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The Sweet Life Renovation: A style journey through Amira’s vintage home

Amira Hashish, aka @thedesigneditor, is a seasoned editorial and Creative Director…

For The Love of Greige

Lorna Pringle, creator of the home interiors brand ‘For the Love of Greige’ shares her passion for home interiors and she’s showing us around her beautiful home that features a bespoke Wool Motown rug by Alternative Flooring.

Hollie de Cruz, The yesmum Nest

Hollie de Cruz from @theyesmummum talks us through her home renovation journey.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

Rugs make light work!

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.

Where to have fun with Make Me A Rug

Alternative Flooring’s Make Me A Rug has been redesigned and has a cool new video starring the Mad About The House interiors writer Kate Watson-Smyth who shows the five easy steps to creating your customised rug.