Diamond Painting Kit Orange Cream Parfait, Full Drill Round Diamond Art for Adults, 40x55cm DIY Craft Kit, Kitchen Wall Decor Gift

A kitchen can take a color that would be too much anywhere else in the house. A wall that spends its day beside steel, tile and the open door of a fridge will carry an orange that would shout in a living room.

Citrus orange and vanilla cream stack up the height of the glass in bands, with warm gold light coming through the whole column from one side. This is tall art: 40 by 55 cm, portrait, built around the vertical of the parfait itself. The oranges travel from a burnt edge at the base to something nearly translucent where the light passes through, and the cream layers stay pale enough to stop the picture settling into a single block of color.

Twenty-two DMC colors, and the one that matters starts the range. DMC 400 is a deep rust rather than an orange, and that bottom end is what gives the layers their shadow. Without it a stack of citrus reads as a flat wedge. With it, you can see through the glass.

The details

• 40 x 55 cm (15.7 x 21.7 in), portrait orientation
• Full coverage, round drills
• 22 DMC colors, DMC 400 to DMC 3864
• Adhesive canvas printed with clear symbols and a color legend
• Sealed, numbered, DMC color-coded drill packets
• Diamond stylus pen, grooved tray, wax refill and tweezers

Straight talk

Bigger than it sounds. At 40 by 55 cm expect somewhere around 28 to 34 hours, more than a 45cm square asks for despite the smaller-sounding numbers. Long single-color runs make up much of the middle, which is either meditative or dull depending on your temperament. Round drills, full coverage, canvas rolled. No frame, and it is portrait, so measure the wall before you decide where it goes.

Then the loud color is up on the kitchen wall, which is where loud has always belonged.