To ask you to tell me about/ show me your upstairs hard floors?

[Florence4170]

I am moving shortly and the whole place needs new flooring. I really like hard floors and fancy having them in the bedrooms. I just think they wear and look better than carpet. You can put rugs down to soften the look. If you have done the same please can I see some pictures? Or if you hate the idea and have done it and regretted it - why?

I grew up with it - carpet on the stairs and landing, hard floors and rugs in bedrooms. We’ve got half and half now, and still
prefer the hard floors. Can have a super thick fluffy rug for feet if you want it. Something a bit more statement to add to the decor.

Neither in a suitable state for photos though.

Not worthy of a photo. Laminate in main bedroom, dressing room, ensuite and landing. Pine floor boards in my office. Solid wood stairs.

Still got top floor to finish (DS is clinging onto the carpet).

I love it. Robert the Robot hoovers our bedroom 3 times per week. This includes under the bed. The stairs can be swept quickly and easily.

Unconventional, but we have lino in the spare room and it works really well. It's matt, slightly textured oak design and you have to look really closely to realise it's not real wood.

We got it because we used to foster kittens and the old carpet ended up <disgusting content warning> soaked in piss, shit, puke, cat food, and the aftermath of pregnant cats giving birth.

It's nice enough to walk on in bare feet, easy to clean and when we get round to replacing our main bedoom carpet we'll probably put similiar in there too.

Thanks, all. So does the transition from carpet on the landing to hard floor in the bedroom look ok?

We had vinyl roll in our bedrooms in the last house. It was great in the smaller rooms. You need to be careful moving furniture as it could tear. The transition was ok, there were threshold strips. We had different flooring in each room, too. The bigger room started to shift slightly over time.

We’re having LVT laid today in our bedroom as it’s a big room. We’ll see how that goes, then change the smaller rooms for vinyl roll or LVT, depending.

Downstairs we have the same dark oak effect porcelain tiles going through the whole house. It looks great- has opened everything up by running it through. It was in the hall but not the lounge, now it goes all through.

Hard floors upstairs are noisy and cold and uncomfortable. Not for me.

I had hard floors in the upstairs bedrooms and carpet on the landing in my previous house. This house is carpet throughout and I much prefer hard flooring especially in the bedrooms. It's much easier to clean and keep the rooms dust free especially if you have asthma.

I vacuumed either daily or every other day with a quick wipe down with a flash mop thingy. I will eventually revert back to hard floors in this house, I just need to save up first.

I'm asthmatic so we have had hard flooring upstairs in every house for about the last 30 years. We have always lived in older houses and we either varnish or paint the floorboards. And the same downstairs, we don't have any carpets in the house, just rugs.