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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.

Guest Blog: Bunny Turner of Turner Pocock Interior Design

Turner Pocock is an award-winning interior design practice established in 2007 by Bunny Turner and Emma Pocock. The company has offices in London and Geneva. Turner Pocock is in House & Garden’s 100 leading interior designers and Andrew Martin’s Interior Design Review featuring the world’s top designers.

Guest Blog: Ric Frankland of UK-based dwelle

Manchester architect Ric Frankland is the director of dwelle and originator of these carefully designed micro-buildings that are highly sustainable. These award-winning ‘dwelle-ings’ can achieve zero carbon status.

Guest Blog: Arabella McNie, Curator of Wool House

This month our guest blogger is Arabella McNie, the curator of Wool House and renowned designer and stylist. Here she shares her love of wool and her thoughts on WOOL HOUSE: the world’s biggest ever celebration of Wool in London’s historic Somerset House.

Guest Blog: New Trends are Afoot by Melinda Ashton Turner, Interiors Stylist

Melinda Ashton Turner is an Interiors Stylist. Originally trained as an Interior Designer, Melinda has been working as Interior Stylist and Art Director since 1990. Over her career she has been Style Editor of Australian Vogue Living, Decoration Editor of Homes & Gardens UK and Style Director of Inside Out (UK).

Alternative New Year Blog – Ring in the New!

Spruce up your home after Christmas with our Alternative guide to what’s in the wind for 2013. We kick off with ‘Made in Britain.’

Guest Blog: Decorex 2012 Highlights by Nicolette Le Pelley of TheHouseDirectory.com

Nicolette Le Pelley is co-founder of the online sourcebook The House Directory which features more than 3,700 companies covering all aspects of interior and garden design and decoration. A recent initiative, The House Mag, brings you clever design ideas and suggestions on how to achieve them.