Home decorating - opinions please!

[Caterpillar0]

We're furnishing a house from scratch, as well as making a few changes. A few things I'd love to know other people's opinions on as I go about decorating...

Would it look wrong to have a contemporary reception room (think Boconcept) but a traditional bathroom (savoy style)?

What are your thoughts on a dark wood floor? I like dark smokey oak and walnut and the house has big windows so it won;t be dark. But everyone seems to go for light wood... This is the one I like www.ukflooringdirect.co.uk/Engineered/European_Engineered_Cocoa_Oak_180mm_Oiled_Flooring.html

should we source our own bathroom and have it installed by a local workman or go with bathstore or whoever?

Add to that:
white painted walls. The previous wonder whitewashed the walls. All new. But are whitewash walls the domain of rented property? I just don't know (and haven;t developed a taste for wall paint or paper yet)

such an amateur

it is your house so you can do it however you want to. Does it matter what other people think? I keep reading that you should have the same flooring/carpet throughout the house but I was brought up in a house with different carpets in rooms (red hall, stairs, landing, beige lounge, blue dining room (which opened onto hall and lounge) different upstairs rooms etc. We have different floors in different rooms and I like it like that, each room has its own feel to it. It probably would look beautiful if it all flowed with same paint and floor but it wouldn't be our home like that.

I would live with it as it is for a while to get used to the feel of the rooms before painting/papering.

Really cheap orangey magnolia is the domain of rented property, IME. White is quite stylish.

I like dark wood floors. We have light oak, but I'd've gotten walnut if we could afford it. We can't though, so oak it is. (I prefer the normal oak to the dark stuff, but that's just personal preference).

Your house will look best and, crucially, make you happiest if you decorate and furnish it to suit yourself. And eclectic arcane be great!

We're about to do our bathroom (which is currently a disgrace; our bath is sealed with duct tape!). It is far more complicated than getting the kitchen was for some reason. I think we're going to get our plumber to do it. We're going to get a design done by a fancy bathroom place and then try to get him to recreate it from the plumb centre or similar. Mostly because we suck at the planning bit, and need proper ideas about how to deal with an awkward gap between bath and shower cubicle.

I agree with the others, follow your heart and sod what anyone else thinks.
I love dark floors as long as they are not TOO dark as this shows the dust very badly.