At Honeysuckle we have one of the best libraries of wallpaper outside of London. Come and browse at your leisure or let the Design Team guide you through the hundreds of choices available. The popularity of wallpaper is on the rise again, and with hundreds of patterns to choose from, it’s often difficult to know where to start.
If you are more used to living with painted walls but you want to try wallpaper, you can often soften the effect and break it up a little. Try just a feature wall or a chimney breast and paint the rest of the room. There’s no doubt a wallpapered room has a certain warmth to it, more so than flat colours of painted walls. To help you decide on the right wallpaper design we recommend that you get the largest swatch you can and tape it as flat as possible to the wall you want to use it on. Leave it on there for at least 24 hours so that you can see it in both daylight and artificial light, and see how it looks at different times of the day. Remember to use the correct adhesive recommended for your chosen wallpaper, and wherever possible cross line your walls with lining paper for a professional finish.
Refreshing your walls with a coat of paint is still the cheapest way to introduce colour into you home. As a rule the more expensive paints cover better and last longer. Cheap paint has more water in it, less pigment, less binder and are made with synthetic pigments. And pigment, is what gives paint its quality and depth of colour.It is also more environment-friendly, being lower in Volatile Organic Compounds.
Traditional pigments tend to be made of rocks and minerals, earth and clay, so consequently they are impure, and rather complex. The more complex the pigmentation, the more interesting the colour. It gives redolence and depth, and you get undertones - colours which subtly change in different lights.
That’s why at Honeysuckle Interiors we recommend and passionately endorse Zoffany paints.
