Talk to me about your flooring

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Having lived in rented and my DH's badly decorated flat for so long my brain is simply unable to register that there is more than horrible, rough brown carpet and cheap laminate from 2004.
Talk to me about the flooring you have throughout your home - links would be good if you don't mind the leg work.
What do you like about it? What do you hate? What kind of house is it?
We are hoping to buy a Victorian end terrace and my style is v much mid century modern/Scandi.

I look at two different carpets and all I can ever come up with as a comment is "carpet". I'm a flooring novice, teach me because it's the first thing I want to do upon moving in and before the DC3 arrives.

I have moduleo it's a luxury vinyl but easy to out down it looks like real wood but is so easy to look aftermath quite warm underfoot, we have our whole downstairs done. I have scandi / mid century modern style

Think about what the purpose of the room is and what traffic will be crossing the floor. That should be your starting point.

So, in my extension that leads to the garden, which has a cat flap in the door and which gets muddy pawprints through it I have porcelain tiles (that look like wood planks). Mop clean but still 'smart' looking.

In the kitchen I anticipate spills so have porcelain tiles.

In the lounge-diner I have engineered oak with large rug. Very smart. Very easy to keep clean. More hygenic that carpet dust-traps (and no muddy footprints by the time the cats have got this far). Warmer than tiles.

In the hall stairs and landing I have carpet. 80% wool twist so no static. Same in the bedrooms. Warm and cosy.

The bathroom will have vinyl so it can be easily lifted should I need to access the pipes that run under the floorboards in there, should there be a leak.

In the front porch I have tiles again, with thick matting from Ikea to leave your shoes on.

The house is modern.

Downstairs should be maintenance free from a flooring perspective - maybe oil the oak floor every few years.

Upstairs is just hoover regularly.

We have engineered oak throughout downstairs, which we put down 2 years ago when we did extension. I love it - looks lovely, easy to clean (sweep every day in kitchen and vacuum everywhere else once a week, mop once a week). We have underfloor heating which makes it great to walk on in bare feet - the bit in the hall doesn't have UFH and is quite cold. Also, downside of UFH and wood is we can't have heavy rugs as it will warp wood with heat spots, and not having rugs does look quite bare and cold.

It does now also sport several dents where DS has thrown toys etc. DP reckons if he did it again he'd go with Pergo - very natural-looking laminate that is supposed to be scratch, stain resistant etc. but I'm not sure it would be as nice. Was about the same price if I remember correctly.

Upstairs we have polypropylene carpet in bedrooms, and a wool carpet runner on the stairs and landing. I am not sure the wool is that much nicer than the pp, although it was a lot more £££

Bathroom - tiles which I hate for their coldness and slipperiness

Shower room - lilac coloured vinyl from here. Sounds dodgy but I love it - looks great with white sanitary ware and is nice feel, warmer than tiles, easy to clean.

Natural strand woven bamboo flooring in most rooms and we're going to do the rest of them as soon as we have enough cash. One room has parquet. We have area rugs for colour / cosiness. I love not having carpet as I'm not a fan.

Kitchen has skanky lino, bathroom has tiles, and I intend to replace both with colourful rubber flooring when we do up those rooms.

1960s house with big windows and painted white everywhere, with colour added via accessories.

wool twist carpet in bedrooms
vinyl in bathrooms
going to be wool twist carpet on stairs and landing and some kind of wood in hall.

vinyl is warmer than tiles IMO.

A mixture.

Ceramic tiles in kitchen and cloakroom.

Our bathroom- Amtico tiles which look like slate.
Family bathroom - ceramic.

Hall- laminate ( wood effect)

Lounge, dining room, study and all other rooms are 100% wool carpet, berber twist stuff- all plain light coloured neutrals.