Renovating - wooden floors or carpet in bedrooms?

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We are renovating our three bed Vic terrace ground floor flat. Currently have revolting carpet throughout which will be ripped out and replaced with engineered wood flooring (light coloured, Scandi- look).

Wooden floors will be in open plan kitchen/lounge room and hall. There will be underfloor heating too. Tiles in bathroom (no underfloor heating). But what about the bedrooms? I would like floorboards but we can't really afford to extend the underfloor heating. My mum is saying we'll be too cold and should get carpets in the bedrooms.

Thoughts? I think maybe I'm just anti-carpet as have been living with manky carpet for 3years now.

We have three DC under five years old too, if relevant.

I would go for wood you can always put rugs on top of the floor so when you hop out of bed your toes aren't cold. We live in a freezing Victorian house (no underfloor heating anywhere, tiny radiators, single glazing etc) and don't have carpets downstairs, you quickly adapt to the cold, you do get draughts through the gaps in the floorboards. Do you really need underfloor heating in the hall couldn't you have it in the bathroom instead?

I would definitely go for the wooden floors, we are slowing pulling all the carpets out of our house and it is soooo satisfying

Why, lovely. Thank you both, just what I wanted to hear.

MrsMarigold, yes, I don't think we have underfloor heating in the hall, just the kitchen/lounge. That was my mistake in the OP. Speaking to builder this weekend so will ask about putting it in the bathroom, can't imagine it would be much of an additional cost.

Definitely have underfloor heating in the bathroom. It is brilliant and get a heated towel rail too. Much better to heat a bathroom where you take all your clothes off!!!! I tend to favour carpets in bedrooms if you are not extending the heating into them. However, you can have lovely thick rugs with the wood but the cost of wood and rugs will be more than a carpet.

Yes Milly MollyMama, re cost. That may be the decisive factor, sadly. Shame, as I just love the idea of floorboards throughout....

If it's a flat, check what your lease says.
My downstairs neighbours on the ground floor have sanded/varnished floorboards which is in breach of the lease and I can hear their footsteps in my 2nd floor flat! If I wasn't moving away anyway, I would probably say something to them, it's that annoying.

That aside I much prefer wooden floors. So much easier to keep clean.

Carpet! Much warmer, cosier, more sensual. Quieter too.

If it is a flat, you have to consider your neighbours. If it is Victorian it will have been built without any particular soundproofing.