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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.

Pattern Play!

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.

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.

High Fibre Floors

Discover how Sisal, Coir, Jute and Seagrass woven flooring can bring a natural presence from the loom to our living rooms for SS17. Try our Alternative high-fibre diet in your interiors.

New Year Decorating Resolutions with Alternative Flooring

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?

Nice to see ewe…at Wool BnB

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.

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.

How to decorate with rugs with Kate Watson-Smyth

For the first time Alternative Flooring’s Make Me A Rug service offers Quirky B pattern along with lots of new borders. This fabulous service has a new video featuring fellow rug lover and number 1 interiors blogger, Kate Watson-Smyth.

CELEBRATE Great British Pattern

It’s time to celebrate the Queen’s 90th birthday! It’s also time to shout about great British design and our nation’s love of pattern.

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