Luxury wallpaper, designed in the UK, printed in the UK by award-winning British Designer Lorna Syson

Hello, welcome. If you’re here, you love pattern in your interiors as much as I do! I love to be surrounded by pattern, and I really believe in your home being a reflection of you, not trends, but things that make you really happy. My wallpapers are printed in the UK on luxury papers, making this the best choice you will make for your home!

Bullfinch Wallpaper

Bring the beauty of the British countryside indoors with our Bullfinch wallpaper. Inspired by one of Britain’s most recognisable garden birds, this nature-inspired wallpaper features delicate bullfinches amongst beautifully illustrated foliage, creating a timeless design that works beautifully in both traditional and contemporary interiors.

In this blog, discover the inspiration behind the Bullfinch wallpaper, how the design was created, and ideas for using this elegant British bird wallpaper in your home. From bedrooms and living rooms to hallways and cosy corners, find out how botanical wallpaper and nature-inspired interiors can add character, colour and a little bit of the countryside to your space.

Discover why British bird wallpaper, botanical prints and nature-inspired interiors continue to be a favourite way to transform a room, and explore the story behind one of Lorna Syson’s much-loved surface pattern designs.

My Bullfinch Designer Bird Wallpaper is a modern bird wallpaper in coral peach and grey, but it is inspired by trying to spot these secretive birds. They are really hard to spot, but here I’ve drawn two adult males; the females are more yellow in colour!

This image is from an Airbnb in Eastern Europe; I love the way they have styled this!

Great Tits Wallpaper – I’ve called Juneberry and Bird ( because I felt great tit’s wasn’t the best name for Search engines!)

Great Tits have also heavily influenced my designs. These colourful British birds used to nest outside my bedroom window as a child, so I feel they were part of my everyday life growing up. As a teenager, I did not appreciate being woken up so early, but when I first moved to London and lived in a small ex-council flat on the 4th floor in East London, the same birds were nesting outside my window! This was at the start of my business and was when I decided to draw these beautiful birds. I now have these lovely little great tits raising a family in our crab apple tree in Oxfordshire. It remains today one of my most popular bird wallpaper designs, I think because of its Scandinavian feel with its silhouetted bird shapes with blues and yellows.

I’ve used this wallpaper in every home I’ve lived it, it brings such joy to an interior.  Juneberry is a nature-inspired bird wallpaper that brings a little piece of the British countryside indoors. Delicate birds perch amongst branches covered in clusters of juneberries, creating a beautifully balanced pattern that feels both timeless and contemporary. Inspired by the wildlife and natural details found on country walks, this botanical wallpaper adds colour, movement and character to a room without feeling overwhelming. Perfect for bedrooms, living rooms, hallways or a feature wall, Juneberry bird wallpaper is a lovely choice for anyone looking to create a warm, welcoming interior inspired by nature.

Robin Wallpaper

The Robin bird is thought of as a festive winter bird, but you can see them all year round! The Robin Redbreast has been a regular visitor wherever I’ve lived; they’re really bold and will often jump about in the flower bed just after you’ve left it. To be honest, as the years have gone on, the robin has become even more important to me. When going through low times with grief and loss, a robin always came to sit by me. I’ve heard many people share similar stories; they mean so much to so many people.

Such an endearing bird that I had to create a design based on it. My robin bird wallpaper is a modern representation of one of my favourite British birds, and gives any room an elegant feel. This photo was taken in the attic room at Myrtle House in Penzance, an amazing holiday house with views of the sea!

Did you know in 2015 there was a nationwide ballot to find Britain’s national bird with more than 200,000 votes! The Robin won with 34% of the vote! (source: Independent)

Finding Beauty and Inspiration in British Urban Areas 

When I moved to London, I still loved to spend time outdoors. Some of my bird wallpaper designs were inspired by my walks through South London in parks and on my way to my studio. You don’t always think of cities like London as having a lot of beautiful wildlife, but some of my favourite bird designs were imagined here. I now live in the countryside; I’m lucky that green, flowers, trees and birds are all around. Sometimes I wonder if I take them for granted more than they are now a special moment found in a sea of concrete.

Long-Tailed Tit Bird Wallpaper

My Long-Tailed Tit design is one of my prettiest colour palettes in my opinion. The gorgeous grey and soft blush pink tones have made it a popular bird design for wallpaper and fabric. It was inspired by walks in South London and seeing these beautiful pink birds in Magnolia trees. When I drew the magnolia flowers, I really tried to simplify the shape to represent the flowers but really make the most of the long-tailed tits on the wallpaper! This looks amazing on the wall but also gorgeous as Roman blinds!

Long tailed-tits always fly around in groups so I made sure when I designed this, there were 5 different birds illustrated on here.

The image below is from the Jacobean Hotel in Coventry; this is the bridal suite!

Blue tit wallpaper, called Spring Ivy

I used to walk every day from my flat in Brockley to my studio in Deptford with Cockpit Arts, and I have such a strong connection with South London after living there and running my wallpaper business there for so many years! There was a gorgeous Georgian house that I always used to walk past every day; it has been turned into flats, as many of the huge houses in London have, and no one looked after the front garden, so it had cascading ivy down the walls and over onto the pavement. I didn’t mind because it was just stunning.

I combined this image with the Blue tit, a regular garden visitor, to create my Spring Ivy Blue and Slate designs.

Spring Ivy Blue design bird wallpaper

Luxury wallpaper – Wallpaper Paste Recommendations

The wallpaper is printed in the UK on high quality non woven paper, and I’m often asked what the best wallpaper past is for the good quality paste the wall papers! Please find my recommendations below

A good quality, pH-neutral, solvent-free, fungicide-protected, light-grade adhesive. Do not use self-mix adhesives.

All-purpose and heavy-duty pastes are not suitable.’

The keyword above is ‘light grade.’ All heavy-grade pastes can be too aggressive for the wallpapers.

The following list is what I would classify as suitable.