To think rooms and carpets will come back into fashion

[Arbesque]

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?

We have a vacuum cleaner to clean the carpets and share a carpet cleaning machine (it was quite expensive) with family member. I don't think my carpets are full of dirt, they are cleaned every other day and shampooed 4 times a year. No outdoor shoes allowed, carpet slippers or socks only. Nice to relax in the drawing room in comfort away from the vinyl floor of the kitchen.

I love a carpet. Hate wood floors. Carpets are cosy and warm and are nice to sit on. We only have wood floor in the kitchen and loo.

Sounds like all the houses shown on Grand Designs!

We’ve got a eat in kitchen (with both a breakfast bar and a full dining table) and then a separate lounge. It woks well. Wooden floors with rugs in the living room. Bedrooms are carpeted. The one fail is that the rumpus room can’t be closed off, it’s in an alcove with a void so no ceiling and Christ the noise carries….

I think ideally you would have an open plan area plus an extra separate snug / living room. I'd love this but house too small!

However I honestly think carpet is disgusting. I've lived outside of the uk now for a number of years and always find it so strange when I come back now. Also from a climate change point of view, carpet is not great in hot weather, a hard Wood or tiled floor is cooler.

I hate open plan and floors too but I think this fashion will continue as with global warning, generally temperatures will be going up.

I like open plan with carpets. Nothing nicer than that soft luxurious feel on my feet in the mornings. Having a feeling of open space though is still my preference throughout the house. I keep a door on the kitchen though. Just don’t like hallways.

Not keen on open plan, I always think they must be noisy. I prefer carpet as it feels warmer. Also when we were really poor when I was newly moved out we couldn’t afford to put flooring down so we always had the cold wood floor boards (not laid hard flooring) or concrete. Carpet to me now is a luxury item that makes the house cosy. It made so much difference when I could afford proper nice carpet. House is much warmer too.

Hey guess what, not everyone lives in a house
Guess what! We know.
But maybe this thread is for those that do ( or live in an apartment or similar)

I think it’s already happening - my kids complain that our wooden flooring is old fashioned. I didn’t believe them, but since I have noticed that luxurious carpet is everywhere ( magazines, show homes, friends homes etc)!

We’re hoping to do an extension in the next few years and I’ve already said after this summer we should reconsider our plans to use a lot of glass. We went to a relative’s house on one of the hot days and found it so uncomfortable (open plan and a lot of glass). There was no-where to escape the heat whereas our house has stayed relatively cool downstairs due to the layout. Definitely something to think about. Can’t afford to do the extension for a while but I do think trends will change.

We have a vacuum cleaner to clean the carpets and share a carpet cleaning machine (it was quite expensive) with family member. I don't think my carpets are full of dirt, they are cleaned every other day and shampooed 4 times a year. No outdoor shoes allowed, carpet slippers or socks only. Nice to relax in the drawing room in comfort away from the vinyl floor of the kitchen.

I have the wood steam mopped weekly, hard floors will always be more thoroughly cleaned. Carpets can be nice, and although they do harbour more stuff, it's just one of those things you have to put to the back of your mind. A vacuum and shampoo is as much as you can do, it's fine. Hell, people with hard floors still have large immovable rugs, so it's sort of the same anyway

We have so much insulation under our laminate flooring it's as warm as, if not warmer than the carpet that it replaced.

We have carpets upstairs. Downstairs is wooden flooring with a runner in the hallway and a large rug in the living room. We have one reception or living room and a separate dining room. The kitchen is large enough for a separate table where we usually eat. Dh uses the dining room to wfh and we tend to use it when guests are over.

I'm not keen on open plan simply because I don't want cooking smells all over the downstairs of our home. I also like that there are separate spaces for us to hang out which will be useful as the kids get older.

My friend lives on a houseboat, but what else is there?

Good thread.
Only ever experienced open plan many years ago at centre parks. It seemed cosy and was nice to have the company when cooking.
But rooms are more practical for numerous teens.
Current home just me and dh.
Rooms and carpets.
Throughly hoovered each week including under The beds - no divans.
Kitchen has laminate with the best insulation so is warm even in winter.
Previously the kitchen had
carpet tiles but even as a shoes off house they got grubby round the outside door.
We do still have carpet in the family bathroom and ensuite simply because we haven't got round to doing though rooms up, but they will probably end up with some kind of hard floor.

I didn't realise they were out of fashion. Must let my interior designer know!

My house is separate rooms and carpeted everywhere apart from kitchen and bathrooms.

My best friend's house was once like that, but then she knocked it through and removed all the carpets downstairs. She cited a dog and young children as the excuse, but sorry, it's awful. It's so cold in atmosphere, clinical, not at all cozy, and worst is that it ECHOES, because there's nothing to soak up the sound.

At on point I had no carpet in the hallway, just the bare boards. It made the hallway freezing with the cold that came up from below in winter. I assed thick rugs until the carpet was replaced. Now I've got good quality thick laminate and that keeps the freezing cold out but I still like a runner there to make it softer underfoot.
I have had relatives with tiled floors everywhere and while nice in summer again it seems to keep things cold.in winter
I personally like rooms, good to have spaces for different people to do their own thng, keep warm.in winter and keep one room tidy whatever else is going on. I'm afraid sometimes the kitchen us a bit of a mess and nice to abl to have visitors in the living room. Also open plan sucks if you have guests sleeping downstairs, you need at least to be able to shut the kitchen off so you're not walking through someone's temporary bedroom to get a coffee in the morning if you have to go out before they need to get up

We moved from an Edwardian house with wooden floors and rugs to a Victorian town house with fitted carpets. I can't believe the difference in comfort and warmth retention. I'm willing to forgoe the aesthetics of wooden floors for the cosiness and energy saving of carpets. They are pale oatmeal wool and I still use rugs on top in front of the woodburners and sheepskins in the bedrooms for extra cosiness. I wouldn't go back to floorboards now although modern fitted wooden floors may be less draughty than ours were.

I should have said in my last comment that yes I do agree that people will go back to individual rooms as they are so much more cost effective to heat, apart from privacy etc. I wouldn't change our 1930s house layout. However, just been speaking to DD this morning who is renovating a 1960s 2 bed, which was last "updated" in the 70s. The kitchen is not even as big as a galley, just a cooker, fridge and 2 cupboards below the sink. Small worktop over the fridge, that is it - so they are planning to knock through to the dining room to make a kitchen diner. Their concern had been that the dining room already had an archway to the sitting room. They have just made a really fab discovery. In the 70s revamp the previous owner had boarded up pocket doors in the archway. Removing the wooden architrave revealed a pair of intact wooden doors and complete track! This is going to really help them as they will now be able to shut off the sitting room as both that room and the kitchen have doors off the hall. I am feeling so chuffed for them. They can be totally open plan if they entertain, and then shut off rooms as they wish. Very cool solution. Perhaps retro pocket doors are a best of both worlds way forward?

I agree op.
I have always preferred small, intimate rooms to open plan. I don’t like pubs or restaurants that are one, huge homogenous space either, I walk out. I don’t want others looking at me or being in my space, I want privacy and want only to sit with those I’m out with. This carries on in my preference at home.
I have carpets and I notice the difference if I visit homes which are uncarpeted or open plan, much colder and noisier.
I do take the point about cleanliness. I don’t have carpeted kitchens or bathrooms. We also have a very good carpet cleaner which we use so that helps and everyone removes their shoes in my house.
I do like the look of big open spaces when you see it on TV but my, the expense of heating them must be a horror story.

I'm hoping coloured bathroom suites come back into fashion soon. I'd love an old lady pink suite!

@twoboystwodogs I think I heard they might be, just nicer colours

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You can have the one I inherited
Including bidet and corner bath.