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I'm sure carpets are just as dusty, but I like that it's not as obvious as on hard floors.

The only room in our house with a carpet is my daughter's bedroom and that was laid shortly after we moved in to replace some horrible cheap laminate. The rest of the upstairs was manky brown carpet in the hall, some hideous carpeting from an old lady's front room in the main bedroom and the same cheap laminate in the box room. It'll all be replaced with carpet in time, once I've finished the paintwork in our bedroom & we've repainted the upstairs hall. The box room is my wife's workroom so that'll stay as bare boards. Downstairs is that 'engineered' wood flooring, which has a real wood top surface, which will eventually get replaced with solid wood.
 
Carpets trap the dust though.

Under my bed gets cleaned every week and yet every time I pull my laptop cycling bag out from under there I have to give it a wipe down with a damp cloth because it's covered in dust.

Lifted some more laminate this morning so the plumber could get in to fit a bigger rad in one of the rooms. Carpet fitter booked for Tuesday, so I'll be glossing this weekend.

I can live with solid wood. We've got parquet in the lounge and narrow floorboards in the hall, both of which I like. I'm trying to convince the Mrs that the hall floor shouldn't be stained brown and that we should be taking design tips from Mick Jagger; 'I see a brown floor and I want to paint it black.......'
 
Two separate taps in bathrooms and kitchens. Second decade of 21st century. A puddle to wash yourself. Really?

Artex. How did this ever become popular. How? And you can't even remove it "like that" in older properties because up until 1985 Artex contained asbestos.
 
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Artex. How did this ever become popular. How? And you can't even remove it "like that" in older properties because up until 1985 Artex contained asbestos.
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Even well after 1985 Artex with asbestos was still being used.

One firm I worked for use so much artex, it was delivered about 8 pallets at a time.
 
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Laminate flooring.
That dull plain off white colour ever show on TV said you should use on the walls since 2006 (can't remember its name).
Open plan kitchens into the living room area (not sure if really a design thing but never mind).
 
I hate most laminate but quickstep is ok, we have engineered oak and love it - also have a couple of rooms with feature walls and another with a red chimney breast ;)

Artex of any kind, woodchip and textured paper - all horrible stuff and has cost loads for us to remove or skim over!
 
Stick on tacky brick slips used inside & outside, but the quality of slips has improved greatly in the last few years, Ibstock do look rather good.
Brick pattern wallpaper, Anaglypta wallpaper, & decor panels.
 
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Also just thought of one: black kitchen surfaces/black kitchens in general. In fact kitchens in any taccy modern colour. Give me a country kitchen any day.
 
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Two separate taps in bathrooms and kitchens. Second decade of 21st century. A puddle to wash yourself. Really?
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What I find a joke is when you find a mixer tap on the bath, and seperate taps on the basin. On the basin, often I just want to wash my hands, meaning I have a choice between:

-Freezing cold water
-Boiling hot water after a couple of seconds (seems to be a major issue with the hot taps in the toilets at work)
-Having to plug the basin and use that (at work there often isn't a plug....)

Whereas the bath on the other hand, having separate taps wouldn't be such a big deal as you are rarely going to put your hands directly under the stream, you just want it all going in the bath.
 
Radiators, I ***** hate radiators. If I manage to buy a house they will be getting replaced as and when I can afford with either underfloor or skirting board like this stuff http://www.thermaskirt.com/Products.aspx


Agreed on artex, but it does hide sloppy workmanship ship. If you don't have rated you need a good plasterer to skim the ceilings walls, I don't like seeing the lines between plaster boards.

Vinyl flooring, yuck horrible nasty stuff. It's not even like tiles are expensive. Ok more than vinyl, but not insane.

Also agree on wallpaper, should be banished. Get it plastered and paint it.

Showers in baths, don't link it. But that's a nessecity with most room sizes in the uk. I prefer a built in shower, with a proper brick dividing wall, you walk into.

Duke what's wrong with open plan kitchen/living room, I would love open plan downstairs. I miss my very old flat which was open plan, had bar stools at the island and when cooking/entertaining you were still in the lounge and part of the group/watch tv.
 
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Glaucus said:
Duke what's wrong with open plan kitchen/living room, I would love open plan downstairs. I miss my very old flat which was open plan, had bar stools at the island and when cooking/entertaining you were still in the lounge and part of the group/watch tv.
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The smell and noise of food everywhere and noise of machine machine / dish washer / tumble dryer etc.
 
I strongly agree with the open plan kitchen/living room.

Dining room is fine, living room is a big no-no. You don't want stale cooking smells there.

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Stick on tacky brick slips
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I don't even know what brick slips are. Googling just seems to return brick.

Can anyone shed any light? Have I missed something?
 
Gilly: Brick slips are standard brick size 225mm length, depth from 50mm to 76mm depending whether it's a metric or imperial size brick you want, but thicknesses range from 15mm to around 50mm, you see timber framed houses cladded in them, with the right adhesive you can stick them to wood,plasterboard,masonry, as long as you have a stable background, there are other fixing methods, plus you can get 'specials' these are External angles,Internal angles, etc.
They can be used to refurbish a existing house, see Ibstock link for example, or as a feature wall, fireplace surround.

The slips are made in two ways, Handmade, or Wire Cut, were clay is extruded by machine & then cut into individual slip bricks, depending on how there made reflects in the price.

http://www.brickslipsltd.com/

http://www.ibstock.com/slips-intro.asp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U801Fjfv7tA

http://www.eurobrick.co.uk/index.html?mod=dcontent&id=7

http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rc...sg=AFQjCNFC_lW1ZwtWmjH9YzSDTzI2epHhMw&cad=rja
 
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Why do you dislike them though? They look like brick and you can't tell the difference. Well you probably can on the cheap ones.
 
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