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The Alternative Blog

Carpet – The Comeback King

Carpet is making a comeback with a bang this season and bursting with pattern, texture and colour. People are becoming bolder with flooring choices and happy to mix and match or make carpet a statement.

Paris, London

It’s always tricky to pinpoint trends at such a vast show as Maison, Paris. We were overwhelmed by the sheer size of this fair, the number of halls and the endless exhibitors. It takes a few weeks to grasp the full scope of Maison but it’s is a key place to track both emerging and existing trends in product, surface, pattern, shape, colour and material.

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.

Guest Blog: Stephen Cheliotis, Chairman of the CoolBrands Council UK

Stephen is a leading brand consultant and commentator with a wealth of experience in brand and market evaluations and in providing strategic marketing and business counsel to senior management.

Alternative Summer Brochure: This is what we get up to on the hottest days of the year…

See how 7am Creative and award-winning stylist Melinda Ashton-Turner work their magic in creating the new Alternative Flooring brochure. AND it’s Lorna Haigh, the marketing guru at Alternative Flooring who is the ace producer and fits all the pieces into place.

Guest Blog: Bunny Turner of Turner Pocock Interior Design

Turner Pocock is an award-winning interior design practice established in 2007 by Bunny Turner and Emma Pocock. The company has offices in London and Geneva. Turner Pocock is in House & Garden’s 100 leading interior designers and Andrew Martin’s Interior Design Review featuring the world’s top designers.

Guest Blog: Ric Frankland of UK-based dwelle

Manchester architect Ric Frankland is the director of dwelle and originator of these carefully designed micro-buildings that are highly sustainable. These award-winning ‘dwelle-ings’ can achieve zero carbon status.

Guest Blog: Arabella McNie, Curator of Wool House

This month our guest blogger is Arabella McNie, the curator of Wool House and renowned designer and stylist. Here she shares her love of wool and her thoughts on WOOL HOUSE: the world’s biggest ever celebration of Wool in London’s historic Somerset House.

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