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The Alternative Blog

Wool Week 2015

The wonderful thing about Wool Week is that every year there is always something a little ‘alternative’ about it!

Six key summer looks

A round up of the key summer trends from the runways and how to transform them into our homes.

Be cool and confident with Pedlars

Pedlars is a family-run business based in North Wales with a general store and café in Notting Hill. Founder, Charlie Gladstone, shares his decorating tips about giving your home its personality .

The Big W’s – The Alternative Guide to Flooring

What? And Where? And not to mention How? Are questions that Alternative Flooring is asked all the time. From care and cleaning to installation, get the answers you need!

Guest Blog: Modern Cool – what does it mean to be cool these days?

Stephen Cheliotis, Chairman of the CoolBrands Council UK and Chief Executive of The Centre for Brand Analysis. As a previous Alternative guest blogger, we invited Stephen back to ask a few more questions about ‘Modern Cool’ and CoolBrands 2014/15 and why he felt Alternative Flooring had won this tribute for two years on the trot.

Guest Blog: Margo Selby for Alternative Flooring

Margo Selby is a woven fabric designer who produces contemporary textile products which take weaving to a new level with innovative mixtures of yarn, graphic pattern and colour.

Guest Blog: Alternative gets into bed with CoolBrand friend The French Bedroom Company

The French Bedroom Company is home of award winning French style furniture & progressive design. Their ethos is simple: offer French furniture that exudes elegance.

Guest Blog: Little Greene Paint & Alternative

Little Greene’s eco-friendly paint and wallpaper catalogues over 300 years of the best in English decoration.
Its mission is to provide the best quality paints at affordable prices, which are manufactured in the UK with minimal impact on the environment. They let both you and your walls breathe easily, and respect the fabric of your building, whatever its age.

Alternative Highland Fling with Tartan

Tartan has dressed kings, festooned castles, graced catwalks and now warms our floors. There are over 7,000 tartans on record with new designs being whipped up all the time.