Persevere 02
Persevere with Tuning Out The Noise || Cassandra Ellis founder of Atelier Ellis
All of us need to learn to ‘tune out the noise’ whether in making a home or building business.
Welcome to Episode Two in our series entitled “Perseverance”.
Atelier Ellis make quiet, beautiful handmade paint to help you tell the story of your home. Cassandra is queen of the understated, the considered, the cocooning. It is apparently effortless and deeply atmospheric. Even the hand-painted paint chart is thing of beauty. She advises her customers to ‘tune out the noise’ of what is in vogue, fashionable, everywhere else and instead asks us all to tell our own story.
I think that this approach is a brilliant one both in terms of our homes and our businesses and careers. We explore how to tune into your own aesthetic and approach, how to tune out the noise creatively and commercially and how to persevere with all of this despite comparison, challenges and set backs.
Image Credit: Kalina Krawczyk
Tea & Toast / Atelier Ellis
Image Credit: Kalina Krawczyk
At Atelier Ellis, we think about colour differently.
We believe everyone should be able to live in a joyous, safe and beautiful home that tells their story.
We are all different. Where and how we live is unique and we want our colours to help you find your joy, your haven and your personal narrative.
To help you do this, we create deeply-pigmented paint and enveloping colours that are quiet and painterly, but also very beautifully and carefully made.
We research and craft colours that feel human. They are complex and deep, but also quiet and cocooning. They are designed to create the perfect backdrop and a framework for creating the stories that place you and your important possessions (as well as your ephemera) at the centre of your home.
Each of our colours is inspired by personal memories, marks and fragments – of people, places and tales. Deeply rooted in the natural world, our approach lets us create timeless human, nature and art-inspired colours that you can live and grow with over many years.
We revel in beauty and our paint is as beautiful as we can make it. We are also transparent with the materials and processes we use now and we are always asking how we can make it better in the future.
At the heart of everything we do is the idea of helping you make your home, and the life within, better: To help you feel happy, safe, content and sheltered and tell your story of home.
“It is such a privilege to know that when I sell somebody a colour, it will go on their walls and within that room that that colour is in, there will be good times, bad times, tragedies, happy moments, nothing moments and it is all happening surrounded by a colour. That colour will be indelibly marked in their head as the room where that happened.”
Bright Star / Atelier Ellis
Credit: Kalina Krawczyk