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?

I had new windows two years ago and I think they're tripled glazed.

I am moving in 2 weeks from an open plan kitchen, dining living room house to separate room house; actually can't wait to be able to shut the living room door etc

Maybe I'll regret it, but right now I crave some separation lol

I love open plan with small DC but agree that it’s less good news once everyone is past the stage of needing constant supervision.

With animals and messy DC wooden floors are a godsend. I grew up with them in the 80s (in a Victorian terrace) so I don’t think they’re necessarily only a new fashion.

A kitchen-diner's ok if you've got a separate living room - but one single big reception room with a kitchen in it is not for me.

When I was looking at moving flats last year, so many of the more modern ones had one open-plan kitchen-living-dining room. Ended up in one with a separate kitchen - though it's not huge, I like being able to eat in the kitchen and then retire to the living room away from all the cooking stuff.

We’re both retired and when you’re both in the house a lot you need to be able to get away from each other!
I love going into ‘my’ room and get away from the 500th repeat of Wheeler Dealers or Salvage Hunter!
We also have plain beige carpet everywhere except bathroom and kitchen but no kids or pets and DH loves using the carpet shampooing machine.
I couldn’t live open plan, I love my solitude too much.

Open plan only works when you have toddlers to keep an eye on - after that you need rooms for teenagers to hide in with their friends.

Hate open plan and carpets are just disgusting.

I think walls will start going back up again quickly if the energy crisis continues. And carpets for that matter! I cannot wait until my DC are old enough to not spill things and get a lovely thick carpet in the lounge.

Warm though. What exactly do you think is disgusting about them? That’s an entirely genuine question.

They collect dust mites, skin cells, dirt, insects, mould, etc. You can Google it and read about how filthy they are.

I think open plan is on the way out, for sure. But it's dying hard.

Carpets though..... they harbour skin flakelets, hair, pubic hair, dust, grime, unguents and whatnot. Urgh. No.

We have rooms and carpets. Love them both.

I much prefer open plan to feeling shut away when in the kitchen, but it’s nice to have a separate, cosy living room. I love wooden floors, too. The one flooring type I hate, and see no need for in the UK, are those horrible big grey/chewing gum colour tiles. They’re so cold and impersonal and ugly. Like an airport terminal or a shopping mall rather than a home. Awful.

That’s why you regularly Hoover them. Ours nearly sucks the pile off! And I dread to think what people are doing on their carpets if they harbour pubic hair!

I loved the look of my carpets the day they were laid but with kids and cats they just haven’t lasted and that’s with us being a shoes off house!

It’ll be hard flooring (at least downstairs) for us next time.

I'm experimenting with screens to reduce the size of some rooms to make them easier to heat.

I'm also wondering if I can make an affordable 4 poster arrangements around the beds to help them retain local heating.

Yes, massive, especially if they have thermal linings.

I’ve just moved into a new build HA flat. Unless it was a ground floor flat we had to get carpet. And it’s an open plan kitchen/living room - diner. I don’t mind the carpet but the open plan layout feels very unfamiliar and is taking some getting used to. It’s massively better than my old flat though but if I could choose I’d not choose open plan. Carpet not so much a big problem as I’ve got polypropylene so it’s pretty stain resistant.

I would never go open plan, and I’m keeping my carpets.

We had wooden floors downstairs and changed them for carpets a few years ago. Much warmer and neat-looking, but the moths have got to them, sadly. Not sure what to do now.

And open fires, woodburner,so people can be more independent and have come control.

@EmbarrassingHadrosaurus

What a fabulous Idea!

With very cheap wooden frame I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to do?

I have a quite big house and lots of little rooms rather than open plan - we have never quite been able to afford knocking things through or adding the kitchen extension we probably need. If we ever come to a time when we can actually afford to do it, you can bet that will be the year open plan goes out of fashion.

We moved into our house with wooden floors throughout the downstairs- it was like living in a village hall!! Even with rugs.

Lots of walls and doors and carpets for us!

Soft furnishings are essential to manage sound levels. Hell is filled with large echoing, cavernous spaces.

Our hall still has the original 30+yo carpet and it's still functional and saw us through two crawling infants. We'