Alternative Flooring

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United Kingdom  ·  Be yourself, be alternative. Our modern mix of award-winning natural fibre and wool carpet, rugs and runners explores pattern, texture and colour.
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AF || Pattern
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AF || Pattern / Simple, patterned design brings living spaces alive and offers the vital element of cosiness.
AF || Stripes
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AF || Stripes / Stripes never go out of style and they can make a striking statement as both a carpet or a runner. Mix and match stripes through an interior, to define different zones whilst linking the spaces.
AF || Florals
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AF || Florals / Florals big or small, inside or out just make us happy! Spread floral patterns right across your floor and let your space bloom
AF || Natural
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AF || Natural / Make an architectural statement with our extensive natural flooring collection. Choose from seagrass, sisal, coir and jute fibres and make stunning natural fibre rugs and runners. Invite a world of monsoon-grown grasses, Goan beaches and coconut husks into your home. Natural carpets and rugs look stylish, smart and contemporary.
AF || RHS Chelsea Flower Show
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AF || RHS Chelsea Flower Show / A CARPET FIT FOR THE QUEEN! The RHS Chelsea Flower Show collaborated with Alternative Flooring, to create a glorious entrance carpet fit for The Queen at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. The Queen and The Royal Party walked on Flowers of Thorpe carpet at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show Charity Gala Preview. This alternative red carpet is a famous Liberty floral pattern expertly woven into glorious carpet for the first time by Alternative Flooring.
AF || Spring Summer Trends
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AF || Spring Summer Trends / Discover what your home will be wearing this season: To celebrate the new season, we have spotted bright and beautiful feel good trends. Whichever room you are decorating make a fuss of your floor. Get inspired!
AF || Autumn Winter Trends
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AF || Autumn Winter Trends / Begin to explore interior trends and embrace a few easy ideas to freshen up your home. Embrace everyday luxe, fall in love with texture, design a punchy rug and be decadent with mood-lifting pattern. Explore our A/W Interiors Trends.
AF || Anywhere
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AF || Anywhere / Ingenious indoor-outdoor carpet. Our range of synthetic, or look-a-like, sisal carpets are ingenious. Made from 100% polypropylene, these carpets have the visual texture of sisal, but they have the benefit of being able to be fitted 'anywhere' including outside. They can be cleaned easily and are extremely hardwearing. Anywhere can be used in a kitchen or bathroom, or used as a rug outside, as there are inside-out borders too.
AF || Authentic Lucienne
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AF || Authentic Lucienne / The Robin and Lucienne Day Foundation has worked with Alternative Flooring to launch a collection of carpet runners in archive Lucienne Day carpet designs. The 'Authentic Lucienne' collection revives some of the designer's less-known work in a fitting climax to her centenary year. Part of the charm of this collection is the meticulous care that has gone into ensuring absolute truth to Lucienne Day's patterns and colourways.
AF || Wool Milkshake
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AF || Wool Milkshake / Milkshake. The clue is in the name. Our new gelato-hued wool carpets are set to become the new neutrals.
AF || Wool Iconic Stripe
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AF || Wool Iconic Stripe / Uplifting like Marley, mellow like Lennon, broody like Simone or vibrant like Fitzgerald. Our Wool Iconic Stripes collection will set the tone in your home.
AF || Margo Selby Stripe
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AF || Margo Selby Stripe / Stripes make a bold statement. Margo Selby Stripes gives a contemporary edge to a classic by playing with colour and scale, to create a balanced striped carpet collection that co-ordinates harmoniously. These striped carpets are vibrant and versatile; the same design can make a striking statment as a wall-to-wall carpet, a made to meaure rug or a runner. The range has also been created to effortlessly mix and match stripes through an interior, to define different zones whilst linking spaces.
AF || Liberty Fabrics
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AF || Liberty Fabrics / Liberty Fabrics has been creating original and inspiring designs for more than 130 years but, we are excited to say, it is the first time their iconic patterns have been used in carpet. With many of the designs originally created by William Morris it's the perfect blend of old and new. Click the images to explore each pattern in more detail or to create your very own made to measure patterned rug or runner.
AF || Margo Selby
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AF || Margo Selby
AF || Ben Pentreath
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AF || Ben Pentreath / Ben Pentreath is one of the UK's leading interior and architectural designers. Working from his design studios in the heart of London's Bloomsbury, he is renowned for his fresh approach to classical and traditional design by injecting strong use of colour and pattern into his interiors. Inspired by the 18th century architect Batty Langley, Ben's patterned carpet designs are both structured and contemporary.
AF || Ashley Hicks
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AF || Ashley Hicks / Ashley Hicks - a pillar of design in the architectural world. Ashley created the Chainmail design for a roomset at Somerset House, but its angular geometry works just as well anywhere. It’s a play on traditional hexagonal grids and its interwoven chain links give a dynamic edge to a room. Daisy is inspired by a wall decoration in an old temple in Sri Lanka. Ashley has given it a punchy, pop presence that will inject a touch of 60's glamour into any room.
AF || Make Me A Rug
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AF || Make Me A Rug / Rugs that come with a personal service. Rugs that sit quietly in front of the TV or rugs that beg for attention. Rugs that welcome you home. Whether they speak softly or shout loudly, our personalised rugs say more about you than your mum does. Create your perfect rug with our fabulous online service, Make Me A Rug.
AF || Rug Stars
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AF || Rug Stars / Rug Stars ⭐ We asked interior tastemakers to create their own Alternative Flooring Rug using our fabulous Make Me A Rug bespoke service. See how they have used their rug in their homes.
AF || Rugs and Runners
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AF || Rugs and Runners / Let your imagination run wild. Choose from tried-and-tested traditional to rebellious Rock 'n' Roll. Where will your imagination take you? Go stripey, dotty, designer, rocky or demure. Maybe mix 'n' match carpet runners on your stairs? We've a carpet runner and a look thats all about you.
AF || Behind the Scenes
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AF || Behind the Scenes / See how our designs come to life - fabulous styling, camera checks, final touches and all set to work their magic in creating our latest lifestyle shots!
AF || In-situ
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AF || In-situ / And here's what our retailers have been up to... A selection of snapshots from some great Alternative carpet installations. Life is too short to live in dull spaces, get inspired from these wonderful home projects.
Curated || The Pink House
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Curated || The Pink House / Emily Murray is the founder and editor of The Pink House, an award-winning interiors blog dedicated to fabulous family living. We invited Emily to be our latest pinterest guest curator and to inspire us with all things pink!
Curated || Barefoot Comfort
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Curated || Barefoot Comfort / Award-winning interiors stylist and journalist Kate Watson-Smyth tells us visually what Barefoot Comfort means to her!
Curated || Kate Watson Smyth
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Curated || Kate Watson Smyth / Introducing you to our guest Pinterest curator Kate Watson-Smyth, interiors blogger of madaboutthehouse.com. Kate has been a national newspaper journalist for over 20 years and runs a successful interior styling business. We asked her to share the love of rugs and take us into a visual exploration of interior trends that inspire her!
Curated || Susie Clegg
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Curated || Susie Clegg
Curated || Pooky Lights
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Curated || Pooky Lights / Pooky's love of lighting is legendary and like Alternative Flooring they love a bit of quirkiness in the home. Sneaking an accent colour into a room with rugs and lamps is great fun! Alternative Flooring and Pooky have partnered to a competition offering a chance to WIN a statement rug and light. If you are hunting for a lamp in just the right colour and fancy designing your very own rug, then explore your options in this co-curated Pinterest board!
Curated || Margo Selby
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Curated || Margo Selby / Margo Selby is an award-winning woven textile designer and champion of craft. Her three-dimensional fabrics are the trademark of the Margo Selby brand. Margo is also an Alternative Flooring collaborator with her vibrant patterns woven as carpets and she is now one of our fabulous Rug Stars. See what inspires Margo.
Curated || Carole King
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Curated || Carole King / Welcoming Wool Crafty, the stylish new member of Alternative Flooring's undyed wool eco collections by intoducing our very first guest-pinned board by Interior Designer and Heart Home magazine co-founder, Carole King. A visual exploration on wool textures and decorating ideas.
Inspiration || Rock n Roll
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Inspiration || Rock n Roll / Let your loud inner voice strut its stuff with rebellious Rock 'n' Roll. Texture and tone come through loud and clear as striking striped carpets shout the house down.
Inspiration || Indoor-Outdoor Living
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Inspiration || Indoor-Outdoor Living / ANYWHERE is Alternative’s new hybrid flooring designed for indoor-outdoor living! Any place, any time... this clever collection of contemporary sisal-style carpet and rugs is perfect for all occasions, whatever the weather. Get inspiration from those 20 Indoor-Outdoor spaces to fall in love with!
Inspiration || Stripes
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Inspiration || Stripes
Inspiration || Nautical
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Inspiration || Nautical / Nautical is a carefree theme that adds a holiday mood to any interior.
Inspiration || Iconic Britain
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Inspiration || Iconic Britain / At Alternative Flooring we work with some of the UK's leading interior and architectural designers to bring you iconic carpet designs that reflect Britain's design history and point to the future of interior design. Here we draw inspiration from some of Britain's greatest icons. More tea anyone?
Inspiration || Herringbone & Chevron
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Inspiration || Herringbone & Chevron / Give directional charm to your floor with textured pattern. Herringbones offer instant character to any home.
Inspiration || Home Office Ideas
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Inspiration || Home Office Ideas / The home office / study is a place where creativity happens - creating a tranquil space that encourages focus is essential. Achieve the perfect work space with lighting, furniture and flooring that makes you want to work almost as hard as you play!
Inspiration || Hallway Ideas
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Inspiration || Hallway Ideas / Make a statement in your hall. Be inspired - the space connecting the entrance and the living rooms deserves to have as much style and character as the rest of the house.
Inspiration || Stairway Ideas
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Inspiration || Stairway Ideas / Inspiration for decorating the stairway. Often the entryway to the home, the staricase can be fabulous with the right lighting, runners and railings.
Inspiration || Living Room Ideas
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Inspiration || Living Room Ideas / A living room can be the heart of the house, be inspired by styles and trends to make your lounge a place where you can relax and socialise.
Inspiration || Bedroom Ideas
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Inspiration || Bedroom Ideas / A bedroom is more than a room in the house for the bed, the decoration is an opportunity to reflect your style with flooring and furniture that encourages peace and tranquility. Here is some of our favourite bedroom design inspiration.
Inspiration || Dining Room Ideas
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Inspiration || Dining Room Ideas / The dining room is often the focal point when entertaining or eating with family and friends. There is an opportunity to wow with furniture, lighting and of course fabulous flooring. Here are some of our favourite dining room decor ideas.
Inspiration || Kitchen & Bathroom
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Inspiration || Kitchen & Bathroom
Inspiration || Greenery
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Inspiration || Greenery / Greenery is symbolic of new beginnings. We are celebrating this fresh and revitalising shade in this Pinterest board!