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?

@jewishmum because at the moment patterned carpets are phenomenally expensive- they tend to be the really traditional companies. And I don't need a carpet yet. But when we move, if we have stairs, I'm going old style!

Couldn't do open plan...sitting with the smell of food 🤢 Does it linger on peoples clothes? It's just hanging out in a big kitchen.

I live in an older house which has an 80s(?) through lounge (2 reception rooms knocked through) with doors. While its hot its been lovely as lets in more air when cold we close up the doors and the rooms heat quicker. I don’t want my kitchen added into this scenario.

I’ve never understood open plan. Cooking smells all over your sofa and curtains, the general noise of a kitchen (even worse if no utility room) whilst the tv is on etc Maybe ok if you have another separate lounge for ‘best’ 😀

Separate rooms I think will make a come back. I don't think it's really gone away here.

Flooring wise I will stick with laminate/hardwood. Its so much easier than carpeting to clean, look after and much longer lasting

We have an open kitchen/diner but separate front room and office. After years of wooden (laminate!) floors we're now tiles in the kitchen/hallways (dogs!) and carpet everywhere else. I'm really enjoying having separate rooms and carpets are so much warmer and quieter!

I’ve beautiful amtico tiles throughout my downstairs but carpet in my tv room which I love. Hve an open plan kitchen sitting dinner which I would never change but also a separate tv room so works for us

What are ye all feckin cooking to get these lingering smells that permeate ever fibre and pore for days!!!!

We have a kitchen diner that was extended to have a small living area and a separate sitting room. Best thing we ever did. Everyone congregates in the big room and then the front room is a toy free haven.
Birthday parties and family gatherings are easier with a more open space in my experience.
Oh and like the idea if carpet but I am a champion klutz.

All cooking smells

We eat curry most days,, fish, onions, garlic (and lots of it), those things have strong odours and they will permeate fabrics

Ok I had tomatoes marinated overnight in garlic on ciabata bread for dinner and I just went downstairs after putting DC to bed and can't smell anything .
(Most definitely not saying your lying we don't eat much fish just have not experienced the lingering smells)

I've just moved into a house with laminate throughout, it's been down years and is worn and tatty and loose and basically its just so horrible, I can't wait to have enough money to put carpets down in the bedrooms (why laminate bedroom floors???? It's a nightmare) but I've had to resign my self to the fact il either need to have new laminate or vinyl all downstairs as the living room has the patio doors in and the garden is used daily. Same for kitchen tiles which are suddenly popular again, my kitchen is tiled and its like a slip and slide every time I mop it, soon as I can that's being ripped out and a more sensible vinyl will be put down.

You're in the house, the smell is not so noticeable obviously. If I walked in your house now I would be able to smell it very strongly

I will never quite understand the need to deny the obvious when it comes to smells. All food has a smell and odours will permeate fabrics of course.

Fair enough maybe it's me I have never visited a friend's house and guessed what they had for dinner.

I always thought open plan was a crazy plan (see what I did there? Ok, I’ll get my coat). It makes a home colder, for those with kids, there is no peace and who wants to look at an untidy kitchen until you’re ready to sort it out. I do have tiled floors everywhere, except the stairs and landing (for safety). We have a rug in each room. Much easier to keep clean and healthier too, particularly for anyone with a lung disease) I base that conclusion on the dusk bunnies and muck that comes-up, much of which would remain in carpets! I also have shutters everywhere. I prefer the look and they are much better than curtains for my asthma. The only curtains are some white muslin ones on my bay living room windows. They are purely for decoration and remain open.

There are specific ’non-slip’ tiles for floors. Sounds like the previous owners put wall tiles on the floor 😲

I hate open plan. Smells everywhere from cooking. And those baths in the bedroom make me shudder - the steam HAS to make the bedding and mattress damp, surely? And no privacy for one person to - eg., - watch tv while another can read in peace without distraction in a separate room. Also, having lived with just slate floors in a tiny croft built mid 1800's for 27 years, I'm now rejoicing in the warm, comfortable carpets of the house I moved into on Monday!

I love a carpet but when I moved out of my first house I’d bought I was mortified at the carpet left after my bed was moved. My gorgeous cream with pattern carpet was filthy under the bed!! We also had wood floors in that house sanded and varnished by our own hands!! My current house only has carpet on the stairs and upstairs landing. Laminate everywhere else. Since I’ve had kids I’ve realised that wood/laminate is the most practical and as much as I would love a carpet I don’t think I’ll get one until at least the kids have flown the nest, if at all!! They asked for rigs one year for Xmas for bedrooms but they need constant washing. Decent pair of slippers and some sofa blankets as well as decent curtains!!

Of course they will.
Things always go in cycles.
I hate laminate in wood floors in living rooms.
I like carpet in living room, bedrooms and landing.
I like semi open plan so both my reception rooms are large and closed off while I like my kitchen and dining are bring a large open space.
This layout worked best for the family while they were growing and still works well now everyone has gone.

I think a certain degree of open plan with stay - a kitchen diner makes sense to me, as it makes life much easier and people can chat to whoever is cooking easily.

i also like a separate living room though.

I have carpets upstairs (including on the stairs) but not downstairs. A large rug in the sitting room suits me, but I like hard floors in the kitchen / dining room - or kitchen diner!

This is personal taste but I think it makes sense.

We've got a new build home with a large kitchen/diner but separate living areas (with carpet), I really wouldn't have it any other way! Too much wooden flooring makes for a cold and noisy living area. Our living room isn't as large as it could be, but it's cosy and comfortable and gives our older kids space to see friends etc.

Hey guess what, not everyone lives in a house.

I think downsizing and not having massive houses with only very few people rattling round in then costing a fortune (financially and environmentally) to heat should start coming into fashion.

We have beautiful, patterned Axminster carpet in the living areas ( 2 but not huge) which we put in 14 years ago. It wasn't cheap but still looks brand new, feels beautiful underfoot and doesn't show the odd crumb or hair so you're not vacuuming all the time. It's warm and cuts down noise.
I've lived in 2 houses that were all wooded floors and rugs and that was ok but I found it draughty and noisy.

I don't like open plan - noise and cooking smells permeate everywhere. Also I think about supporting the upper floor! I believe it's just a fashion, so it will go out of favour. With a traditional house, I like to keep original features.

I love open plan and wooden floors. The opener and woodier the better. I hate fabric of any kind that is difficult to keep pristine and dust free. So I have Leather couches, shutters instead of curtains etc. I do have some rugs. Cooking odour is taken care of by the extraction fan surely? I also have a window right by the stove if necessary. I mean sure you will smell food as it’s being cooked but not hours after?

My house doesn’t smell of anything at all (I also hate oil burners, scented candles). Though I regularly get flowers from the nearby market which smell nice.

I agree about the noise though, but we’re a shoes off house. For the benefit of our downstairs neighbours too.