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?

Who cares about fashion? Have your house however you like.

I'm a fan of carpets / rugs and separate rooms. It's a formula unchanged for some centuries, I don't think it needs messing with.

Also we're literally covered in hair and skin. There are millions of mites living ON us. Who cares if there's some on the carpet? Hoover regularly and you'll be fine.

We have rooms , I’m not a fan of open plan , I really don’t want to be watching TV and see kitchen units in the background . We have a kitchen with room for a 4 seat table , a main lounge / diner and then another smaller lounge . We have wood throughout except upstairs but that’s mainly because it’s easier to keep clean with the dog .

I love open plan and don’t ever want to go back to doors . However , the washing machine and tumble dryer are in a separate utility room so I never hear them .
I always used to smell food in the lounge anyway , so can honestly say this has never been a problem .
I love being able to cook and wash up without feeling shut away and it’s a great motivation when it comes to never leaving dishes overnight .
I hate carpets, but love rugs .

As long as carpets in bathrooms doesnt come back in fashion. Its disgusting..

A bit of both would be nice, I personally like to not have a separate kitchen from a dining room. it’s more social.
But separate rooms also were very handy in lockdown, and saving energy.

Good God I hope not. Flooring so much cleaner and better with under floor heating. Added rug if required.

Open plan v separate rooms depends on your layout, but I'm in no rush to add doors, shut out the light and partition things off.

That's what I'm trying for the screens (it also helps that I managed to pick up a cheap bifold door in a sale that I should be able to convert).

The 4 poster frame might be a bit trickier as I want them to take curtain weight rather than 'bed veil' weight, for warmth, IYSWIM. I've seen some very flimsy arrangements with plastic plumbing fixtures that didn't look good (although would be improved with fabric wrapping) and wouldn't take much weight. But, for a king size bed, I've got my eye on cutting down a metal pergola that one of my neighbours doesn't want. If I put in some connectors and extra braces, it should be strong enough to take proper hangings or some papier-mâché panels.

I did wonder in 1930s style heavy tweed suits, big coats that you could then put on your bed and thick woollen wear will all be making a comeback?

Obviously rooms and public places will be colder.

I understand open plan in small flats - loads of small rooms wouldn’t be as good. But in a house that can take rooms, rooms all the way.
Our house needed a big refurbishment and some structural changes when we bought it. A few years later the original estate agent came round to revalue and eagerly asked if we’d opened it up to be one big room… I have never once regretted keeping the rooms separate.

I got rid of all my carpet as I have cats that projectile vomit everywhere. Wooden flooring is way easier to clean cat hurl off.

We knocked our tiny Kitchen and the dining room in to one 40 years ago, I have never regretted it, I hated being shut away in the kitchen while cooking. When we retired, we had a multifuel stove installed, so that we could keep one room warm without using cental heating. The washer and dryer are in a separate utility room. It is a lovely sunny room with French windows to the garden, I have practical Karndean flooring with rugs, I love it and will not be changing. I do have another room which is cosy, but still hard floors, as I hate the dirt and dust which collects in carpets.

Fashion's almost always come back round, so yes, it's likely. I can't imagine people wanting small kitchens though.

I'm fortunate that my house has both - a large open plan kitchen/ living room and a separate playroom (or dining room depending on what you like) and separate lounge. I wouldn't want totally open plan.

Never felt the need to follow 'trends' so still have rooms.........

I knew someone who'd split their open planned semi back into seperate rooms to improve heating. While the rooms were small, there wasn't a practical gain on losing the divide anyway and when they put the wall in, they actually built it as bookshelves so gained much more storage.

I've been watching organisation type videos on youtube and most of them tend towards minimalism, open spaces and a limited repetoire of decor, and on some of them, the background echo is awful. Being able to shut doors and block noise from other members of the household is so important to sanity!

I'll do lino in the kitchen/ downstairs wet spaces, and tiles are fine in an upstairs bathroom (too cold for downstairs), but otherwise it's carpet everywhere else. The previous occupants had a laminate obsession and it was so good to finally get back to carpet in the bedroom at long last. Having to get up in the night for feeds onto cold, hard laminate was not fun.

Open plan and hard surfaces would be a major reinvestment to make a house back into a comfortable, functional home again.

Yes, I also find it allows me to have space from DC. I don’t mean never seeing them, but never even being in a different room to them would just be too much for me.

Often on a weekend they’ll be watching TV, DH and I will be cooking in the kitchen and sharing a bottle of wine and having a catch up. Obviously we’re all close enough to check on them regularly but it’s all the space from them that I need every now and then.

If I could magic up another room in my house it would be another family room / sitting room etc over another bedroom. It’s great to be able to have space from each other - watch separate TV programmes, or quietly read away from people wanting to chat or kids do homework etc - without having to go up to a bedroom.

I don't disagree.

We're looking to knock our kitchen and dining room together as it's currently very impractical, whereas currently the living room and dining room are knocked together. There's a wooden floor running between them now too.

When I'm finished I'll have a carpeted living room with pocket doors to the dining room and a kitchen diner with either wooden or tiled flooring.

I thought I'd love a wooden floor and it is practical when a pet or child throws up or drops something, but it's so, so cold in there and a carpet (and doors) will make it cosy again.

Had open plan with pocket doors to separate the living room if we wanted to close it. Never once had an issue with cooking smells in my loving room nor the noise of the dishwasher. My washing machine was in the utility room at the other end of the house. Now in a house with every room separate and bloody hate it, i feel so shut off when people are over and even when am on my own. More than three people in the kitchen and it feels cramped. Pain in the arse when hoovering too.
It has wooden floor all over the house and even with a rug down it feels cold and horrible. Plus every bit of dirt shows up on it and am hoovering sometimes twice a day. Love carpets they make a room felle so snug and warm plus are a great sound insulator. Dont see them as dirty, why cant you just do a good hoover. New house will be built with a long kitchen dinner living area loads of space and big doors at one end, do have a snug living room to one side that can be closed off when need too. Can not wait

Nor me, have a separate front room with carpet

My neighbours have it. Also carpeted kitchen
They chose this as it was built 15 years ago
I mean WTF do you do if you drop a pint of milk?!

Maybe I'm just a huge slattern, but I don't really understand the whole 'carpets are unhygienic' thing. Sure I get it if it's in a bathroom or kitchen (which is pure madness anyway) but anywhere else, no one's eating off the floor, and if you're regularly hoovering then what's the problem? Are some people getting ill from their carpets or something?!

My last house was open plan with wood floors. My current one is small rooms with carpet in one room. I miss the wood floor but i dont miss open plan one bit.

I didn’t know my house was out of fashion 🤷‍♀️
I have a few house pet peeves: open plan living area being one. I stopped cooking when I had an open plan living area because everything stank so fish and curries were off the menu. I don’t want to smell the residual odour when I sit down of an evening to relax. I don’t want to hear the dishwasher/washing machine. I want somewhere to be able to dry my clothes indoors. I want to have privacy that doesn’t mean going to bed. There is nothing to recommend open plan to me.

Kitchen/dining room I like but I need a separate lounge. But as for carpets downstairs nope I hate them. I like them upstairs though as it makes the bedroom seem cosier.

I’m not keen on open plan anyway although I do like room for dining table in kitchen rather than separate

I wouldn’t replace wood floors though

We do have massively thick curtains triple lined, which I appreciate in cold but also in those really hot days as blocked heat

Open plan isn't really a problem as I've noticed a trend of people putting in Crittall glass partitions to construct rooms like in the one below.

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I'm guessing the fashion for succulents and cacti will go out as rooms become colder.