Most advice about decorating a home pushes you toward safe and neutral, art that won't offend anyone's taste in a shared space. Follow that advice everywhere and a house starts to feel like a hotel. Sometimes a wall just needs something sweet and a little silly, the kind of piece that gets a smile instead of a polite nod from six feet away.

Sweet Dreams

Sweet Dreams leans pastel rather than neon, which keeps it from reading as strictly a kids' piece. It works in a nursery, sure, but it's just as at home in a breakfast nook or a hallway where you want a touch of whimsy without redecorating the whole room around it.

Lollipop Lane

Lollipop Lane is louder, bolder, more committed to the bit. Where Sweet Dreams whispers, this one talks. Put them together in a playroom for a piece that spans both moods, or let Lollipop Lane stand alone somewhere that can handle the volume.

Beyond the kids' room

Kitchens and breakfast nooks are underrated spots for a candy-colored piece, since that's exactly where you want a little energy first thing in the morning. In a home office, one playful piece can keep an otherwise practical room from feeling like a cubicle. Even a design-forward living room can take one whimsical piece mixed in with more serious art, as long as it isn't competing with three others just like it.

A mid-sized print usually does the job in a kids' room or nook. Save the bigger sizes for spaces that can hold their own against that much color.

Browse more playful pieces in our Whimsical and Surreal collection.