orderYour print is made on canvas in Melbourne once you order, at the size you choose.
3. Stretched, framed, checkedStretched or framed in Melbourne, then checked before it leaves.
4. Delivered free, Australia-wideMade to order in 10 to 14 days, then tracked to your door. Thirty-day money-back guarantee if it isn't what you hoped.