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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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Sophie Robinson Rug Stars: We’re talking rugs with stars of the interior world

Kirsty Barton — Mon, 23 Jul 2018 13:07:53 +0000

Interior Stylist and TV personality, Sophie Robinson’s Rug Stars choice is a Quirky B Flowers of Thorpe Summer Garden with a single cotton border in Navy. This patterned rug is inspired by Liberty Fabrics Summer Garden design.

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

Kirsty Barton — Fri, 16 Mar 2018 19:11:17 +0000

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.

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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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New Year Decorating Resolutions with Alternative Flooring

Kirsty Barton — Mon, 23 Jan 2017 14:42:10 +0000

Once the Christmas clutter is cleared, the next step is to think about how you can streamline your space. We all dream of building up, out or down, but there are other ways to unlock the space that you already have. What about supersizing all doors and adding a striped carpet runner like our Mr Blue Sky to give the illusion of space?

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Nice to see ewe…at Wool BnB

Kirsty Barton — Tue, 25 Oct 2016 10:05:24 +0000

Alternative Flooring loves wool and we swiftly got into the spirit for Woolly Hat Day, but our highlight of Wool Week was taking part in The Campaign for Wool’s first ever Wool BnB where everything from carpets to cardigans was made of this most natural of fibres.

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