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The Alternative Blog

Kirsty Barton

Marketing Manager

With almost 20 years working in the carpet industry and roles within Alternative Flooring ranging from sales, customer service to purchasing; Kirsty brings all of this experience to her role as Digital Marketing Manager. Bringing together digital content, SEO, PPC, digital PR campaigns, website development and smooth running of social media platforms ensuring optimum reach, engagement and brand awareness.

How Alternative and Liberty Fabrics got together

Britain has a fine history of producing quality brands with craftsmanship. Liberty Fabrics and Alternative Flooring continue this tradition. Supporting British design and manufacturing were key factors in launching Quirky B.

Where to have fun with Make Me A Rug

Alternative Flooring’s Make Me A Rug has been redesigned and has a cool new video starring the Mad About The House interiors writer Kate Watson-Smyth who shows the five easy steps to creating your customised rug.

How to decorate with rugs with Kate Watson-Smyth

For the first time Alternative Flooring’s Make Me A Rug service offers Quirky B pattern along with lots of new borders. This fabulous service has a new video featuring fellow rug lover and number 1 interiors blogger, Kate Watson-Smyth.

CELEBRATE Great British Pattern

It’s time to celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday! It’s also time to shout about great British design and our nation’s love of pattern.

Prepping & Propping: The day in the life of an interior stylist…

As a stylist Susie helps create beautiful and inspiring editorial and advertising shoots for some of the world’s leading interiors magazines and brands. Susie has been ‘shopping, propping and making things look pretty’ for more than 15 years.

Herringbone and tweed get hip on texture

We know that our readers are smart, so we are going to straighten out the difference between herringbone and chevron flooring.

The 6 Key Trends for 2016 That Will Endure

New Year, new trends. Carole King is an Interior Designer and author of Dear Designer’s Blog where she writes daily about current trends, shopping tips and anything else that inspires her.

Christmas Collage

In the lead up to Christmas, this winter we need some cosy colour and pattern on the chilly, grey days to warm our homes, lift our spirits and have some fun.

Britain’s Cool Club

Alternative Flooring is a member of Britain’s Coolest Club – the 2015/16 CoolBrands, where innovation, originality, authenticity and desirability are just some of the cool qualities that count.