Am I the only one loving laminate flooring in a bedroom…?

[toja555]

We installed laminate flooring in our master bedroom because we could not keep the original floorboards for safety reasons. I must admit, I love it ? I climb out of bed on the rug, put my slippers on, it is warm and looks nice and I can clean it without hesitation as many times as I wish. While my DS?s bedroom is covered in old carpet, and even after hard hoovering you can see the dust floating in the air. I need to redecorate DS?s bedroom and would love to put laminate instead of a new carpet. I intend to leave carpet only in landing and stairs. Now, probably everyone is going to contradict me, but I think DS does not need all that dust that carpet provides and light green walls + oak style laminate + puffy rug on the floor would look nice. Plus, for me much cheaper than carpet as I have remainings of laminate from another bedroom. Wood flooring is out of question due to small budget. I would love bamboo flooring, but this is also too expensive. What do you think?
P.S. We are likely to sell the house in a few years time. Would laminate flooring put you off to buy?

We have a bungalow and have good quality lamiate flooring throughout, bedrooms and all. I love it.

2 of our 3 bedrooms have laminate flooring. Very practical. No bother about it being cold - although to be fair, we haven't been here for a winter yet.

Our room is tiny, and I love that I can roll our bed around really easily to open the drawers in the divan base.

we have laminate in master bedroom due to my allergies we also had it in "the nursery" we did in the end replace it with carpet after having the house rewired but only for sound insulation reasons!

I love every aspect of it apart from it amplifying noise when they drop things etc

We've got bamboo flooring throughout our house, it actually wasn't much more expensive than laminate. I could never go back to carpet now, it's much better for all our allergies.

The only thing that is slightly annoying about laminate flooring in a kid's bedroom is the noise. My DS has it is his bedroom (along with a quality underlay to redruce noise) and it is still noisier than carpet. When he up there playing with his friends it sounds as if they are coming thru the ceiling. Or perhaps it is just that my DS is particularly noisy?!

Admittedly I live in Australia where it is possibly more "normal" to have it throughout - but our house is single storey and has polished floorboards throughout, in both bedrooms and everywhere else (except the bathroom). I think it looks great, but will be putting a rug in DS's room by the time winter comes, as we will have one for ours (can't bear stepping onto freezing floors!)

I don't think you'd have any problem selling it on - people can always carpet over it if they decide they don't want it in the bedrooms.

Great, why did I think I will be eaten here with my idea of laminate flooring in bedroom. As I said, ideally it would be bamboo flooring but as it is not a house for life, we are not ready to invest more if we can spend less. I am personally absolutely fine with laminate. I notice that it collects dust quite quickly, but that is nothing wrong you just go and wipe instead of it sinking into carpet. Of course, there will be a rug in DS bedroom so we can all lay down and play on the floor. But the rug can be taken and cleaned outside, that is a big different. I am not crucified here, yeeah. Green light to laminate flooring!

Is bamboo flooring less noisy than laminate?

?I can clean it without hesitation as many times as I wish" ? oh sorry I was in my mind referring to my wooden floor that I have in the rest of the house and it is a real pain to clean. I have to kneel with the damp cloth all the way so it does not get too soak while laminate flooring I wipe standing with a sponge brush and it takes 5 mins to clean.

We have bamboo flooring in our bedrooms and I am always shocked at the amount of dust/hair and stuff that appears under the bed after 48 hours. I know when we had a carpet it was still there, but you couldn't see it.
The main benefit to the bamboo is that since it has been fitted DH has hardly snored at all.

Bamboo flooring stopped a DH snoring?? really??

I want some NOW!

I think it was the fact that I have to sweep the floor far more often then I used to hoover (I can be quite lax relaxed about housework)
The lack of dust seems to have stopped about 80% of his snoring - it was worth every penny!