Would you tile the whole downstairs?

lostinrates

The dogs convince me, the right tile is a good move. We have inherited carpets in our house, and I cannot wait till we can take them up. The rest of the Ouse is concrete floor, and I am keeping it like that till we can afford to replace floors through out because the 'interim' carpet option is vile with dogs. ( and delays date when the final floor finish can come in)

We have a mixture of rugs...from 'Persian' carpets through to washable rugs in rooms the dogs are in more often.

When we sit on the floor it's on a rug, and its snuggle and clean, the carpet makes me feel a bit gruesome. We recently bought a bissel carpet cleaner and its great, but it still makes me feel a bit gruesome about the carpets.

dorisday

\I live in a ground floor self contained apartment and have marble tiles in all rooms have tried carpets real wood flooring but much prefer the tiles. they are a gorgeous shade of cream and being real marble have lots of markings threw them. they appear to be no colder or warmer than wood flooring and are sooooo much easier to keep clean using a broom and occasional steamer. I look after dogs for a living and any little accidents or dirty paws or soon cleaned up.

rachbc

I wouldn't even have tiles in the bathroom if OH and I could agree an alternative.

any_name_will_suffice

When we replace the flooring in our house, we're planning tiling right through downstairs.

Not that we can afford it any time soon

meritaten

my sis had ceramic tiles on the floor in her kitchen and I used to slip all over it!
I like the old quarry tiles on floor though, and the really old flagstone tiles look beautiful. but, to me, wall to wall carpet is far nicer to walk on and safer too.

Carer

I have italian porcelain tiles (slight texture so not slippery) in the living room and ceramic tiles thoughout the rest of the downstairs. They've been down 15 years are not cold at all and look as good as they day they were laid.
My kids were fine on them and now my grandchildren play on them with no problems No rugs and no carpets anywhere downstairs as I hate them and they smell if you have animals (and we have dogs and cats).
I love being able to sweep and steam my floors and know that I could then eat off them if I wanted to.
If I had my way I'd tile the entire house including the stairs but OH is resisting that idea!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

I had tiled floors throughout my first flat, on concrete and presumably installed by a foresighted previous occupier.

It was easy to keep clean, and I only needed to spend enough money to buy a couple of rugs, rather than pay out for carpets. It was also perfectly warm and bright, despite only having two windows, one in the living room, one in the bedroom.

Peanut2013

I think it would feel like you were in Italy, might be good for you :P

My parents have every room downstairs BUT the living room tiles as its more practical with the dogs / cat / messy brother. Lol

yumyums

I grew up in a country where tiles are the norm and if I were to have a house there I'd have tiles throughout as they're lovely and cool in the hot weather. No one worries about their young children hurting themselves and we happily played on the floor. Here though my ideal choice if I had the money would be natural stone in the kitchen and bathroom and solid or engineered wood elsewhere.

peachyprice

OP, I think you may have to look at what direction your individual rooms face when deciding.

Some people are saying their tiled rooms are not cold, my kitchen most definitley is, it's not my imagination! But it's always the coldest room in the house, the window faces east so gets very little sun after early morning and it has a north facing outside wall. If it were at the back of the house facing west I doubt it would be half as cold.