NATALIE TREDGETT X EDWARD BULMER
Edward Bulmer Paints are #OhSoNatalie
Edward Bulmer Paints are natural paints designed, created and ‘homemade’ for you by the interiors expert, Edward Bulmer. Like a top chef, Edward is passionate about every colour we produce, how it has been made and the raw materials we use to make it. It not only matters that this paint colour will look beautiful in your home, for Edward, our paint must not cost the earth. The natural heritage paint colours are eco-friendly - Low-VOC, durable, plastic-free wall paints, carbon-neutral and non-toxic.
QUESTION 1
What is your favourite colour & why?
Aquatic gives you the soft warmth of a green but is a supportive blue, kind in its strength and uplifting despite its weight. It flatters pretty much any furnishing or art work you put with it old and modern.
I have two great early Georgian design projects, but what gets me out of bed each day is our Natural paint project as it is where I get o feel we are taking the climate emergency seriously. Every industry now has a moral imperative to plan a speedy carbon descent and we are showing one way to do it with paints!
QUESTION 2
What are you working on at the moment that you find exciting?
QUESTION 3
We used some amazing Edward Bulmer colours when creating our calm and contrast bedroom, Brick, Blue Garter and Roger – What was your inspiration for these colours and how did you come up with them?
They are all colours I have encountered in old houses and they have old names as a result, except Roger which comes from our Nursery Range in which the colours are all given christian names.
BRICK – A great terracotta colour which has warmth and richness without overpowering a scheme.
GARTER BLUE – How often one encounters this colour in old cottages, farmhouses and country house under many later layers. It is a confident colour, not as strong as a Garter ribbon but just as uplifting!
ROGER – A fresher take on Garter Blue with the same seasoning of earth pigment to keep it from appearing cold.
QUESTION 4
Where do you go for / what do you do for inspiration?
Old accounts such as are detailed in the books of Ian Bristow or his student Patrick Baty, old houses themselves and frankly what I find works as a good backdrop.
Objects do give me pleasure, but I am training myself to believe that they can all be parted with – they are just material possessions. I do though have a Chrostopher Dresser style claret jug that was given to my great grandfather as a wedding present in 1894 by his employees, along with the original accompanying card listing their 28 names that I would be loath to part with.
QUESTION 5
Do you have a cherished object you would never part with? What is it & why?
Edward Bulmer has recently written published his first book on his lifetime of working in interior design, The Colourful Past: Edward Bulmer and the English Country House.
Edward takes readers on in-depth tours of his work in some of Britain’s grandest homes, including Althorp, Goodwood, Pitshill House, and Broughton Hall, along with his work for private clients, highlighting his own stunning home, a Queen Anne manor house built in 1700.