Do you have carpets or hard flooring in your bedrooms?

[december2020]

I'm torn:

I love the idea of either laminate or engineered wood flooring in bedrooms (with then a rug or a few for "get out of bed with warm feet" and coziness to tie the room together). It's so much easier to vacuum and keep clean with vacuuming and mopping any spills etc. (I have mild allergies, we have a dog who sheds like no other and about to have our first child).

But I can see the value of carpets and insulating the house more as well as of course an additional layer of noise prevention.

And of course down the eventual line I also think about house value.

Would I be absolutely stupid to consider hard flooring or should I just stick to carpet?

We have wooden floors in hall, lounge, dining room.
Tiles on kitchen and conservatory floor.
Vynal in downstairs cloakroom, upstairs bathroom, 1st floor shower room and ensuite.
Good quality carpets and thick underlay on two flights of stairs and in six bedrooms.

Becasue we sleep on first floor but two adult sons sleep on second floor, we have carpet in all bedrooms for noise/privacy.

Also sons sound like a herd of elephants when they both run down the stairs.

I really don’t like wooden floors in bedrooms. The house we currently lived in had them and I had carpet fitted the day after we moved in (to save on the hassle further down the line too).

I had 2 heavy footed DC who already sound like a herd of elephants running up the stairs.

We have wood flooring downstairs and I’m not keen on it there either, the endless dust bunnies rolling around but I appreciate it’s more practical so will probably stick with it.

We have wooden flooring, it’s the original boards in our property (Victorian), which we’ve lightly sanded, stained and varnished. I have a collection of Afghan and Persian rugs that I’ve deployed in the bedrooms, laid properly they make the rooms like huge. I think it speaks to the period and style of our UK property though I think in a more modern house it may be a little different.

Before I had Edwardian solid floorboards. Now have solid wood floors. Have also lived with tiles.

I would never have carpet. I can add rugs if I want but carpet gets too dirty.

I also considered lino, some really nice designs now, warmer than tiles and wood and looks good for children's rooms.

I have original wood floors throughout my flat, it’s parquet (I’m not sure if that is the right spelling). Very easy to look after, just vacuum regularly and oil once a year.

I have a rug under the bed that sticks out all around by about a foot, my bed is fairly high so it’s easy to vacuum underneath it.

Original wood floors in both bedrooms. Plus a couple of rugs. It never feels cold.

We have the original floorboards. I love it.
The only place I have carpet is on the stairs.

Whilst I’d do original floorboards I wouldn’t do anything modern over carpet in bedrooms.

Had wood floors in the bedrooms of last house. They're easy to maintain and plenty warm enough in any house with central heating. That said, I'd have carpet!

I’ve got laminate at the moment, which I hate. The rest of the house has tiled floors and I plan to replace the bedroom laminate with tile this Summer.

I wasn’t sure how I’d feel about living on tiles throughout (previous house was classic wood floors downstairs and carpet upstairs), but it’s standard in the country I live in now and I love it. Feels so clean! I have rugs on the tiles in various places, and sheepskins on the floor by the bed.