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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.

The Pink House and her new Patterned Carpet

Emily Murray is the founder and editor of The Pink House, an award-winning interiors blog. Emily has chosen our Quirky B Liberty Fabrics Capello Shell patterned carpet for her bedroom, so we thought it’s time to pay a visit.

Kate Watson-Smyth Rug Stars: We’re talking wool rugs with a star of the interior world.

Journalist, author and award winning blogger Kate Watson-Smyth’s Rug Stars choice is a made to measure Wool Pebble Stade carpet with a Thick Stripe Grey border.

Colour Me Happy Trends

Elle Decoration’s March cover declares that colour is bold, brighter and better in an issue that has its first ever dedicated colour section. Discover how we transform these trends into flooring.

The story of ‘Authentic Lucienne’ by Paula Day

Here Robin and Lucienne Day’s daughter Paula Day, founder of The Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation, tells how she has collaborated with Alternative Flooring to bring authentic Lucienne Day patterned carpet designs back in production.

GORGEOUS GREYS – How grey has become our new neutral

Grey is our guilty pleasure NEW greys include luxurious wool carpets like Barefoot Hatha Sutra and Barefoot Bikram Nadi that are 100% undyed wool, feel-good flooring.

Woolability – live naturally and choose wool carpets

Flooring is where wool excels. Let’s spin some of the benefits of wool carpets in the home. Practically speaking wool is resilient, stain resistant, flame-retardant, a natural insulator and as a soundproofer brings much welcomed peace and quiet to interiors.

Earn Your Designer Stripes with Margo Selby

We have artists and their stripes with Bridget Riley, the fashionable Paul Smith barcode and now we have designer stripes for interiors, beautifully crafted carpets by woven textile designer Margo Selby for Alternative Flooring. The perfect striped wool carpet choice for stairs, rugs, runners and wall-to-wall flooring.