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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.

Wool Week 2015

The wonderful thing about Wool Week is that every year there is always something a little ‘alternative’ about it!

Six key summer looks

A round up of the key summer trends from the runways and how to transform them into our homes.

Be cool and confident with Pedlars

Pedlars is a family-run business based in North Wales with a general store and café in Notting Hill. Founder, Charlie Gladstone, shares his decorating tips about giving your home its personality .

Margo Selby for Alternative Flooring – British made carpets

Margo Selby is a woven textile design company that produces exceptional quality fabrics. Here Margo shares her experience of watching her designs come to life as carpets.

The Big W’s – The Alternative Guide to Flooring

What? And Where? And not to mention How? Are questions that Alternative Flooring is asked all the time. From care and cleaning to installation, get the answers you need!

Rockett St George share new season trends

Rockett St George is an online emporium of expressive homeware with an exceptional quirky style that inspires and delights. Here Jane shares some of her new season trends which include Alternative’s very own Quirky Tess.

My winter bedroom Q&A With Lorna and Marina…

Lorna Haigh, Alternative Flooring’s head of marketing and Marina Guirey, the founder of The Linen Works reveal what makes their bedrooms cosy this winter.

Guest Blog: Modern Cool – what does it mean to be cool these days?

Stephen Cheliotis, Chairman of the CoolBrands Council UK and Chief Executive of The Centre for Brand Analysis. As a previous Alternative guest blogger, we invited Stephen back to ask a few more questions about ‘Modern Cool’ and CoolBrands 2014/15 and why he felt Alternative Flooring had won this tribute for two years on the trot.

Guest blog: Arabella McNie, Curator of Campaign for Wool Interiors Collection

This month our guest blogger is Arabella McNie, the curator of the Campaign for Wool Interiors Collection, which is part of the fifth anniversary celebrations of HRH The Prince of Wales’ Campaign for Wool.