To think rooms and carpets will come back into fashion

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The current fashion for wooden floors and open plan layouts has been popular for years. I'm start to find myself drawn to separate rooms and very large rugs or carpets.
Do you think the fashion will change soon? Especially with heating bills soaring?

I hate open plan it is so impractical! I don't want to hear the dishwasher / washing machine/ food mixer etc while watching TV. I'm sticking with separate rooms, we all need spaces away from each other.

Probably!

I have separate rooms and carpet, apart from the kitchen and bathroom. Open plan and wooden flooring always feels cold to me.

Not carpets. They are hard to clean and replace. Wooden floors with large rugs that can be swapped if needed.

I'm waiting for patterned carpet to come back. The very plain stuff is so impractical!

Talking about this with my Mum this morning. I get an open plan family kitchen and dining room but would definitely want a separate lounge/snug room.
hard floors are so practical though can’t see those disappearing.

I’m with pp. I can’t stand open plan. I don’t want to sit on a sofa that stinks of cooking, I like doors!

There are yet more new build going up by us. 4 bed, 3 bath but the entire ground floor is open plan. I can’t fathom how that suits family life. I’ve seen Loads of TT posts too of people renovating beautiful homes by ripping all the lovely features -and doors and walls!-out. Horrible trend.

I have already had separate rooms and carpets (except in the kitchen/utility room, bathroom and cloakroom). I didn’t realise I was so out of date. Ah, well, they say that if you keep something long enough it comes back into fashion sooner or later.

I've got an open plan kitchen (tiled floor) and diner (wooden)

But I have 2 formal separate reception rooms both with carpet.

I agree, I need separate living spaces. If nothing else it's so the kids can leave us in peace and I can shut the door on all their crap!

Rooms already are coming back in what with people wfh and stuff they've realised that two downstairs rooms is better than one. Carpets are useless with cats and dogs.

I prefer wooden or laminate floors with rugs for practical and cleanliness reasons but I have never been a fan of open plan.
When you have teenagers it's particularly good to have separate rooms downstairs or they start taking their friends into the bedrooms.
I also like to be able to have somewhere to chat to friends if someone else wants to watch TV etc.
I think rooms might make a comeback.

Carpet in the bathroom used to be a thing. I hope that never comes back.

yanbu - we've just put a wall up between two of our open plan reception rooms (partly heating costs & partly logistics of wfh). I don't think I'll be persuaded by carpets downstairs though.

I think the hot summers will see massive glass extensions become less popular too - my parent's new build house was hellish this summer while our Victorian terrace was lovely and cool (I imagine this winter will see them comfortable & us chilly though!).

I like big rugs on wooden floors & I like curtains & have always had them with shutters, but I think many just have shutters now.

I hate carpets, so even it was the epitome of fashion, I'd never get one.

I don't like open plan. I like to shut the door in the kitchen and blast my tunes whilst cooking and keep cooking noises and smells in the kitchen

We do have living room/dining area open plan though, which I don't mind.

When people talk about open plan is that the whole of downstairs or just a kitchen/diner knocked through to make bigger kitchen?

Same here! Hate carpets, but rugs can be quite nice.

I have open plan. I want a hallway. And doors. More walls. I like wooden floors and rugs though.

We've just moved into a house where the previous owner had quite recently put down very lovely, deep new carpets. DH and I were certain that we would want wooden floors when we moved but these carpets are so soft and comfy under foot that we're going to stick with them for now!

The reason that homes were traditionally separated was that there would be a fireplace in each room to keep warm. With the advent of central heating this wasn't necessary, but with the COL crisis and soaring bills I can see a return to small rooms.
We live in a Victorian terrace that has been opened up, and as much as I love the wide open space and high ceilings, it's not going to be fun this winter. Thank god we have a small log burner that is surprisingly efficient, it may just save us in the coming months.

We have open plan with carpets in the living/dining area and laminate in the kitchen. I find wooden flooring really cold underfoot and we also have pets who find it much easier to get around on carpet.

Agree.

I have always hated carpet. Love my wooden floors. Easy to change a rug etc.

Never went out of fashion for me OP.

ours was completely open plan - kitchen/dining then two reception rooms. We've separated the front reception room completely now & are debating separating the kitchen/diner from the other sitting room. I prefer not to see/hear the kitchen while sitting down after a meal but reverse-open planning it will make it darker downstairs, I understand why the previous owners opened it up.

I'm another carpet hater - underfloor heating under tiles in kitchen/diner, wood everywhere else.

We’ve gone open plan downstairs.

I miss doors.