Transform your guest bedroom with Edward Bulmer Natural Paint Create colourful, comfortable and calm bedrooms for your favourite guests. See some of our guest room inspiration using a range of our soft and beautiful colours layered with beautiful fabrics and artwork.
Six colourful laundry rooms we love To a space where functionality meets flair, and where the often-overlooked utility and laundry rooms can be functional, organised, and colourful, all at once.
British Luxury: What it means to be a Walpole Brand of Tomorrow Walpole is the UK’s only business organisation for luxury brands, spanning across many sectors, it helps uplift and sing the praises of all the wonderful luxury brands the UK has to offer.
7 reasons to invest in Edward Bulmer Natural Paint When you decide to invest in natural paint, you are making more than a colour choice, a paint choice, a fashion choice or even a lifestyle choice – you too are choosing to make a difference. Read more to discover why you should invest in Edward Bulmer Natural Paint!
How to Make the Most out of Small Spaces There is a palette of possibilities when tackling small room designs, whether you’re in a cosy apartment, a quaint cottage, or even just decorating a small downstairs loo or an attic bedroom.
Decorating with dark paint colours: ideas for every room From deep greens and inky blues to richly coloured purples and chocolate browns, explore how to decorate with dark paint colours and discover why deeper shades can work beautifully in rooms of every size.
Colours For Autumn, Naturally. Autumn is a season of unparalleled natural beauty, as the leaves turn blazing red and golden colours begin to dominate the landscape. Nature’s periodic transition from the vivid colours of summer to the earthy tones of autumn inspires us in countless ways. Read more to find out how you can use these rustic tones in your home.
A colour consultancy case study: Llanfendigaid Estate, Wales Discover how colour consultant Emma Bulmer helped transform The Cowshed at Llanfendigaid Estate, using a green-led palette inspired by the surrounding Welsh landscape.
‘The Westridge Collection’, an autumnal interview with designer, colour consultant and stylist, Emma Diaz Emma Diaz speaks to us exclusively on her new range of beautifully designed, hand crafted furniture. All materials are sourced and gathered from near her Cotswold cottage and we can’t wait to find out more about the collection, where her creativity comes from and all about her colour consultancy service for Edward Bulmer Natural Paint.
Choosing colours for a conservatory Bright conservatories with skylights can be awkward spaces to paint in colour. The trick is to find a way to absorb the light without dulling it down or overpowering it with a vivid colour or even illuminating it with something too white. Read more for all the colour tips..
Child and Baby Safe Paints | 4 Nursery and Playroom schemes Your Nursery is so precious to you and your baby, a place for quiet moments, a place for playfulness. Natural paint is the safe and beautiful choice for painting your nursery or child’s bedroom, no unpleasant smells, no emissions, no harmful VOC’s, we’ve got nothing to hide.
Using soft greens in a dual aspect room Pomona is a fantastic colour if you want to use it where you have dual aspect rooms of East and South light and that’s because it carries a little bit of yellow and a little bit of blue and can balance the light as it transitions from the morning through to the midday. Find out more in this series..
Put a spring in your step with Edward Bulmer Natural Paint There’s nothing better than the feeling of Spring. Brighter evenings, warmer days, flowers blooming, and there’s plenty of Spring inspired colours at Edward Bulmer Natural Paint to help you brighten your interiors. One of the easiest ways to refresh your home for the season is by incorporating fresh and vibrant Spring colour palettes. In this blog, we will explore five spring paint colours that will bring a sense of warmth, brightness, and renewal to your living space.
How to choose the right white paint for your home Not all whites are the same. Discover how pigments, undertones and natural light influence white paint, with expert advice and inspiration from Edward Bulmer.
Responsibility Knocks: A column for House & Garden In the first of a new series of columns, Edward Bulmer, the winner of our Responsible Design Award (sponsored by Vinterior) in 2022, lays out why we should all pay attention to responsible design and consumption, and how to become more conscious in the process
What are microplastics and how can we reduce them in mainstream paints? Microplastics, microbeads and nano particles are so tiny (measuring 0.006 to 1 millimetre, but they can be up to 5mm) that they are now everywhere! We are probably all inadvertently responsible for this as it is not mandatory to be told when they are used in a product and only a small number of their uses has been outlawed. Furthermore, plastics that are dumped in soils or water are being broken down to become microplastics.
The ubiquity of plastic in our houses and why we need to cut down Avoiding single use plastic is now accepted as common sense (though it is still not mandatory), but it is just the tip of the ‘plastic iceberg’ when it comes to our plastic addiction. So much of the plastic we buy now is unavoidable. Often this is because it makes up the packaging used to wrap and transport the goods we buy, and just as often it IS the goods we buy.
Why the design world needs to cut its carbon footprint The industrial revolution, or what you might call ‘the dawn of commercial design’ relied on the use of a new energy source – fossil fuels. From coal, to coal tar, to crude oil, to natural gas, their use began to alter the dynamic and the planet increasingly had to store the resultant carbon emissions in the atmosphere rather than in its vegetation, soils and oceans.
How to Choose Colours for your Period Property How do you choose colours for your period property? Every age has used colour to adorn interiors. We know this from illustrations, accounts and old paint layers. Much research has been done into historic colours and there is a wealth of advice now available to recreate period schemes.
5 Wall Panelling Colour Ideas to Add Character to Your Home Panelling is a great way to transform all sorts of different interior spaces, from a modern living rooms to a small bathroom or a historic home renovation. Luckily when it comes to panelling there are so many styles out there to suit your house and personal aesthetic.
Earthy paint colours: how to decorate with natural tones From rich terracotta and rusty reds to olive greens, chocolate browns and stony neutrals, explore the enduring appeal of earthy paint colours and discover how to use them throughout your home.
