Tonight I will mostly be laying
- Thread starter Biffa
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Rugs do look nice on a well looked after wooden floor.
Why not? My own preference is to have wooden floors, dark redish brown in colour, polished to a shine. I still prefer carpets for a home though.
Which storey is the wooden floor being laid on (ie. is anyone living underneath you)?
But you dont want carpet in a hall/kitchen/dining room/bathroom do you, carpet is good for bedrooms and living rooms.
Bathrooms and kitchens - no carpets, but everywhere else, yes.
Re: dining rooms and hallways: If you go into old fashioned, big name, restaurants and hotels, they will generally be totally carpeted. This fad of having wooden floors seems to have come into fashion over the last decade. Modern restaurants might have hard floors (wood or vinyl), but not the old fashioned, big name ones.
The OP made a point about Victorian houses having wooden floors with rugs. This may well have been the case, but mightve been due to fitted carpets not being in fashion or difficult to fit correctly (no underlay, grippers or carpet stretchers). Generally, the rich would have rugs/carpets over the floorboards, while their servants would be left to stay in areas with no carpets and bare floorboards.
Carpets are synonymous with luxury.
You read my thoughts. Laminate and real wood these days look hard to tell apart from when you walk on it. Laminate is more lightweight and gives a high pitched sound when walked on, while real wood is more heavier and gives a lower frequency.
True but Carpet had its time dacades ago, the place I work you only see the older generation getting carpet fitted, the middle and younger generation will have a mix of laminate/karndean and real wood and carpet.
What did you use for cleaning as I'm trying to clean my laminate, but it's got a white haze on it from when the plaster came in and removed the artex from the ceiling.
