Bees! In the house!

No, it isn’t as alarming as it sounds.

As you might have gathered from the picture, I’m talking about wallpaper!

Farrow & Ball* have the most beautiful ranges of historical paints and wallpapers. With paint colours such as String, Dead Salmon and Cat’s Paw, who could fail to be intrigued? I’ve often longed for a period property, just so I could say things like, “The drawing room? Oh, that’s decorated in Bone and Mouse’s Back, darling…”

Anyway. Bees. I really like bees.

A friend sent me a link yesterday, with the subject “I saw this and thought of you”. I couldn’t imagine why I would remind anyone of paint or wallpaper, so I clicked through to find out.

Farrow & Ball have bumblebee wallpaper!

From their website:

Bumble Bee is one of 4 designs from Papers 5; a collection of block printed papers, produced in the traditional manner using only our finest water based paints. The Napoleonic bee signifies the French worker and the design was originally found in Josephine Bonaparte‘s boudoir, as a silk fabric. The 7 Farrow & Ball coloured grounds are traditionally trough and brush applied before the design is block printed. The 4 designs are drawn from existing Farrow & Ball blocks used in restoration of great British houses.

It comes in 20 different colourways, and costs £57 per 10 metre roll. I’ve sent off for a couple of samples, in the colours shown above. Hopefully one of them will match with my beautiful bee fabric, which I’ve been meaning to turn into curtains for quite some time. Then I need to work out how much wall I can cover with just one roll of paper…

…or perhaps I’ll have to settle for framing the samples, making my curtains, and dreaming of the day that I can afford to have a complete bee room!

*Note – you might have to tell their website which country you’re in, before you can follow the links. Tell it you’re in the UK, and you’ll be able to click through with no trouble.