Rugs

Nature first

GAN’s 2021 collection has several inspirations. Visit: www.gan-rugs.com

Samuel Wilkinson’s Echo has a repeating pattern of crosses that appear to subtly vibrate: the outer strokes of each cross represent the reverberations of the central dots, which stand out as small flashes in lighter shades. The rug is available in red and green.

Inma Bermúdez’ Roots collection has four kilim models, with jute weft and cotton warp. In each of its versions, the shape of the square creates a pattern that is repeated at different scales and rhythms to represent a fabric, a material or a slight variation in colour – always within the natural tones of the jute: ochre, beige or brown. 

Stroolmount switches to the Manchester Furniture Show in 2022

Like lots of things at the moment, we’ll have to wait a bit longer… Stroolmount has reluctantly made the difficult decision to skip exhibiting at this year’s Manchester Flooring Show in Harrogate. Stroolmount will now be part of next year’s show. ‘So we’ll see you in 2022 back in Manchester instead,’ says Gill Finch, Stroolmount md. ‘Plus, you can see us this year on 1 July at CFJ Live and and also at The Flooring Show in September.’

Reliability you’ll love, innovation that’ll surprise you

Family-run Stroolmount is the trade’s favourite specialist protection supplier. It continues to support businesses with superior quality and exceptional service. ‘We’re known to go the extra mile, with innovative solutions such as Furniglides so you can move even the heaviest furniture, even recliner sofas, without scaring your flooring. And our Move-it Pads are fitters’ best-kept secret – they slide furniture around like it’s on ice,’ says Finch,

Award-winning protection from just 1p

Nowadays we all want protection. It helps give us certainty and confidence. So choose the best protection you can: Stroolmount.

Stoolmount’s Self-adhesive Felt is superior quality, with stronger glue and thicker felt: it insists on a hefty 5mm thickness, while many others skimp with just 3mm.

For longer-term protection, go for hardwearing, award-winning Quickclick Glides. They protect floors, reduce noise and reduce stress on furniture joints: so they’re ideal for all furniture, especially dining chairs and kitchen stools that are scraped back and forth.

Quickclick Glides have different interchangeable glides for different flooring: carpet glides, tile glides, wood/laminate glides – plus there’s even a special anti-slip glide. They’re great for when you want to change your flooring or you’re moving chairs, for example, to a room that has a different type of flooring. You can just click out the existing glide and click in a new glide type.

See the full range in Stroolmount’s new brochure free inside this issue of Interiors Monthly.

Just email enquiries@stroolmount.co.uk with whatever you need, or if you’ve a query or you just want more information.

Diamond, by Charlotte Lancelot, is a mainstay of GAN’s outdoor collection: now it has come indoors, swapping recycled PET for hand-tufted wool. The rugs are available in the green/grey (pictured), blue/brown and orange/wine colour combinations that have been added to the outdoor products (below).

Thanks to the use of undyed wool, the commitment to using locally sourced materials and production centres, and to the manual production in small workshops in India, Made Studio’s Pure exemplifies GAN’s vocation for sustainability and social and environmental respect

Natural Arty uses undyed wool as it combines its air of abstract paintings with a discreet and minimalist style

Road trip

The Countryside Flooring Company received new signage, as did Hugo’s Café and Happyland play area

Preston to Sussex to Cornwall (and home) is all in a week’s work

One of the main benefits of Metro membership is full access to the group’s bespoke and subsidised marketing service. As each independent retailer runs a business its own way, Metro appreciates this and offers solutions for almost every scenario.

In one week last month the marketing team travelled from the north-east to Lancashire, to Sussex, to Cornwall and then home.

The Countryside Flooring Company in Forton, near Preston was the first stop and old, outdated signage was replaced. As part of a re-allocation of space, its successful Hugo’s Cafe has used some of the excess flooring warehouse to open a soft play area for children and this received a new look. Both sides of the business now share the site and all displays and signage complement each other.

The following day it was a 250-mile trip south to deliver four Carpet 1st own-label displays to Carpet 1st Flooring in Chichester. While there, the team took measurements and details for an upcoming refurbishment of displays.

Then it was a short trip over to Rustington, to Highdown Carpets, to look at the option of replacing or refurbishing its existing shop sign. Although time had taken its toll on the lighting and acrylic infills on the sign, the metal structure was in pretty much perfect condition, so the obvious option was to remove the sign and take it back to Metro’s Sign Studio to refit with new acrylic, vinyl and vastly superior LED lighting.

The next trip of the week was all the way down to Cornwall for a visit to The Carpet Shop in Bodmin. As a recently recruited member in late 2020, it was looking at ways to boost the appearance of the business but also to change over all in-store products to Metro’s own brand, Carpet 1st. Visuals will be created for new signage and internal displays, plus an ordering system will be set up so that labels and graphics can be ordered remotely. Products including hard floors and LVT can then be rebranded without the need for a 900-mile round trip.

The type of premises, product offering and market positioning of its members varies hugely, but Metro has the capacity to meet each member’s business needs, no matter how extensive or basic – from a 10m external sign to a price label. Metro takes care of it all. Quite literally, no job is too big or too small. Visit: www.carpet1st.co.uk

Highdown Carpets’ shop sign will be refurbished