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How to Design a Bespoke Rug From the Comfort of Your Home

Kirsty Barton — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 13:23:32 +0000

This month marked the launch of our new and improved Make Me A Rug – an interactive tool designed to enhance the creative design process behind our bespoke rug service. Making going bespoke more accessible than ever, whether you’re a passionate interiors enthusiast or simply dipping your toes in for the first time. No experience…

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A Rug For Every Room

Kirsty Barton — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:04:34 +0000

Is there such a thing as having too many choices in interior design? For many, the variety of options can feel overwhelming, especially when it comes to selecting a beautiful rug to complement a room. This often results in many having to settle for readily available designs on the shelves, lacking the personal, creative touch…

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Mini Moderns Rug Stars: We’re talking rugs with stars of the interior world.

Kirsty Barton — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 13:23:26 +0000

Creative duo Mini Moderns choose their perfect rugs. Keith’s Rug Stars choice is a Wool Milkshake Coconut rug and Mark’s Rug Stars choice is a patterned Quirky B Honeycomb Moss rug designed with our bespoke Make Me A Rug service.

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Margo Selby Rug Stars: We’re talking rugs with stars of the interior world.

Kirsty Barton — Mon, 04 Jun 2018 08:47:27 +0000

Award winning textile designer Margo Selby’s Rug Stars choice is her own design Frolic Westbrook, a multi-coloured striped rug, that she has teamed with an inner Double Piping Cotton Border in Pink and an outer Stripes Thick Black border.

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Lucy Gough Rug Stars: We’re talking rugs with a stars of the interior world.

Kirsty Barton — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 09:07:01 +0000

Stylist Lucy Gough’s Rug Stars choice is a patterned Quirky B Cube Hawksmoor carpet designed by Ben Pentreath for Alternative Flooring.

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Earn Your Designer Stripes with Margo Selby

Kirsty Barton — Fri, 22 Sep 2017 10:18:11 +0000

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.

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Pattern Play!

Kirsty Barton — Fri, 28 Jul 2017 12:56:48 +0000

Forget stars and stripes, florals and stripes make the perfect pairing this summer. Pattern play is all the rage on the catwalks walks with eye-popping florals mixing with stripes in every which way. It’s a winning fashion combination that is inspiring interiors too.

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Rugs make light work!

Kirsty Barton — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 18:19:18 +0000

If lighting and flooring are the two most important elements when designing a home, then lamps and rugs are the most important accessories in the final decorating sweep. It’s the time to focus on the finishing touches. Here’s how to play with not just colour and pattern, but with your imagination.

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