Real wooden floors....what an excellent idea for a childless couple...

[Mosaic]

..but not for a growing family in a semi! Our next-doors are excellent in every respect, but now that their little one is toddling and toy-chucking, I sometimes think back fondly to the days when a fitted carpet was all the rage.
Give it 18 years, it will pass.

[Euphemia]

Real wooden floors are a menace in semis or in houses converted into flats.

[Brenden]

How fashions change, in my young days floorboards were a sign of poverty.

[The Builder]

Stairs are even worse, Mosers. I've made a few staircases, and within a few days they'd carpeted them ......... even an oak one :o(

[craft1948]

I love my wooden floors, would never go back to fitted carpets.

[barry1010]

Had the same with my neighbours, could even hear her clop clop clopping around in her shoes.

Thankfully they put carpets down after a year or so - she said the wooden floor was more high maintenance than carpets. And her dog kept skidding, and his claws tink tink tinking over the floor drove them mad.

[Euphemia]

I regularly have things clattering across the floor next door at 1am... Talk about bumps in the night!

[Mosaic]

Builder - that just leaves me speechless! Money and sense not in equal measure....
Thing is as well, I'm quite sure these 'feature' rugs you see on wooden floor are a skiddy-trip hazrd waiting to happen. Oooh, I remember tripping over a bearskin rug when I was a toddler - right next to a tiled hearth....ouchy.
But it's also how times change, as Brenden says....when I'm decorating I often get down to the original floorboards and they were hacked abut something chronic by 1960's central heating, rewiring jobs etc - such a shame, so better covered up now in any case.