Nice people thread part 3- Nice as pie

PasturesNew

My ideal home would have hard floorings throughout - easy to keep clean. Then I'd use rugs. Rugs are better than fitted carpets; they can be room sized too. It's so hard to pick the right colour carpet and it's not until it's down that you know how it'll look (I can't visualise at all). With a carpet you have to order/buy underlay and pay for a fitter. Then you have to clear a room and have a day off for the fitter. Then if some idiot spills something, or it wears down in one spot, it's obvious.

Rugs you can drag outside for a beating, chuck into different rooms, chuck other rugs on top, chop and change. No underlay, no fitting man, no clearing a room to have them fitted. No worries if there's a spillage or one is in a high traffic area. Also, a big plus - you can take rugs home and chuck them down the same day!

When I was growing up our floors were solid concrete, which were painted round the edge in slightly shiny black - then we had a square carpet down that left about 1' all the way round. We only had that in one room, the other room we had lino in; that made us "dead posh". The kitchen had those old fashioned, standard, square floor tiles that were glued down.

SingleSue

Brrrr, the rain finally caught up with us and it hasn't stopped since around 5 this afternoon...now very blustery, peeing it down and pretty damn cold (15 degrees in my bedroom).

I'm snuggled under the duvet in my bedroom keeping warm after watching the marathon F1 GP with the boys downstairs (feet got very cold!).

PasturesNew

Bizarre rug... http://www.therugretailer.co.uk/kisses-multi.html
But I bet one of you lot likes it.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

My ideal home would have hard floorings throughout - easy to keep clean. Then I'd use rugs. Rugs are better than fitted carpets; they can be room sized too. It's so hard to pick the right colour carpet and it's not until it's down that you know how it'll look (I can't visualise at all). With a carpet you have to order/buy underlay and pay for a fitter. Then you have to clear a room and have a day off for the fitter. Then if some idiot spills something, or it wears down in one spot, it's obvious.

Rugs you can drag outside for a beating, chuck into different rooms, chuck other rugs on top, chop and change. No underlay, no fitting man, no clearing a room to have them fitted. No worries if there's a spillage or one is in a high traffic area. Also, a big plus - you can take rugs home and chuck them down the same day!

When I was growing up our floors were solid concrete, which were painted round the edge in slightly shiny black - then we had a square carpet down that left about 1' all the way round. We only had that in one room, the other room we had lino in; that made us "dead posh". The kitchen had those old fashioned, standard, square floor tiles that were glued down.

I agree...apart from stairs in draughty old houses where we'd freeze and the carpet will buffer noise. we have to srt out floors on ground level here, but front will all be wood, back stone. Upstairs we have original floors, and will get as close a match as possible for new bit. Its just the stairs, long term....back ones are staying wood though.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Bizarre rug... http://www.therugretailer.co.uk/kisses-multi.html
But I bet one of you lot likes it.

Its ok...I wouldn't buy it though.

PasturesNew

I think rugs also allow you to be a bit daring ... because you can always chuck it in another room in 5-10 years' time and get another one.

Once a carpet's been fitted, that's it for 20-30 years, or life.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Bizarre rug... http://www.therugretailer.co.uk/kisses-multi.html
But I bet one of you lot likes it.

Dog would turn it grey (and yellow, no doubt) in no time. Not for me, I prefer dirtier colours. It would great on set in The Only Way is Essex though!

I didn't comment on the gold wall, I think it would look brilliant on slightly rough, old plaster in an old house. Not so great on a freshly plastered wall in the Brownfield development mentioned above.

michaels

All our new bits will be real wood or porcelain tiles, I still want a glass staircase all the way up to the loft room - mostly to add a wow factor when coming through the front door but that will have to wait to phase 2.

I didn't find it cold here but did notice the rads were warm.

LydiaJ

Well, I like carpets rather than hard floors. But that's because I'm one of those people who almost always feel cold, often doesn't wear shoes, and likes a warm surface underfoot. I also have two elephant-footed children (or that's what it sounds like) who thunder about the house badly enough even with carpets.

This house has lino in the kitchen, conservatory and bathrooms, ceramic tiles in the downstairs loo and the utility room, laminate in the hall, wooden open-treaded stairs, and carpet everywhere else. I'm happy with all of it except that I would prefer it if there were lino in the utility, and I wish so fervently that the previous owners hadn't recarpeted the entire house in a variety of shades of beige in order to sell it. I hate beige carpet - it looks boring and it shows every speck of dirt or spill or whatever. But I don't believe in wasting money replacing serviceable carpet just because you don't like the colour, so I'm stuck with beige everywhere until we can wear it out. Maybe I'll get some rugs to cover up the beigeness - although of course that will make the carpet take even longer to wear out. For preference, I'd have carpet with a little bit of small pattern or a fleck or something - enough to make it forgiving of marks but not enough to draw attention to itself.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

All our new bits will be real wood or porcelain tiles, I still want a glass staircase all the way up to the loft room - mostly to add a wow factor when coming through the front door but that will have to wait to phase 2.

I didn't find it cold here but did notice the rads were warm.

Did you see the news report this week about the glass staircase in America? It was a public/court building and they had to stop anybody in a skirt/dress going up it (including judges in long gowns) as you could see right up their skirts from underneath the stairs.