Four new tailored colours for Spring 2025.
Discover a petite collection of previously bespoke colours. Presented in a palette of two pink hued soft neutrals, a buttery yellow and a deep Parisian green. Beautifully useful and delightful to live within.
We create natural, breathable, bio-based colour and paint to help tell your story of home.
Atelier Ellis treasures home in its truest sense - as a container for everything. An almanac of our homes as the holder of our possessions, experiences, palettes, people and place.
We want your home to be an uplifting container for the life, stories and memories that happen there. are designed to envelop you and create spaces that are welcoming, calming and cocooning.
We craft our colours like an artist, using up to 10 pigments to create our perfectly complex, unique and nuanced shades. Every colour is both familiar and comforting, imagined from timeless human, nature and art-based ideas.
We hope they will inspire you to create the perfect backdrop for the way you wish to live.
Maps of Colour
Somewhere in that gathering of ‘things’ will be you, your home and the colours you want to live with.
For every colour in our natural paint collection, we have arranged a family of eight that we know will work together beautifully. Two whites, two neutrals, two mid-tones, a deep and a surprise. You may want to use all of them or just two, but knowing that this colour leads to that colour, should lead you down a more creatively fulfilling pathway.
Like a beautiful map of colour it also means you are at the centre of it all – which is the best path we can each take.
A gentle and simple evolution: natural, breathable, bio-based paint
We’ve elevated our beautiful True Matt Emulsion and Steadfast Matt Emulsion to a bio–based formula.
This evolution of our natural paint base includes a newly developed, beautiful, natural based binder – which is also new to the UK. We’ve formulated it to be better for people and their homes.
Our new, renewable, natural-based binder is created from bio-based materials including vegetable oil produced from waste, castor oil, linseed oil, sugar and bio ethanol. It improves both the materiality and performance of our already exceptional quality, virtually VOC free and fully breathable paint.
We also offer complete transparency of our ingredients and source locations. We source over 95 % of our materials from the UK, with the remainder coming from Europe.
With a unique colour palette created by Cassandra Ellis, our bio-based paints are exceptionally matt and clean smelling and safe for all homes and places.
From our journal
Breathe in Breathe out
Breathable paint is a term you will be hearing more, but I ask you to listen carefully.
It is a term we use because we know our paint is really, properly breathable and it does exactly what you need a breathable paint to do.
There are a variety of ways to measure material breathability. I think the simplest to understand is SD values. This measures the paints resistance to water vapour moving through it. The higher the number, the more difficult it is for the vapour to get through. So if it can’t get through, it stops and the soggy path towards damp begins. The lower the number, means the breathability and moisture regulation improves. Less is always more.
You may have heard the magic figure of ‘under 1’ as where paint becomes breathable. It isn’t quite that simple, but it can be.
SD Class 1 - less than 0.14 is the best of the best. If you need or want breathability this is the marker you should always choose your paint from. Our True Matt Emulsion is measured at 0.004, our Steadfast Matt Emulsion is 0.0615, and our Wood & Metal finishes are 0.1 - for which I am very proud.
They are all perfect for old and historic buildings, as well as homes built from breathable materials. But they are also fantastic for many of us who live within the mix of old and new. They all offer the best moisture regulation, damp prevention, and resistance to mould and the dreaded structural damage.
I am particularly geeky about the material intelligence of what we make. I love that our paint can be in modern flats, historic homes, hospitals, and garden sheds.
Cassandra x