When buying, living room; Carpet or Wooden flooring??

goodwithsaving

Carpets, so long as the living room isn't a 'through room', otherwise dirt spreads even if a shoe-less house.
You know you can change floors, right? You don't have to buy a house with the correct flooring already!

societys_child

You know you can change floors, right? You don't have to buy a house with the correct flooring already!

Exactly, once upon a time the house you just bought came with wall to wall fitted floorboards.


I've never bought a house with carpets I'd want to keep. They were the first things to go . .

chickens11

Wood floors and one rug , kitchen bathroom room and hall tiles .....At least when you wash the floors you know they are clean , but with carpets everywhere they trap dust and grime and cant be cleaned frequently .....Just got fitted carpet in one bedroom but we never wear shoes in there ......

ratechaser

Wood flooring and tiling throughought downstairs, carpet from the base of the stairs and across the top floors (ok, not the bathrooms, this isn't the 1980s ��)

Debtfreestudentnurse

Tiles in kitchen and bathroom, carpets everywhere else. I have wood at the moment and hate it!

CarrieVS

Tiles (or lino) kitchen and bathroom, for obvious reasons. Carpets bedroom, for cosiness. Wood/laminate dining rooms and hallways where easy to clean trumps cosy. Living room could go either way.

But I could live with anything short of carpet in the kitchen (and even that, you just budget to replace it immediately and offer accordingly) until I got around to redecorating.

Lioness_Twinkletoes

AFF8879 wrote: »

Carpets 100%, they look better, feel better, and insulate against noise far better. But understand if anyone has pets why they’d prefer hard floors. I think carpets are better with young children personally.

I have hard floors and two dogs and I SWEAR they deliberately walk round the living room to make as much clacky noise as possible. I'm going back to carpets as soon as possible.

Sanne

Laminate for me - we were lucky that the house only had carpets in the master bedroom where I replaced it with laminate as well. I’ve got a bad allergy to dust mites so carpets don’t work for me.

scottishblondie

Hard flooring everywhere for me. We have a large rug in the living area and some runners in the front hall, but the hard flooring is just so much more practical.

phoebe1989seb

No fitted carpets for me....much prefer loads of vintage rugs! Practical reasons as well as aesthetic

Previous three houses we've had either original oak flooring (parquet in one) or engineered oak (fitted by us) in the living room. Current house has Victorian quarry tiles (black and red) in the main living room. We intended to replace with oak boards but our Persian rug covers most of it so decided to leave as is.

Bedrooms have painted original boards and rugs.

For kitchens we usually go for tiles - fitted unpolished limestone at our last but one house - but here we've a mixture of more quarries and floorboards.......