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 the hell has time to mop daily!

I like a mixture. We have thick carpet and rugs in the snug, Karndean in the kitchen / diner / living room and carpet in the office. Open plan kitchen and living space, separate utility for laundry and squidgy sofas and a door into the snug. The dishwasher is very quiet, and I don't cook food I consider to stink. The open plan space means we spend lots of time all together, the snug means we can hide / be quiet / have friends or whatever. Best of both worlds.

@Charlize43 what's supposed to be the point of that glass screening? In what way is it practical?

I look at that and see handprints and a lifelong job of cleaning them.

Carpets aren't disgusting. Maybe some people keep their carpets in a disgusting condition but that's a separate issue.

Most people with Carpets hoover them regularly. Unless you're washing your wooden floors 3 times a day they're not pristine and totally devoid of germs or whatever you're worried about either.

I take it you don't have a mattress, sheets, duvet, soft furnishings etc then?

Not RTFT, don't care about fashions, am guessing loads of folk are stuck with greys & silvers now because it was a fad. Ditto wooden floors. If I'd had those in my last house (200 yr old cottage) we would have frozen to death. I still like plain, pale carpets & walls for the feeling of calm & peace, & change accessories whenever I feel like it.

Can't abide open plan anyway. Carpets upstairs, wood floors with big rugs downstairs. No shoes on staircase upwards.

We made our kitchen and dining room open plan and 2 months later changed it back. We didn't use the sofa area as the dishwasher/washing machine were too loud. We then built a utility room so it was quieter then anyway!

We have carpet upstairs and in the living room and rugs everywhere. Can't stand floor tiles except in the bathroom and utility. It makes homes very cold

We've just recarpted all the bedrooms and living area! I didn't know so many people hated carpet. It's so warm and soft under your feet. It's also really thick there is absolutely no gap under the doors so no draughts for this winter! I like the look of wooden floors but they are so noisy under foot and I found they gathered dust I was constantly sweeping and mopping!

I'm a big fan of carpets. Not so cold on feet in the winter! More forgiving of dust. Safer for little ones to fall over on. I've never been very fashionable though!

I've got laminate in my hall & living room, when I finally find a house I will have carpet everywhere except kitchen, bathroom & hall where I will have high quality vinyl flooring.

100% agree - I hate open plan houses. Hearing the washing machine while I’m watching TV, or the TV while I’m cooking and listening to the radio is so annoying.

Every time I watch a property programme there’s some perky presenter banging on about open plan being ideal for bringing the family together. I always want to shout that the main point of a house for me is having the option of us all not being in the same room together!

Wooden floors are much better with small children, I don't see that practicality being superceded anytime soon.

I do think the 'massive open kitchen with a big island extended into the garden' look has had its day though.

Patterned carpets are coming back into fashion.
Atm there are some lovely almost marble/seaware patterned ones that I really want for our bedroom but I only use carpets that are 80% wool and it's coming in at over £1,200😱

So will probably go with an end roll bargain in a bright colour.

All our rooms are carpeted except kitchen and bathrooms. I got all of them from the end rolls from the carpet shop so had to really start with carpet as a way to assign decor, but it's meant I've got some real bargains. All of the carpets are 80% wool and are brilliant quality.

Our stairs carpet has been down for 16 years and looks like new. The living room should have cost £2,000 but as it was an end roll and I knew it had been sitting in the warehouse for a while I got it for £200.

I hate wooden floors, too cold and uninviting.

I hoover properly about once a week, then run the eufy each day - I have dark carpets in some rooms and it works on those very well

@MrsDeWinter please show us the carpet!

Isn't it funny how we all have different tastes?
I used to like 80/20 carpets, @MrsDeWinter , but got fed up with having to treat them like babies when they were first laid, lol! Give me a synthetic twist pile that I can mistreat with cleaning / spills etc! :-)
I'm sure yours is the better way environmentally though..

I’d never buy a wool carpet again, even partial wool. Ours were wrecked by moths very quickly. They’re endemic where we live.

Fine with rooms but hate carpets. Have had wooden floors since I bought my first house in the early 90s. Looks nicer, no maintenance needed, easier to keep clean, feels nicer on feet. Fashion can do what it likes but I’ll be sticking to my floorboards.

All solid wooden floors here with only carpet in hallway and three of the five bedrooms. The wood looks fab for about a week after it has been cleaned, sanded and waxed, then looks like shit. So impractical unless you have lots of time to clean and treat it all the time.

And the open plan living idea is great, but we have a sliding glass door and glass panels from huge open plan kitchen and dining room and living room so that it can be opened or closed up as necessary. Best of both worlds! I don't want to hear the TV when the kids are in the lounge and I am chatting with friends in the dining room.

Bloody hope so.

We're in the process of moving and need a house with 3 reception rooms.

Seemingly an impossible task.

Currently doing a lot of research for my new home and many trends show open plan becoming less of a thing. This is due to rooms needing multiple uses now that more people work from home (though this may change with the cost of living!).

Carpets downstairs I'm not sure of. Holds a lot of dust and pet dander. I use large rugs that I can take away and get cleaned. Also summers are getting hotter, as I understand it. Defo having carpets upstairs though.

I wouldn't want too much open plan. We have a sort of open plan, split-level hall and dining room bit, but all other rooms, including the kitchen, have doors. Oh and wooden floors throughout. I have a big dog and a cat - carpets would be unhygienic. We got rid of all of them when we moved in. I like the Scandi-ish white walls and pale wood floors look. It suits my house and I find it very restful! I don't give a monkey's whether it's in fashion or not though tbh.

We have an open plan kitchen/diner/lounge plus a seperate lounge. We all sit in the open plan on an evening, it has a log burner that warms the whole space. I find that our open plan room never gets that cold, probably due to residual heat the next day from the log burner on an evening, plus all the residual heat from cooking, boiling kettle etc. Also mid terrace and when we replaced the floor we insulated undeneath which made a huge difference.

Rooms yes. Carpets no.

People will get really sick of not being able to close a door on the one little thing out of place that will make their open plan spaces look like a home where the buffalo roam.

I keep seeing reference to this, to design for the heat. But the UK is not a 'hot' country. Its not particularly 'cold' either but we definitely have more cool than we do heat and people would be foolish to design a house round the heat at the moment.