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 wooden floors, they're so cold and unwelcoming. Carpets everywhere for me apart from kitchen and bathroom. Bugger fashion.

I wish I had two reception rooms or else a kitchen / diner with a table in separate to the living room. As it is, if we want to do / watch different things, someone ends up in a bedroom. I do have carpet though!

I don’t care tbh I love carpet and even have rugs on carpets I know I am a rebel

Same here.

I'd love carpets in my living room but can't because they would just get ruined by the kids and dogs! The wooden floors get sp dusty though

Don’t like open plan , love separate rooms with doors that you can shut off. Wooden floors are great with smart rugs

I am not planning on an open plan kitchen/lounge/diner in my new home. Especially in a smaller place one area is a mess (a working mess) and the whole thing is a mess.

Doesn't open plan increase heating bills though? 🤔

Love carpets. Since the last dog died we have cream carpet and the robot vacuum goes over it every day. No children here so it's stays lovely and clean. Hard floor in the halls, bathrooms and kitchen though. Rugs irritate me

My personal hatred of carpets aside (I will begrudgingly accept them on stairs for noise purposes, but I think they're filthy dirt traps and think they end up looking shabby way quicker than wooden floors) 😅I don't think they're going to come back in fashion any time soon, most people I know are buying their first house about now and ripping up carpets to restore floorboards!

But the death of open plan - yep, I think it's on its way. Mostly because of WFH, but also I think it's just really impractical!

Late FIL had carpet in the bathrooms and those hideous pedestal mat things He was doubly incontinent by the time he died . It was a bit grim

All of my downstairs is now either tiled flooring or this Karndean wood effect flooring - and it's stopping that way thank you.

If I had the money I would likely open the dining room and kitchen into open plan but always keep the separate lounge.

Ive been thinking about the house next door and whether they'd be able to sell it right now. They have an enormous glass box on the back and open plan downstairs. It's been unlivable all summer due to heat and I wonder about heating costs this winter. It does look amazing though.

Gosh, no one likes open plan! We have what is called Broken plan. Areas segregated with walls but not doors. The bedrooms are entirely secluded when you need that. Downstairs is for family and friends time. Carpets are hard to keep clean but needed on stairs.

I have rooms and carpet. It helped last winter as I could close off the lovely light (bloody freezing) living room with the huge bay window during the day while I was WFH. Even with the blackout curtains left pulled except on weekends, that room was noticeably colder than the rest of the flat.

This year rather than closing off the largest room and heating the rest, I’m going to have the heating off during the day and use warm clothing, heated wheaten pillows and possibly an electric heater (when I’ve checked the cost) in the one room I work in with the door firmly shut.

Also, I much prefer carpet in winter - it feels much warmer.

Everyone I know has carpets.
They make rooms feel warmer. I would have thought that people would use every resource they have at their fingertips to make the house warmer now.

Growing up what you call a large rug was called a carpet. That was before the advent of fitted carpets, which my DPs adopted in the late 70s. DH and I prefer to have varnished boards with loose carpets in our own home.

Just bought a house with open plan kitchen/dining but separate sitting room. We will add extension to the house to create open plan kitchen/dining/family space in the next few years as SS will have friends coming over so we can shut ourselves in a nice quiet lounge whilst they take over. I think flexibility is key!

Hard floors for me throughout kitchen/diner/family/study/bathrooms and carpets everywhere else to keep it clean easily but cosy in the right places.

We’re open plan all the way through downstairs and don’t like it after 5 years of hearing the washing machine whilst watching TV (do put it on early AM timer before we wake sometimes) and cooking smells all throughout the house. We have hard floor and carpet all upstairs apart from the bathroom - although that was carpeted when we moved in!

We’ve just bought so when looking, doors and separate living room were an absolute must. Can’t wait to shut the door on the washing machine 😁

We like hard flooring with rugs but it’s so dusty in some areas. New house has carpet in living room but it feels comfy and snug. Upstairs has carpet and one room hard floor (used to be teen’s room we think).

Our entire downstairs is knocked through (by previous owners). I hate that people on the street can see all the way into my kitchen and through to the garden. And the kids mess and toys just travel without walls. I want a wall put back to create a separate living room, then the back can remain an open plan kitchen/dining/living space.

Basically Im planning to go back to my childhood where the ‘front room’ was for best and not for playing.

Kitchen diner - fine.
Kitchen diner living room - no.

I'm all for doors. Like PPs, no desire to hear the washing machine while watching TV.

Hard floors for the kitchen and dining room. But definitely carpet coming back in for living rooms.

I’m in a lovely Cotswold cottage and downstairs is entirely stone or wooden floors and my goodness it’s cold and the bills are already crazy before the rises. We’re buying lots and lots of rugs and also doing the old school thing of getting a very heavy curtain to draw across the front door to minimise draughts. I’m really not looking forward to this winter especially as working from home means we can’t only heat it for a few hours a day. We’re hoping our woodburner means we might be able to leave the heating off but I’m not convinced…especially as we have a baby so can’t let the house get super cold.

Why wait?

I had no choice for 7 years and had to live with open plan - hated it! When you've got pets and kids, it's just a nightmare. We now have a big living kitchen, as well as as a dining room and sitting room separately. I like having doors again. We have wood effect LVT with UFH all through downstairs too. So easy to keep clean and never cold. Carpet would be a nightmare with my pets and ds, and I really don't want to be a 'shoes off at the door' person. We do have carpet from the bottom of the stairs up and in all the bedrooms though. No shoes upstairs is as strict as I can be. And LVT in the bathrooms.

I've just done my DDs bedroom in carpet tiles. If they get stained etc I can just take it out and replace the tile.