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