We're renovating our house and I am completely crap at making design decisions, so need your help! Sorry for waffling but need help with loads of stuff...
BATHROOM:
Also, with this look - basically all white, a bit of chrome, a black and white floor - do you think we should keep the We've had a simple white bathroom suite put in (from Bathstore) and as there is quite a bit of chrome in the shower and fittings, we have gone for white 'brick style' tiles with a chrome trim. It looks OK, but we are thinking of replacing the grotty once-white ceramic floor tiles with vinyl/lino flooring to set it off- the black and white tiled look, like this. Do we get tiles or lino or what? I really want something that is easy to keep clean, as the white tiles with white grouting are horrendously hard to maintain and I am sick of it letting down the whole look of the room.
Also, with this look - all white, bit of chrome, black & white floor - do you think we should keep the room painted white?
UPSTAIRS HALL/STAIRS - struggling to find a nice, neutral-ish, hard wearing carpet for our upstairs hallway and stairs? Do you think we should go for something plain or patterned? (we have a light oak staircase & the walls are painted a rich cream colour, almost a yellow) I don't like seagrass-type flooring, so it has to be carpet. Oh, and do you think we should sand down the wood on the stiars and just go for a carpet runner, or just carpet the stairs and be done with it? can't decide which looks better!
KITCHEN - this is the BIG one. We have chosen (although not paid for yet) a white gloss kitchen with solid oak worktops and a terracotta tiled floor (they're lovely tiles, a kind of mock ceramic really, so not as cold and shatter-happy as real ceramic). Do you think I'll live to regret the oak worktop, in terms of having to maintain it?
Finally (phew!) - FLOORS - downstairs we have what several professionals have said are 'good floorboards' in both reception rooms and the hallway. They will need a serious sanding down and re-varnishing, but are apparently in good nick. My only problem with them is that they are all different shades. Very light, almost pine-like in the front reception, quite dark in the back reception, and a kind of warm, reddish brown (cherry wood?) in the hall. Would we be better off to lay down a new woodne floor throughout the downstairs for 'uniformity', or is this just extravagant and unecessary? do you think different type sof wooden floor in different rooms works?
Right...promise that's it for now! Any suggestions at all gratefully received.