Wooden Floors Or Carpet

[Caribeing]

Whilst wooden floors may be practical and supposedly easy cleaned, I find them cold and uninviting especially in living rooms carpet is much cosier!

[pixie373]

It does depend which rooms, imo. You can use rugs, but hard floors are so much easier to really clean (especially with pets).

[gingejbee]

Absolutely agree...HATE wooden/laminate floors....remind me of waiting-rooms!

[EcclesCake]

Hardwood floor, underfloor heating and large rugs.

A pleasing compromise.

[pusskin]

Wouldnt like to have wood in our living room and we havent got pets.
But, seriously thinking of a wooden flooring in our hall way and a longish rug.
Our carpets getting a bit tatty so wooden floor for us next time.

[jennyjoan]

I have wooden floors but they are actually covered with big rugs.

I do agree with you Cari - carpet is far far warmer as my sister has carpet throughout her house and it is so warm.

Some day I am going to revert back to full carpet - when I get my teeth seen to. LOL

[bookbinder]

My wife and I are in our (early) 70s, and we associate bare, wooden floors with poverty. We both came from poor, but not poverty-stricken, families, and we had rugs and lino on the floors in our parents' houses. But we had friends who had to live with no floor covering at all, and they were really poor. For that reason, we would never live in a house with bare floors.

[Boto]

Carpets every time, and we do have pets. Wouldn't entertain the idea of wood/laminate - so cold.

[ummmm]

Wooden floors would be my choice.

[EcclesCake]

I was a bit sceptical when we first discussed changing from carpet to wood but am really pleased we did it.

I certainly don't find it cold, far from it in fact.

It is so easy to keep clean and the house is noticeably less dusty than it was with carpet which is good for those with allergies.

[Old_Geezer]

Precisely. Carpeting for luxury, Boards for style and convenience. Carpets hold loads of stuff one can't seem to get up. I was brought up in a carpeted house and still live in one, but I often think it would be more sensible to have varnished boards. Maybe a compromise is to have boards with a rug over ? Otherwise carpet bedrooms where you are often bare footed, maybe the landing for the same reason unless all bedrooms have en suite. Don't carpet bathrooms and kitchens though for sanitary reasons. The rest is personal choice of style.

[Henrietta]

Maybe a carpet with a wooden floor design.

Does that even exist?

[boxtops]

We have laminate flooring downstairs and bare floorboards (stained & polished) in our living room. Carpet gathers so much cat hair.... when I get a chance, I'm ripping up the old fitted carpets in the bedrooms. We've lifted all the stair carpet and painted the stairs, how they used to be in Edwardian times.