Your mother told you to ‘think big’ and ‘outside the box’. Also among her cliche-ridden wisdom: ‘a picture’s worth a thousand words’.

All of which inspires the question: what’s a really big picture worth?

Consult Better Wallpaper. The ingenious company produces bespoke wallpaper featuring photos of your choosing, from around £150. Just measure your space, upload a photo, approve the proof, and there you have it: a customized wall cover.

Each piece gets pasted up like regular wallpaper and image options are unlimited (all have a seven-year nonfade guarantee). Warm up to a beach scene in winter or celebrate the summer with a supersize holiday snap shot.

It’s called thinking outside the box.

Available online at betterwallpaper.co.uk.