Wooden floors and tiles

[fruitstick]

What's the for regarding wooden floors. We are looking at a house which has carpet in the reception rooms downstairs and a black and white tiled hall and kitchen. The tile's aren't original and look a bit cheap and nasty anyway imo.

I want to replace the carpet with wooden floors (v clumsy DH means every carpet we've ever had is covered in crap) but would it look odd if I didn't do the kitchen and hall as well?

Or does the same flooring throughout look a bit overkill.

We have tiled the centre of our otherwise parquet floored hall - some bright spark in the dim and distant past missed out a 2m square of parquet in the middle, presumably where a rug or something would have gone to save money. It looks great.

Dont think tiles with wooden floors will look odd as long as it's decent laminate or proper wood flooring. Cheap laminate is a bit 90's.

Either way should be fine I reckon but if you don't like the tiles particularly then I'd put the wood down all at the same time (say I who is now going through the massive pita of getting wood laid throughout rest of the flat, having done 1/2 of it last year). And I hope it's not overkill!

Lady biscuit, how does it work if you do it in two lots. Do you have a footplate kind of arrangement where the join is?

Trouble is, we want to replace the kitchen down the line so would do the kitchen and hall floor then. But would like to get the lounge sorted first.

I don't actually know why I am asking as we haven't even bought the bloody house yet

In my defence, I'm trying to calculate, if we did but it, how much money we would need and when.

I have tiles in the kitchen and bathroom and both the kitchen and bathroom are decorated the same.

THe rest of the downstairs is wooden flooring and the living room/dining room are decorated the same.

The hall has wooden floor but switches to carpet on the stairs. Red carpet whoch matches the one in our room. The walls are painted cream which is a similar tone to the living room/dining room.

The dds room has wooden floor. All the walls are painted, no paper which seems to help it flow better iyswim?

I think it looks fine and no one has ever told me otherwise.

Good point about the joins between the rooms I am going to have to keep the wooden strip between the bedroom and the hall because the wood is in the bedroom and laminate in the hall. Have wood in the kitchen too but it's down a step so won't make a difference there. Am hoping it won't look too weird to have a strip across one doorway and not the rest of them ...