Beautiful
Floors & Walls
All in one place
Introducing Burlwood & Lye
Wood Flooring & Wall Covering Supplier in Chelmsford
Burlwood & Lye is a Floor and Wall Design Studio showcasing an unparalleled choice of flooring styles and finishes in a design led environment. Whatever the brief you can use our design hub to simplify your project.
Our priority is finding solutions tailored to your specific needs and budget. We source the best suited products and have carefully selected brands – Visit us today and turn your visual concepts to reality.
Explore Our Products
Engineered Wood
We specialise in engineered wood flooring for both residential and commercial settings.
Engineered wood offers the same aesthetic as hardwood but at a much lower cost. Come and view the large panel displays in our stunning studio.
Nationwide delivery within 2-3 days.
Luxury Vinyl Tiles
We stock and display Luxury Rigid Vinyl Tiles with a carefully curated, contemporary, palette.
Available in plank and herringbone format, the embossed in register, and wood texture finishes, create incredibly realistic designs.
Delivery nationwide with a next day delivery service available.
Autumn, Reimagined
This season’s interiors are all about warmth, rich textures, and earthy tones that invite comfort and style in equal measure. Soft, organic curves in furniture, rugs and architectural details bring a sense of flow and ease, moving away from stark minimalism towards something more tactile and inviting.
Explore the season’s possibilities with us in the B&L Studio.
Products & Services
Our Chelmsford showroom features large gallery-mounted displays of wood flooring in plank, herringbone, and chevron styles – so you can experience the texture, pattern, and natural colour variation of each piece in its true form.
Beyond wood, we offer thoughtfully curated collections of luxury vinyl and porcelain tiles, chosen for both their style and durability. We’ve also partnered with exclusive rug brands to offer beautiful, bespoke options made to order.
Whether you’re renovating a single room or designing an entire home, our expert team is here to guide you every step of the way. We take the time to understand your style, needs, and lifestyle to help you find the perfect combination of materials and finishes that bring your vision to life.
Explore unique interiors, textures and tones in our stunning showroom.
Trade Accounts
Designed exclusively for interior designers, developers, architects, and any property and building professionals, our Trade Account offers more than just preferential pricing. Speak to us for further details to see how opening an account could benefit both you and your clients.
As a trade partner, you’ll enjoy:
- Exclusive trade pricing
- Priority access to new collections, limited-edition lines and clearance specials.
- Flexible sample ordering and tailored support
- Personalised service for you and your clients
- Sample presenter packs available
Whether you’re managing a single high-spec renovation or a portfolio of projects, we’re here to support you and your clients with expert advice and a curated product selection that’s as practical as it is beautiful.
Apply for a trade account today and start designing with confidence and support.
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We’re Mel and Sarah, the team behind Burlwood & Lye.
We’ve carefully curated our collections of floor and wall coverings from years spent in the industry, with a focus on quality, craftsmanship and timeless design. Our showroom showcases an extensive range of wood flooring finishes alongside the largest independent offering of rugs to sample in Essex.
It’s a space where you can see, feel and experience everything in one place, from wood flooring and rugs to unique tiles, Little Greene paint samples and wallpaper books, allowing you to thoughtfully explore finishes before making your choices.
We’re drawn to natural textures, handwoven pieces and beautiful craftsmanship, and we definitely have a soft spot for anything with a Scandinavian influence. More than just a showroom, our space is also a design studio where we create and customise bespoke rugs, tailoring designs to suit individual projects. We love helping homeowners, designers and developers find the perfect floor and wall finishes to bring their spaces together.
We’re pleased to have you with us, and thank you for following our journey.
Mel & Sarah 🩶
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One year on.
We’ve revisited a client’s home to photograph their Globe rug in Light Grey, a handwoven wool piece that has settled beautifully into the space over time.
Crafted from 100% wool by skilled artisans, Globe’s looped texture brings softness, warmth and quiet depth, gently breaking up clean lines while keeping a calm, understated tone throughout the room.
Best suited to quieter living rooms and bedrooms Globe adds a subtle texture, natural warmth and a calm foundation to thoughtfully designed interiors.
Available in Light Grey, Sand and Anthracite, in a range of rectangular sizes plus a 200cm round.
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Soft Neutrals, Beautifully Applied
From first coat to finished space there’s a quiet satisfaction in seeing a scheme come together.
This understated pairing of Clay on the walls with Silt on the woodwork creates a soft, tonal contrast that feels warm, balanced and easy to live with.
Finished in Little Greene’s Absolute Matt Emulsion, the result is a beautifully flat finish with exceptional depth of colour perfect for creating calm, considered interiors.
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Metallic texture, with an urban edge.
Aged gold and silver in a small architectural format.
Patinated rather than polished, designed to catch light softly across the surface.
The metallic finishes sit alongside matte bone, white and black, allowing for contrast, framing or a more layered composition.
Oblong 3.7 × 11.6cm
Bar 11.6 × 11.6cm
A considered option for projects introducing metallic detail without overpowering a scheme.
Samples available in the studio.
Some materials change how a space feels.
In this contemporary kitchen, natural cork flooring brings quiet luxury to bold blue cabinetry and timber accents, softening the scheme without competing with it.
Cork is naturally warm, gently cushioned and acoustically calming, making it a considered choice for kitchens where life really happens.
Each plank carries its own subtle variation, adding texture and depth while maintaining a clean, modern aesthetic.
Finished with a durable, PVC-free, high-resistance surface, it’s designed to perform beautifully.
It’s not just about how it looks.
It’s about how it changes the feel of a space.
Visit the studio to explore samples and colour options.
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Fresh Inspiration for Your Next Project
Looking ahead to your next decorating update? Take inspiration from this beautiful detail featuring Aderyn wallpaper in Olive by Little Greene.
Rich in character and rooted in nature, it’s a design that brings warmth and depth to both contemporary and classic interiors.
Visit us in store to explore the full Little Greene paint and wallpaper collections and start shaping your next scheme.
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The fibre beneath your feet matters.
Our rug collection centres around high quality wool, chosen for its resilience, softness and natural depth. Wool contains lanolin, which helps repel dirt and moisture, while its elasticity allows the pile to recover beautifully over time.
Alongside this, we work with viscose, a plant derived fibre valued for its gentle sheen and silk like finish. It catches the light differently, bringing movement and subtle luminosity to a room.
We are drawn to natural materials not only for how they look and feel, but for how they last, ageing gracefully and supporting a more considered approach to interiors.
When you can see and feel the difference, the choice becomes intuitive.
Visit the studio to explore the collections.
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Our studio is where ideas start to feel real.
Wood flooring underfoot. A wide collection of handmade and handwoven rugs, with the option to customise or create something completely bespoke. Little Greene colours and wallpapers to explore. A curated boutique tile collection and unique wall coverings exclusive to our studio ~ all designed to be seen together.
We’ve created the space to make decisions easier, to help you refine choices, layer materials, and build schemes with confidence.
Whether you’re planning a full renovation or starting with one room, visiting the studio gives you the space to experience textures, tones and scale in person.
This is what we do.
And we’d love to welcome you in.
✨Book a dedicated studio appointment
✨Or pop in and explore.
✨We’re here to help you refine your space.
