On a 1 level property, should flooring be the same?

[Aury26]

Ive just bought a lovely little ground floor maisonette. It has period features- fireplace, dado rails in the hallway. However it is not huge and I know using the same flooring throughout is supposed to create space. I plan to install a good quality wood effect flooring in the halls and front room. Should i also extend this throughout the kitchen and bedrooms? I love a carpet in a bedroom- feels so much cosier but wondering if aesthetically i should stick to hard flooring?

Just to add i dont plan on putting carpet in the kitchen would again be the same wood effect flooring or tiles if not.

Carpets are disgusting. Get a nice rug for your bedroom instead

In our ground floor flat we had the same flooring in both bathroom and kitchen (bathroom off the kitchen). Then we had sanded floorboards in all the other rooms.

We now have carpets throughout (not kitch/bath) which are harder work than sanded floors in keeping clean. There is wood laminate in the bathroom which I hate as it absorb any drips (grim!) So that will be changed soon.

So I'd say strip and varnish the floorboards.

Thanks, i was wondering if this would be an option (floorboards) but havent seen whats underneath the awful royal blue carpet currently in situ throughout the house, so wasnt even sure if this was even a possibility

We have wood in the hall and family room downstairs but carpet in the sitting room. Looks fine. Tiles in the downstairs bathroom. I really wanted the sitting room to be cosy.

Absolutely fine to have a change to carpet for the bedroom. I would.

I would want carpet in the bedroom..

Check your lease to make sure hard flooring is allowed.

In our flat we have Amtico (type) flooring everywhere except for main bedroom. Bathrooms have ceramic tiles.

I have the same throughout the bathroom kitchen hall and lounge and it definitely seems to make it spacious. No thresholds help too which you can only really achieve with LVT.

I do have carpets in the bedrooms. With hindsight I would do the bathroom differently. Having the same floor illustrates that it's not real wood as you would lay that in a bathroom!