What flooring downstairs?

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I’m looking for some advice on what sort of flooring to go for. We are planning to renovate a three bedroom family home. We’re going for carpet in the bedroom and hallway but wanted something easier to clean downstairs.

Our flooring budget for downstairs is £5k tops. We have a kitchen/ diner, hallway and living room. It’s a standard semi- ex council (not extended) so it’s a pretty average size iyswim.

I’ve always dreamed about herringbone parquet. What would you have to achieve this look? So I go for something different in the living room (carpet?) and kitchen (tiles, vinyl?). I always fall in love with houses that have the original parquet. I also like those devonstone tiles

Sorry posted too soon. Should I go for real parquet, laminate, engineered wood, karndean lvt?

Should I mix up the flooring or keep the same throughout?

Total square meters downstairs is 45-50

I adore parquet and had very vivid dreams of pulling up the carpet in our new house and discovering original herringbone parquet!
Sadly it was not the case, and after ding some research it’s probably not in our budget either.
You’re looking at around £45 sq/m just to lay parquet plus your materials on top- bloody expensive but oh so beautiful!- not much change out of £100 sq/m

We are renovating at the moment and have chosen amtico for kitchen/diner and hallway, and carpet in the living room. You can get vinyl herringbone effect, tho the installation cost would be higher than planks of vinyl I’d imagine but should be under you budget

We had parquet in a previous (ex-council) house and I loved it. So I've been looking at similar and I would want to be certain that whoever was laying it knew what they were doing. Anyway we were quoted a rough estimate of around £130/m2 for laying parquet on concrete subfloor.

Have changed tack to look at engineered wood in sitting room and hall, and maybe 'wood effect' ceramic tiles in the dining room - they look good and will be cheaper to install.

at the price of parquet fitting!! I think it will remain a dream unless I can make savings elsewhere. I would be tempted to buy a house for beautiful parquet!

Can anyone link to the good quality herringbones vinyl mentioned please? What sort of price range is the flooring and fitting?

We have just used Kronospan laminate from Selco it’s exceptionally high quality IMO and in the floor fitter opinion, he compared it to engineered wood floor, it’s very thick and double clicks so there’s no creaminess you can get with thinner laminate. We went for Appalachian Hickory and it was about £25 per pack which covered 1.73m sq. Dining room about 3m x 4m cost around £350 odd once we got underlay etc, we also had to get beading as it was a retrofit (not taking skirting up) floor fitter was family friend so did us a freebie!

www.selcobw.com/krono-10mm-v-groove-laminate-flooring-appalachian-hickory-covers-1-73m

We have a Kahrs engineered oak wood floor in our kitchen, conservatory, and hallway. Had it 15 years, and still going strong, so can recommend. I see they now do what they call "French Pattern", which is very like parquet, and might be worth looking into, although looks quite expensive.