What flooring do you have in your living room?

[SausageSimon]

Do you have carpet or a wood floor? Etc

This is all quite theoretical for now, but if things go to plan I'll be buying the house I currently rent next year! And I'll have enough money to put in a nice kitchen and decorate my living room, the two rooms are joined together.

I don't know whether to have one flooring that covers both rooms, my parents have recently had an expensive oak effect floor put down with trim around the edges of the flooring and it looks great. There's covers the kitchen and open plan conservatory and it works well.

I'm wondering whether to have it cover my kitchen and living room too.

What're your thoughts and has anyone regretted removing carpet from their living room?

Pictures would be appreciated of your flooring choices

I don't mean they're joined together as one big room. They're next to eachother, tempted to put double doors between the two so I can open it up to feel more like one big room when needed

I have hard flooring (wooden laminate) in the living room. I didn't choose it, it was there when we moved in, but I have appreciated it (aside from wishing it was better quality/fitted better). The front door goes directly to the living room so it is practical when you have people who don't immediately remove shoes, and I've highly appreciated it with a very projectile vomity baby, potty training toddler, now clumsy, drink-spilling preschooler. I also have a dust allergy so it's probably better for that too. I suspect the living room would feel warmer with carpet, though, and it's a very cold house in general so that's the downside.

My kitchen leads to my living room. We have great tile.

We have engineered wood in our living room and hallway. Love it, so easy to clean and looks great too. Previous owners had it and we thought about putting carpet down but after living with it for a couple of months realised how much we preferred it to carpet.

Grey tiles I mean

Wood laminate on the half by the patio doors which we use as the dining room, then carpet on the 'lounge' part.

When I moved into our flat we had beige carpets in the living room. First floor flat so wood floors weren't really an option due to noise. Initially I wasn't happy as I missed wood floors, but now I love having a carpeted living room and it feels cosy and nice to walk on. Also easy to hoover and then get professionally cleaned once a year or so.

I'm still undecided, I do love a good thick carpet but having the flooring all the same would be practical and I think it'll look good too

We have oak effect laminate throughout the whole house apart from the bathroom kitchen and stairs /upstairs landing.

It looks really nice (and so it should for the price of it) and is very easy to keep clean.

We have some nice rugs to stop it being too echoey and cold.

I initially wanted carpet but me and ds are both eczema and asthma sufferers and dp thinks carpets are kind of gross with all the dust they trap.

Both mine and ds's symptoms have eased off a bit since getting the hard flooring, it's dead easy to keep clean and it's not as chilly as I thought it would be, would never have carpets again now.

We had carpet, changed to wood, now back to carpet. The wood looked good, easy to clean but noisy and if you dropped something i.e. phone, ipad it broke. Carpet looks good, a worry to keep clean, spills etc. a nightmare but far warmer/cosier in our opinion.

If you are childless, petless and have a no shoes policy then get a carpet.

I have 4 cats, 2 dogs & 3DC. I would spend my life scrubbing off bodily fluids, food, drink, ink, play dough, slime & mud if I had a carpet downstairs.

I much prefer carpet.
'Warmer' in the sense it seems so, not necessarily if you put a thermometer by it - I have no idea.
Much less risk of breaking when you drop things on it.
Just a nicer feel, IMO.

One flooring in both will look better and since it's silly to put carpet in a kitchen then I would go for engineered wood or solid wood.

You can get great deals online so it does not have to be that expensive.

We have reclaimed parquet, from an old school, from which we painstakingly chipped off the solid tar-like substance it was set in... it took forever but it was nearly worth it.

I have a lovely hardwood floor, softened with a couple of nice rugs.

I can't bear carpets, they might be nice underfoot but they are impossible to keep clean if you have children, pets and a DH who insists on shoes indoors

I have bamboo with a large area rug. Best of both!

I have a six year old and two dogs so being able to clean it all thoroughly would be great! I'm tempted to go for what my parents have had done, it's Karndean which is expensive (not the most expensive though) with a border round the room which looks great.

When I see there's I see where the money went compared to normal laminate I feel

Carpet. Lounge is a completely separate room though.

I wouldn't get karndean, OP. Its vinyl so made from plastic (bad for the environment) and if it gets damaged (ie if the dogs paws scratch it) then you cant repair it and are stuck with a damaged floor.

I had wood flooring throughout the downstairs, kitchen, hall, downstairs loo and living room for 12 years, liked it to start with but it was cold looking and cold on the feet and after a while not very inspiring. I now have tiles in the kitchen, hall, bathroom and lovely thick warm carpet in the living room and wished I'd done it years ago. I will need shampoo cleaning 2- 3 times a year as we have pets but I'm happy to do that.

I have a fine herring bone parquet. Yes it's expensive but it will last forever.

I have solid hardwood maple throughout. Absolutely love it. Much more hygienic than carpet and easier to clean any messes.

It’s been down for over twenty years now and was looking a bit scruffy so I had it professional sanded and varnished last year. Came up like new.

we have just had our downstairs re-done. Have fitted good quality laminate in hall, lounge and dining room. Vinyl in the kitchen. It looks great. We did previously have carpet in the lounge, but with 6dc and 3 dogs and a cat it was just impossible to keep clean!! I do kind of miss the lounge carpet, but the wood looks great and I have put down a lovely big rug.

Wood veneer laminate downstairs, carpet upstairs.
When I vacuum, I realise how much crap was actually going into the old carpets downstairs. Now it's more hygenic and easier to keep clean (especially now we have a dog too).

Vinyl in kitchen/hall, carpet in living room. The carpet has actually held up better than the vinyl in the past 2.5yrs it was laid. I run over the carpet with a wet vax every so often. The vinyl is thick padded backing and I went for the higher end price - it shows up every bump and ding 🙄